Gaza City, Sept. 19 -- The Israeli military has intensified its deployment of booby-trapped armoured vehicles in Gaza City, causing widespread destruction and forcibly displacing residents, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

In a statement on Wednesday, September 17, Euro-Med said its teams documented at least ten detonations in Street 8 of Tel al-Hawa, three more in al-Nafaq Street to the east, and several in the Sheikh Radwan Pool area of northern Gaza.

The vehicles, converted from decommissioned American-made M113 personnel carriers, are remotely operated and each carries no less than seven tonnes of explosives.

The explosions generate shockwaves that shake surrounding buildings and cause lasting psychological trauma for re...