The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assassinated Nuseirat camp’s mayor, Iyad Al-Maghari, after bombing the municipality building in the central Gaza Strip.
Late Thursday/Friday night; Civil defense crews in Gaza recovered 5 dead people, including the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad Al-Maghari.
Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) said in a statement, “This massacre is a war crime that violates international laws which grant immunity and protection to mayors and municipal personnel.”
The Israeli occupation army committed a cowardly assassination of the mayor of Nuseirat camp in Central Gaza, Iyad Ahmed Al-Maghari, along with a group of citizens, on Thursday evening, in an airstrike that targeted the municipality building, the GMO clarified.
The GMO stressed that “the cowardly assassination of the Mayor of Nuseirat falls within the framework of the Israeli genocidal war against civilians in Gaza.”
It pointed out that “this is the third Israeli assassination crime committed against municipality chiefs in the Gaza Strip,” elaborating that “Israeli occupation had previously assassinated the mayor of Al-Zahraa, Marwan Hamad, and the mayor of Al-Maghazi, Hatem Al-Ghamri.”
The GMO stressed that “the cowardly assassination of the Mayor of Nuseirat falls within the framework of the Israeli genocidal war against civilians in Gaza.”
The Office held Israel and the US administration fully responsible for this heinous crime, calling on all countries to prosecute Israel at international courts and forums and to push for halting the Israeli genocide that has been going on for eight successive months.
Since October 7, 2023, the IOF has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, resulting in catastrophic humanitarian and health conditions, due to the continuous bombing and the prevention of supplies of food, water, medicine, and electricity.
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, as it exposes the lives and property of civilians to extreme danger, which requires urgent intervention from the international community to stop the aggression and protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
