Israel’s crimes in Gaza surpass Daesh’s, all forms of terrorism: Report

An international human rights organization says the Israeli regime outperformed the US-backed Daesh terrorist group in "horrifying" crimes during its brutal war in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, in a recent report, said its field teams had documented thousands of crimes committed by Israeli forces, constituting overwhelming evidence of mass atrocities.

"These crimes include an unprecedented pattern of violence in recent history, in terms of scale, deliberate targeting, and genocidal intent."

The nature of Israel’s crimes in the besieged Palestinian territory must be denounced, particularly the crimes’ horrifying scope, methodical execution, and wide-ranging effects, which surpass those of terrorist groups like Daesh, also known as ISIL or ISIS, the Geneva-based group said.

The rights group censured the shameful international silence over an 18-month-long Israeli genocidal campaign across the blockaded Palestinian territory.

"While the crimes committed by ISIS have been widely denounced by the international community, the same community is now mostly silent—and therefore complicit—as Israel pursues a campaign of declared genocide that aims to exterminate the Palestinian people from their homeland," it said.

These acts amount to one of the "most extensive and systematic campaigns of extermination in contemporary history," noted the organization.

Euro-Med further underscored the urgent need for international accountability, an end to Israeli impunity, and concrete action to halt further atrocities.

It pointed out that these actions cannot be dismissed as random or extreme policies, but rather represent a fully-fledged model of organized state terrorism, driven by a comprehensive blueprint for annihilation and implemented in full view of the international community.

“These crimes are being committed with clear, declared intent to eliminate the Palestinian people as a national and collective entity, uproot those who remain on their land, erase their identity, and ultimately end their collective existence.”

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In its most recent aggression, Israeli forces detonated a robot on Thursday, rigged with tons of explosives in the heart of the densely populated Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, said the rights group, adding that the explosion killed about two dozen Palestinians and injured around 100 others, the majority of them women and children.

"The explosion occurred in an area packed with displaced civilians, though there was no military necessity and no combat activity in the vicinity. This act embodies the conduct of existing terrorist organizations, even surpassing them in brutality and disregard for human life, and bears no resemblance to the conduct of a state bound by international law, regardless of any attempts to distort or evade it."

Over recent months—particularly in the northern Gaza Strip—Israel has increasingly used explosive-laden robots in residential neighborhoods during its ground incursions.

At least 150 such detonations have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, and caused wide-scale destruction to homes and other essential infrastructure, it said.

A separate atrocity was committed on March 23, when Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinian rescue workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent and Civil Defense, along with a United Nations staff member, before executing them extrajudicially—some while their hands were bound, according to the organization. 

"Their bodies were dumped into a pit, and the ambulances they had been travelling in were destroyed. This incident is another blatant example of an intentional Israeli crime mirroring—and exceeding—the brutality of groups like Daesh, as it reveals a clear and deliberate intent to annihilate Palestinians both physically and through psychologically terrorizing residents across the Strip."

Elsewhere in the report, Euro-Med called all states, both individually and collectively, to fulfil their legal obligations and take urgent action to stop Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip in all its forms.

"This includes implementing concrete measures to protect Palestinian civilians, ensuring Israel’s compliance with international legal norms and the rulings of the International Court of Justice, and guaranteeing full accountability for perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity."

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The report also stressed the importance of implementing the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant at the earliest opportunity.

Furthermore, Euro-Med called on the international community to impose comprehensive economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions on Israel in response to its grave and systematic violations of international law.

 "This includes an arms embargo; the cessation of all political, financial, and military cooperation; asset freezes of implicated officials; travel bans; and the suspension of trade privileges and bilateral agreements that provide Israel with economic benefits, enabling its continued crimes."

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The rights group says a minimum of 58,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of them women and children.

“Most have been buried beneath the rubble of homes deliberately destroyed over their heads, while many were killed by sniper fire with clear intent."

Over 120,000 individuals have been injured, and at least 39,000 children have been orphaned. The Gaza Strip’s infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, and schools, has been virtually obliterated.

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