[News] Euro-Med Monitor Calls for Investigation Into Reports of ‘Israel’ Burying Victims Alive in Palestine

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Euro-Med Monitor Calls for Investigation Into Reports of ‘Israel’ Burying
Victims Alive in Palestine
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December 17, 2023
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[image: Palestinians bury innocent civilians killed by the Israeli entity's
genocidal bombardment in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis, southern
Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Photo: Mohammed Dahman/AP.]

Palestinians bury innocent civilians killed by the Israeli entity's
genocidal bombardment in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis, southern
Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Photo: Mohammed Dahman/AP.

The human rights organization Euro-Med Monitor has urged to probe Israeli
war crimes after reports of Palestinian civilians buried alive at the Kamal
Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

In a report published on Saturday, the Geneva-based group said that “an
independent international investigation must be opened into these reports.”

According to Euro-Med Monitor, “Israeli army bulldozers drove into the
hospital (on Saturday) morning and destroyed its southern section, leaving
behind massive destruction following several days of non-stop attacks and
siege.”

*Horrific violations*
This followed “several days of non-stop attacks and siege,” the group said,
noting that “nine days ago, Israeli tanks had besieged the hospital, with
Israeli snipers taking over the surrounding buildings and shooting at
anyone passing by.”

During the nine-day siege, “horrific violations” were witnessed by the
facility, according to the human rights group.

“Israeli forces directly bombed the hospital’s maternity ward on Monday,
December 11, killing two women and their two babies and amputating a third
woman’s legs,” the report stated, adding that Israeli forces detained the
hospital director, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot, “and transferred more than 70
health personnel from the hospital to an unknown destination.”

“Euro-Med Monitor received testimonies confirming that an elderly man was
recently starved to death in the hospital, while another was killed after
an Israeli military dog was let loose on him,” the report added.

*Buried alive*
On Saturday morning, before leaving the medical facility, “Israeli
bulldozers buried Palestinian civilians alive in the hospital courtyard,
according to testimonies (Euro-Med Monitor) received from media and medical
crews on the ground.”

“At least one of the bodies could be seen amid the sand piles, witnesses
said, confirming that the victim was injured before being buried and
killed,” the report added.

Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif wrote on X after visiting the
hospital following the withdrawal of Israeli forces, that “what the Israeli
occupation did inside Kamal Adwan Hospital is a heinous crime against the
residents and medical staff.”

The video taken by al-Sharif shows that the courtyard, which contained many
tents housing displaced Palestinians, was deliberately bulldozed by Israeli
occupation forces.

In the video, al-Sharif showed what looks like a dismembered limb, saying:
“This is the body of an injured refugee who was in the hospital and was run
over by Israeli bulldozers.”

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 18,800 Palestinians have been
killed and more than 51,000 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza
starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the
majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

(Palestine Chronicle)
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