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Bombardment of Workshop in Gaza and Incursion in Southern Gaza; Israeli Forces Arrest 26 Palestinians

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6 August 2002 |Reference 63/2002

At approximately 10:05 P.
M.
Monday 5 August 2002, Israeli forces shelled the Amal Workshop in the Asqula area of Gaza City.
The workshop, owned by Mahmud Nimir Al-Buhtiti according to Al Mezan fieldworkers, was shelled with three helicopter missiles and completely destroyed.
Six civilians were wounded in the strikes and four nearby workshops were damaged.
At around 3 A.
M.
Tuesday 6 August, Israeli forces penetrated Qarara village in the southern Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses said that about fifteen military vehicles entered the area north and east of the border with Israel.
Soldiers conducted a house-to-house search in four neighborhoods, Al Farra, Abu Hadaf, Ad Dabas and Abu Mhana, and arrested 23 Palestinians before withdrawing at 9:00 AM.
At dawn on the same day Israeli forces entered the eastern area of Rafah, near the Rafah Crossing, searched homes, and arrested three civilians.
Rafah was cut off from the rest of the Gaza Strip for two days after tanks blockaded the only street leading to the town.
The Mezan Center for Human Rights is deeply concerned with continued Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights in the OPTs and condemns the silence of the international community.
Collective punishment of Palestinian civilians constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law and necessitates immediate international action.
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