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An edited video circulating on social media shows Palestinian men and at least two children being detained and stripped naked by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a field in northern Gaza.

CNN could not verify when the video was recorded. CNN geolocation of the video shows it was filmed at Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City.

CNN reached out to the Israel Defense Forces Tuesday night for comment on the video and the detained children, but has not yet received a response. In the past, the IDF has said it stripped prisoners to ensure they were not carrying explosives.

Hundreds of Palestinian men and boys have been detained by Israeli forces in the past few weeks.

In one of the frames of the video, two young men, naked in their underwear, are seen walking with arms raised as the IDF escorts them towards the stadium.

In another video, the same two young men are seen naked with their hands above their heads, lined up in single file with other men who appear to be teenagers and adults.

Throughout the video, the men are seen naked beneath their underwear.

In some clips they sit on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs, some with their eyes closed, as the IDF observes and examines them.

The girls and other detained children appear in the video. In one shot, three fully clothed women can be seen sitting on the grass in front of a stadium soccer goal, blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their backs.

An Israeli flag hung from the goal. Naked and blindfolded Palestinian men can be seen sitting next to women with their hands tied behind their backs.

In the video, military vehicles and excavators can be seen across the grounds.

Original video uploaded on 24th December to YouTube According to Yosee Gamzoo Letova, the photographer and his Facebook profile.

The non-profit organization Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch has received reports that the Israeli army is arresting hundreds of Palestinians from the Sheikh Ratwan neighborhood of Gaza City, including dozens of women who were taken to a field in Yarmouk.

“Palestinian men, including children as young as 10 and elderly people over 70, were forced to strip down to all their clothes except their underwear and stand in humiliating rows in front of the detained women in the same field,” the organization said. rights It is a statement.

The organization is calling on the international community to investigate the images of those arrested.