Israeli army digs large hole to ‘exterminate’ Palestinian men in Jabalia: report

The Israeli army released a video from Jabalia, capturing the occupation forces separating and queuing Palestinian men including young boys to place them in a hole to shoot them, bury them alive or carry them hostage, according to journalists in Gaza.

A footage circulating on social media sparked outrage online as Palestinians from the enclave reported that the Israeli army stormed a school shelter near the Indonesian Hospital, forcing women and children to leave northern Gaza on foot, while taking aside hundreds of Palestinians men.

The fate of these men remains unclear, with some reports suggesting they were to be “exterminated.”

Palestinian reporters stated that the Israeli army dug a large hole near the hospital, where the men were placed. Videos showed Palestinian men presenting their IDs while lining up under the instructions of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Journalist Hossam Shabat, reporting from Gaza, posted on X, “Breaking: Israeli occupation forces prepared a deep hole in one of the squares surrounding the Indonesian Hospital, placing some males in it with their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded in northern Gaza.”

🚨 Breaking Israeli occupation forces prepared a deep hole in one of the squares surrounding the Indonesian Hospital, and placed some males in it with their hands tied and their eyes blindfolded In north Gaza pic.twitter.com/LniDHqfZfP

— حسام شبات (@HossamShabat) October 19, 2024

Rounding up civilians, the elderly and the children. Testimonies of executions happening in the proximity of the hospital. https://t.co/nKPbSBOgog pic.twitter.com/p1QDr9epMe

— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) October 19, 2024

If you genuinely want to evacuate a population from an area for humanitarian reasons, you don't separate men and older boys from women and children, tie their hands and take them off to an unknown destination, and send women and children on a forced march with no food or water.

— Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola (@Frances_Coppola) October 20, 2024

On Sunday, Israeli airstrikes flattened a residential block in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 87 Palestinians and injuring 40, with several still missing in the aftermath of the strikes.

Reports of continued horrific violence also emerged from Jabalia and Beit Hanoun, amid a communications blackout in the northern regions of Gaza due to relentless Israeli military offensive.

Northern Gaza is also experiencing severe starvation, as no aid carrying essential supplies has been able to enter the enclave since the start of October, according to the United Nations.

The overall Palestinian death toll since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza has reached at least 43,362 with more than 99,795 wounded. Thousands more remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.