GENEVA, (PIC)
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights reported that Israeli tanks deliberately ran over dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip while they were alive.
The Monitor added in a statement on Sunday that in one such instance a Palestinian youth was deliberately run over by the Israeli occupation forces in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City on February 29th after his arrest and his hands being tied with plastic restraints.
The Monitor added, “We have previously documented a similar incident in which an Israeli tank deliberately ran over a mobile home in the Abraj Taybeh area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 23rd, where members of the Ghanam family were sleeping. This led to the martyrdom of a person and his eldest daughter, as well as the injury of their three remaining children and their wife.”
The Monitor continued: “On December 16th of 2023, we documented the tanks and bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces running over displaced persons inside their tents in the Kamal Adwan Hospital square in Beit Lahia, resulting in the martyrdom of some of them, including the injured, in addition to crushing the bodies of martyrs buried in graves next to the square.”
The Euro-Med Monitor further stated that on February 20th, a Palestinian family survived after an Israeli tank ran over the tent they were staying in on the beach of Khan Yunis during a surprise operation carried out by the Israeli forces.
The Euro-Med Monitor confirmed the repeated incidents of the occupation forces destroying civilian properties, especially vehicles, during their ground incursions into various areas of the Gaza Strip. The military bulldozers proceed to destroy and crush the civilian vehicles on the streets without any military necessity or other justification.
