The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Last night, 3/10/2001, witnessed serious escalation of the Israeli crimes.
At about 05:00 am today, the Israeli occupation forces have committed a new crime after they entered the PA area northern Bait Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Several Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered about two kilometers in the area, covered by Helicopters.
Intensive bombing and shelling, and bulldozing everything including plants, land and ten PA security points accompanied the intrusion.
As a result of this attack, six Palestinians were killed, they are: Mahir Idris Khudair, a twenty-three-year old farmer from Bait Lahia.
Nurdad-Din Muhamad Quidir, twenty-five years old, from Gaza city.
Quidir is a PA security member.
Muhamad Ibrahim Abu Hani, twenty-three years, from ash-Shati refugee camp.
Wail Fuad Awad, twenty-six years, from Dair al-Balah.
Mahmud Muhamad ash-Shurafa, twenty-five years old, a farmer from Bait Lahia.
Sayid Salim Zyarah, thirty-three years from Gaza City, Zyarah is a PA security member.
Moreover, six other Palestinians were wounded in the same attack: Luai an-Naja Muhamad Zyara Muhamad Awad Anwar Abu Halima Sufyan Abu aj-Jidyan Nadir al-Bis In addition, the continuous shelling and the existence of aircrafts frightened the population in the area, especially those who live by Ilai Sinai settlement.
They escaped their houses seeking a safe shelter.
The Israeli army controls an area of seven km2 extending from the Bedouin village in the east to the seacoast in the west now.
It is worth noting that Rafah and Khan Yunis towns, southern the Gaza Strip, witness dangerous Israeli escalation.
The Israeli army shoots and shells populated areas randomly.
The shelling caused fires in two houses in Rafah.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights sees that this escalation is very dangerous and warns from a potential Israeli escalation of such crimes against civilian Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
As such, the center demands that the international community pays more attention to the Israeli crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially because the international community holds the legal and moral responsibility for the protection of Palestinian civilians and to bring to justice the Israeli war criminals who ordered or committed these war crimes.
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