Surrounded by other detained children put in a container, Dana was bemused by the Israeli soldier’s questions.

“They asked us strange things about Hamas and the location of Israeli prisoners,” said the 10-year-old from Gaza, recounting her interrogation by Israeli soldiers last month. “I told them I had no information.”

The young Palestinian girl was detained along with her six-year-old brother Ammar as they fled to south Gaza on the Israeli-designated “safe corridor” in November.

“I was very terrified, and Ammar was crying intensely,” Dana told Middle East Eye.

“There were six large screens of very high quality, and they kept asking me about my mother and father. They asked me to watch a video recorded when we were fleeing and made me point to my mother. I don’t know why they asked me to do that.

“What hurt me the most and broke my heart was the fear and crying of Ammar.”

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