[News] Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian, Drag His Body with a Bulldozer in Gaza

[Anti-Imperialist News]

/Two articles follow/

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-drag-his-body-with-a-bulldozer-in-gaza-video/ 



  Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian, Drag His Body with a Bulldozer in
  Gaza (VIDEO)

February 23, 2020
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An Israeli military bulldozer drags the body of a Palestinian young man 
near the Gaza fence. (Photo: Video Grab)

Israeli forces killed one Palestinian near the fence separating besieged 
Gaza Strip from Israel, then used a bulldozer to extract the body and 
confiscate it.

The Israeli army said that the “soldiers opened fire at two Palestinians 
placing an explosive device next to the fence”, Reuters reported.

    MUST BE RETWEETED WIDELY
    Israeli occupation forces use a bulldozer to pull the body of
    Palestinian young man after killing him near the barbed fence in the
    south of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/mPNNTfTlyo <https://t.co/mPNNTfTlyo>

    — Shehab Agency (@ShehabAgencyEn) February 23, 2020
    <https://twitter.com/ShehabAgencyEn/status/1231519794194796546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

However, a video, that is sparking outrage on social media, shows a 
bulldozer approaching the body as two unarmed men were trying to collect 
it. The two young men run away when the sound of gunfire is heard, and 
the Israeli military bulldozer confiscates the body.

The Gaza health ministry said two civilians were wounded by Israeli 
gunfire at the scene.

/(Palestine Chronicle, Shehab Agency, Social Media)/

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https://imemc.org/article/pchr-iof-abuses-the-body-of-palestinian-in-a-humiliating-and-degrading-manner/ 



  PCHR: IOF Abuses the Body of Palestinian in a Humiliating and
  Degrading Manner

February 23, 2020
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On Sunday, 23 February 2020, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and 
injured Palestinian civilians whom were trying to rescue and evacuate 
two persons that were targeted by IOF in eastern Khan Younis, south of 
the Gaza Strip.

IOF made a 150-meter incursion into the border and evacuated the body of 
a Palestinian it killed in the area after desecrating his body in a 
humiliating and cruel manner, trying to lift the deceased with a wheel 
loader several times and dropping the slain man back to the ground, then 
confiscating the slain man to the Israeli side of the border.

According to PCHR <https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14232> investigations, 
at approximately 05:40 on Sunday, 23 February 2020, IOF fired three 
artillery shells and live bullets at two persons who were 100 meters 
from the border fence with Israel in eastern ‘Abassan al-Jadida, eastern 
Khan Younis.

Minutes later, a group of Palestinian civilians arrived at the area at 
Jakar St., followed by an ambulance, and tried to recover the dead 
bodies. IOF reinforced along the border fence and several military 
vehicles and soldiers deployed on sand berms in the area.

Approximately 1 hour later, 3 civilians took off their upper clothing, 
remained in their undershirts and approached one of the dead bodies 
while carrying a stretcher in an attempt to recover the body. They 
managed to pull out the body and place it on the stretcher and march 
westward a few meters.

IOF fired lived bullets at them, wounding Mohammed Khaled al-Najjar, 19, 
in his lower body; forcing the young men to leave the dead body on the 
stretcher and evacuated al-Najjar into a civilian car that carried him 
to an ambulance. They later returned to the scene to evacuate the person 
on the stretcher. Meanwhile, an IOF wheel loader and tank moved into the 
location and sped in their direction.

The group managed to carry the dead man’s body with the stretcher, but 
IOF opened fire at them, so he fell to the ground. An Israeli wheel 
loader arrived at the area and attempted to evacuate the young man’s 
body. According to eyewitnesses’ statement and video clips taken by 
Palestinian journalists in the area, the Israeli wheel loader lifted the 
young man’s body and threw him on the ground several times. When Mo’taz 
Hasan al-Najjar, 21, attempted to recover his body, IOF opened fired 
live bullets at him, wounding him in his lower extremities.

The Israeli wheel loader continued abusing the deceased man’s body for 3 
minutes in an attempt to lift him in a way that *violates the sanctity 
of death*. The wheel loader carried him from his upper cloths as his 
body hanged in a tormenting manner, and retreated into the Israeli side 
of the border fence.

It was later discovered that the person killed, and whose body was 
desecrated by IOF, was Mohammed ‘Ali Hasan al-Na’em 
<http://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinians-injure-two-in-southern-gaza/>, 
27, from Khan Younis. Al-Quds Brigades, the Military Wing of Islamic 
Jihad Movement, declared that the killed man is one of its members. 
Furthermore, the young men managed to evacuate the other dead body from 
the area, who was also a member of armed groups from the area.

PCHR condemns IOF’s inhuman treatment against the victim’s corpse, which 
was extracted in a humiliating and degrading manner. PCHR, also, 
denounces the use of excessive force against Palestinian civilians, who 
attempted to recover the body.

PCHR also reiterates its call upon the High Contracting Parties to the 
1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfil their obligations under Article 
1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all 
circumstances and their obligations under Article 146 to prosecute 
persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

These grave breaches constitute *war crimes* under Article 147 of the 
same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions 
regarding the guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection in 
the oPt.

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