Israel’s horrific targeting of civilians continues: Euro-med

Geneva, Switzerland - Approximately 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing and injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities, four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, Euro-med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued on Sunday.

A total of 35,096 Palestinians in the strip have been killed as of Friday evening, Euro-med Monitor estimated. Of those killed in the Israeli air and artillery attacks on the strip, 32,220 were civilians, including 12,345 children, 7,656 women, 309 health personnel, 41 civil defence personnel and 121 journalists.

Meanwhile, 67,240 individuals have been injured, hundreds of them critically. Within a week of the International Court of Justice’s ruling, the Israeli army killed over 1,048 Palestinians - most of them civilians - and injured over 1,800 others, and carried out 108 massacres.

The rights group explained that, in addition to the statistics provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry, its own figures include people who went missing after being arrested and forcibly disappeared by the Israeli army, as well as those who have been trapped beneath the debris of buildings hit by Israeli air and artillery strikes for more than 14 consecutive days now and are therefore presumed dead.

The Euro-med Monitor team further reported that about 2mn Palestinians, approximately 90% of the total population of the strip, have been displaced from their homes and residential areas amid a lack of safe shelters, as 79,200 housing units have been completely destroyed and 207,000 housing units have been partially damaged.

The Geneva-based organisation emphasised that Israel is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in order to cause as many casualties, material losses and as much general destruction as possible as a form of retaliation and collective punishment.