UN rights workplace requires investigation into ‘possible war crime’ amid reviews Israeli forces allegedly ‘executed’ 11 Palestinian males in Gaza.
The United Nations human rights workplace has referred to as for an impartial inquiry into allegations that Israeli forces “summarily executed” not less than 11 Palestinian males in Gaza in what it referred to as “a possible war crime”.
“The Israeli authorities must immediately institute an independent, thorough and effective investigation into these allegations, and if found to be substantiated, those responsible must be brought to justice and measures implemented to prevent any such serious violations from recurring,” stated the Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in an announcement on Wednesday.
Disturbing data on abstract killings of not less than 11 unarmed Palestinian males in entrance of their relations in Al Remal neighbourhood.#Gaza #opt #IHL #humanrightshttps://t.co/Gf0GdyDPAZ
— UN Human Rights OPT (@OHCHR_Palestine) December 20, 2023
Al Jazeera spoke to a number of witnesses to Tuesday’s raid throughout which Israeli troops allegedly surrounded and stormed a residential constructing, going ground to ground to separate the lads from the ladies and kids, after which taking pictures lifeless 11 of the lads in entrance of their relations. The boys have been of their 20s and 30s, survivors stated.
“They saw us, men and their wives and children. My brother-in-law tried to speak and explain all in the house are civilians, but they shot him dead,” one survivor advised Al Jazeera of the assault on households who have been sheltering in al-Adwa constructing in Gaza Metropolis’s Remal neighbourhood.
The troopers “forced their way into every home, killed the men and detained the women and children. We do not know their whereabouts. They did the same on every floor. All women were rounded up in one room. By the time they reached us on the sixth floor, they started shooting all men,” a girl stated, including that her father-in-law and son have been shot and killed immediately.
Survivors additionally stated that the Israeli troopers additionally attacked the ladies and kids after ordering them right into a room within the residential block also referred to as Annan constructing.
“The Israeli soldiers rounded up all the women in one room, then fired three mortar shells on us, then kept shooting their machine guns at us,” a wounded lady stated.
“I was hit with a bullet in my hand, my daughter in her head, my younger daughter was killed and my son is blind. My husband was executed in cold blood. All my other daughters suffered severe injuries, broken bones and flesh torn open. We were all hit by bullets or shrapnel,” she added.
Analyst Tamer Qarmout, an assistant professor on the Doha Institute for Graduate Research, welcomed the UN name for an investigation into the “unlawful killings”, telling Al Jazeera that the important thing challenge is how such probes are going to be carried out.
Not one of the entities that would examine alleged Israeli crimes towards Palestinians is at present allowed into the Gaza Strip, Qarmout famous.
Different witnesses recalled that the lads have been pressured to strip earlier than being shot, and one man stated that “even young boys were not spared. They were all battered and bludgeoned. They suffered broken bones and are in hospital.”
There was no remark from the Israeli army on the assault.
