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IOF Kills Three Palestinians; Al Mezan Condemns Attack and Calls on International Community to Intervene

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14 October 2012 |Reference 77/2012

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continues its escalation against the Gaza Strip.
It extra judicially killed two Palestinians and attacked a training site for the Palestinian resistance.
As a result of these attacks, three persons were killed and three persons were injured, including two children.
Seven houses, a pharmacy, and an agricultural field were partially damaged.
  According to investigations conducted by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, at approximately 5:15 am on Sunday 14 October 2012, an Israeli aircraft attacked a motorcycle travelling southeast of Khan Younis.
As a result, Yaser Mohammed Al ‘Attal, 22, was killed and another person was injured.
The injured person was admitted to Nasser Hosiptal for medical treatment where his injury was described as critical.
According to investigations conducted by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, at approximately 8:00 pm on Saturday 13 October 2012, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile targeting a motorcycle travelling near Abu Shbak Clinic in Jabaliya, in North Gaza district.
As a result, Hesham Ali Abdel Kareem As-S’edni, 43, from Al Bureij refugee camp, and Ashraf Nemer Sabbah, 36, from Deir Al Balah, were killed.
Medical sources reported that Sabbah was separated from his body and his body was dismembered.
Saleh Mohammed An-Najjar, 6, was injured in the right leg as a result of windowpane smash.
Two houses and a pharmacy sustained light damages.
The Israeli authority claims responsibility for the killing.
At approximately 8:35 pm on the same day, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a training site for one of the Palestinian resistance faction south Az-Zaitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
No casualties or injuries were reported.
  At approximately 3:20 am on the same day, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at an open area northeast of An-Nuseirat refugee camp.
No casualties or injuries were reported.
At approximately 2:30 am on the same day, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at an agricultural field in Block 2 in Al Bureij refugee camp.
As a result, Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Salam, 12, was injured in his right leg while he was sleeping in his house.
He was referred to Al Aqsa Hospital for medical treatment.
  The attack left a big hole and 14 olive trees were uprooted.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights strongly condemns this renewed Israeli military activity, which amounts to an extrajudicial killing.
Al Mezan reasserts that this escalation warns of serious and wider escalation, particularly the Israeli authority officially adopted the killing and followed it with other attacks causing killing and physical damages.
  Al Mezan reasserts that extrajudicial attacks and killings constitute a flagrant and gross violation of international law.
It calls on the international community to promptly intervene to end the Israeli crimes, and provide effective protection for civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Al Mezan views the intervention of the international community as a legal and moral obligation as well as an urgent necessity, particularly in the current situation.
Al Mezan asserts that the silence of the international community and its failure to uphold its obligations to bring Israeli war criminal to justice has encouraged Israel to commit further war crimes against Palestinians.
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