GAZA – On Sunday, the Euro-Med
Human Rights Monitor reported that the
Israeli Occupation Forces (
IOF) have
escalated its premeditated murders, extrajudicial executions, and judicial
killings against Palestinian civilians through direct targeting with snipers
and drones in various regions of the Gaza Strip.
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According to Euro-Med Monitor,
Israel is killing Palestinians on a large scale through artillery and aerial
strikes and by speeding up the execution of extrajudicial killings. These
actions amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute
Basic Law of the
International Criminal Court (ICC).
Euro-Med Monitor has documented
numerous Israeli sniping operations, killings, and executions that have
primarily targeted civilians in shelter centers, hospitals, streets, and
populated residential areas.
One of these incidents occurred on
February 4 when an Israeli "quadcopter" drone shot and killed
49-year-old Palestinian citizen Jihad Muhammad Al-Dardasawi from Al-Turkman
neighborhood in the Shuja'iya area east of Gaza City. The preliminary analysis
of Dardasawi's body revealed that he had been the target of direct fire,
sustaining multiple puncture wounds, including at least four in the back and
one in the thigh.
Akram Al-Dardasawi informed the
Euro-Med Monitor team that his brother Jihad was killed by Israeli gunfire
while riding his bicycle from his home to the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza
City to deliver food to their injured brother. He added that Jihad was subsequently
buried in the yard of one of the shelter schools east of
Gaza City.
At least eight Palestinians were
reportedly killed in Israeli sniper and shooting operations in various parts of
the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis during the early hours of yesterday,
Friday, according to reports received by Euro-Med Monitor.
Reports reached Euro-Med Monitor
on Thursday afternoon regarding the recuperation of the bodies of six
individuals and their transfer to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern
Gaza Strip, after they were shot dead by IOF snipers while attempting to obtain
drinking water near the hospital.
On the same day, Euro-Med Monitor
received reports of the deaths of two Palestinians and the grave injury of a
third after an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire at a refugee school near
the Al-Awda schools, east of Khan Yunis.
On Wednesday morning, Euro-Med
Monitor teams documented the death of a 14-year-old girl, Ru'a Atef Qadeeh, who
was shot by IOF snipers in front of the Nasser Hospital gate. The teen was
attempting to fetch water from a nearby location.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
also reported that, on February 4, just before noon, Muhammad Diab Abdel Qader
Barhoum was shot and killed by a quadcopter drone as he was heading to Al-Nasr
town, north of Rafah City, to feed his sheep.
On February 2, IOF snipers
stationed near the
Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Khan Yunis killed
four Palestinians, including Hadaya Hamad, the director of the Youth and
Volunteers Department.
On January 31, an IOF sniper shot
and killed the security guard at the PRCS-run Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis
while he was standing close to the hospital's back door.
Since the beginning of the Israeli
military attack on the Gaza Strip, along with the ground incursions that
started at the end of last October, hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been
killed or wounded by Israeli snipers and quadcopter drones.
The IOF has started to use
quadcopter drones in a systematic and widespread manner, according to
testimonies gathered by Euro-Med Monitor, to carry out extrajudicial executions
and premeditated killings of Palestinian civilians. These drones are used in particular
against civilians who attempt to return and inspect their homes after the IOF
retreats from the area where incursions and raids have occurred.
According to the Palestinian
health ministry, medical workers noticed that the bodies of most victims of
executions and field killings showed evidence of unusual gunshots, differing
from ordinary gunshots in that they leave a different shape on the victim's
body when they penetrate it, as they are not bullets fired from rifle-type
weapons but from quadcopter drones.
The IOF converted this drone,
which was originally designed for photography, into an air weapon for
intelligence gathering and subsequently utilized it for the deliberate and
direct execution of unlawful targets.
Developed by Israeli military
industries, the quadcopter drones are one-meter-diameter drones with various
characteristics and tactical features. They are easy to program and operate
electronically remotely, with a design akin to that of helicopters.
These drones have very precise
eavesdropping instruments and high-quality cameras. They can carry out
additional military duties like shooting and carrying bombs, and they can be
modified to become suicide drones.
In a primary report submitted to
UN special rapporteurs and the Prosecutor of the ICC, Euro-Med Human Rights
Monitor documented, last December, dozens of cases of field executions carried
out by the IOF in the Gaza Strip. The human rights group requested an immediate
investigation into these crimes, calling for the perpetrators to be held
accountable and for justice for all victims.
The rights organization called on
the aforementioned parties to take a position opposing the widespread killing
operations carried out by the IOF targeting Palestinian civilians, especially
the field executions and physical liquidations in the Gaza Strip.
In addition, Euro-Med Monitor
demanded the establishment of an international legal team, a commitment to
secure its entry into the Gaza Strip, and the initiation of an inquiry into
these and other instances of Palestinian civilians being killed by the IOF.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
reiterated that the UN special rapporteurs and the ICC Prosecutor must launch
international human rights committees that would visit the Strip and document
the magnitude of Israel’s crimes against Palestinian civilians.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
stressed that these Israeli executions violate international standards and the
right to life stipulated in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, plus Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, which stipulates that “every human being has the inherent right to
life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily
deprived of his life.”
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