The International Commission (Hashd) issues an urgent appeal and calls for international and humanitarian action to save the remaining residents of northern Gaza from death, extrajudicial killings, arrest, extermination, and forced displacement
Date: October 23, 2024
Urgent Appeal
The International Commission (Hashd) issues an urgent appeal and calls for international and humanitarian action to save the remaining residents of northern Gaza from death, extrajudicial killings, arrest, extermination, and forced displacement
The International Commission to Support Palestinian People’s Rights (Hashd) calls for decisive international and humanitarian action to save the remaining residents of northern Gaza from death, extrajudicial killings, arrest, extermination, and forced displacement. During the last hours of yesterday, the last gathering of residents in the Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia project, housing more than 150,000 displaced people, was besieged by tanks and drones. The shelters for displaced persons were targeted, burned, and bulldozed, forcing nearly half of them to flee northern Gaza to Gaza City and the southern part of the Strip, including paramedics and civil defense teams, all through the use of armed force. Even as they moved through the routes designated by the occupation army, men and women were searched, questioned, and hundreds of men were arrested, mistreated, and detained in unknown locations. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces continue to impose a tight siege on the remaining residents, pursuing them with killings, massacres, and bombardments to forcibly displace them, implementing plans to empty northern Gaza according to criminal and genocidal strategies.
The International Commission (Hashd): warns the world that the emptying of northern Gaza could happen at any moment due to international inaction and failure to stop deliberate acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, which violate all norms of international humanitarian law and international human rights standards. These genocidal acts have led to the death, martyrdom, and disappearance of nearly 1,000 citizens, injuring more than 1,500 others, and destroying thousands of homes and civilian properties, turning the northern part of the Strip into a burnt-out humanitarian disaster zone where the essentials of life are nonexistent. It is regrettable, shocking, and condemnable that these horrific and brutal crimes occurred before the eyes of the world, with international organizations unable to stop the aggression or even ensure the flow of humanitarian aid, with the support and partnership of the United States and some European countries with colonial backgrounds. This situation, coupled with official and popular Palestinian and Arab impotence, has given a green light to the Israeli occupation forces to continue their acts of genocide. This is possibly the final appeal for humanitarian action to prevent the depopulation of northern Gaza, the alteration of its geographical and demographic identity, and the protection of civilians.
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