The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has strongly denounced the deliberate and barbaric execution of a wounded Palestinian child in Gaza, accusing Israeli forces of using a military bulldozer to crush the boy while he was still alive—another horrifying act in Israel’s ongoing campaign of extermination against the Palestinian people.

According to Euro-Med’s field investigation, 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamiya, from the Jabalia refugee camp, was shot by Israeli forces on December 10, 2025. The child was left to bleed on the ground, deliberately denied life-saving medical assistance as Israeli gunfire kept bystanders away. Moments later, an Israeli bulldozer advanced toward him and intentionally crushed his body, severing him in half and leaving his remains scattered across the ground.

Child Killed in Cold Blood

Eyewitnesses said Shamiya had been standing near the Jabalia Services Club, only 50 meters from the Yellow Line, when Israeli forces stormed the area with heavy fire. The teenager was struck near the head—reportedly by fire from an Israeli quadcopter drone—and was seen moving and breathing as his terrified friends were forced to flee.

Israeli soldiers then deployed smoke grenades and advanced. A bulldozer accompanying the troops began piling earth to create a barrier. Instead of avoiding the wounded child, it drove straight over him, methodically crushing his body. His friends later returned to collect the scattered remains and transported them to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Euro-Med described the killing as one of the most extreme and dehumanizing crimes committed by the Israeli army—an unmistakable act of deliberate execution targeting a defenseless Palestinian minor.

Part of a Systematic Campaign of Terror

The organization stressed that the killing of Shamiya is not an isolated event but part of a systematic Israeli policy of using tanks and bulldozers to crush Palestinians—dead, injured, or alive—in an attempt to terrorize the population and break their will.

Euro-Med highlighted several other documented cases:

• February 29, 2024: Israeli forces ran over 62-year-old Jamal Hamdi Hassan Ashour with an armored vehicle after detaining him and tying him up.
• June 27, 2024: In Shuja’iyya, soldiers forced a family out of their home and used them as human shields before an Israeli tank crushed 65-year-old Safiya Hassan Mousa Al-Jammal in front of her son.
• January 23, 2024: A tank crushed a temporary shelter in Khan Yunis, killing a father and his daughter.
• December 16, 2023: Tanks and bulldozers drove over tents of displaced families at Kamal Adwan Hospital, killing patients, children, and burying the injured alive.

Euro-Med warned that these acts reflect an “extreme, dehumanizing, and genocidal” approach deployed by the Israeli occupation to erase Palestinians from their land.

Genocide Continues Despite Ceasefire

Despite the ceasefire announced on October 10, 2025, Israeli attacks have continued unabated. Since then, 389 civilians have been killed and nearly 1,000 wounded by Israeli fire, according to Euro-Med.

The watchdog said Israel’s systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and exposure of displaced families to cold, hunger, disease, and ongoing bombardment amount to a deliberate policy aimed at annihilating Gaza’s population.

Calls for Urgent International Action

Euro-Med called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently investigate mass killings and deliberate crushing of civilians—particularly children—as part of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It urged countries with universal jurisdiction to open criminal cases against Israeli officials and soldiers responsible for these atrocities.

The group also demanded that states party to the Genocide Convention act immediately by halting arms shipments to Israel, suspending military cooperation, and taking concrete steps to stop the unfolding genocide.

Euro-Med concluded that the international community’s continued silence enables Israel’s crimes, leaving Palestinians to face one of the darkest and most brutal chapters of their history. (ILKHA)