GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat al-Resheq has called for holding the Israeli occupation government accountable for using Palestinian detainees as human shields in the Gaza Strip and bringing its leaders to trial.
“The Nazi occupation army’s use of Palestinian detainees as human shields during its terrorist operations in the Gaza Strip is a full-fledged war crime, a flagrant violation of all rules of war and the prisoners’ rights, and a disregard for all international conventions, laws and agreements,” Resheq said in a statement on Monday, commenting on a video aired by Al Jazeera satellite channel.
Resheq affirmed that the crime of human shields is part of many crimes and violations the Palestinian detainees are exposed to by Israeli forces, “including all forms of brutal revenge such as starvation, humiliation, abuse, deliberate medical neglect, deprivation of food and medicine, bone breaking, slow killing and field executions.”
The Hamas official urged the international community to condemn this crime and called on the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to add the use of Palestinians as human shields to Israel’s war crimes files.
Al Jazeera showed on its channels on Sunday exclusive footage of Palestinian prisoners being used as human shields by the Israeli occupation army in Gaza.
