Over 10,000 under rubble in Gaza as Israel obstructs recovery of victims
Nine months into Israel’s savage war in the Gaza Strip, more than 10,000 Palestinians are missing under the rubble, as the regime deliberately obstructs the recovery of the bodies of the victims, says a Geneva-based human rights group.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on ُSunday that Israel has “a pattern of systematic operations to prevent and obstruct the recovery of victims and missing persons from under the rubble.”
According to the rights group, the regime’s military forces have “deliberately and methodically targeted and destroyed" machinery and equipment for civil defense crews, while preventing any replacement equipment entry to the besieged territory.
More than 10,000 Palestinian men, women & children are missing under the rubble in Gaza in the face of total international inaction & indifference https://t.co/C1gSqz4SOm
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) July 7, 2024
Israel’s military forces also deliberately target “rescue teams, and families trying to recover the bodies of victims, as well as preventing the entry of fuel necessary to operate what remains of the heavy machinery and preventing the entry of equipment.”
The rights group urged the international community to increase pressure “to compel Israel to fulfill its legal obligations and bring in trucks, special equipment, and sufficient fuel, given the urgent need to clear the debris, locate bodies, and recover them.”
It said the bodies of the victims need to be recovered with special procedures, identified and buried in marked graves. Euro-Med Monitor said it’s the victims' and their families' right to have “a respectful and appropriate burial in accordance with their religious rituals.”
Israel is required by international law to abide by certain rules, according to the group, “including the requirement to … take all reasonable steps to ensure that the dead are treated with dignity and to prevent the mutilation of bodies.”
The international community must work together to ensure that the regime immediately stops its military attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip, and is held responsible for all its crimes, Euro-Med Monitor added.
Human rights groups and UN experts have repeatedly warned that the regime’s brutal actions in Gaza already may have breached international law. Israel's military force have so far killed more than 38,100 Palestinians, including women and children, since early October.
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