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Hamas says Israel’s reported bulldozing of Palestinian bodies constitutes war crimes

The Palestinian group has condemned Israel’s military for reportedly bulldozing the bodies of Palestinians killed in Gaza into unmarked graves, acts it called war crimes.

In a statement, Hamas said such “atrocities … are not isolated incidents, but war crimes and systematic assaults carried out before the eyes of the world, in complete disregard for international law”.

The group urged the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and other legal bodies to document the “heinous crimes” and prosecute those responsible.

Yesterday, CNN reported it had carried out an investigation finding that aid seekers in Gaza “were killed by indiscriminate Israeli fire” and appeared to show “the Israeli military bulldozing the bodies of some of those killed … into shallow, unmarked graves”.

Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/middleeast/bulldozed-corpses-gaza-israel-zikim-aid-intl-vis-invs
It says it's for subscribers only, but the link works for me (I don't have a CNN account), odd.

These reports of the Israeli military bulldozing of the bodies of Palestinians are not isolated to the Zikim crossing. IDF whistleblowers who spoke to CNN and the anti-occupation veterans’ NGO Breaking the Silence (BTS) pointed to a broader pattern of the military mishandling the dead in Gaza during the war.

“At other times, the remains of those deceased were simply left to decompose in the open, unable to be recovered in the militarised area,” said CNN.


People gather near bodies lined up for identification after they were unearthed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip in April 2024

Israeli military claims to have killed Hamas commander in Rafah

The Israeli military says that it has killed Muhammad Jawad Muhammad al-Bawab, whom it called the commander of Hamas’s Eastern Rafah Battalion, in an attack on Sunday that also killed three others, including his deputy commander, Ismail Kanaan Abd al-Hay Abu Labdeh.

Israeli forces have continued to carry out strikes across Gaza, killing dozens of people despite an ostensible ceasefire.

The Israeli military said that al-Bawab was killed while exiting underground infrastructure in eastern Rafah and that the attack also killed a security guard named Abdullah Azi Ahmed Hama and a regional Hamas platoon leader named Tawfiq Khaled Tawfiq Salem.


Palestinian woman killed in Israel’s latest attack on Gaza

A Palestinian woman has been killed and several people wounded by Israel’s army Gaza City in the latest violation of the US-brokered ceasefire. Medical sources said soldiers opened fire toward Palestinian homes in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood, killing the woman and injuring an unknown number of others.

Separately, the Israeli army said in a statement its forces killed a Palestinian in the southern Gaza Strip for allegedly crossing the “yellow line” truce demarcation and “posing an immediate threat” to its troops.