CAIRO - The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has called on the United Nations to carry out an international investigation into the “systematic torture of Palestinian detainees” who are held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.

Israel has ordered residents and displaced Palestinians to evacuate the Beit Hanoon area of Gaza City, as local media warn that a “large scale” Israeli army operation is expected to begin there soon.

Three people are dead and more than 10 wounded in overnight Israeli attacks that destroyed two homes and tents sheltering displaced people in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

At least 39,677 people have been killed and 91,645 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israeli forces detained 690 Palestinian children since October 7, prisoners’ group says

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs says Israeli forces have arrested some 690 Palestinian children since October 7.

It said in a statement that Israeli soldiers have been arresting Palestinian children “systematically, as part of a punitive mass arrest campaign”, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

At least 250 of those who have been arrested remain in detention.