12/24/2023–|Last updated: 12/24/202303:45 AM (Mecca time)
The government media office in Gaza called on Saturday for an international investigation into “field executions” that the Israeli army was accused of carrying out in the Strip, confirming that at least 137 executions had been recorded since the start of the aggression on October 7th.
The office said – in a statement – that it collected testimonies stating that “the Israeli occupation army committed field executions of more than 137 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza and northern governorates.”
He accused the Israeli army in particular of having “dug large holes and placed dozens of our Palestinian citizens alive in them, then executed them by shooting them directly, then buried them with bulldozers.”
The government office called for “the formation of international teams to investigate the occupation’s crimes and field executions.”
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said earlier Saturday that the Israeli army killed dozens of Palestinians and “executed” dozens of others in the streets this week during its ground operations in Jabalia and other areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
War crime
Last Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that it had received reports that Israeli forces “summarily killed” 11 unarmed Palestinians in what could be classified as a war crime in the Gaza Strip.
The commission called on Israel to open an investigation into “the possibility that its forces committed a war crime,” but the Israeli government said that these accusations were “unfounded.”
It is noteworthy that the occupation army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, which has so far left more than 20,000 martyrs, most of them women and children, and more than 52,000 injured, in addition to a stifling humanitarian and health crisis due to the scale of destruction, targeting, and lack of The occupation allowed enough aid and fuel to enter the Strip.