GENEVA, (PIC)
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned Israel’s escalation of its massive destruction of entire residential blocks and its mass killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement on Saturday, Euro-Med described Saturday’s attacks on Gaza as the “deadliest day since Israel started its genocidal war on October 7,” stressing that such attacks portend Israel’s use of a more brutal approach to impose its political and military will at the expense of civilians’ blood and property.
Euro-Med said it documented a series of Israeli aerial attacks, which it described as “fire belts,” on the areas of Shuja’iya, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia, affirming that these airstrikes pounded and leveled entire populated blocks over the heads of their residents and buried them under the rubble.
Rescue workers told a Euro-Med team that they received information about hundreds of casualties and missing persons following aerial and artillery attacks on about 50 residential buildings and houses in the densely populated neighborhood of al-Shuja’iya, east of Gaza.
Euro-Med also documented a horrific massacre that happened on Saturday in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where Israeli warplanes bombed a multi-story building crammed with displaced families, killing and injuring dozens of people.
In light of the severity of the ongoing bloodbath in Gaza, Euro-Med reiterated its appeal to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, who visited Ramallah on Saturday, to uphold the principles of international justice and hold Israel accountable for its war crimes.
