On Wednesday 3 April 2013, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issued its quarter report on the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law against the population of the Gaza Strip during the first four months of 2013.
The report showed that two persons were killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), 30 persons were injured, and 5 of whom were children.
In addition, the IOF arrested 45 Palestinians.
The report highlighted that the IOF carried out 13 limited incursions into the Gaza Strip.
It also showed that the IOF escalated attacks against fishermen; it carried out 38 attacks against them.
The report started with general introduction then it talked about International Humanitarian Law (IHL) principles which are applied on the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and the Israeli obligations under IHL.
The report also presents statistical information on Al Mezan’s monitoring and documentation notes during the reporting period.
The highlighted the IOF systematic attack Palestinian civilians and their properties near the borders.
These attacks come in the context of ongoing Israeli efforts to enforce the so-called ‘security buffer zone’ that extends 300 meters along the Gaza Strip’s borderlines with Israel.
These attacks prevent hundreds of Palestinian farmers from farming their lands which are located near the border-line with Israel.
The report presented the negative impacts of Israeli practices on the lives of Palestinian farmers.
At the end of the report Al Mezan expressed its condemnation of the Israeli continuous violations against civilians in the Gaza Strip and imposing restriction on them in violation of IHL.
The Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights reiterated its previous calls on international community to take action to bring to a swift end the violations of international law perpetrated in the oPt including the siege which represents the illegal collective punishment of the Gaza population.
Al Mezan stressed the importance of bringing to an end the ‘policy of immunity’ pursued by the international community in relation to violations of human rights and IHL in the oPt.
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