Geneva – The Israeli army’s execution of an elderly Palestinian after using him in a propaganda campaign promoting its “safe corridor” in Gaza was strongly condemned in a statement released by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor today.
The rights organisation expressed outrage over Israel’s incorporating the man into its attempt to cover up horrific crimes against displaced Palestinians fleeing Israeli violence in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel’s army released a photo of one of its soldiers talking to Bashir Hajji, a 79-year-old resident of Gaza City’s 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 man’s granddaughter, Hala Hajji, told the Euro-Med Monitor team that her grandfather was brutally executed while crossing the “safe corridor” 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 Israel—exposing the Israeli army’s 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 army’s 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.
I mean condemnation is a great start, but Israel isn’t going to stop killing Palestinians until they’re stopped, or there’s no Palestinians left to kill.
Their rhetoric has made it clear that killing civilians isn’t an unfortunate consequence of stopping Hamas - it’s the objective, and they propped up Hamas over the PLO to create the pretext for this.
They taking the USA’s Native Americans approach after the apartheid South African government approach. Didn’t yield what they wanted.
I mean, they call the Israelis that are taking land in the West Bank ‘settlers’. It’s colonial language that is explicitly meant to designate the Palestinians as ‘natives’ that need to be conquered. Similar to the ‘settling’ of the Americas or Australia, the people that were already there don’t count, don’t have rights and are basically a nuisance.
In the case of Australia, it was arguably a bit worse than that - the legal “terra nullius” justification translates to “nobody’s land”. At best, it said that there was no civilisation here - in reality, the general consensus seems to have been closer to “they’re just animals”. The way they were treated did nothing to suggest otherwise.
Israel is treating Palestine as terra nullus as well. You can just waltz in, take someone’s house, and the IDF will defend you. And it’s not like the courts are an option for recourse either.
Functionally, it’s not much different - a militarily dominant power invading with the backing of the bulk of the West, committing a genocide to sieze the territory.
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Welcome to Palestine.
No, it doesn’t sound like that at all, it is that. And Zionism is the “chosen people” so you are correct, just a twist on the “master race” for 2023.
Just in case anybody thinking Israel actually cares about civilians.
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Your answer to bloodshed… is more of it?
This is a stupid solution that will only unfold into bigger, longer lasting issues.
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It’s one thing to protest against the genocide and ethnic cleansing, it’s 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.
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Conveniently leaving out the times Israel gave back land, and was then attacked again by Palestine.
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What country? Palestine wasn’t a country.
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
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See how now they also took land from weakened Syria.
While that guy is too extreme, the IDF definitely needs to get the Wehrmacht treatment.
This is way too far. You’re literally calling for the genocide of Israelis because an unverified claim from a website has claimed (without providing any evidence) that Israel has committed a war crime.
If it’s true, Israeli solider should be hit with war crime charges.
You and your attitude are why synagogues all over the world are being burnt and Jews are being attacked. You sound exactly like the ones you condemn.
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I love how us “liberal” godless heathens are always the first to go to hell yet we preach peace and understanding. Yes I am an atheist and a liberal veteran.
Your god is ashamed of you and your preached falsehoods. If you truly believe in him you would abandon your ways of violence and beg for forgiveness. Otherwise I’ll see you in hell. I’ll be looking forward to recounting this conversation with you in the afterlife, if there is such a place.
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Says the person advocating for death. This is hilariously stupid.
The one thing about being a veteran is
War criminal
Just so you’re aware, which it sounds like you aren’t, serving in the IDF is mandatory for all Israeli citizens. Since you seem to not even know this, I don’t think you should be taken seriously on any suggestions at all.
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A lot of people were just born there…
I’m as against the settlement as anyone, but at least learn the history. You people just hate things because you’re told to. There are good reasons. Genocide isn’t the answer, and no plenty of Israelis are against Zionism and the invasion who just happened to be born on a certain piece of land that shouldn’t mean anything.
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The Palestinian people didn’t exist at some period in the past either. Children should not be bound by the sins of their fathers. I agree it sucks, however there are options available that don’t include genocide. There is plenty of space for both groups to live, just without Zionism.
It is easy to get a medical exemption or go to jail for a few months instead of being complicit in a genocidal campaign. Not all Israeli adults serve.
Your answer to Nazis killing people… is killing those Nazis?
It should be your answer too.
I am willing to bet that if the occupation wasn’t advantageous to the US, they’d have wiped out “Israel” since 1948, but you know the Nazis are operating in the middle east this time, and their victims are brown. Two birds, one stone.
Doesn’t what Israel and its IDF doing sound familiar.
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So you support Hamas?
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According to them, saying someone said something. This isn’t news.
This is a decently reputable organization whose source is apparently the man’s granddaughter.
No it’s not, and the source is they claim she said it.
At least the source wasn’t you
It’s in the fine print when you sign the waiver to be filmed that they’re going to shoot you right after. You have to read those things closely.
They did not ‘execute’ him. We use a different word when soldiers illegally kill non-combatants in a safe zone.
Killtrocity?
Another killtrocity in the Ballocaust!
Safe zone, kill zone.
I can only imagine the future where some guy with special goggles that highlights people in the kill zone and automatically colours over their faces to make it easier to pull the trigger.
Retiring?
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Euro-Med Monitor has existed for 12 years.
Maybe the case is that you have not been to concerned about the humanitarian situation in the middle east ?
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That it is not a random news site.
It’s an organization that tracks human rights violations
Calling this news is quite generous, they don’t even try to make it sound like they’re writing news articles. Citing sources seems to be beneath them, other than “someone told us”.
Yea, “someone told us” seemingly without any further evidence should not be the basis of such an article. Without verifying claims, human rights watches are bound to be abused for propaganda purposes.
Lol so true
If there was ever a time that a person or nation took the sympathy of the world, and twisted it into action against them it is this. Israel can go fuck off now, as a previous Israel supporter I do not anymore.
Well, if it has been strongly condemned, surely the IDF will have learned its lesson now.
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“Strongly condemned” where is that on a scale from 0 to 10 where 10 is stopping the action being condemned and 0 doing nothing? Is that a 2 or maybe 3?
0 pay them to do it
1 ask them to do it
2 thoughts & prayers
3 doing nothing
4 weakly discourage
5 strongly condemned
6 strongly worded letter
7 tariffs
8 embargo
9 invade
10 nuclear first strike
If “strongly condemn” is a 6, nuclear first strike has no business being a 10, I’m pretty sure there are a few steps you missed in the middle there.
It’s a logarithmic scale
Which ones should I add? Thoughts and prayers can probably be rolled into “do nothing”.
A strongly worded letter
The terrorist group Hamas has been actively preventing evacuation, and according to reports opening live fire on Palestinians trying to evacuate throughout this war.
Big title with little evidence this case was any different, coming from a highly non-objective organization that failed to find a single issue with Hamas, the sole government in Gaza, which took all the aid money and turn it into rockets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-Mediterranean_Human_Rights_Monitor
This is your “highly non-objective organization”. At this point you need sources. And let’s face it, Hamas was right to tell civilians to not evacuate. Do you have the slightest idea how messy a complete evacuation of the north Gaza strip would be like? Especially into the also overcrowded, starving south sid Hint: It would be a much worse bloodbath than what we’re seeing now. Not to mention many people already evacuated south, found themselves being bombed there too, didn’t find shelter and the like, and went back.
“Evacuate Northern Gaza” was a moronic take a month ago and it’s still moronic now. Also I’ll need to see those reports you’re talking about.
I’m no expert, but it took me about 30s to find out that the organisation’s founder is Palestinian, so I’m not sure that’s a good sign for their objectivity
I mean they’re biased; that’s normal. The thing is: Does that bias get in the way of the factuality of their reporting? Given that they have a pretty long track record, there needs to be a source that proves they’re unreliable.
Idk and I don’t really care enough to research it, I just wanted to point out that that article makes it quite easy to find reasons for why they would be biased.
It didn’t, it makes it easy to add your bias.
Add it to what?
You can’t see your parent comment can you?
I just find out you speak English, I’m not sure that’s a good sign for your objectivity.
English is the most spoken language in the world.
Correct, there’s 5 million Palestinians… Can we trust any of them?
Depends on the context. But I doubt any of them can be objective about a war their own country is involved in.
Can you be objective as an English speaker which heavily implies former British colony or heavily influenced by English power?
It’s not just that. By leaving they lose everything to the settlers. There are very good reasons for not leaving.
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If you’re human, Israel is your enemy
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