Gaza - Ma'an - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that the Israeli army killed 70 Palestinians and injured 200 others, most of them children and women, within 12 hours in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the issuance of forced displacement orders that include hundreds of thousands of civilians, in an attempt to perpetuate the crime of genocide that Israel has been committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since October 7. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stressed that the continued crimes of the Israeli army, in a clear and repeated pattern, against the civilian population, by killing, committing mass massacres, starvation, preventing humanitarian aid, forced displacement, and destroying property and other civilian objects, in a widespread and systematic manner, and preventing any form of stability and life, as happened and is happening in Khan Yunis since Monday morning; indicates that what the occupation is doing is aimed at destroying the Pal estinians in the Gaza Strip and annihilating them in an actual manner and by all means available to it. He also pointed out that the Israeli army deliberately escalates the commission of massacres and mass killings against Palestinian civilians whenever there is talk of returning to the negotiating track to reach a truce and an exchange deal, which raises fears that Israel is using the killing and displacement of civilians as a tool of pressure and political blackmail, something that has been repeated many times in recent weeks. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor highlighted that the Israeli army deliberately carried out a mass killing on Monday morning, 22/7/2024, and immediately issued forced displacement orders affecting more than 250,000 people, and immediately began launching dozens of raids, firing belts, and artillery shelling on homes, streets, and gatherings of displaced people who had taken to the streets by the thousands, in a state of panic, searching for a safe place that did not exist . The forced displacement orders included the town of Bani Suhaila and its neighborhoods, the towns of Abasan al-Kabira and al-Jadidah and their neighborhoods, the town of al-Qarara and its neighborhoods, the town of al-Fakhari and its neighborhoods, Khuza'a and the neighborhoods of al-Qurain, al-Manara, al-Salam, Jurt al-Lut, Qizan al-Najjar, Sheikh Nasser, al-Mahta, al-Satar, and al-Katiba. This came in conjunction with the Israeli army's announcement of reducing the so-called humanitarian area in al-Mawasi, as part of the state of media deception and psychological warfare practiced by Israel; as the military attacks on the forcibly displaced and their tents have not stopped in this area over the past weeks, leading to hundreds of deaths and injuries. Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported that its field team documented the Israeli army bombing 6 houses with their residents inside, out of 10 houses that had initial information about their bombing since the start of the Israeli military operation in Khan Yunis at 7:30 this morning. He pointed out that the Israeli bombing led to the killing of 70 citizens, including a large number of children and women, in addition to wounding more than 200 others. He pointed out that among the dead were several members of families that were erased from the civil registry, such as the Al-Jabour and Harb families, noting that two of the dead children were infants. According to the observatory, the Israeli army is using direct and indiscriminate artillery shelling against civilians, in addition to aerial bombardment and shooting from quadcopter aircraft, which has caused an increase in the number of victims, many of whom are still under the rubble and in the streets, and rescue teams have not been able to retrieve them. It was reported that ambulance crews were directly targeted while trying to evacuate the injured in Bani Suhaila, which resulted in the injury of two civil defense paramedics. He also pointed out that the Israeli forces penetrated the town of Bani Suha ila amidst very violent shelling, although the Israeli army spoke in the evacuation orders that it was temporary, which constituted a kind of deception for the residents, a large number of whom were unable to flee as a result of the shelling or because they thought it was a series of air strikes, as happened on the first of this month when the Israeli army issued similar evacuation orders and carried out intensive air strikes at the time without a ground incursion. He pointed out that the aerial bombardment and forced displacement orders caused the closure of two Palestinian Red Crescent clinics, and caused the disruption of many other health centers. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor renewed its call on all countries to assume their international responsibilities by stopping the crime of genocide and all serious crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, protecting civilians there, ensuring Israel's compliance with the rules of international law and the decisions of the International Court of Justice, imposing effective sanctions on it, and stopping all forms of political, financial and military support and cooperation provided to it, including the immediate cessation of arms sales, exports and transfers to it, including export licenses and military aid. In addition to holding accountable and holding accountable countries that supply Israel with weapons and military technology despite the knowledge or presumed knowledge that they will be used to commit international crimes against the Palestinians, including holding accountable and holding accountable the individuals who make these decisions in these countries, considering them complicit and partners in the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, including the crime of genocide. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor also calls for activating all available accountability and accountability paths at the international, regional and local levels, including serious and joint work to activate the path of universal jurisdiction to hold accountable and hold accountable the perpetrators of crimes against Palestinian civilians before the national courts of countries that have this jurisdiction. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor also urged the International Criminal Court to expedite the issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and to expand the scope of investigation into individual criminal responsibility for crimes committed in the Gaza Strip to include all those responsible, issue arrest warrants against them, hold them accountable, and recognize and deal with the crimes committed by Israel as genocide without equivocation. Source: Maan News Agency