Al Mezan Condemns IOF Escalation against Palestinians and Calls for Effective International Intervention

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue to attack Palestinian civilians, civilian objects, or their surroundings in different areas throughout the Gaza Strip.
In the past few days, the IOF has carried out eight attacks, as a result of which one person was killed and 22 persons were injured, including five children.
Three training sites for resistance factions, fodder stores, and a water-well were completely destroyed in the attacks.
29 residential houses, two shops, and a vehicle sustained partial damages According to the field investigations conducted by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, at approximately 3:00 a.
m.
on Sunday 17 July 2011, the IOF attacked a water well belonging to the sons of the deceased Ahmed Mustafa Az-Za’anein.
The well is located in Al Qarman Street in the town of Beit Hanoun, in North Gaza district.
As a result, the well was completely destroyed.
Three adjacent houses sustained severe damages, 26 houses and two shops sustained partial damages, and one car sustained light damage in the attack.
Moreover, 11 persons, including five children, were injured.
Medical sources at Beit Hanoun Hospital described their injuries as between moderate and light.
Al Mezan identified the names of the persons injured as follows:   ·         Hanaa Ziyad Az-Za’aneen, 3, shrapnel in the left knee; ·         Ahmed Ziyad Az-Za’aneen, 5, shrapnel in the upper lip; ·         Mu’taz Taher Az-Za’aneen, 13, shrapnel in the head; ·         Murad Taher Az-Za’aneen, 12, shrapnel in the head; ·         Samar Nazer Az-Za’aneen, 17, shrapnel in the head and face; ·         Islam Qasem, 19, shrapnel in different parts of the body; ·         Tareq Khader Az-Za’aneen, 20, shrapnel in the right hand middle finger; ·         Merwan Khaled Az-Za’aneen, 22, shrapnel in the head and right hand; ·         Mohammed Al Kafarna, 30, shrapnel in different parts of the body; ·         Samah Wael Al Kafarna, 33, shrapnel in the face and right hand; and ·         Munia Mohammed Az-Za’aneen, 50, a fracture in the left leg.
  In the past three days, the IOF has carried out a series of attacks throughout the Gaza Strip.
Al Mezan details some of these attacks as follows.
At approximately 00:40 a.
m.
on Saturday 16 July 2011, Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a group of Palestinian young men who were in one of the fields on Salah Ad-Din Street, in Ezbet Beit Hanoun, in North Gaza district.
As a result, one of them sustained moderate injury.
In a separate attack, in the morning hours of Saturday 16 July 2011, civil defense teams collected the dead body of Mohammed Ibrahim Al Baiouk, 20, who was a resident of Khan Younis.
At approximately 3:45 a.
m.
on Thursday 14 July 2011, Israeli aircraft attacked a tunnel near the Salah Ad-Din gate on the Gaza-Egypt border.
As a result, Fadil Jaber Ar-Ra’i, 20, and Jamal Ahmed Shurab, 18, sustained shrapnel in different parts of the body.
They were working in the same tunnel where Mohammed Al Baiouk worked.
  As a result of the attack, another three persons who were working in an adjacent tunnel were also injured.
Al Mezan has identified them as follows:   ·         Wael ‘Azmi Abu Zuhri, 40, from Rafah; ·         Mohammed ‘Atef Al Jamal, 30, from Rafah; and ·         Majdi Mohammed Abu Samaha, 30, from Beit Lahyia.
  According to medical sources at Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital, the three persons sustained shrapnel in different parts of their bodies and their injuries were described as moderate.
At approximately 13:15 a.
m.
on Friday 15 July 2011, Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at the area near the Salah Ad-Din gate, on the Gaza-Egypt borderline.
No casualties or injuries were reported.
At approximately 11:45 p.
m.
on Thursday 14 July 2011, Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a training site for Palestinian resistance factions west of Al Maqusi towers in the Al Shati’ refugee camp, northwest of Gaza City.
As a result, four persons were injured.
Medical sources at Shifa Hospital described their injuries as light.
At approximately 11:25 p.
m.
on Thursday 14 July 2011, Israeli aircraft fired a missile at another training site for resistance factions in the evacuated Israeli settlements, west of Khan Younis.
As a result, the site was partially damaged.
At approximately 11:15 p.
m.
on Thursday 14 July 2011, Israeli aircraft attacked a third training site in the evacuated Nizarim settlement, southeast of Gaza City.
 As a result, the site was completely destroyed.
No one was injured.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns the continuous Israeli attacks against Palestinians.
Al Mezan asserts that a large number of these attacks constitute gross violations of international law and demonstrate that the IOF continues to disregard its international obligations, particularly the IOF’s premeditated attacks against civilians and civilian objects and the use of highly destructive weapons in the vicinity of civilians or civilian objects, causing harm to civilians.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights calls upon the international community to promptly intervene to provide the protection due to civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory against the almost daily Israeli attacks against them.
  End