The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that its field team documented dozens of cases in which Israeli forces used large police dogs during their military operations in the Gaza Strip, especially during raids on homes, hospitals and shelters.
He explained that the use of police dogs by Israeli forces against civilians takes several forms, including using them after placing surveillance cameras on their backs to explore homes and facilities before raiding them, while these dogs repeatedly attack civilians and maul them during raids, without any interference from members of the Israeli army, who often They often order dogs to attack civilians and then mock them, according to testimonies.
He stressed that the use of dogs during house raids has become a systematic practice by the Israeli army.
The elderly woman’s case is not unique
Tel Aviv Tribune broadcast exclusive footage of an Israeli police dog attacking an elderly Palestinian woman in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, while the woman said that her injury was serious.
Tel Aviv Tribune obtained the leaked clips from a camera installed by the occupation on a police dog, which showed a long-lasting assault on the elderly Palestinian woman inside her home.
In statements to Tel Aviv Tribune, Hajja Dawlat Abdullah Al-Tanani (67 years old) said that the occupation forces released a dog on her, which bit her in her bed while she was sleeping, and then dragged her out of the room.
She confirmed that she had repeatedly refrained from leaving her home since the start of the war, noting that her injury was serious as a result of being subjected to cuts, fractures and bleeding.
She added that she is still suffering from the infection in light of the lack of medicines and the damage to hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
However, the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory said that the incident of the attack on the elderly woman, Dawlat Al-Tanani, in which a video clip of a dog mauling her in Gaza City recently spread, is not an isolated case, and that her case spread because it happened to be documented in a video clip and published.
Euro-Med stated that its field team documented the use of dogs to attack and terrorize children and women during the storming of shelter centers in various stages of the Israeli army’s ground operations in Gaza City, its north, and Khan Yunis.
#photoIsraeli police dogs attack a child before he is arrested by occupation soldiers in Beit Ummar, Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/ihYd7lbv5L
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The most horrible and hideous methods
However, the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory said that, according to what its team documented, it was the most dangerous and horrific form of the use of police dogs against Palestinian prisoners and detainees without any restrictions or prohibitions. It reached the point of using them to rape prisoners and detainees in front of their colleagues, as part of crimes of systematic sexual violence against Prisoners and detainees, which included nudity, sexual harassment, or threats of rape.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor highlighted that it received harsh testimonies from released detainees, confirming the brutal and inhumane role of the Israeli army in using dogs to rape prisoners and detainees, noting that these are horrific, serious and unspoken crimes, which require an urgent investigation, ensuring their cessation and accountability.
Euro-Med called on the international community to fulfill its international legal obligations to stop the crime of genocide and all the full-fledged crimes committed by Israel since the seventh of last October against all residents of the Gaza Strip, including prisoners and detainees, and to activate real pressure tools to force it to stop committing these crimes. Immediately, and pressure them to comply with the rules of international law and protect Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.