Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: To obscure evidence of its crimes, Israel continues to prevent journalists and investigative committees from entering Gaza
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The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that Israel continues, in a systematic and institutionalized manner, to implement a systematic policy to obliterate material evidence of the crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity it has committed in the Gaza Strip over the past two years.
In a statement issued today, the Monitor explained that Israel continues to implement its policy of obliterating evidence through a series of field and administrative measures, including preventing the entry of international journalists and independent investigative committees, in an attempt to obstruct any criminal investigation or field documentation that would establish the truth and establish its legal responsibility.
The Monitor noted that the recent Israeli Supreme Court decision to grant the occupation government an additional postponement regarding allowing independent journalists to enter the Gaza Strip reflects the state of institutional integration within Israel’s system for covering crimes and protecting their perpetrators. The judiciary provides legal cover for government policies aimed at preventing transparency and obliterating field evidence of crimes committed in Gaza.
It’s worth noting that the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip went into effect on the 10th of this month, after more than two years of Israeli aggression and genocide that resulted in the deaths of more than 67,000 Palestinians and the injury of approximately 170,000 others, most of them children and women, in addition to the massive destruction of infrastructure and basic necessities of life across the Strip.
