The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) announced today that it has submitted a preliminary file on dozens of cases of summary executions by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.
The organization said in a statement that it had handed over the document to the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, and on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese.
It was also sent to Navanethem Pillay, chairwoman of a UN commission of inquiry into crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, and Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Euro-Med Monitor noted that it had documented the execution of dozens of people by that country's armed forces.
As an example, he cited the killing of six family members on December 22 when Israeli forces stormed their home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
A day earlier, Akram Abu Hasira and his wife were shot dead after Israeli soldiers took them from their home on Yarmouk Street in the same city, shot them and left them bleeding in the street, he said.
He explained that 60-year-old Ahmed Suleiman Hassan Mohamed Abdel Aal, who suffered from mental illness, was killed in a similar incident at his home in Jabalia refugee camp on December 13.
On the same day, nine people, including children, were executed at a shelter at the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh school, also in Jabalia, Euro-Med reported.
On November 10, Israeli forces killed Bashir Hajji, a 71-year-old resident of Gaza's Zeitoun district, as he crossed Salah al-Din Street, he stressed.