31 March 2001
Yesterday, 30/3.
2001, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, killing six of them and injuring tens other.
In Ramallah and Nablus, these forces used poisonous gas and opened fire from heavy machineguns at Palestinian civilians.
As a result, six Palestinian civilians were killed.
Theses are:
Ayish Mostafa Zamil; 19years, Der al-Hatab, Injured in the head with live ammunition.
Ahmad Mahmoud Abu Maraheel; 16years, Balata, Injured in the neck with live ammunition.
Sha’ban Sa’id Abu Salloum; 21years, Balata, Injured in the head with live ammunition.
Morad Sharee’a; 20years, Balata, Injured in the head with live ammunition.
Khalid an-Nahla; 27years, Nablus.
Mohammed Abd al-Mohsin al-Wawy; 21years, Betonia.
In the same incidents, 26 other Palestinian civilians were injured.
In Hebron, these forces shelled a number of the city’s residential neighborhoods with heavy artillery.
This includes, Abu Sneineh and at-Takroury neighborhoods.
In the same context, Israeli settlers set fire to a number of houses and shops owned by Palestinians in the old city of Hebron.
As a result, 18 Palestinian civilians were injured.
In Tulkarm, the belligerent Occupation Forces positioned in the Military Coordination Center located to the west of Tulkarm, shelled the western and southern neighborhoods of the city with heavy artillery and machineguns.
Two shells directly hit a water pump and an electricity transformer located in the city center.
As a result, the electricity transformer caught on fire and exploded, leading to cut off electricity in the city.
In Jericho, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces shelled Qasr Hisham and Palestine neighborhoods with heavy machineguns last night.
As a result, a number of houses were heavily damaged.
This includes damage of water reservoirs and windows.
In the Gaza Strip, these forces opened fire on unarmed Palestinian civilians near at- Tuffah Checkpoint near Khan Younis, al- Muntar passage near Gaza, Bait Hanoun passage near Bait Hanoun, and Nitsareem junction south of Gaza.
As a result, hundreds of Palestinian civilians were injured.
The following were among the injured:
Akram Khalid Ahmad; 16years, Injured in the left hand.
Islam al-Eisawy; 9years, Injured in the left foot.
Mahmoud Saleem Haron; 17years, Injured in the face.
Yousif Ali al-Aysar; 15years, Injured in the pelvis.
Anwar Abd ar-Rahman ash-Shareef; 20years, Injured in the chest.
Jihad Izzat al-Hor; 13years, Injured in the abdomen.
Jameel al-Attar; 13years, Injured in the right thigh.
Ibraheem Tayseer Yaseen; 15years, Injured in the head.
Ameen Mohammadeen; 18years, Injured in the foot.
Fady as-Sirhy; 18years, Injured in the right hand.
Ahmad Ruyad Abu Asy; 17years, Injured in the head.
Mohammed Yousif Sehwail; 14years, Injured in the left leg.
Abd al-Kareem Hamad Abu Habl; 15years, Injured in the left hand.
Mohammed Abd ar-Rahem al-Batsh; 16years, Injured in the head.
Mohammed Ahmad Hillis; 18years, Injured in the left leg.
Fahmy Mohammed as-Shawwa; 17years, Injured in the right hand.
Hasan Mohammed Ghazal; 17years, Injured in the right hand.
Hany Khamees Bakr; 14years, Injured in the head.
Khamees Hasan al-Qishawy; 20years, Injured in the head.
Samy Fathy Abu Amr; 15years, Injured in the right thigh.
Mahmoud Barakat; 16years, Injured in the right hand.
Khaleel Maher al-Misry; 23years, Injured in the left foot.
Khaleel Ziyad Abu Jasir; 14years, Injured in the right thigh.
Ahmad Sehwail; Injured in the foot.
Nabeel Suleiman Shatat; 15years, Injured in the left leg.
Tha’ir Fayiz Abu al-Qumsan;14years, Injured in the right hand.
Sufian Abd al-Hay Abdrabbu; 16years, Injured in the left knee.
Ibraheem Faisal Mousa; 13years, Injured in the head.
Mohammed Nizar Rayyan; 13years, Injured in the abdomen.
Jawdat Hamad; 20years, A case of suffocation by tear gas.
Mahmoud Abid; 9years, A case of suffocation by tear gas.
Tal’at Ziyad Abu Asr; 20years, A case of suffocation by tear gas.
Mohammed Majdy Abu al-‘Of; 16years, A case of suffocation by tear gas.
Mahir Saleem Abu Mo’awwad; 23years, Injured in the left foot.
Mohammed Fathy Abu al-‘Aish; 14years, Injured in the head.
Mahmoud Hilmy al-Madhoun; 13years, Injured in the left foot.
Khaleel Abd ar-Rahman Abu Dhahir; 18years, Injured in the head.
This mourning, Israeli soldiers positioned in two military tanks near an-Nour mosque in Rafah, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian civilians.
As a result, two girls were injured.
These are:
The two and a half- year- old Samar Abu Jazar, who was injured in the right foot.
The seven- year- old Wala’ Mahmoud Abu E’baid, who was injured in the right thigh.
In the same incident, Shakir Shaheen, an ambulance driver was injured in the left arm while trying to move the injured girls away from the scene.
This mourning also, 10 Palestinian civilians were injured near Bait Hanoun passage.
AL-MEZAN Center for Human Rights stresses that the new Israeli escalation is the result of the continued international silence in respect to the massacres committed by the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces against the Palestinians.
AL-MEZAN warns that this will encourage the Israelis to even commit more massacres against the unarmed Palestinian people.
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