Gaza: Al-Shifa Medical Complex massacre provides proof that the Israeli army engaged in full-fledged crimes

Palestinian Territory - The Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its environs, the consequences of which are still unfolding almost two weeks later, demonstrates that the army committed complete and self-evident war crimes and crimes against humanity. These crimes include carrying out killings and unlawful executions of civilians and attempting to conceal evidence by burying victims’ bodies and even disfiguring them in the hospital courtyard.

Members of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor field team were present inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex during the Israeli army’s attack and its aftermath. About a week after the end of the military operation, during the recovery of dozens of victims’ remains, Euro-Med Monitor documented horrific scenes of body parts strewn on the ground as well as human remains inside a large pit dug by Israeli forces in the courtyard of one of Al-Shifa’s hospitals.

According to ongoing Euro-Med Monitor investigations, which include dozens of testimonies documented during and after Israel’s operation, the Israeli army committed many serious crimes against every Palestinian in the vicinity, including the murder and execution of hundreds of civilians. The fate of dozens of missing individuals is still unknown today.

Euro-Med Monitor earlier estimated that over 1,500 Palestinians have been killed, injured, or are reported missing as a result of the massacre at Al-Shifa, with women and children making up half of the casualties. Euro-Med Monitor is now able to confirm from its initial investigation and the testimonies that followed that hundreds of dead bodies, including some burnedand others with their heads and limbs severed, have been discovered both in and around Al-Shifa Medical Complex.