Killing and dismemberment of Muhammad al-Na'im
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Mohammad Ali Hasan al-Na'im (also translit: al-Na'em) was a 27-year-old Palestinian militant from Gaza who was killed by Israeli soldiers near the Israel–Gaza fence in an agricultural field east of Abasan al-Saghira at around 5:40 am on February 23, 2020.According to Israeli sources, two Palestinian men approached the fence east of Khan Younis with the intention of placing an improvised explosive device near it.[4] Al-Najjar's and others footage showing the body dangling from the Israeli army bulldozers blade spread on social media and caused and outrage in Gaza.[6] Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement: "The Zionist occupation’s deliberate killing of an innocent young man along the perimeter of the Gaza Strip and its maltreatment of his corpse in plain sight is another heinous crime that has been added to its record of awful crimes at the expense of our Palestinian people" and promised retaliation.[7] Israel's Defense Minister Naftali Bennett praised the military's handling of the incident, tweeting "I give my backing to the IDF that eliminated the terrorists and collected the body.[5][7] Aida Touma-Sliman a Palestinian Member of Knesset (MK) of the Joint List called Bennett "the minister of death and brutality".[9] On March 2, 2020, Al Mezan and several other human rights organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict sent a joint letter to the United Nations special rapporteur on the desecration of al-Na'im's body and on the injury of the youths trying to evacuate it.