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<h1 class="reader-title">Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian, Drag
His Body with a Bulldozer in Gaza (VIDEO)</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">February 23, 2020<br>
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<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">An Israeli
military bulldozer drags the body of a Palestinian
young man near the Gaza fence. (Photo: Video Grab)</figcaption>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>The Israeli army said that the “<span>soldiers opened
fire at two Palestinians placing an explosive device
next to the fence”, Reuters reported.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">MUST BE RETWEETED WIDELY<br>
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. <a
href="https://t.co/mPNNTfTlyo">pic.twitter.com/mPNNTfTlyo</a></p>
<p>— Shehab Agency (@ShehabAgencyEn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/ShehabAgencyEn/status/1231519794194796546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February
23, 2020</a></p>
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<p>However, a video, that is sparking outrage on social
media, shows <span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>The Gaza health ministry said two civilians
were wounded by Israeli gunfire at the scene.</span></p>
<p><em>(Palestine Chronicle, Shehab Agency, Social
Media)</em></p>
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<h1 class="reader-title">PCHR: IOF Abuses the Body
of Palestinian in a Humiliating and Degrading
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February 23, 2020</div>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>According to <a
href="https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=14232">PCHR</a>
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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The Israeli wheel loader continued abusing
the deceased man’s body for 3 minutes in an
attempt to lift him in a way that <strong>violates
the sanctity of death</strong>. 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.</p>
<p>It was later discovered that the person
killed, and whose body was desecrated by
IOF, was <a
href="http://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-two-palestinians-injure-two-in-southern-gaza/">Mohammed
‘Ali Hasan al-Na’em</a>, 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>These grave breaches constitute <strong>war
crimes</strong> 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.</p>
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