GENEVA – On Friday, the Euro-Med Human
Rights Monitor revealed that about 4 percent of the total population of Gaza,
more than 90,000 people, are now dead, wounded, or missing.
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Euro-Med Monitor highlighted that Israel’s
continuous air, land, and sea attacks have destroyed about 70 percent of the
Gaza Strip’s civilian facilities and infrastructure since October 7, citing the
clear Israeli aim of implementing collective punishment against the entire
population and making the strip uninhabitable. Israel is pushing hundreds of
thousands of civilians towards mass forced displacement.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of
Health, 29,835 Palestinians are killed or missing as of Sunday evening. The
death toll includes 10,000 children, 7,000 women, 326 medical staff, and 109
journalists. Additionally, 58,416 individuals are injured, hundreds of whom are
currently in serious condition.
Euro-Med Monitor stated that thousands of
bodies are under rubble with very little hope of survival. Other corpses lying
on roads cannot be recovered due to Israeli forces’ ground incursions.
The Euro-Med Monitor team further reported
that about 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes and
residential areas in Gaza. 69,000 housing units have been completely destroyed
and 290,000 others have been partially damaged. The facilities targeted by
Israel during its ongoing attacks include 389 schools and universities; 1,612
industrial facilities; 204 health facilities, including 30 hospitals, 53 health
centers, and 121 ambulances; 374 mosques; three churches; and 169 press offices.
Euro-Med Monitor noted that Israel continues
to escalate its military assaults against Palestinians in an attempt to expand
its occupation to include the entire Gaza Strip, uprooting the vast majority of
Gaza’s population in violation of international law. This likely amounts to war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, the rights group said.
In addition, Israel is using starvation as a
weapon, stated Euro-Med Monitor. Israel is prohibiting humanitarian supplies
and resources from entering Gaza to suppress the people of Gaza and force them
into evacuating their land.
They added that Israel is deliberately
targeting civilian infrastructure to cause as many casualties, material losses,
and as much destruction as possible as a form of retaliation and collective
punishment. This is against international humanitarian law, the 1949 Geneva
Convention, and amounts to war crimes according to the Rome Statute, which
governs the International Criminal Court.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has once again
called on the special rapporteurs at the UN and the Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court to investigate the violations that have been
widely documented since Israel started its genocidal war on Gaza and make sure
that perpetrators of human rights violations are held accountable, as well as
ensure that all victims receive compensation.
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