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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Dude, there are Israelis who don't support Zionism, just as there are people wherever you're from who don't support whatever your nation is doing. I'm not the one living in a fairytale. Fairytales are the only places where there's a pure evil.
The people living in this region deserve peace. Whoever their ancestors are doesn't really change shit. They're all people, and fundamentally similar. They're just trying to live their lives. It's the elites in control of the countries that are the issue, not the modern citizens. Mostly they didn't choose where to live. They just happened to be born where they were by random chance.
Your shortsighted black and white stupid worldview is so childish. Anyone who doesn't advocate for the death of innocent people that you want dead are neoliberal Israel supporters. Grow the fuck up. Read my comment history if you want. I have given you plenty of reasons why your dumb genocide fantasy are wrong, but you still want it, because it's the right kind of genocide. You can either be against innocent people being murdered by an ethno-state or not. However, you're in favor of one because you're against the other. What?
You don't have any argument except that you don't like Israelis. You say they're evil, but I can call anything evil. Sure, the settlers are bad, and the gains they've gotten for it are wrong and should be made up for. You don't get to choose your parents though. Just because you were born into poverty, for example, doesn't mean you should be forced to stay impoverished. We should set up systems that improve that. Similarly, just because you're born to the children of settlers doesn't mean you should have to be held accountable for it. We should set up systems to make up for it.
I don't know where you're from, but you pretend to be leftist I assume. Part of that is understanding people aren't the situation they're born into. Get some fucking class consciousness to replace your stupid whatever ideology you have. The normal working citizens of these places are not responsible for the actions of the bourgeoisie and should not die for them.
Are you unfamiliar with bourgeoisification theory?
Basically, privileged workers within an imperial/colonial context benefit from the superprofits generated by the superexploitation of imperialized/colonized workers. In return for their loyalty to the imperial/colonial project they are rewarded with cheap commodities. Even as the privileged worker is exploited they can afford to live a comfortable lifestyle on their meager wages.
This theory then draws the connection to why the privileged work force tends to be so conservative and reactionary, especially in places like the US and Israel. The conclusion some come to, particularly Maoist-Third-Worldists, is that settlers (literally every privileged person within the imperial/colonial structure) have no revolutionary potential and should be disregarded. They're not "evil", just generally worthless.
Never heard of that term, but I know the concept. That seems like a stupid term for things that were already known.
Anyway, yeah. I'm aware people in a society don't usually question it, and instead think whatever they're in is the way things should be. "At least it isn't as bad as..." The alternative is The Great Refusal, but Marcuse also wrote about one-dimensional thinking instead of critical thought.
Is it really good to kill all descendents of colonizers because they benifit from it? Is it really good to kill all those who benifit from exploitation of cheap labor and resources? Obviously no. We would have to kill pretty much everyone alive. We'd also probably want to discount their ideas too, which would require discounting nearly all radical ideas. There would be no Marx, Engels, Proudhon, etc. left in this world.
We need to recognize exploitation and the exploited and fight to overturn it. We don't need to fight against the exploited because they didn't do enough, which probably includes all of us on this forum.
Settlers need to be decolonized too. Fanon talks about how decolonial struggle humanizes the colonized when they take back their humanity by force and humanizes the settlers by bringing them back down to Earth. We don't need to kill someone to make them human, so we probably don't need to kill all settlers.
But! All settlers need to be decolonized. I think that will require Israel being abolished and a truth-and-reconcilliation commission trying everyone directly involved in the genocide. Israelis that are willing to become Palestinians would be welcome to join a one-state multiethnic democracy. Settlers that refuse to betray Israel to become Palestinian should reconsider.
Also I must point out, it's not just being a descendent of a colonizer that bourgeoisifies the worker! It's the material relationship they have to commodity production and consumption, it's the way they continue to benefit from superexploitation in an active and direct way. This isn't just inherited guilt, it's an active ongoing crime y'know?
I agree with everything in your post. The comments above were all saying they should be killed.
The last paragraph I also agree with, but this isn't an Israel thing. Every last one of us is benefiting from the exploitation due to colonialism. Where do you think the resources that are used to build or computers/phones come from? We're all culpable to some extent in this. This doesn't make us all equally guilty or deserving of punishment (let alone death like the comments above said). Most of us are just trying to live in the system we were born into, and hopefully push things to be more equitable in the future. We can't do anything to change the past, so dwelling on that is only useful academically.
This isn't about the past! It never ended.
Some people let their hatred of settler colonialism replace their actual class analysis of the situation. I can't blame them. I cry every day listening to DemocracyNow because of this nightmare. Ultimately, though, it's important to maintain an analytical stance without letting emotions overwhelm us.
Also I'm fully in support of abolishing America too lol
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.
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.
Conveniently leaving out the times Israel gave back land, and was then attacked again by Palestine.
What country? Palestine wasn't a country.
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
See how now they also took land from weakened Syria.
While that guy is too extreme, the IDF definitely needs to get the Wehrmacht treatment.
Yes, that's the point. Death to Israel, free Palestine.
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.
Says the person advocating for death. This is hilariously stupid.
I can admit my participation in violence is wrong. Can you say the same for your advocacy of it? That is what will send you to that hell you fear so much.
I don’t believe in it so you’re just spouting nonsense at me 😂
War criminal
i love the internet, i can go online and watch a literal war criminal going muh both sides about apartheid and genocide in palestine
I love the internet because assholes like you show their true homicidal qualities. I can admit what I did is wrong. Can you?
I’m going to press x for doubt.
Context for readers: the person writing this is a war criminal.
Can you? I really doubt you can, if you could I don't think you'd be flaunting what you did online to virtue signal and uncritically accepting war propaganda from the same people who sent you to serve in the first place.
Yawn. Got any new material? I’m tired of reading the same recycled garbage you keep spewing out in front of my screen.
Insults are only impactful if I’m actually insulted.