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In Mawasi attack, Israel committed ‘complex crime’: Rights monitor

Sunday, 14 July 2024 6:43 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 14 July 2024 6:54 PM ]

A woman carries an injured child to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after the al-Mawasi attack on July 13, 2024. (AFP)

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has said the Israeli attack that killed at least 90 people at the al-Mawasi camp “is nothing new.”

“Areas where displaced Palestinians were forced to go have been under continuous bombardment. This has been ongoing for nine months straight,” Maha Hussaini, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah on Sunday.

She said what Israel committed was a “complex crime” in that it involved preventing ambulances from reaching the injured.

“Drones opened fire on anyone or anything trying to evacuate the wounded. Only a few hours after this, another massacre was committed in the west of Gaza City. This genocide in Gaza is systematic. We’ve witnessed that Israel is intensifying these attacks on displacement centres,” she said.

The area where the atrocity was committed had been designated by the Israeli regime as a so-called “safe” zone.

The government media office in the Gaza Strip held Israel and its staunch ally, the United States, “fully responsible for the continuation of these horrific massacres of civilians” and for spreading “fabricated and untrue narratives.”

It further called on the international community to pressure Tel Aviv and Washington to stop their bloodshed in the Gaza Strip.

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor earlier said there are frequent reports that Israel uses a number of artificial intelligence-supported technological systems to illegally track and monitor Palestinians.

It has also urged an investigation into the role of major technology companies and international social media platforms in the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israel in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Recently, the Lancet, a leading general medical journal, estimated that the death toll from the Israeli aggression could be 186,000 or even more as many Palestinians have succumbed to the indirect impacts of the Gaza war.

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