Gaza: Claims to form special investigation committees into Israeli murders

Gaza: Claims to form special investigation committees into Israeli murders

Human rights and civil society institutions called on the United Nations General Assembly, the Secretary-General and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, to form special investigative committees for all murders committed by the occupation forces against the Palestinians, and not to acknowledge its account.

This came during a press conference held by human rights organizations, on Tuesday evening, in front of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Gaza City, with the participation of a large number of human rights organizations and representatives of civil society institutions.

The human rights lawyer Salah Abdel-Ati said at the press conference: The video scenes were reported by the media and eyewitnesses about what the occupation forces carried out and executed the young Mohammed al-Naim by targeting him with a tank shell and a hail of bullets accompanied by another young man near the separation fence east of Khan Yunis. The institutions said: "This crime prompted the residents of the area from the Qudaih family and some farmers to try to rescue the two young men, as it was found to them that there was a martyr and a wounded man, but the occupation army tank urgent them to shoot."

Those institutions showed that the video that was published through the media about the execution of the accused, the abuse of his body, and his kidnapping by the occupation authorities are compelling evidence of the repeated killings of Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.

She pointed out that there is no legal justification for the occupation army to fire at young men and farmers, and this indicates that it is the behavior of a state committed with systematic and systematic instructions issued by the highest security and political pyramid of the occupation state. She pointed out that the continuous violations of the occupation against the Palestinians are striking at the wall of the international and humanitarian conscience, the decisions of the international community, its treaties and charters, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on the Protection of Civilian Persons in War, the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials of 1979, and the Rome Charter establishing the International Criminal Court . The human rights institutions demanded the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to exert the necessary pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to stop its racist and aggressive and systematic policies aimed at depriving the Palestinians of their right to life.

The institutions called the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to include the crimes committed by the occupation for its first investigation to be opened after the approval of the Pre-Trial Chamber, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and to consider the Israeli judiciary not willing to investigate these crimes.

It warned that the international community should move urgently to stop the violations of the occupation authorities that rise to the level of war crimes, in addition to the need for the high parties to move and take the necessary measures to ensure that the occupation authorities respect their legal obligations under the rules of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and work to Accounting for those involved.