Geneva – The Israeli army’s execution of an elderly Palestinian after using him in a propaganda campaign promoting its “safe corridor” in Gaza was strongly condemned in a statement released by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor today.
The rights organisation expressed outrage over Israel’s incorporating the man into its attempt to cover up horrific crimes against displaced Palestinians fleeing Israeli violence in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel’s army released a photo of one of its soldiers talking to Bashir Hajji, a 79-year-old resident of Gaza City's Zaytoun neighborhood, as he travelled on Salah al-Din Road, the main route to the southern Gaza Valley. The soldier in the photo appears to be helping and protecting displaced Palestinian civilians, said Euro-Med Monitor, yet Hajji was subjected to a field execution on the morning of Friday 10 November.
The elderly man’s granddaughter, Hala Hajji, told the Euro-Med Monitor team that her grandfather was brutally executed while crossing the “safe corridor” when members of the Israeli army intentionally shot him in the head and back. She also confirmed that he is in the photo that was put out by Israel—exposing the Israeli army's dangerous practice of flagrantly fabricating stories.
Euro-Med Monitor stated that it has previously documented dozens of cases where the Israeli army executed displaced Palestinians by live bullets and, in some cases, by artillery shells. Those displaced were attempting to flee to the south of Wadi Gaza at the Israeli army’s request.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor renewed its calls for the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to open an urgent independent investigation into the execution crimes to which displaced Palestinians have been and are still being subjected to, to hold those who ordered such crimes accountable, and to achieve justice for the victims.
They did not 'execute' him. We use a different word when soldiers illegally kill non-combatants in a safe zone.
Killtrocity?
Another killtrocity in the Ballocaust!
Safe zone, kill zone.
I can only imagine the future where some guy with special goggles that highlights people in the kill zone and automatically colours over their faces to make it easier to pull the trigger.
Retiring?
What word would you use?
Murder
Executions can be murder. Both require premeditation, murder is explicitly unlawful. An unlawful execution is murder, but still an execution.
Execution implies at least the pretense of justice.
No it doesn't, watch some random crime dramas.
Presumably something without as positive of a connotation, "murder" or "war crime"? the latter seems to be verbed a lot lately
In what world does "execution" have a positive connotation??
The most common context in which you see the word used in the modern day is implicitly legally/morally "justified": "Despite a lengthy appeals process, the inmate's execution was carried out."
"Murder" by comparison is very unambiguously an act carried out in contravention of the law, never in service of it.
Hey you have this all wrong there is a reason cops in crime dramas call a murder an execution when the victim was helpless. Its more negative, not less, and isn't solely defined unambiguously the way you just did as synonymous with capital punishment.
I wouldn't trust copaganda like crime dramas to be making those writing choices in good faith. Here's Zazu with more details: https://youtu.be/DNy6F7ZwX8I