The security situation in the Gaza Strip continues to seriously deteriorate, resulting in numerous human rights violations that have consequently led to a growing instability and absence of personal security in Palestinian society.
Brigadier General Jad Tayeh, and his four bodyguards, were killed by unknown persons in Gaza.
This incident comes in the context of increasingly frequent practices that jeopardize personal and public safety within the Palestinian community.
These practices include killing, looting, robbery, among other infringements of the law.
According to the Al Mezan field sources, on 15 September at approximately 13:30, unknown armed persons opened fire on the car of Brigadier General Jad Tayeh on the Beach Road, near the house of the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, in Al Shati' refugee Camp.
Brigadier General Taieh, 55, was the former International Relations Officer of the General Intelligence apparatus.
According to witnesses, a group of armed persons opened fire on the targeted car and when it stopped they approached it and opened fire directly on the passengers, killing Tayeh and his four bodyguards: Yusri Younis Abu Zaid, 30, Ziad Mohammed Al Sakani, 24, Naief Mohsen Abu Oun, 54, and Mohammed Salman Abu Sharia, 34.
Witnesses also said the attackers confiscated all weapons inside the car as well as a handbag, before fleeing.
This incident comes in the context of a series of systematic killings of senior officers within the security apparatuses, and activists of Palestinian resistance groups, in addition to family feuds and armed clashes.
All these incidents have resulted in the killing of 180 citizens in the Gaza Strip since the implementation of Israel’s Unilateral Disengagement Plan.
In addition, crimes relating to robbery have grown in different parts of the Strip, including the stealing of cars, generators and other private property.
In separate incidents during the last month, two cars belonging to Khan Younis Municipality and the Ministry of Health, and the car of Dr.
Nabil Sha'ath, former Minister of Planning, were stolen by force.
Al Mezan is concerned about the deterioration of the security situation and absence of the rule of law in the Gaza Strip, and warns the PNA about the collapse of security in Palestinian society and the disastrous impacts that will ensue should the PNA not take effective steps to end the problem.
Al Mezan affirms that the continuation of this phenomenon will lead to further deterioration of the human rights situation in the OPT.
Al Mezan calls upon the PNA to take all necessary procedures to halt this serious problem, and reinforce security in Palestinian society.
The Center also reiterates its demand that the PNA open investigations into all cases in which the law was violated and where the law was taken into the own hands of individuals, disseminate and publicize the results of these investigations to the public, and bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice in order to prevent further crimes and violations of the law.
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