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.
You have a reading problem. Military is not the same as citizens. Israeli military are terrorists.
Citizens came from Europe and USA, there was no Israel a century ago. Kids born out of Israeli settlers are not a problem of Palestine. The original land of Palestine had no Israeli Zionist on there.
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.
Israel fundamentally wants erasure down to the last Palestinian. So, how is this liberal fairytale of yours going to exist in reality?
If you want to go back to pre- homosapiens or dinosaurs, Palestinians probably did not exist. Maybe we could even go back to before Big Bang when some other kinds of species existed on these giant rocks, by your logic?
Its okay, just admit you love the colony of Israel. No need to sugarcoat it like a true neoliberal.
Your fairytale ends up like this.
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.
That’s correct, the existence of Israel is evil. They are a genocidal settler colony.
Israel deserves zero peace, as they are the harbinger of genocide and colonisation. Palestinians live today, as of now, and half of their population is children. Palestine is Palestine’s land, not of Israelis. Israelis treat Palestinians like termites. The existence of those 2-3% anti-Zionist Israelis means nothing, they benefit from the privilege of Zionist genocide and colonisation, and have been okay with it for the past century.
Keep your Israeli supportive neoliberalism to yourself. IDF terrorists need to be purged out of existence for Palestinians to not go extinct.
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?