Geneva â The Israeli armyâs execution of an elderly Palestinian after using him in a propaganda campaign promoting its âsafe corridorâ in Gaza was strongly condemned in a statement released by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor today.
The rights organisation expressed outrage over Israelâs incorporating the man into its attempt to cover up horrific crimes against displaced Palestinians fleeing Israeli violence in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israelâs army released a photo of one of its soldiers talking to Bashir Hajji, a 79-year-old resident of Gaza Cityâs Zaytoun neighborhood, as he travelled on Salah al-Din Road, the main route to the southern Gaza Valley. The soldier in the photo appears to be helping and protecting displaced Palestinian civilians, said Euro-Med Monitor, yet Hajji was subjected to a field execution on the morning of Friday 10 November.
The elderly manâs granddaughter, Hala Hajji, told the Euro-Med Monitor team that her grandfather was brutally executed while crossing the âsafe corridorâ when members of the Israeli army intentionally shot him in the head and back. She also confirmed that he is in the photo that was put out by Israelâexposing the Israeli armyâs dangerous practice of flagrantly fabricating stories.
Euro-Med Monitor stated that it has previously documented dozens of cases where the Israeli army executed displaced Palestinians by live bullets and, in some cases, by artillery shells. Those displaced were attempting to flee to the south of Wadi Gaza at the Israeli armyâs request.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor renewed its calls for the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to open an urgent independent investigation into the execution crimes to which displaced Palestinians have been and are still being subjected to, to hold those who ordered such crimes accountable, and to achieve justice for the victims.
Itâs one thing to protest against the genocide and ethnic cleansing, itâs another thing to advocate the extermination of another. With IDF gone, Israel is a sitting duck ripe for the picking from multiple front, lots of innocent people will get killed too. When that happen, it will be no different than what Israel is doing.
Conveniently leaving out the times Israel gave back land, and was then attacked again by Palestine.
No matter where you stand in this conflict, please stop spreading this blatant propaganda map. 1994 was the first year of any palestinian rule over any land
