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Middle East Eye
21-02-2025
- Middle East Eye
Investigation reveals details of killing of elderly Palestinian couple used as human shields
An investigation by Euro-Med Monitor has revealed further details of the killing of an elderly Palestinian couple who were forced to wear explosives and act as human shields by Israeli forces during a military incursion on Gaza City's Zeytoun neighbourhood in May 2023. Israeli news site HaMakom previously reported that Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man and used him as a human shield before killing him and his wife. According to the report, the man, who used a walking stick, was forced to scout buildings in the neighbourhood to ensure they were safe for around eight hours. An Israeli soldier told HaMakom that after the explosives were placed around the Palestinian man's neck, he was told "that if he does something wrong or not the way we want, the person behind him will pull the rope and his head will detach from the body". While the original report did not name the victims, their ages and the date, location, and circumstances of their killing align with the Euro-Med Monitor investigation. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters Euro-Med Monitor identified the couple as Mohammed Fahmi Abu Hussein, 70, and Mazyona Hassan Fares Abu Hussein, 65. While Hamakom quoted Israeli soldiers saying that the couple were shot dead by another battalion as they were instructed to flee towards the Mawasi 'safe zone,' the findings of the Euro-Med Monitor investigation suggest that they were killed by the detonation of the explosives. 'The Israeli army's admission... that they had used my father as a human shield and then brutally murdered him alongside my mother shocked us' - Ahmed Abu Hussein According to the investigation, Mayzona's body 'was reduced to nothing,' while the right side of Mohammed's body was completely disfigured, with one leg missing. The couple's son, Ahmed, told Euro-Med Monitor that he found pieces of his father's body at Al-Ahil Hospital, and 'fragments' of his mother's body on Salah al-Din Road, east of Gaza, 'where it seems that she was killed by setting off explosives'. Hussein said that his father was only identifiable by a tattoo on his hand, while his mother's body 'was utterly destroyed' and he could only recognise her by the gold teeth remaining on her jaw. He added that his parents were carrying a bag full of cash and gold that went missing following their killing. 'The Israeli army's admission and subsequent announcement that they had used my father as a human shield and then brutally murdered him alongside my mother shocked us," Hussein said. "After days of losing contact, we hoped they were still alive, but we later learnt that they had been brutally murdered in a manner we could not have predicted."
Saba Yemen
20-02-2025
- Saba Yemen
Euro-Mediterranean details Israeli army's execution of aged Palestinians
Gaza - Saba: The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor revealed the circumstances of the Zionist enemy army executing an elderly Palestinian man and his wife during the genocidal war in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, last May, after they were used as human shields. The monitor said in an investigation published today, Thursday, "The field and legal team of the monitor investigated the crime and concluded that the victims were "Mohammed Fahmi Abu Hussein" (70 years old) and his wife "Mazyona Hassan Fares Abu Hussein" (65 years old)." It added that it followed an investigation published by a Zionist website about an officer from the Zionist "Nahal" Brigade tying a chain of explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man and forcing him to enter houses in the Zeitoun neighborhood "to examine them and make sure they were free of danger for 8 hours, and then executing him by shooting him with his wife." The Observatory noted that their investigation showed that the incident of the martyrdom of the couple "Abu Hussein" completely matches the incident published by the Zionist website "Hamkom", as many essential details intersect between them that confirm that they are the same event, including the date and location of the crime. It pointed out that one of the most prominent evidence supporting this hypothesis is the connection to explosives, which was confirmed through field investigations, "which reinforces the belief that the two events refer to the same brutal crime in which the victims were used as human shields before being killed." The Euro-Mediterranean Monitor added that the investigations revealed more brutal details, including the possibility that the victims were used as human shields, "and that their execution was not carried out by shooting, but by detonating the explosives that were tied to the wife at least." He confirmed that the victim's body was reduced to small pieces and almost nothing remained of it, "as she was barely identified by the ring in her ear, while the husband's body was completely disfigured on the right side, in addition to the amputation of his right leg, which reinforces the hypothesis that the killing was carried out by detonating explosives." The human rights observatory said that "this crime is not just a violation of international humanitarian law, but rather falls within the systematic pattern of genocide carried out by the occupation army in the Gaza Strip, where civilians were killed in brutal ways simply because they were Palestinians and without any military justification." It stressed that this crime represents a serious violation of international law, which strictly prohibits the use of civilians as human shields, and classifies intentional killings as war crimes and crimes against humanity that require immediate accountability. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor pointed out that the occupation army's admission of the crime constitutes direct evidence of the serious violations committed in the Strip, which requires the international community to take urgent action to hold the perpetrators accountable as part of the broader investigation into the ongoing genocide in Gaza and ensure that they do not escape punishment. The Human Rights Observatory called on the International Criminal Court to consider this crime as additional evidence of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and to include it in its ongoing investigations into crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
