Despite Israel, with all its officials, rejecting what was issued by the International Criminal Court regarding the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip (May 20), and the compliance of some European countries with the Israeli position by criticizing the demands of the Prosecutor General (the United States, Britain, Italy, and others), the Palestinian people and their resistance factions believes that these demands do not rise to the level of humanitarian atrocities committed by the Zionist occupation. It is ironic that some European countries, in an attempt to justify their positions, still consider that Israel has the right to defend itself, in complete and blatant contradiction to international law and its resolutions, which deprive the occupier of any right to defend himself, and that the one who has the most right to this defense is the people who He lives under occupation, as the United Nations Charter guaranteed him the right to resist in various available forms of struggle, and anyone who fails to support the resistance of the Palestinian people to the occupier is complicit in one way or another in prolonging the life of the Zionist occupation of the Palestinian land.
The Prosecutor of ICC based his impressions regarding the accusation of Palestinian leaders as a result of a visit he made to the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, where he listened to settlers and Israeli officials, and visited sites that the occupation claimed were the scene of the “massacre” of October 7, and also through the reports of some humanitarian and legal institutions and statements. Some officials, while the court staff were prevented from entering the Gaza Strip to witness the true genocide that befell its people. No person who possesses a shred of human conscience or a minimum of feelings of justice and law can except condemn those who committed these crimes and work to try him without even providing him with evidence. This is what the International Court of Justice expressed in its decision (May 24), in which it requested “to allow investigative committees to reach the Gaza Strip to investigate accusations of committing the crime of genocide.”
Aside from the reports, observations, and the war of extermination that is broadcast live on television, did it not reach the ears of the Prosecutor at ICC who reads that Israel committed more than (3,150 massacres), and resulting (45,000 martyrs and missing persons), 70 percent of whom were children and women? Was it not reported that (17 thousand children) lost their parents or one of them, and that (400) schools, universities, and educational centers, 850 mosques, churches, and religious centers, and 250 hospitals, central, and health institutions were destroyed, in addition to the destruction of more than three-quarters of the homes (77 thousand tons) of explosives. in addition to the bombing of shelter centers, the headquarters of international organizations, and press.
Israel and its army have committed a wide number of practices, each of which constitutes a crime that deserves international justice to raise its sword, not only against Netanyahu and Gallant or the political level, but also at the level of the soldiers who contributed to committing dozens of massacres and crimes, each of which rises to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity deserve prosecution, and we suffice with four crimes:
1) Forced and mass population displacement:
Dozens of international reports, statements by Israeli officials, and field facts all confirm that Israel aimed, through its aggression against the Gaza Strip, to displace hundreds of thousands of residents, especially from the north of the Strip towards the center and south as a first step and then outside the Strip as a subsequent step. The United Nations has confirmed in more than one report that “Israel’s measures aim to create conditions that make the Strip uninhabitable, and this is considered an act of genocide.”
2) Stealing organs from corpses:
During the first weeks of Israel›s entry into the Gaza Strip, it was confirmed that its soldiers committed intentional and systematic crimes against Palestinian civilians, including stealing organs from corpses, whether after stealing bodies from hospitals or after field executions of dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
Reports from humanitarian organizations and accounts from eyewitnesses indicate that dozens of bodies returned by Israel turned out to be headless, and the head was placed next to the body in one bag, while some of the bodies were completely headless, and in other bags, bodies showed the skull visible and the scalp had been removed from them. The head was placed with the body.
3) Exhuming graves and mass executions:
The Palestinian Civil Defense and independent institutions in the Gaza Strip announced that dozens of bodies were recovered from mass graves in Khan Yunis and were bound, confirming that field executions had taken place. It was documented that the occupation army exhumed and destroyed graves with bulldozers, smashing tombstones, and exhuming some bodies. On May 11, the Security Council called for “an immediate, independent and comprehensive investigation into reports of the discovery of mass graves in the Gaza Strip,” calling on Israel to allow investigators to access those sites and hold those responsible for these violations accountable.
For example, the occupation destroyed a cemetery in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza, 1,100 graves and stole 150 bodies, in addition to stealing the organs and skins of some corpses. This explains the occupation’s stipulation, after handing over the bodies to their families, that the burial be at night and immediately to prevent the families of the martyrs from dissecting the bodies.
4) Torture of prisoners:
Although for Israel, detention is a declared daily policy and constitutes one of the pillars of the Israeli occupation, as Israeli detention centers are filled with tens of thousands of Palestinian detainees, the majority of whom are women, children, the elderly, and the sick, who were arrested either from their homes and in front of their children’s eyes, or on the main roads, or from their workplaces. Some countries were “awe” by what happened on October 7 in terms of the resistance factions’ arrest of dozens of Israelis, some of whom were soldiers in the Israeli army, so that no American or European statement was devoid of a call for the release of Israeli prisoners!
According to competent institutions and international human rights organizations, estimates of the number of detainees in Gaza alone have reached thousands, the majority of whom are civilians. While Israel detains more than 9,000 Palestinians in its detention centers, and practices forced disappearance of a large number of detainees.
According to competent institutions and international human rights organizations, estimates of the number of detainees in Gaza alone have reached thousands, the majority of whom are civilians. While Israel detains more than 9,000 Palestinians in its detention centers, and forcibly disappears a large number of detainees, and there is no information available regarding their number or places of detention.
We address the political parties at the international level in general and in the countries allied with the occupation in particular to align themselves in favor of international law and justice and raise the slogan of “putting the occupation and its political and military leaders on trial,” and to expose the positions of the United States of America and some European countries that support the Israeli aggression.
Emphasizing the necessity of dealing objectively with the developments of the Israeli aggression, far from responding to political pressures and far from the lies and deceptions that the Zionist movement is still working to spread and which many countries and political and popular organizations are following behind, which requires rejecting equality between the Israeli occupation state and a movement for the liberation of the Palestinian people from He has the right to resist the occupation and defend his land.