‘Widespread grisly murders’: Israel kills another Palestinian for refusing to spy
An international human rights organization has reported gruesome killing of another Palestinian civilian by the Israeli regime over the victim’s refusal to cooperate with Tel Aviv’s espionage apparatus.
According to the Wednesday report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Mohammed Iyad Tabasi, a 24-year-old sanitation worker at a field hospital in the central part of the Gaza Strip, was targeted a day earlier near a displacement camp.
Family members reported that the Israeli spy service had contacted Tabasi multiple times over the previous month, offering financial incentives in exchange for information.
After declining these overtures, he was killed in a drone strike shortly after receiving another call.
‘Severely mutilated’
A neighbor recounted seeing Tabasi walking towards a nearby dune while on the phone. Moments later, an explosion occurred, and then witnesses found his body severely mutilated, with his phone destroyed.
Euro-Med Monitor stated that the victim’s death constitutes an “extrajudicial execution” and a grave violation of the international humanitarian law.
The organization emphasized that Tabasi was killed, despite being a civilian with no affiliations to resistance groups.
‘One among numerous such cases’
The body also reported receiving numerous testimonies indicating a pattern of similar incidents, where Palestinian civilians had been targeted after withholding such cooperation.
The testimonies include some Palestinian detainees reporting that they had been threatened with harm to either themselves or their families if they did not comply.
‘Full-fledged war crimes’
These atrocities, according to the humanitarian body, constitutes “full-fledged war crimes and crimes against humanity” under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICC has already issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the regime’s former minister for military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Euro-Med called for immediate international investigations and accountability for those responsible.
Also on Wednesday, a coalition of United Nations experts issued a statement urging global action to halt the regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on Gaza, during which Tabasi’s murder took place.
They highlighted documented patterns of conduct on the part of the regime that could lead to annihilation of the Palestinian population in the territory.
