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20 January 2024

Two men smile and make the “peace” sign for the camera from their damaged apartment as journalist Momin Abuowda surveys the destruction in the area

Source: Momin Abuowda on Instagram

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12 January 2024

Journalist Momina Abuowda documents the site of Carrefour Mall Shopping Centre, which has been all but obliterated by the occupation. The mall was a popular shopping center for the people of Gaza, and an impressive structure in and of itself. Now it is twisted sheet metal. The first screenshot is what it looked like before the invasion. Momina’s video is what it looks like now.

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Date: 16 December 2023

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Journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Momina Abuowda, among others, report yet another IOF atrocity in north Gaza. Al Jazeera reported on it as well.

The IOF has besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital several times since October 7, each time surrounding it with tanks and snipers, shooting anyone in sight. Any time someone tried to help the injured or move the dead, they were shot. Bodies were left out to rot in the hospital courtyard.

Last night, the IOF escalated its attack on Kamal Adwan. Towards the end of the current siege, IOF brought in bulldozers. They drove over tents housing displaced people, crushing some of the inhabitants and sending survivors trying to run. The courtyard was strewn with people injured or killed by the bulldozers, as well as by prior attacks. The bulldozers then proceeded to gather the dead and injured and bury the injured people alive, alongside corpses.

If it sounds familiar, it’s because many genocidal entities—Serbian forces in Bosnia, Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in Tigray, Nazis in Eastern Europe, Interahamwe in Rwanda, etc—have a habit of forcing their victims into holes or pits, killing them there, and then burying them to hide their crimes. Anyone who somehow survived their wounds was buried alive as well. The mass-burial of living people is not new, but it is an atrocity, and a further escalation of the horrific violence committed against Gazans.

Hospitals are categorically forbidden from attack in wartime, no matter what. Even IF combatants were using a hospital for attacks, it does not strip the hospital nor the civilians and injured within it of rights. Corpses must also be respected, they cannot be deliberately damaged or desecrated. It goes without saying that it is also forbidden under international law to attack civilians and bury anyone alive. The violations of international law are honestly too numerous to name.