Satellite images show 6+ cemeteries destroyed in Gaza by "Israel": NYT
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A satellite image taken on Sunday displays damaged graves in parts of the Tunisian cemetery in Gaza's Shujaiya neighborhood, as armored vehicles were seen on top of where those graves once were.
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Satellite images showing a bulldozed cemetery in Gaza's Shujaiya (Planet Labs/New York Times)
Following an analysis of new satellite imagery and video footage by The New York Times, it was revealed that at least six cemeteries have been desecrated and destroyed by "Israel" during its invasion of northern Gaza.
A satellite image taken on Sunday displays damaged graves in parts of the Tunisian cemetery in Gaza's Shujaiya neighborhood, where recent days witnessed heavy combat. Armored vehicles were seen on top of where those graves once were, indicating the cemetery's use as a temporary military set-up.
Earlier this month, graves at a smaller cemetery were destroyed as well near an existing Israeli position northwest of the Tunisian cemetery.
That same day, satellite images from the Jabaliya neighborhood of Gaza display tracks and possible military vehicles at Al-Faluja cemetery. Video footage further proved damage to the gravesites but no established military positions were seen.
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In northern Gaza as well, a likely military position was established at a cemetery in Beit Hanoun.
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The NYT further identified other razed and desecrated cemeteries in Gaza, such as those in Beit Lahia and Sheikh Ijlin.
Brushing off the law
Destroying and violating gravesites and religious property has been a habit of the IOF as they attempt to gain traction in Gaza.
A video on Friday showed Israeli occupation soldiers taking over a mosque in Jenin, occupied Palestine, and performing Talmudic rituals inside.
Users on social media were outraged after footage of Israeli soldiers emerged showing them desecrating a mosque in the #Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.#Palestine pic.twitter.com/rJ4mtNt56X
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 14, 2023
Israeli Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has arrogantly shared the video on his Telegram channel which not only praised Israeli occupation soldiers for the desecration of the Jenin mosque but also denied Jenin its identity and called it "Nin".
That would have been the name of Jenin if it ever gets ethnically cleansed and occupied by Israeli occupation settlers.
Customary international law bans through Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Convention, Article 53, to:
- to commit any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art, or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples;
- to use such objects in support of the military effort;
- to make such objects the object of reprisals.
This is also prohibited in Additional Protocol II of the Geneva Convention in Article 16.
