GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – A Geneva-based right group urges an investigation into the Zionist regime’s potential use of banned thermal weapons in its genocidal war campaign against Gaza which could evaporate or melt victim bodies. 
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor in a report said that testimonies received by the rights group show that victims’ bodies appear to have evaporated or melted as a result of the Zionist regime’s bombing of residential homes in the Gaza Strip.
“An international committee of experts must be established to look into the weapons Israel has been using as part of its genocide in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since October 7, 2023, including the potential use of bombs that produce such high heat that victims’ bodies evaporate,” the report said.
According to the Euro-Med Monitor report, thousands of bodies in Gaza remain missing and they “no longer exist” and may have “turned to ashes,” raising questions about the type of bombs used in the attacks.
The report added that the “shockingly high” death toll in Gaza raises fears about the potential use of “thermal weapons”, or what are known as “vacuum bombs”, well-known in military circles for their efficacy in demolishing caves and underground tunnel complexes.
Israel claims that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has dug an extensive network of tunnels under schools, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure as cover for its activities to justify its targeting of those facilities.
These claims have never been completely verified and in some cases were disproved by media investigations.   
The report further quotes a Gaza resident, Ahmed Omar, who lost 15 members of his family, including his parents, in an Israeli airstrike on their Gaza City home on October 15, 2023.
Omar told Euro-Med Monitor that despite “strenuous attempts” to retrieve the victims’ bodies, three victims—Raghad Saleh Farwaneh, 14, Ola Saleh Farwaneh, 7, and Rahaf Ahmed Qanita, 8— were never found while they were present in the house at the time of the attack.
Gaza Civil Defense Service has also in several statements pointed to the “dissolution of victims’ corpses and their conversion into ashes.”
“An international investigation must be launched into Israel’s probable use of internationally banned weapons, including thermobaric bombs,” Euro-Med Monitor said.