Since the beginning of 2013 till present, 27 people were killed in internal incidents, including nine children and one woman.
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A further 105 were injured, including 22 children and 11 women.
Al Mezan strongly condemns the misuse of arms in family feuds and calls for measures that will address the problem.
Since the beginning of 2013 until now, 27 people were killed, including nine children and one woman in internal incidents in the Gaza Strip.
A further 105 people were injured, including 22 children and 11 women.
In 2014 alone, four people were killed including two children and a woman.
Incidents of misuse of small arms have recently escalated in the Gaza Strip.
According to the information gathered by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, small arms have been used in the majority of family feuds and mishandling of weapons occurring in the current year.
Al Mezan has documented the most recent incidents in Gaza of misuse of small arms as follows: At approximately 4:30 pm on Sunday, 26 January, 2014, Ashraf Daher Farajallah, 19, died when he mishandled an explosive device on the rooftop of his uncle’s house, which is located in Block (2) in Al Bureij refugee camp.
At approximately 4:30 pm on Wednesday, 8 January, 2014, a family feud erupted between two neighbors in Jabaliya refugee camp.
Small arms were used causing the death of Saleem Abdel Hai Abu ‘Attyya, 14.
Medical sources reported that a bullet entered his mouth and exited from the back of his head.
The police initiated an investigation into the incident and arrested perpetrators.
At approximately 10:30 am on the same day, a man opened fire and used hand grenades in the context of a family-related confrontation.
As a result, Mus’ab Fat’hi Azzam, 10, who was with his father at that moment and Suhair Fouad Abu Al Kheer, 36, were killed and Jawad Majed Abu Al Kheer, 18, was injured.
The fued was described as personal and family-related.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns the misuse of fire arms, as well as similar incidents that stem from family and personal feuds.
Al Mezan also reiterates its previous calls to limit the use of small arms to law enforcement officers implementing the law and to prevent the use of small arms for personal purposes.