Gaza City, Gaza Strip – At noon on Monday, Asaad Nteel and his family were terrified when a group of armed men suddenly stormed their home in eastern Maghazi, central Gaza. There had been no prior warning.Family members quickly found themselves in the centre of a gunfight involving an armed Palestinian groups, which currently operates in Israeli-controlled areas of the Gaza Strip in the wake of Israel’s brutal war.At first, Nteel and his family thought the gunmen, who rushed into their home as heavy fire thundered outside, must be Israeli soldiers, as they live very close to the “yellow line” that separates Palestinian and Israeli-controlled areas of Gaza.The armed men, however, quickly identified themselves to the family as the “Popular Forces combating terrorism”, an armed group operating in central Gaza with the support of the Israeli army.“They broke the doors, detained my uncle and the other man, and took them away towards an area near the yellow line,” Nteel told Al Jazeera.Nteel, his wife, and their extended family, including his parents and siblings in the upstairs apartment, say they froze in fear.“The militia members ordered us to gather in one room and not move at all,” Nteel explained.“We chose not to resist so t …
