Starvation massacres in Gaza reveal brutal genocidal pattern: Euro-Med

Gaza: The Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro Med) said that the Israeli occupation forces committed one of the most horrific massacres toda...

Gaza: The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) said that the Israeli occupation forces committed one of the most horrific massacres today against starving civilians waiting for aid in the northern Gaza Strip, firing directly at them without posing any threat, killing 67 people and wounding dozens.

It indicated in a statement today that it had documented Israeli occupation soldiers opening fire on civilians as they approached an aid distribution point, in a deliberate killing that cannot be justified by any military consideration.

It noted that this reflects an unprecedented level of brutality within the genocidal crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza.

Euro-Med explained that these developments, which coincide with the peak of starvation in the Gaza Strip, with documented deaths due to malnutrition and dozens being hospitalized due to exhaustion and food shortages, confirm that the Israeli occupation is using aid and its distribution points as death traps to deliberately lure starving crowds into them, as part of an integrated system of deliberate killing, systematic deprivation, and collective humiliation, in an unprecedented violation of international law.

The monitor emphasized that the deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians, through killing and wounding while they attempt to access food, along with the use of starvation as a weapon, constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and constitutes war crimes under the Rome Statute, including willful killing, targeting civilians, and the use of starvation as a method of warfare, all of which are absolutely prohibited in armed conflicts.