The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said that the initial outcome of the massacre – committed by the Israeli occupation army in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip – is horrific, and its responsibilities are borne by the parties that supply it with weapons and the parties that remain silent about the crime of genocide without taking the initiative to take a real position on the repeated crushing. For humanity in Gaza.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory explained that its field team documented the bombing by Israeli aircraft yesterday, Tuesday, October 29, 2024, of a five-story residential building for the Nasr family in Beit Lahia, which includes about 200 citizens and displaced persons, and its complete destruction on their heads.
The Observatory reported – from one of the survivors of the massacre – that Israeli aircraft bombed the house at five in the morning and completely destroyed it, indicating that the house was housing 200 people who were displaced from Jabalia camp, Jabalia al-Balad and other neighborhoods in northern Gaza, after targeting their homes and shelter centers, all of whom were safe civilians. .
He stated that his wife and four children were among the dead, while he survived after the force of the explosion pushed him to a neighbor’s house dozens of meters away, sustaining injuries throughout his body.
He reported that the people were able to transfer him to Kamal Adwan Hospital, and he had been waiting for hours to be transferred to Al-Awda Hospital for surgery to no avail, and that dozens of victims were still under the rubble.
Euro-Med stated that preliminary information indicates that the occupation army targeted the residential building with an American MK-84 bomb weighing 908 kilograms, crushing all those inside it.
He pointed out that with the cessation of ambulance and civil defense services in northern Gaza as a result of repeated Israeli attacks, operations to initially recover numbers of victims from residents of the area took place, as the bodies of approximately 93 victims were recovered, and dozens are still missing under the rubble.
German weapons
Euro-Med also pointed out the documentation of the Israeli army’s widespread use of the German “Matdor” weapon in bombing and burning homes and killing Palestinians, as well as its use of German mines in the northern Gaza Strip.
He stressed that the repeated use of American and German weapons to mass kill Palestinian civilians and destroy their homes makes these countries complicit in the crime of genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, in accordance with international humanitarian law, especially the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. On her.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory was surprised by the state of dullness with which the international community and the systems of international justice, normalization, and familiarity dealt with the succession of daily killings and massacres, until the daily killing count numbered in the tens and hundreds without any single position being issued, in one of the ugliest forms of embodiment of racism and political and moral corruption at the global level.
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory stressed that international humanitarian law protects the right of civilians during armed conflicts if they decide to remain in their homes or areas, especially since they do not pose any danger or threat to the lives of the occupying forces, as investigations conducted by the Observatory confirm that the killing and destruction operations are not carried out for any necessity. Warfare, but with the aim of destroying the Palestinians and eliminating them through murder and forced displacement.
The Euro-Mediterranean Monitor called on the United Nations and the international community to intervene immediately to save hundreds of thousands of residents of northern Gaza, stop the crime of genocide committed by Israel for the second year in a row, impose a comprehensive arms embargo on it, hold it accountable and punish it for all its crimes, and take all effective measures to protect the Palestinian civilians there.
