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.
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.
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Dude, there are Israelis who don’t support Zionism, just as there are people wherever you’re from who don’t support whatever your nation is doing. I’m not the one living in a fairytale. Fairytales are the only places where there’s a pure evil.
The people living in this region deserve peace. Whoever their ancestors are doesn’t really change shit. They’re all people, and fundamentally similar. They’re just trying to live their lives. It’s the elites in control of the countries that are the issue, not the modern citizens. Mostly they didn’t choose where to live. They just happened to be born where they were by random chance.
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Your shortsighted black and white stupid worldview is so childish. Anyone who doesn’t advocate for the death of innocent people that you want dead are neoliberal Israel supporters. Grow the fuck up. Read my comment history if you want. I have given you plenty of reasons why your dumb genocide fantasy are wrong, but you still want it, because it’s the right kind of genocide. You can either be against innocent people being murdered by an ethno-state or not. However, you’re in favor of one because you’re against the other. What?
You don’t have any argument except that you don’t like Israelis. You say they’re evil, but I can call anything evil. Sure, the settlers are bad, and the gains they’ve gotten for it are wrong and should be made up for. You don’t get to choose your parents though. Just because you were born into poverty, for example, doesn’t mean you should be forced to stay impoverished. We should set up systems that improve that. Similarly, just because you’re born to the children of settlers doesn’t mean you should have to be held accountable for it. We should set up systems to make up for it.
I don’t know where you’re from, but you pretend to be leftist I assume. Part of that is understanding people aren’t the situation they’re born into. Get some fucking class consciousness to replace your stupid whatever ideology you have. The normal working citizens of these places are not responsible for the actions of the bourgeoisie and should not die for them.
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.