EURO-MED MONITOR: ISRAEL ‘SYSTEMATICALLY KILLING’ PALESTINIAN TECH EXPERTS (VIDEO)

Angham Abu Abed, a Palestinian web developer, works at the Gaza Sky Geeks office in Gaza City on March 16, 2020 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

Fri 22 March 2024:

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli army has systematically assassinated dozens of programmers, information technology experts, and computer engineering analysts in the Gaza Strip.

The rights group compiled a list of the hundreds of tech professionals killed by the Israeli military in the past few months It included programmer Haitham al-Nabahin, who was killed with his wife in a house they fled to in Bureji refugee camp.

In addition to killing the experts, the Israeli army has also been destroying the headquarters of communication companies and other technology infrastructure, the organisation reports.

“These crimes appear to be part of Israel’s public policies aimed at making the Gaza Strip uninhabitable by destroying fundamental life structures and eliminating talent. This will certainly lead to a paralysed society incapable of quickly recovering from the disastrous fallout from Israel’s serious crimes committed during that period.”

IT and AI experts are directly targeted in #Gaza.
Euro-Med Monitor documents a list of individuals killed by the Israeli army through targeted strikes on their locations.https://t.co/4ci8e04ZJw pic.twitter.com/PKITGZFxkc

— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) March 22, 2024