Al Mezan Condemns Killing of One Person and Injury of Another in Rafah and Explosion in Jabaliya Refugee Camp; Calls for Investigations to Bring Perpetrators to Justice

In the evening hours of Monday 6 February 2012, unknown persons opened fire at two persons in Rafah refugee camp.
 As a result one of them was killed and the other sustained critical injury.
 In a separate incident, in the early morning hours of Tuesday 7 February 2012, an explosive device was detonated at a store in the Jabaliya refugee camp market.
 As a result, adjacent houses and stores sustained physical damages.
 No casualties or injuries were reported.
 The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights regrets the killing and injury of people and the damage to citizens’ property.
 Al Mezan calls for investigation of the two incidents in order to bring the perpetrators to justice.
  According to Al Mezan’s field investigations, at approximately 3:15 am on Tuesday 7 February 2012, unknown persons detonated an explosive device at the door of Al Kamal Men’s Clothing Showroom, a store owned by Zuhair Hasan Yousif Redwan, 55, located near Al Awda mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp market in North Gaza district.
 As a result, the store, the owner’s house, a sewing shop, and a furniture store sustained severe physical damage.
 Another three adjacent shops and three nearby houses sustained light damages.
 The explosion took place in a densely populated area.
 The sound of the explosion was extremely loud and people in the area were terrified, particularly children.
  In a separate incident, at approximately 10:15 pm on Monday 6 February 2012, two armed men opened fire at Yousif Mahdi Mesbah Abu Obeid, 20, and Othman Mohammed Hasan Mansour, 38, as they were near the Al Amal Center for the Handicapped in the Yebna neighborhood of southern Rafah.
 As a result, Abu Obeid was killed and Mansour sustained a bullet wound in the chest.
 Medical sources at Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital described his injury as critical.
  The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights greatly regrets the killing and injury, and views the two incidents with much concern.
 Al Mezan strongly condemns attacks on the security of people and their property.
  Al Mezan calls for investigation of the two incidents and fears repetition of such acts in the future.
 These incidents call to mind the security instability and misuse of weapons and small arms that was common in the Gaza Strip in previous years.
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