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.
Sounds like they’re killing a bunch of innocent civilians like Nazis did.
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.
Lady’s and gentlemen: self-defense.
Revenge.
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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.
Well, if it has been strongly condemned, surely the IDF will have learned its lesson now.
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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.
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?
What word would you use?
Murder
Executions can be murder. Both require premeditation, murder is explicitly unlawful. An unlawful execution is murder, but still an execution.
Execution implies at least the pretense of justice.
No it doesn’t, watch some random crime dramas.
Presumably something without as positive of a connotation, “murder” or “war crime”? the latter seems to be verbed a lot lately
In what world does “execution” have a positive connotation??
The most common context in which you see the word used in the modern day is implicitly legally/morally “justified”: “Despite a lengthy appeals process, the inmate’s execution was carried out.”
“Murder” by comparison is very unambiguously an act carried out in contravention of the law, never in service of it.
Hey you have this all wrong there is a reason cops in crime dramas call a murder an execution when the victim was helpless. Its more negative, not less, and isn’t solely defined unambiguously the way you just did as synonymous with capital punishment.
I wouldn’t trust copaganda like crime dramas to be making those writing choices in good faith. Here’s Zazu with more details: https://youtu.be/DNy6F7ZwX8I
Not a peep of this on reddit…
That site is purely for nation-states these days. Just paid shills arguing with other paid shills with biased mods getting to dictate who gets to say what. Lol.
It’s all advertisers talking to each other and then the idiot mods who are paid nothing and think they are really doing something.
“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
If you’re human, Israel is your enemy
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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
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Damn, I wonder if this actually happened. Really harsh.
