Press Releases
12 November 2000 |Reference 55/2000
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The belligerent Israeli Occupation Army has continued to increase its use of excessive and lethal force against the Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Territories.
Yesterday, 11/11/2000, the Israeli Army deliberately killed Palestinian civilians by bombarding Palestinian civilian cars and houses.
Yesterday, 11/11/2000 at about 12:30 p.
m.
(10:30 GMT), Israeli soldiers opened fire on a civilian Palestinian car near Almatahin junction in the south of Gaza Strip.
As a result, Monzir Hamdy Yaseen (a 22 year-old resident of Asheikh Redhwan in Gaza), and Mohammad Yaseen Almadhoun (a 22 year-old resident of Ashaty refugee camp in Gaza) were killed.
Soon after this, the Israeli army exploded the car, detained their dead bodies, and closed Salah Addeen road that connects Gaza with Rafah.
Mrs.
Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was returning to Gaza after a visit to Rafah to observe the damage resulting from the Israeli shelling of Palestinian civil properties, was prevented from continuing her journey to Gaza and was delayed by two and a half hours but the Israeli soldiers.
They let her and the accompanying UN cars travel along the Jewish settlements’ road while preventing the accompanying Palestinians (these had to travel along a roundroad).
Yesterday evening, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces heavily shelled Albireh using anti-tank missiles and machine-guns.
As a result, Osamah Khaleel Albawab (28 years old) and Majid Husein Aljaro (30 years old) were killed.
In the context of the policy which seems to aim to kill the highest possible number of Palestinian civilians, the Israeli army opened fire at unarmed Palestinian civilians.
This led to the killing of:
Mosa Ibraheem Addibs, a 15 year- old resident of Jabalya refugee camp who was shot in the heart.
Moneeb Mohammad Abu Minshar, a 17 year- old resident of Hebron who was shot in the heart.
Hany Abdallah Abu Marzouq, a 37 year- old resident of Jenin who was shot in the heart on 10/11/2000.
Ayman Salah Wady, a 20 year- old resident of Khan Younis who was shot in the head.
This raises the number of Palestinians killed by the Israelis since 29/9/2000 to 187.
Today, 12/11/2000, at about 4:00 a.
m.
(2:00 GMT), the belligerent Israeli Occupation Army has shelled civilan houses in Rafah in the Gaza Strip leading to their total or partial damage.
The damaged houses belong to:
Saeed Mahmoud Musslih Zurub.
Sad Mohammad Hasan Jabr.
Husein Ayyad Hajjaj Assoufy.
Khalid Oudah MusslihZurub.
Wail Saeed Mohammad Zurub.
Hisham Oudah Musslih Zurub.
Musstafa Ayyad Hajjaj Assoufy.
Hasan Ibraheem Jaddou Assoufy.
Husein Mohammad Hasan Jabr.
Today, 12/11/2000, since 12:00 noon (10:00 GMT) until this time, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces have been brutally shelling Beit Jala in the West Bank using missiles and machine-guns.
As a result, 7 houses have been severley damaged (One of the houses has been on fire).
9 Palestinian civilians including two children have been injured during the shelling.
One of the two children has been seriously injured in the chest.
Four cars have been destroyed and two others burnt during the attack.
The Orthothox sport club has also been heavily damaged as a result of the shelling.
In the same context, a Jewish settler has opened fire at a group of Palestinian pupils in Taqou village near Bethlehem.
As a result one pupil has been injured.
AL-MEZAN Center for Human Rights stresses that the killing of Palestinian civilians and destruction of Palestinian civil properties by the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces constitute anti-humanitarian and war crimes that demand immediate and effective interference by the international community aiming at putting an end to the Israeli aggression and bringing the Israeli war criminals to trial.
AL-MEZAN also requests the international community to provide protection for the Palestinian civilians and to put an end to the massacres committed against them.
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