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Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has “vehemently denounced” the Israeli army’s repeated killings of Palestinian civilians by deliberately running them over alive with military vehicles, as was the widespread destruction of civilian property.

In a statement, the Euro-Med Monitor said it “documented the Israeli army’s killing of a Palestinian man who was deliberately run over in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood on 29 February after he was arrested”.

“The man was subjected to harsh interrogation by members of the Israeli army, who bound his hands with plastic zip-tie handcuffs before running him over with a military vehicle from the bottom to the top of his body,” it added.

The incident occurred on the main Salah al-Din Street in the Zaytoun neighbourhood, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to the Euro-Med Monitor team.

“Israeli soldiers restrained the victim’s hands before they crushed him, and tramped on his body from the legs up, confirming that he was alive during the incident. To guarantee thorough and complete crushing, the victim was placed on asphalt rather than in an adjacent sandy area,” the Euro-Med Monitor added.