Geneva – The Israeli army’s execution of an elderly Palestinian after using him in a propaganda campaign promoting its “safe corridor” in Gaza was strongly condemned in a statement released by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor today.

The rights organisation expressed outrage over Israel’s incorporating the man into its attempt to cover up horrific crimes against displaced Palestinians fleeing Israeli violence in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israel’s army released a photo of one of its soldiers talking to Bashir Hajji, a 79-year-old resident of Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighborhood, as he travelled on Salah al-Din Road, the main route to the southern Gaza Valley. The soldier in the photo appears to be helping and protecting displaced Palestinian civilians, said Euro-Med Monitor, yet Hajji was subjected to a field execution on the morning of Friday 10 November.

The elderly man’s granddaughter, Hala Hajji, told the Euro-Med Monitor team that her grandfather was brutally executed while crossing the “safe corridor” when members of the Israeli army intentionally shot him in the head and back. She also confirmed that he is in the photo that was put out by Israel—exposing the Israeli army’s dangerous practice of flagrantly fabricating stories.

Euro-Med Monitor stated that it has previously documented dozens of cases where the Israeli army executed displaced Palestinians by live bullets and, in some cases, by artillery shells. Those displaced were attempting to flee to the south of Wadi Gaza at the Israeli army’s request.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor renewed its calls for the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to open an urgent independent investigation into the execution crimes to which displaced Palestinians have been and are still being subjected to, to hold those who ordered such crimes accountable, and to achieve justice for the victims.

link: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/5944/Israeli-army-executes-an-elderly-Palestinian-after-using-him-in-propaganda-campaign-about-its-‘safe-corridor’-in-Gaza

  • @[email protected]
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    282 years ago

    They did not ‘execute’ him. We use a different word when soldiers illegally kill non-combatants in a safe zone.

    • JustEnoughDucks
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      Maybe it’s a good thing cops in America only get less training than a burger flipper if they are trained by these murderers.

  • @[email protected]
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    352 years ago

    Israel should be invaded and members of IDF executed on the spot. This is the only way to stop Israeli apartheid and genocide.

    • NumbersCanBeFun
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      Your answer to bloodshed… is more of it?

      This is a stupid solution that will only unfold into bigger, longer lasting issues.

      • @[email protected]
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        The bloodshed of Israeli military terrorists is necessary to end up with an existing Palestine country and Palestinian people. Zionists are fascists and fascists deserve to be killed without mercy. Fascists are not humans.

        • Annoyed_🦀
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          It’s one thing to protest against the genocide and ethnic cleansing, it’s another thing to advocate the extermination of another. With IDF gone, Israel is a sitting duck ripe for the picking from multiple front, lots of innocent people will get killed too. When that happen, it will be no different than what Israel is doing.

          • @[email protected]
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            Which is what needs to happen to reverse what Israel has reduced Palestine to - literal dots on the whole map. Israel should not even exist to begin with, or at the bare minimum rolled back to UN partition guidelines of 1947.

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              Conveniently leaving out the times Israel gave back land, and was then attacked again by Palestine.

            • @[email protected]
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              No matter where you stand in this conflict, please stop spreading this blatant propaganda map. 1994 was the first year of any palestinian rule over any land

              • @[email protected]
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                stop spreading this blatant propaganda map

                Looks like it is working, thanks for the feedback. This map has been factual for almost 80 years now, for anyone that reads it. Nothing happened since 1994, Zionist project of colonisation has been going on even before 1940s, for anyone that reads this.

                • Flyswat
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                  See how now they also took land from weakened Syria.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness
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            While that guy is too extreme, the IDF definitely needs to get the Wehrmacht treatment.

        • Cethin
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          42 years ago

          Just so you’re aware, which it sounds like you aren’t, serving in the IDF is mandatory for all Israeli citizens. Since you seem to not even know this, I don’t think you should be taken seriously on any suggestions at all.

          • @[email protected]M
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            It is easy to get a medical exemption or go to jail for a few months instead of being complicit in a genocidal campaign. Not all Israeli adults serve.

          • @[email protected]
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            152 years ago

            That just means Israeli citizens are directly complicit in the genocide and erasure of the State of Palestine, and deserve to die for being colonisers. Israeli settlers should go back to where they were exported from - Europe and USA. They should have not gone to Israel. Israel is not some cheap country with opportunities to migrate to, it is a genocidal apartheid parasite state.

            • Cethin
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              22 years ago

              A lot of people were just born there…

              I’m as against the settlement as anyone, but at least learn the history. You people just hate things because you’re told to. There are good reasons. Genocide isn’t the answer, and no plenty of Israelis are against Zionism and the invasion who just happened to be born on a certain piece of land that shouldn’t mean anything.

              • @[email protected]
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                112 years ago

                You have a reading problem. Military is not the same as citizens. Israeli military are terrorists.

                Citizens came from Europe and USA, there was no Israel a century ago. Kids born out of Israeli settlers are not a problem of Palestine. The original land of Palestine had no Israeli Zionist on there.

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                  12 years ago

                  The Palestinian people didn’t exist at some period in the past either. Children should not be bound by the sins of their fathers. I agree it sucks, however there are options available that don’t include genocide. There is plenty of space for both groups to live, just without Zionism.

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            Bet you love supporting Israel, as a veteran. Liberals like you should be the first to be thrown in crossfire for "both sides"ing what has been a one way genocide of Palestinians for the past century. A veteran calling me a monster is hilarious.

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              I love how us “liberal” godless heathens are always the first to go to hell yet we preach peace and understanding. Yes I am an atheist and a liberal veteran.

              Your god is ashamed of you and your preached falsehoods. If you truly believe in him you would abandon your ways of violence and beg for forgiveness. Otherwise I’ll see you in hell. I’ll be looking forward to recounting this conversation with you in the afterlife, if there is such a place.

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                You liberals are the second worst criminals after the ones who commit crimes, being the enablers and cheerleaders of those crimes. “yet we preach peace and understanding” LMAO fucking gaslighter

        • @[email protected]
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          92 years ago

          This is way too far. You’re literally calling for the genocide of Israelis because an unverified claim from a website has claimed (without providing any evidence) that Israel has committed a war crime.

          If it’s true, Israeli solider should be hit with war crime charges.

          You and your attitude are why synagogues all over the world are being burnt and Jews are being attacked. You sound exactly like the ones you condemn.

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            232 years ago

            You and your attitude are why synagogues all over the world are being burnt and Jews are being attacked.

            I did not know Zionism and Judaism lacked distinction. Why are the rabbis protesting about this then?

      • Limitless_screaming
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        Your answer to Nazis killing people… is killing those Nazis?

        It should be your answer too.

        I am willing to bet that if the occupation wasn’t advantageous to the US, they’d have wiped out “Israel” since 1948, but you know the Nazis are operating in the middle east this time, and their victims are brown. Two birds, one stone.

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        82 years ago

        Against the apartheid state of Israel and IDF terrorists, absolute full support in every possible way. Hamas is the only defense line that separates Palestine from complete extinction.

        We have already seen how the beheading babies and stuff were lies invented by Israel, so Hamas is a lot more innocent than what you Zionist supporters label them as.

      • @[email protected]
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        202 years ago

        I did not know Israel and IDF selectively killed Palestinian military, instead of genociding Palestinians, invading and colonising land, bombing hospitals and children and making countries open air concentration camps for a century.

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    172 years ago

    “Strongly condemned” where is that on a scale from 0 to 10 where 10 is stopping the action being condemned and 0 doing nothing? Is that a 2 or maybe 3?

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      0 pay them to do it

      1 ask them to do it

      2 thoughts & prayers

      3 doing nothing

      4 weakly discourage

      5 strongly condemned

      6 strongly worded letter

      7 tariffs

      8 embargo

      9 invade

      10 nuclear first strike

  • @[email protected]
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    But since Hamas attacked a music festival first it’s ok right?
    Or maybe it’s ok because Hamas hides.in tunnels under an hospital?

    I need to find a good reason to say it’s ok otherwise it means my government isn’t doing what it should…

    • ColorcodedResistor
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      “everybody, stop shooting. they are disappointed in us. sorry palestine, it was just a prank, bro.”

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    The terrorist group Hamas has been actively preventing evacuation, and according to reports opening live fire on Palestinians trying to evacuate throughout this war.

    Big title with little evidence this case was any different, coming from a highly non-objective organization that failed to find a single issue with Hamas, the sole government in Gaza, which took all the aid money and turn it into rockets.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/13/first-thing-hamas-tells-gaza-city-residents-to-stay-put-after-israel-orders-evacuation

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-Mediterranean_Human_Rights_Monitor

      This is your “highly non-objective organization”. At this point you need sources. And let’s face it, Hamas was right to tell civilians to not evacuate. Do you have the slightest idea how messy a complete evacuation of the north Gaza strip would be like? Especially into the also overcrowded, starving south sid Hint: It would be a much worse bloodbath than what we’re seeing now. Not to mention many people already evacuated south, found themselves being bombed there too, didn’t find shelter and the like, and went back.

      “Evacuate Northern Gaza” was a moronic take a month ago and it’s still moronic now. Also I’ll need to see those reports you’re talking about.

      • Scary le Poo
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        It’s not just that. By leaving they lose everything to the settlers. There are very good reasons for not leaving.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m no expert, but it took me about 30s to find out that the organisation’s founder is Palestinian, so I’m not sure that’s a good sign for their objectivity

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          I mean they’re biased; that’s normal. The thing is: Does that bias get in the way of the factuality of their reporting? Given that they have a pretty long track record, there needs to be a source that proves they’re unreliable.

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    If there was ever a time that a person or nation took the sympathy of the world, and twisted it into action against them it is this. Israel can go fuck off now, as a previous Israel supporter I do not anymore.

  • @[email protected]
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    302 years ago

    It’s in the fine print when you sign the waiver to be filmed that they’re going to shoot you right after. You have to read those things closely.

  • @[email protected]
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    I mean condemnation is a great start, but Israel isn’t going to stop killing Palestinians until they’re stopped, or there’s no Palestinians left to kill.

    Their rhetoric has made it clear that killing civilians isn’t an unfortunate consequence of stopping Hamas - it’s the objective, and they propped up Hamas over the PLO to create the pretext for this.

    • @[email protected]
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      They taking the USA’s Native Americans approach after the apartheid South African government approach. Didn’t yield what they wanted.

      • @[email protected]
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        I mean, they call the Israelis that are taking land in the West Bank ‘settlers’. It’s colonial language that is explicitly meant to designate the Palestinians as ‘natives’ that need to be conquered. Similar to the ‘settling’ of the Americas or Australia, the people that were already there don’t count, don’t have rights and are basically a nuisance.

        • @[email protected]
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          In the case of Australia, it was arguably a bit worse than that - the legal “terra nullius” justification translates to “nobody’s land”. At best, it said that there was no civilisation here - in reality, the general consensus seems to have been closer to “they’re just animals”. The way they were treated did nothing to suggest otherwise.

          • @[email protected]
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            Israel is treating Palestine as terra nullus as well. You can just waltz in, take someone’s house, and the IDF will defend you. And it’s not like the courts are an option for recourse either.

            • @[email protected]
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              Functionally, it’s not much different - a militarily dominant power invading with the backing of the bulk of the West, committing a genocide to sieze the territory.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      Euro-Med Monitor has existed for 12 years.

      Maybe the case is that you have not been to concerned about the humanitarian situation in the middle east ?

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      Calling this news is quite generous, they don’t even try to make it sound like they’re writing news articles. Citing sources seems to be beneath them, other than “someone told us”.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yea, “someone told us” seemingly without any further evidence should not be the basis of such an article. Without verifying claims, human rights watches are bound to be abused for propaganda purposes.