The recent escalation of IOF attacks in the Gaza Strip has killed twelve Palestinians and destroyed fifteen houses, eight of which were totally destroyed.
Two Palestinians, including one injured were detained.
Further, the financial boycott of the PNA and the closure of the crossings to the Gaza Strip remain in place, and may cause a humanitarian disaster.
According to Al Mezan field investigations, at approximately 3:00am on 2 September, the IOF were deployed in Al Amal neighborhood of eastern Beit Hanoun, killing Mohammed Isma'il Ibrahim Abu Ouda, 53, and his son Ismail, 18, and injuring his daughters, Hanan, 16, and Azhar, 17, and 6 other civilians.
In addition, eleven houses were damaged, six of them entirely destroyed.
These houses were inhabited by 118 individuals, including 45 children.
In addition, the IOF detained two brothers; Younis Subeih, who had been injured and Mahmoud Nasir Subeih, as well as Mahmoud Hammad Jom'a Al Tarabin.
In the context of the IOF policy of destroying civilians houses without giving residents a sufficient time to evacuate their houses and collect their belongings, on 2 September, at approximately 10:05pm, IOF jets shelled a two-storey house owned by Ahmed Mousa Hussein Al Silawi.
The house was totally destroyed as well as three adjacent houses.
At approximately 9:45pm, the IOF had warned the Silawi family by telephone of the imminent shelling of their house.
The IOF continue to open fire at whoever approaches the eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, and on 3 September Saber khaled Farajallah, 23, was reported injured whilst in eastern Wadi Ghazza Village.
Furthermore, the IOF have continued maintaining the tight closure of Karni and Rafah Crossings since 16 August.
Nahal Crossings has been closed since 27 August.
The closure of Karni and Nahal Crossings has severely affected the industrial and agricultural sectors, as it has prevented the export of local products as well as the import of agricultural necessities and raw materials.
Al Mezan warns that the continued financial boycott of the PNA through the halting of European assistance to the PNA, the prevention of accessing financial aid from Arab and Islamic countries, and the withholding of tax and customs which is owed to the PNA by Israel, is likely to lead to a humanitarian disaster in the OPT.
Teachers and medical personnel have been on strike for over a week now, after not having received full salaries for the last six months, which will consequently lead to the collapse of the educational and health sectors if these conditions continue.
Al Mezan condemns the silence of the international community in light of IOF ongoing offensive, the use of excessive and disproportionate force, and the conduct of its starvation policy against Palestinians.
The Center warns of an imminent collapse of the educational and health sectors in the OPT, and calls upon the international community, notably the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to immediately intervene to put an end to this humanitarian crisis, halt Israeli violations and provide international protection to Palestinian civilians and their property in the OPT.
it also demands the UN Human Rights Council take serious steps towards ending human rights violations in the OPT.
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