🧵 A new Euro-Med Monitor investigation, conducted over several months, uncovers horrifying details of a massacre committed by the Israeli army in #Gaza City in November 2023. The attack targeted an entire residential block, killing around 70 people, and was followed by strikes on residents attempting to bury the victims.
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For over a year, Israel has employed various methods to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes in northern #Gaza, systematically targeting the area’s population to drive them out. In numerous testimonies documented by Euro-Med Monitor, displaced residents report Israeli soldiers telling them they « would never return to the north again. »
Here are 10 tactics #Israel is using to depopulate northern Gaza ⬇
🧵What the Israeli army is doing to Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
After repeatedly bombing the hospital—which is home to over 150 children, wounded, patients, and medical personnel, the Israeli army stormed the health facility & forced everyone to assemble in the courtyard.
In addition to separating the men from the women and children, the occupation forces began questioning, abusing, and assaulting anyone over the age of 13, including medical personnel.
The Israeli army bombed the hospital’s oxygen station, threatening the lives of the 15 patients in the intensive care unit, including children. There is also preliminary information that several children have already died from the oxygen shortage.
🧵Today Israel sent to Gaza a truckload of 88 dead decomposing bodies without any autopsy reports or information about their identity & how, where or when they were killed
Israel is systematically violating the human dignity of the dead & exacerbating their loved ones' suffering
2\ Gaza's Health Ministry refused to receive the container of dead unidentified bodies Israel sent, until Israeli authorities provide all necessary data for the identification of the victims & the circumstances of their death.
Gazans are humans, not nameless statistics.
3\ The 88 bodies likely belong to either civilians or detainees whom Israel murdered, since Israel has a declared policy of withholding the bodies of Hamas members & combatants as "bargaining chips" & to collectively punish their families.
🧵1/5 In light of mounting reports on #Israel’s military deploying the Hannibal directive on 7 Oct in the Gaza envelope, we urge an immediate int’l investigation to provide a full picture of what unfolded.
The more time passes, the more difficult it would be to preserve evidence!
2\5 The latest report on 7 Oct highlights that “28 fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We’re talking about 100s of 30-millimetre cannon mortars & Hellfire missiles”. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-0…
3\5 Israel has recently began dismantling the Nahal Oz military outpost & the Pasi Cohen house in Kibbutz Ba’ari before any independent investigation has been carried out there.
Israel also reportedly prevented the US from collecting evidence from IDF soldiers involved in 7 Oct
🧵Since Israel's genocide in #Gaza began, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, @DrAliceJEdwards, has remained conspicuously silent on Israel's crimes against Palestinians.
In the thread are some examples of how the Rapporteur has fallen short and shown blatant bias⤵️
In an official letter sent to the state of Palestine, Edwards extensively addressed events from 7 October, including those unrelated to the capture of prisoners and hostages, such as the indiscriminate rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel. However, in her letter to Israel, she did not address the massacres committed by Israel against civilians in Gaza, including indiscriminate missiles fired against civilians in Gaza.
Edwards has expressed her condemnation of the 7 October attack on multiple occasions; however, she never denounced Israel's grave crimes against the Palestinian people, including genocide, since that time.
As part of its war on the #Gaza Strip, Israel has been employing several tools that result in serious human rights violations. Among these tools are dogs.
Based on Euro-Med Monitor’s documentation, here are 6 ways the Israeli army uses dogs to carry out physical, sexual, and psychological assaults on Palestinian civilians in Gaza⤵️
According to testimonies documented by Euro-Med Monitor’s team, the most dangerous and horrifying form of using dogs was practiced against Palestinian prisoners and detainees inside Israeli prisons without any restrictions or red lines. This has escalated to the extent of using dogs to rape prisoners and detainees in front of other inmates, as part of systematic sexual violence crimes against them.
Dogs were systematically used to torture, attack, and intimidate Palestinian prisoners and detainees inside Israeli prisons. In many cases, prisoners were forced under threat to insult Palestinian factions and figures, as well as religious figures, while glorifying animals and dogs.