An Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent said that 5 people, including the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad Al-Maghari, were martyred in an Israeli raid on a municipal building in the central Gaza Strip.
For its part, the government media office in Gaza condemned the occupation’s assassination of the mayor of the Nuseirat camp and considered it “a war crime aimed at creating a state of chaos and chaos and doubling the humanitarian crisis.”
The office added in a statement, “This massacre is a war crime that violates international laws that grant immunity and protection to civilian figures, and is considered a new episode of the occupation’s crimes against our Palestinian people, which affected all sectors in a deliberate and pre-planned manner.”
He pointed out that “this crime comes after a series of previous crimes committed by the occupation against municipalities and their heads, as it previously assassinated the mayor of Al-Zahraa, Marwan Hamad, and the mayor of Al-Maghazi, Hatem Al-Ghamri, and today the assassination of the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad Al-Mughari.”
The information office held Israel and the American administration “fully responsible for this heinous crime, which indicates the depth of the crisis that the occupation and the Americans are experiencing, which has reached this stage of killing.”
He called on the countries of the world to “prosecute the occupation in the courts and international forums for its heinous crimes against humanity, and to put pressure on it to stop this genocide that has been continuing for eight continuous months.”
Destructive war
Earlier, eyewitnesses reported to Anadolu correspondent that “Civil defense crews in Gaza recovered 5 martyrs, including the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad Al-Maghari, as a result of an Israeli plane bombing a municipal building in the middle of the Strip.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that has left nearly 120,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
Israel continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution demanding that it stop the fighting immediately, and orders from the Court of Justice to stop its attack on the city of Rafah, south of Gaza, and take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation” in the Strip.