The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated their ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The IOF intensified its aerial and artillery attacks on areas near the separation fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
The IOF attacked  Eastern parts of the Wadi Gaza village killing two children and injuring five persons, one of whom was a child and three of them were from the national security forces who were stationed at their sites near the border line.
  According to Al Mezan Center for Human Rights’ field investigations, at approximately 9:30pm on Saturday 19 March 2011, the IOF fired ten artillery shells at two children who approached the separation fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of the Wadi Gaza Village.
According to eyewitnesses, one of the shells fell in agricultural fields east of the Hamza mosque in the Village south of the solid waste dump and in the northeastern area of the Village.
  At approximately 11:30am on Saturday 20 March 2011, two ambulances for the Palestinian Red Crescent collected the dead bodies of Imad Mohammed Issa Farajallah, 16, and Qasem Salaha Suliman Abu Ittawi, 16.
The two children were from the An-Nuseirat refugee camp and studied at the Nuseirat Primary School.
According to initial field investigations, the children were not involved in any hostile activities.
People believe that the two children were trying to sneak over the separation fence into Israeli to find jobs.
  In his affidavit to Al Mezan, the ambulance driver found the two dead bodies about 400 meters away from the separation fence, east of Hamza mosque.
The dead bodies were lying on the ground and were dressed in civilian clothes.
One of the dead bodies sustained shrapnel and its upper parts were amputated.
The dead bodies were admitted to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
  At approximately 7:30am on Saturday 20March 2011, two Israeli tanks accompanied by armored bulldozers moved about 400 meters into eastern parts of the Wadi Gaza Village.
Bulldozers made a pile of sand in an olive field belonging to Maher Sa'adi Az-Za'eem, 42.
The IOF hid behind the pile.
This limited incursion lasted for about one hour.
  At approximately 10am on the same day, the IOF fired two artillery shells at eastern parts of the Wadi Gaza Village.
As a result, a young man sustained moderate injuries.
  Al Mezan's continuous field monitoring indicated that the IOF escalated its aerial and artillery shell attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Al Mezan monitored the IOF attacks as follows: ·         At approximately 12:15pm on Saturday 19th March 2011, Israeli helicopters attacked an open area in the Wadi Gaza Village east of the Al Qarrara village, in the east of the Khan Younis district.
No casualties or injuries were reported.
·         At approximately 9:30am on Saturday 19th March 2011, the IOF fired an artillery shell at agricultural land, southwest of the Martyrs Cemetery, east of Jabalia town.
No casualties or injuries were reported but it scared farmers and they abandoned the area without finishing their farming activities.
This attack took place at a time when the IOF fired dozens of artillery shells at agricultural lands that are located east of Gaza city.
·         At approximately 8:45am on the same day, the IOF fired an artillery shell at the national security site which is located near the Nahal Oz crossing, east of the Al Shija'ia neighborhood, in the east of Gaza city.
As a result five persons were injured; including three members of the national security forces and a child.
Al Mezan identified the names of the injured persons as follows: ·         Sa'eb Maher Abu Safeera, 20, from the At-Twam area in North Gaza district; ·         Medhat Saleem Ad-Daiya, 20, from Az-Zaitoun neighborhood; ·         Imad Saleh Sa'ad, 35, from the Al Shija'ia neghbrhood; ·         Naser Omar Abu Shanab, 22, from the Al Shija'ia neghbrhood; and ·         Qusai Fadi Abu Shanab, 4, from the Al Shija'ia neghbrhood.
  The first three persons work for the national security forces.
Medical sources described their injuries as moderate.
It's worth mentioning that the IOF fired more than 15 artillery shells at different areas east of Gaza city.
Fourteen shells fell on open areas and no casualties or injuries were reported.
  ·         At approximately 8:30am on Saturday 19th March 2011, the IOF fired several artillery shells at various areas in the Al Shoka village, east of Rafah town.
The IOF concentrated its attack east of the Rafah crossing and the Gaza International Airport.
No casualties or injuries were reported.
·         At approximately 7:30am on Saturday 19th March 2011, the IOF fired several artillery shells at the villages of Al Qarrara and Abasan, east of Khan Younis.
The sporadic fire lasted until approximately 9am on the same day.
As a result, the Ammar bin Yaser Mosque, which is located in the village of Abasan was partially damaged.
No casualties or injuries were reported but people were terrified.
  Al Mezan Center for Human Right strongly condemns the killing of two children and the injury of five persons; including a child by the IOF.
Al Mezan views this attack as part of the continuous Israeli violations of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Al Mezan asserts that the IOF attacks were concentrated on areas near the borders in the so-called 'security buffer zone'.
The IOF’s deliberate attacks on civilians came in the context of imposing restrictions on the movement of population in the Gaza Strip, particularly farmers who work in their fields near the borders.
These attacks and the IOF's conduct in the area constitute grave violations to international law, particularly the principle of discrimination and proportion.
  Al Mezan calls on the international community to promptly intervene to provide protection for Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Al Mezan calls on the international community to intervene to stop the IOF enforcing the security buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip in this violent manner.
The means and methods employed by Israel to enforce it are lethal and a grave violation of international law.
    Al Mezan takes the advantage of holding the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) session to consider the situation in the  OPT, and calls the HRC to refer the UN Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) and report (the Goldstone Report) to the International Criminal Court, particularly after the Israeli failure to investigate violations of international law that  were committed by its soldiers.
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