Published: 12:00 Gaza Time (+2 GMT)     The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip for the eighth straight day.
Today, the IOF targeted more houses and launched massive attacks on government structures of a civilian character.
This attack caused large damages to homes and other structures in Gaza city.
Direct attacks on houses using the roof-knocking tactic claimed more lives, while IOF artillery intensified the shelling of neighborhoods and, in one attack, a hospital.
Meanwhile, the number of victims of IOF attacks on Gaza increased by middaytoday, 21 November 2012.
Al Mezan’s monitoring indicates that between 14 November 2012 andthe time this press release was issued at 12 pm on 21 November 2012, at least 145 Palestinians have been killed in IOF attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Of those, 29 were children and 12 women.
Another 999 people were injured, including 326 children and 162 women.
At least 865 houses have also been damaged or destroyed, including 92completely.
Of those 92 houses, 44 were directly attacked; including33 were deliberately targeted by direct IOF attacks using the roof-knocking tactic.
Another 179 houses sustained serious damages.
Moreover, IOF attacks caused varying damages to 6 health centres, 30 schools, 2 universities, 15 NGO offices, 27 mosques, 14 media offices, 11 industrial plants, 81 commercial stores, 1 UNRWA food distribution Centre, 7 ministry offices, 14 police/security stations, 5 banks, 30 vehicles, and 2 youth clubs.
At approximately 1:10 pm today, 21 November 2012, IOF fired two artillery shells at the BeitHanoun hospitals.
One shell pierced the roof of the northern part of the hospital while the second shell landed in the hospital’s yard.
The two shells did not explode.
They caused damages to the hospital building, but no casualties or injuries were reported.
Panic spread among the patients and the personnel; however, and there are fears the hospital, which is close to the border with Israel, would close at a time when it is most needed.
At approximately 12:45 pm, an IOF drone fired a missile at a group of civilians in the east of Abassan town, east to Khan Younis district in the south of the Gaza Strip.
An elderly man, Ibrahim Abu Nasser, 80, and his granddaughter, Amira, 15, were killed in this attack.
Mohammed Abu Nasser was also injured.
Al Mezan’s initial investigation indicates that the family were collecting olives from their orchard when they were attacked.
At approximately 10:52 am today, an IOF drone fired a missile at the house of Issam Al-Da’alees, 45, in the An-Nuseirat refugee camp in the Middle Gaza district.
Later, at about 11:20 am today, IOF warplanes bombarded the house and destroyed it completely.
Several houses in the vicinity were damaged, along with fields and the electricity network in the neighbourhood.
Al-Da’alees is an aide to Gaza government’s Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh.
Betweem 9:20 am and 10:50 am today, IOF artillery batteries fired about 20 shells towards the An-Nada Towers in Beithanoun, and the Bedouin village in BeitLahiya.
One shell exploded at approximately 10 am near the house of Nasser Abu Qleeq in the Bedouin village and injured two of the house residents.
At approximately 2 am today, IOF bombarded the Abu Khadra government compound with at least 8 heavy missiles.
The compound, which hosts most of government civilian ministries, was destroyed.
Adjacent houses, financial institutions, including 3 banks, media offices for Al Jazeera and AP, as well as numerous commercial stored were damaged.
At approximately 4pm yesterday, 20 November, an IOF warplane bombarded the house of Murtada Ash-Shawa, 56, which is located in Ash-Sheja’iya neighbourhood eastern Gaza city.
The daughter of Mr.
Ash-Shawa, Yosra, 18, was killed and her mother was injured in the attack.
Minutes after this attack, IOF warplanes attacked it a second time, when neighbors gathered to help the victims.
Three people were killed and four injured in this second attack.
The casualties were identified as Mahmoud Al-Zohri, 21, SaqerBolbol, 56, and TareqIhjeela, 40.
The latter has a store for mobile near the house.
At approximately 3:45 pm, also yesterday, an IOF warplane fired a missile at the backyard of the house of RiziqAshour, which is located in the Az-Zeitoun neighbourhood eastern Gaza city.
When the attack occurred, a group of children were playing in the backyard of the house.
One of the children was killed: Mohammed Ashour, 8, and six were injured, two of whom critically.
Updating a report in yesterday’s press release by Al Mezan, which reported an attack on a group of the Doghmosh family members at approximately 3:30 pm in the Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza city, Al Mezan has verified that five men were killed in this attack, and a sixth man was injured.
The casualties were identified as Salah and SubhiDoghmosh, both are 29, Ahmed Doghmosh, 30, Mos’abDoghmosh, 22, and ZakiQadada, 42.
Al Mezan Cetntre for Human Rights strongly condemns the IOF continued aggression on Gaza, which is becoming more vicious as times passes.
Al Mezan expresses its outrage by the failure of international community to fulfil its obligations despite the reports about such grave violations of international law committed in Gaza for the eighth straight day; including direct, frequently deliberate, attacks on houses and other civilian targets, and the forced displacement of civilians following the dropping of leaflets ordering hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
Al Mezan calls on UN and humanitarian agencies to tend to the needs of the displaced population in Gaza quickly; including the majority who took shelter at UNRWA schools.
Al Mezan insists that the IOF aggression and serious violations of international law will continue, unless international community takes a clear stance that they would stop and that international law must be respected immediately.
Failing to condemn such violations and pursuing investigating and punishing them will encourage graver violations in the coming days.
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