Israel's horrific crime at the Beit Lakhm school

Photos released from a school in the northern Gaza Strip following the withdrawal of Israeli troops reveal a horrific new crime of the occupation.

Feb 2, 2024 - 10:01
Israel's horrific crime at the Beit Lakhm school
Israel's horrific crime at the Beit Lakhm school

 “After Israeli soldiers left the Khalifa bin Zayed School in Beit Lahm (Bethlehem), the bodies of about 30 people were found in the school, wrapped in plastic bags and buried under the sand,” is part of Al Jazeera’s video report on the latest crime Zionist regime in the northern Gaza Strip. Some media also reported that the bodies belonged to about 30 people who were executed with their hands and eyes tied, wrapped in black plastic zip-lock bags and buried in sand. This crime occurred this Friday when the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a verdict in response to a petition submitted by South Africa and declared that Israel must devote all its efforts to ending the genocide in the Gaza Strip and refrain from directly inciting genocide during this war and punish its instigators. This is not the first time that the Zionist regime has committed such a crime in Bethlehem. Not long ago, after kidnapping dozens of Palestinians from a UN school in the city, Israeli soldiers stripped them naked, executed some, and transported the rest to a military base. Some cyberspace users compared this to ISIS crimes in Syria and Iraq by posting photographs of the crime. After the Israeli military withdrew from the Khalifa bin Zayed School in Bethlehem, Palestinian refugees returned to the school, but while cleaning the school and arranging it, they discovered dozens of bodies wrapped in plastic bags in one of the schoolyards. One of the residents at this school said that there were at least 30 bodies there, but they could not be identified due to decomposition.

 In continuation of the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people, various areas of the Gaza Strip have come under attack from the air and sea. According to the Palestinian news agency Sama, Zionist regime warboats attacked the Nusirat area in the center of the Gaza Strip and killed two Palestinians in the Al-Jadeed camp in the west of the area and wounded several others. The beaches of the city of Al-Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip were also attacked by Zionist warships. Meanwhile, following massive and widespread attacks by resistance fighters, occupying Israeli regime soldiers were forced to abandon the area around Amal Hospital in western Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. Following the retreat of the occupying Quds Force from Khan Younis Camp, the bodies of at least 22 martyrs from the western areas of Khan Younis were transferred to Nasser Hospital. This comes at a time when Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is surrounded by tanks of the Zionist occupation. The Palestinian Red Crescent also announced that two Palestinians were wounded by bullets in Tubas, north of the West Bank. Palestinian sources also reported intense conflict between Palestinian fighters and occupation forces in several areas of Tubas province and that resistance fighters attacked the Zionists with homemade bombs. The Israeli army also acknowledged the death of one of its officers in the latest round of fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. Zionist forces also attacked the Ad-Dahisheh camp in Beit Lahm (Bethlehem) and the village of Sarra in western Nablus. The two towns of Araba in the south of Jenin and Takua in the southeast of Bethlehem were also attacked by the occupying Quds Force (Jerusalem). Members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Battalions said that at dawn on Thursday, on the eastern axis of the Al-Barij camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, they actively attacked Zionist forces and subjected them to intense fire from rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Palestinian fighters also repelled an attack by occupying forces on the town of Sanjal in northern Ramallah. In other news, Lebanese Hezbollah announced in a statement the martyrdom of a resistance fighter during an Israeli military attack on Beit Leif in southern Lebanon. The Zionist regime's media, citing official statistics, announced that 512 Zionist buildings were completely or partially damaged as a result of Hezbollah attacks in the northern areas of occupied Palestine in the Upper Galilee (Al-Khalil) since October 7 last year. Over the past week, Hezbollah's use of heavy rockets such as Barkan and Falak has increased, and Hezbollah's rocket attack on the city of Shalomi alone damaged 50 occupier headquarters and buildings in that city. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Haharanot quoted the mayor of the city of Shalomi, Noman Gabi, as saying that Hezbollah's Barkan missiles had hit the city and the Zionists were in real danger. Lebanese Hezbollah Lebanese resistance fighters have been in confrontation with the Zionist enemy since October 8 last year (2023) and just one day after the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, repeatedly striking Zionist occupier positions over more than 100 kilometers. Israeli media have also repeatedly acknowledged that Hezbollah still has an advantage in the north of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and that the Israeli army is trapped in the area.