15/Report found that both 1000s of demonstrators were shot with live ammunition, 100s killed, 100s more with life-altering injuries. An
@IntlCrimCourt
investigation was to follow but ground to a halt- this despite scathing reports from
@hrw
@amnesty
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5/When demonstration started,first wave of gunshots were from snipers. We could see snipers on top of a hill on the Israel side- similar to hill in the center of this google image photo. Our team of medics were behind all the demonstrators.
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@CIJ_ICJ
@PHRIsrael
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6/About 75 m away, a teenager had been shot by sniper. My team ran to him. One of his friends was already yelling at him "Ahmad"- the boy had been shot on the right upper chest-Exit wound visible on his back. He was in shock, and having difficulty breathing.
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7/ Two of us starting carrying him to trauma stabilization point ("TSP"). We had to stop to do emergency needle decompression of tension pneumothorax, then brought got him to the TSP (where higher level of care and more equipment available).
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8/ By the time we returned to the demonstration area, the sniper fire had intensified, and there were intermittent bursts of machine gun fire. There were no guns on the Gaza side, only flags and signs.
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9/ A boy, about 15 years old, started running towards me. He stopped, bent over, then stood up. Before he started running again, he was shot in head, ~30 m away.He fell to ground-I assumed he was dead+instructed team to collect a woman who was shot in leg.
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10/The woman was a health care provider who was caring for protester who'd been shot.Our team applied tourniquet, then carried her to TSP. She had blood all over her white coat, which clearly identified her as health worker. She had been one of my first
#Gaza
med students in 2013
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11/Since only 2 of my team were needed to carry her to TSP, the other 2 team members went to the boy who'd been shot in the head. He was still alive but unconscious, with a major head injury when he was brought to the TSP.
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12/ I've been doing international work for over decade, taken courses on
#InternationalHumanitarianLaw
and
#HumanRights
, so I knew I'd witnessed war crimes. I submitted testimony to Ms. Fatou Bensouda (judge in charge of ICC investigation),reply Feb 2020.
@CIJ_ICJ
@IntlCrimCourt
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13/By Feb 2020, the
@UN
Independent Commission of Inquiry (from Feb 2019) had already indicated "reasonable grounds to believe that during the Great March of Return, Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law."
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14/ and also that Israeli snipers shot at journalists, health workers, children and persons with disabilities, knowing they were clearly recognizable as such. That the Independent Commission found that war crimes occurred didn't surprise me- I saw them with my own eyes.
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16/For those who hope for
#FreePalestine
with
#peace
,this must be free of
#IsraeliOccupation
. As
@IntlCrimCourt
remains politically paralyzed,we hope
@CIJ_ICJ
can help Palestinians finally achieve
#justice
with
#dignity
.
#IsraeliWarCrimes
+
#Genocide
must be prosecuted. End of 🧵
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@BenNephrology
@IntlCrimCourt
@hrw
@amnesty
@KarimKhanQC
was appointed. He stopped progresscon the Palestine File. Why?
He was appointed to stop it in its tracks?
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