Palestinian officials are accusing Israeli forces of carrying out “execution-style” killings in Gaza after the discovery of a mass grave containing at least 30 decomposing bodies. Some of the victims were blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs with zip ties. The bodies were found on the grounds of a school in Beit Lahia. Al Jazeera spoke to one man who helped discover the bodies. Palestinian man: “Inside the schoolyard, we were shocked to find the dead bodies. Those are Palestinian civilians, blindfolded and handcuffed at the back. The dead bodies were kept inside black plastic bags.” The discovery of the mass grave comes as the death toll in Gaza has topped 27,000. At least another 66,000 have been injured. The group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is now estimating that more than 25,000 Palestinian children have lost one or both parents in Gaza over the past four months.

More video and eyewitness info on Al Jazeera so far

Also reported on Common Dreams and Middle East Eye.

I haven’t found any reports of any independent investigations yet, hopefully they are underway

  • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Except Gaza shares a border with Egypt that Israel was not controlling before the Oct. 7 war and I’m not sure if they are controlling it now.

    Israel is preventing Palestinians from overthrowing Hamas? Why would that be true and what evidence of that claim do you have?

    You can’t defend people and strip them of all agency at the same time.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Israel blocks all materials that the Palestinians would need to throw out Hamas and they have been doing that for decades.

      So, again, what do you expect the Palestinians to do?

      • bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        So to the best of your knowledge, there has not been a single uprising attempt against Hamas, and the Jews in Israel are to blame?

        Wow.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          8 months ago

          No, again, Israel has COMPLETELY blockaded Gaza.

          The Palestinians don’t have anything with which to even attempt to throw out Hamas.

          So what would you have them do? What do you think Israel’s reaction would be if they tried to smuggle weapons in through the blockade?

          Again, this is all Israel’s design. They could lift the blockade today. They could normalize relations with the Palestinians today. They won’t, because what they really want is to choke them out and steal their land. They won’t be satisfied with less.

          https://newrepublic.com/post/178243/benjamin-netanyahu-literally-says-from-the-river-to-the-sea

          “According to other translations, Netanyahu said that Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River,””