GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said the Israeli assassination of Nuseirat camp’s mayor “is a war crime aimed at creating chaos and doubling the humanitarian crisis.”
The Israeli occupation army committed a cowardly assassination of the mayor of Nuseirat camp in Central Gaza, Iyad Ahmed Al-Maghari, along with a group of citizens, on Thursday evening, in an airstrike that targeted the municipality building.
The GMO said in a statement on Thursday night, “This massacre is a war crime that violates international laws which grant immunity and protection to mayors and municipal personnel.”
It pointed out that “this is the third Israeli assassination crime committed against municipality chiefs in the Gaza Strip,” elaborating that “Israeli occupation army had previously assassinated the mayor of Al-Zahraa, Marwan Hamad, and the mayor of Al-Maghazi, Hatem Al-Ghamri.”
The GMO stressed that “the cowardly assassination of the Mayor of Nuseirat falls within the framework of the Israeli genocidal war against civilians in Gaza.”
The Office held Israel and the US administration fully responsible for this heinous crime, calling on all countries to prosecute Israel at international courts and forums and to push for halting the Israeli genocide that has been going on for eight successive months.
For its part, Nuseirat municipality mourned the martyr mayor Dr. Iyad Al-Maghari, who was martyred on Thursday evening along with five others in an Israeli airstrike on the municipality.
The municipality stressed that the martyrdom of the mayor Al-Maghari “will not deter us from continuing to fulfill our national, moral and professional duty towards our people. We will proceed to exert efforts to serve them and support their steadfastness in the face of the ongoing Israeli aggression.”
