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Palestinians slam Israeli rejection of appeal over Gaza killings
Israeli court slammed for rejecting appeal over four Palestinian children killed in 2014 air raids on beach in Gaza.
Gaza City – Relatives of four Palestinian children who were killed by an Israeli air raid while playing on a Gaza beach eight years ago have denounced a decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to reject a request to reopen an investigation into the deaths as inhumane.
Four members of the Bakr family – Muhammad 12, Zakaria 10, Ismail 10, Ahed 11 – were killed during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza while playing football on the beach.
Mohammad, 60, the father of one of the children killed, told Al Jazeera he was not surprised by the ruling.
“It is normal in life under Israeli occupation; [Israel] commits a crime and then denies it completely,” he said. “The world talks about children and their rights. Where are the rights of our Palestinian children?”
On that day, a picture of Mohammad screaming hysterically and trying to tear off his clothes was widely circulated.
“The hardest moment in my life ever was seeing my child cut into shreds in the morgue along with my nephews. They were all cut to pieces.” the father of seven said.
He said the court’s decision was absurd, given the evidence of the incident captured by reports and video footage.
“If this is not a war crime, what are war crimes?” he said.
Between July 8 and August 26, 2014, Israel’s offensive on Gaza killed 2,251 people, most of them civilians, including 299 women and 551 children
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...sraeli-rejection-of-appeal-over-gaza-killings
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