Israel ‘deliberately militarizes’ civilian facilities in Gaza: Rights group
A Geneva-based human rights organization has said the Israeli regime “deliberately militarizes” civilian facilities inside the Gaza Strip, which the regime has brought under a months-long genocidal war.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor provided the information in a statement on Wednesday.
The Israeli military, it said, had “converted a number of schools into military bases, gathering places for its forces and vehicles, detention and interrogation centers, and torture facilities.”
It named one such facility as the “Salah al-Din Preparatory School” in Gaza City, which was used in February as a detention and interrogation center for hundreds of locals.
The war was launched following al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation by Gaza’s resistance movements.
It has so far killed at least 34,568 people, most of them women, children, and adolescents. Over 77,700 Palestinians have also been injured in the brutal military onslaught, while thousands of others remain unaccounted for.
Euro-Med said it had also received testimonies revealing that Israeli forces had carried out field executions at the schools, killing Palestinian civilians inside the same facilities where they had sought refuge.
The practice was taking place “in violation of international humanitarian law, which was established to protect civilian objects from the danger of military operations,” said the organization.
In militarizing the facilities, Tel Aviv had also trampled on its obligations to take necessary measures to “ensure that children, who are orphaned or are separated from their families as a result of a war, exercise their education,” it concluded.
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