Israel, pits of horror continue to reveal crimes
The number of corpses exhumed from mass graves discovered inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis today exceeded the critical threshold of 400 bodies. It is estimated that there are still 700/800 of them under the sand. There were around 2000 people present inside the hospital complex at the time of the siege and the invasion of the Israeli army. All doctors, paramedical staff, patients, refugees, especially women and small children. Nothing has been known about them since the IDF forces withdrew on April 7. Now the atrocious fate they have faced begins to emerge more clearly every day
The Gaza Civil Protection, with the help of a group of volunteers, continues to tirelessly excavate and exhume human remains. Civil protection officials said they found evidence of torture and actual summary killings on the bodies. In the mass graves, next to bodies with tied hands and skulls smashed by rifle shots, others with the cannula still in their arm, many corpses of
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Egypt proposes release of 33 hostages: “The only ones still alive” “There are currently no hostage talks between Israel and Hamas, nor is there a new Israeli offer in this regard”, “there is an attempt by Egypt to restart the talks with an Egyptian proposal that would involve the release of 33 hostages: women, elderly and sick”. An Egyptian source says this according to what the Jerusalem Post reports. The Israeli newspaper, citing an official briefed on the meetings, reports that an Egyptian delegation met with Israeli officials, seeking a way to restart talks to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli hostages. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Israel had no new proposals to make, although it was willing to consider a limited truce in which 33 hostages would be released, rather than the 40 previously discussed. Israeli intelligence officials believe there are 33 women, elderly and sick hostages left alive in Gaza, out of a total of 133 still held by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups. No decision has been made on how long the truce would last, but if such an exchange were agreed, the pause in fighting would “certainly be less than six weeks,” the official said. The visit of the Egyptian delegation followed reports in the Israeli media of a visit to Cairo on Thursday by the head of the Israeli army, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, and Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence service . Egypt, concerned about a potential influx of Palestinian refugees from neighboring Gaza if the war continues with Israel's long-promised offensive in the southern city of Rafah, has taken an increasingly active role in the negotiations. |
children. And there are at least 20 people who, from an initial investigation carried out by medical examiners, appear to have been buried alive. Every day a sad funeral procession of mothers, wives, fathers and family members wander like ghosts among the graves in search of the remains of children, husbands and friends. Everyday. Their only hope is to find them to give them a dignified burial.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to state in their press releases that any “claim that the IDF buried Palestinian bodies is baseless and unfounded.” The IDF also specifies that during the operation in the area of the Nasser hospital, “with the aim of locating Israeli hostages and missing persons, the corpses buried by Palestinians in the area of the Nasser hospital were examined”. According to statements released by the IDF spokesperson, “the examination was conducted carefully, exclusively in places where intelligence indicated the possible presence of hostages. Respecting the dignity of the deceased, once the identity had been verified, the examined bodies were put back in their place, where the family members had placed them”.
Denying all accusations, Netanyahu declared himself disgusted by the accusations made against the Israeli army, which he defined as “irreproachable and irreproachable”.
Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice says it is crucial in the case of any potential investigation into Gaza's mass graves to find and collect as much evidence of how people were killed. “When it comes to examining bodies”, hNice explained during an interview with Al-Jazeera, “it is important for investigators to identify whether they were all killed 'routinely' or whether they were all killed in 'different ways'”, adding that “It is also important to find eyewitnesses and work to ensure that investigations are carried out as soon as possible.” And that's because “You can ask Israel for a written account, a documentation of how this happened, because you wouldn't deploy a group of soldiers to fill a mass grave like this without there being some sort of documentation,” he added. But it is not certain that these documents exist, and if they hesitate they will be handed over, giving the investigator the smoking gun, the certain and objectively verifiable proof of their crimes.
The Palestinian Civil Protection has declared that it will cooperate with an independent international investigation, while requests for “answers” from Israeli leaders have fallen on deaf ears for days.
