Israel Crushes Injured Palestinian Child With Bulldozer, Cuts Him in Two — Evidence of Genocide

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s field team documented an appalling, deliberate killing in Jabalia on December 10, 2025: Israeli forces shot 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamia, left him bleeding and unreachable under ongoing gunfire, and then an Israeli military bulldozer drove over him while he was still alive, cutting his body in two and tearing him to pieces.

“By EuroMed Monitor The Israeli bulldozer crushing an injured child illustrates the terrible murderous pattern applied in Gaza”

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The organization describes the act as intentional — noting the wounded child "lay in his blood, with no one able to reach him because of ongoing gunfire," and that "a military bulldozer advanced toward him and deliberately crushed him while he was still alive on the ground, cutting his body in two and tearing him to pieces."

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Euro-Med Monitor recorded that his friends later collected the remains and transferred them to Al-Shifa Hospital, establishing the concrete and horrifying sequence of shooting, denial of rescue, and vehicular execution.

Eyewitness testimony and the field account establish clear steps: Shamia approached the yellow concrete blocks after believing Israeli vehicles had withdrawn, was shot—"likely from a quadcopter drone"—and was seen moving before friends fled, leaving him; soldiers then advanced with smoke grenades and bulldozers while rescue was impossible.

The report quotes the uncle saying Shamia "had been near the Jabalia Services Club, about 50 meters from the yellow line," and that after being hit in the head "he was seen moving his head before his friends fled, leaving him lying on the ground," which matches the monitor’s on-the-ground reconstruction of deliberate use of force followed by a bulldozer execution amid active firing.

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Euro-Med Monitor situates this atrocity within a deliberate pattern, stating that bulldozers and armored vehicles have been used repeatedly to crush Palestinians—"whether alive or wounded"—not as isolated incidents but as "one of the most brutal forms of deliberate killings carried out over the past two years."

“By EuroMed Monitor The Israeli bulldozer crushing an injured child illustrates the terrible murderous pattern applied in Gaza”

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The report connects these mechanical executions to a broader organized policy that "aimed at dehumanizing Palestinians and inflicting physical and psychological terror on them," asserting the bulldozer killings are "an integral part of the genocide being committed against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip."

Euro-Med Monitor documents additional bulldozer and armored-vehicle killings to show a sustained practice: on February 29, 2024, it recorded that Jamal Hamdi Hassan Ashour, 62, was detained, bound with plastic ties, questioned and then "crushed with an armored vehicle, first crushing the lower part of his body and then the upper part," and on June 27, 2024, Israeli forces stormed a Shuja’iyya home, firing and throwing grenades, then targeting an elderly mother, her three daughters and a one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter.

These earlier cases underscore that the Jabalia killing fits within a documented series of executions and violent home incursions recorded by the monitor.

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Euro-Med Monitor concludes that these actions are not random battlefield accidents but a deliberate, organized campaign that targets Palestinian civilians as a national group and contributes to a two-year Gaza genocide; the report demands recognition of the systematic nature of these crimes and underlines the urgent need for accountability.

“By EuroMed Monitor The Israeli bulldozer crushing an injured child illustrates the terrible murderous pattern applied in Gaza”

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The organization frames the bulldozer execution of a child as exemplary of "the genocide being committed against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip," linking the Jabalia killing to a broader pattern of dehumanization, physical terror and deliberate civilian targeting.

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