IOF use of explosive vehicles a war crime, urgent action needed: Hamas

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen English
20 Sep 2025 21:13

Hamas reported that humanitarian organizations heavily documented the occupation's detonation of around 120 vehicles carrying hundreds of tons of explosives in Gaza City.

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Palestinians search for wood to sell or use for cooking amid the rubble of a building from which thousands of artifacts were removed before being destroyed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) are using remote-controlled booby-trapped vehicles to be driven and detonated in Gaza's residential neighborhoods to maximize destruction and death, the Islamic Resistance Hamas revealed, stressing it as a war crime that amounts to "full-fledged ethnic cleansing."

Hamas reported that human rights and humanitarian organizations heavily documented the occupation's detonation of around 120 vehicles carrying hundreds of tons of explosives in Gaza City over a single week. According to the statement, the act is a "criminal scene unprecedented in human history."

The world, the Resistance movement said, is witness to the horrific crimes ICC-wanted Benjamin Netanyahu's government is committing. These include the destruction of Gaza City and the forced displacement of its residents due to bombardment and massacres, executed by various means of killing and extermination; namely, the remotely controlled military armored vehicles laden with explosives.

Calling on the international community, Arab and Islamic nations, and UN institutions, Hamas demanded immediate action to halt "Israel's" crimes, as well as concrete steps to deter the occupation's leaders and hold them accountable for the atrocities they have committed against not only the people of Palestine, but also humanity itself.

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This comes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, overwhelmingly women and childen, are trapped in Gaza City amid the brutal ground invasion and aerial bombardment with no means of transportation to other cities.

Meanwhile, UNRWA said in a post on X that “Gaza is being completely obliterated. It’s becoming a wasteland, and seems to become more and more unfit for human living.”

“Children are starving. Families are forcibly displaced. People are terrified,” stressing that as the large-scale assault continues, “political will and decision-making is needed more than ever,” it added.