On Thursday 19 August 2010, the office of Gaza Community Center; a branch of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program (GCMHP), was broken into and part of its belongings was stolen.
The office was intruded after the staff finished their work and went home.
The administration of the Center informed the police of the incident.
The police reported that they opened an investigation into it.
  In an affidavit given to Al Mezan Center for Human Rights by Mr.
Hasan Ziyada, the Center's director, he said that sometime between 2:30pm and 3:30pm on Thursday 19 August 2010, unknown persons broke into the office’s Research Center on the third floor of the building.
They stole electric appliances.
At approximately 2:45pm on the same day, the office counselor who provides help for people by telephone called him and reported that there was no internet access to feed the telephone hotline, which works from 1pm to 5:30pm daily.
The Center's director, Mr.
Ziyada, went to the office, which is adjacent to the apartment where the counselor works, to restart the internet router.
At approximately 4pm, the director reached the office and phoned the counselor, Mr.
Ziyada said.
Both were shocked to see the door was opened and the router was stolen.
Mr.
Ziyada called the police, who arrived and examined the crime scene.
They found that two computers, two UPS chargers, and a laser printer were stolen.
The router was not there either.
They also found the video set was moved from its place in the hall into one of the offices.
  According to Al Mezan's field investigations, the trespassers broke into the building from the main entrance and reached the internal entrance.
Then, they went upstairs and reached the third floor.
They forced open the door of the apartment which hosts the Research Center.
    Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expresses its solidarity with the GCMHP.
It calls on the authorities to promptly and seriously investigate this incident to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
Al Mezan calls the authorities to make the results of investigations into this, as well as other similar incidents where NGOs offices were attacked, public.
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