Two weeks ago, similar mass graves were discovered at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and mass graves were also discovered at Al-Nasser Hospital.
In a statement this week, Ravina Shamdasani, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Quote According to the report, some bodies were found with their hands “tied and their clothes stripped off.”
The reports from Gaza authorities could not be independently verified, and the group did not provide evidence for its claims.
At least one body exhumed since Sunday was found wearing blue medical scrubs. video Posted on social media by photographer Haseeb Alwazeer. The man’s hands appear to be tied together. The body lay next to other bodies exhumed from a mass grave in Palm Grove.
Doctors at the hospital and Gaza’s health ministry said some of those who tried to flee Nasser’s compound during the Israeli attack Shot by Israeli soldierssomeone was killed or injured.
While this account cannot be independently confirmed, multiple videos verified by The Times show the shooting victim lying on the ground outside the north gate; others exhibit Bottles of water were hauled on ropes from across the street into the hospital building to avoid walking into the path where the victims were shot.
At the time, the Israeli military said it had “opened a safe route” to evacuate civilians in the area, but did not respond to questions about reports that Israel had fired on Palestinians trying to leave the hospital.
Erica Guevara Rosas, senior director of research and advocacy at Amnesty International, said human rights investigators and forensic experts needed immediate access to Gaza to ensure evidence at the graves was preserved to ensure accountability for any violations of international law. .
“Without appropriate investigations to determine how these deaths occurred or what violations may have been committed, we may never discover the horrific truth behind these mass graves,” she said in a statement. statement.
Israeli troops left Al-Nasser Hospital in late February after continuing operations in Khan Younis Withdrawal of troops from southern Gaza earlier this month. The withdrawal allowed Palestinian emergency services and families to begin searching for the missing.
Jihad al-Bayouk, 26, said he killed his brother after an Israeli drone struck his home in Khan Younis, Nasser, on January 24. Buried in Nasser’s land. “I made sure to remember this place so I could come back later and give him a decent burial in a real cemetery,” Bayuk, 26, said by phone Wednesday.
He said when he returned after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, he could not find his brother’s body or the palm tree he had used to mark its location. So he began digging every day with a group of others, looking for the bodies of his loved ones.
“The excavation continued for several days,” Bayuk said, before he discovered his brother’s body on Monday in a different location than where he was buried. He said two of the three layers of plastic that wrapped him were missing and the third was torn off but held together with plastic clips.
