Hamas: Israeli Car Bombs Are an Unprecedented Genocidal Weapon in Human History
Hamas denounces Israel’s use of explosive-laden unmanned vehicles in Gaza as a war crime amounting to full-fledged ethnic cleansing, while rights groups document massive daily detonations.
Palestine, PUREWILAYAH.COM - The Hamas movement declared that the “fascist occupation army’s” use of remote-controlled, explosive-laden vehicles in the Gaza Strip—loaded with tons of explosives, driven into residential neighborhoods, and detonated to cause the widest possible destruction and death—constitutes a war crime that rises to the level of full-scale ethnic cleansing.
In a press statement, Hamas cited documentation by human rights and humanitarian organizations of nearly 120 such vehicles, carrying hundreds of tons of explosives, detonated in Gaza City neighborhoods within a single week—“a criminal scene unprecedented in human history.”
The movement added: “The world today witnesses horrific crimes committed by the government of war criminal Netanyahu—wanted by the International Criminal Court—including the attempt to destroy Gaza City and displace its residents under the weight of massacres and bombardment, using all means of killing and extermination, foremost among them the remote-controlled car bombs.”
Hamas stressed that the international community, Arab and Islamic states, and UN institutions must act immediately to stop these crimes that “shame humanity,” and take concrete steps to deter Israeli war criminals and hold them accountable for crimes against the Palestinian people and against humanity at large.
Euro-Med Monitor: Scale, Frequency, and Impact
Earlier, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported that the Israeli army detonates more than 17 car bombs daily in Gaza City, with “each explosion equivalent to a 3.7-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale.”
The Monitor explained that during the past week alone, the Israeli army detonated around 120 explosive-laden vehicles carrying nearly 840 tons of explosives among residential homes in Gaza City.
This means “an average of more than 17 vehicles per day, with each detonation equal to a 3.7-magnitude earthquake.”
The Monitor described this as “the largest campaign of brutal force aimed at destroying the civilian population, within a dangerous escalation of the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, now in its 24th consecutive month.” (PW)