Al Mezan Condemns Internal Attacks in Gaza; Gaza Government Obligated to Investigate, Prosecute Perpetrators

At approximately 7:45pm on Monday 16 March 2010, unknown persons detonated an explosive device near the eastern wall of the Al Sheikh Redwan Police Station in the al Sheikh Redwan neighborhood.
The glass windows s of the surrounding houses were smashed.
No causalities or injured were reported.
The perpetrators and reasons behind the incident are unknown.
  In a separate incident, at approximately 1:30pm on Monday 15 March 2010, armed men opened fire on a group of Palestinian resistance fighters in Tal Az-Zatar neighborhood in Jabalia in North Gaza District.
In return, the resistance fighters fired back at them and chased them.
Grenades were used during the clash.
The clash continued for 25 minutes.
Then the police surrounded the scene of the clash and arrested all the participants.
As a result of this clash, one of the perpetrators was injured by grenade shrapnel.
According to medical sources at Kamal Odwan Hospital, his injuries are described as light.
The reason behind this incident is an internal disagreement among the resistance fighter groups.
   At approximately 9am on Sunday 14 March 2010, masked men kidnapped Salah Mohammed Musbah Al Masri, 39, who lives in Al Nasir Street in the west of Gaza City.
A blue Volkswagen car stopped opposite a grocery belonging to the Ad-Dalou family and four masked men get out of the car.
According to the affidavit given by Al Masri to Al Mezan, one of the masked men pointed his gun at him and ordered him to get in the car.
Then they covered his head with a cloth bag and took him to unknown place.
An hour later, the car was stopped and the masked men ordered Al Masri to get out of the car and to ascend the stairs.
Then they made him sit down on the ground, cuffed his hands and legs, and hanged him from his legs.
They beat, insulted, and accused him of cooperating with suspicious bodies and Israel.
He also said that his kidnappers exposed him to electric shocks.
Two hours later, the kidnappers took him in a car, uncuffed him, and threw him from the car.
At approximately midnight on 15 March 2010, Al Masri uncovered his face, he found himself in a side street opposite the exchange market in Omar Al Mukhtar Street amid Gaza City.
He was admitted to Shifa Hospital for medical treatment.
Them he was discharged from the hospital.
Al Mezan's field workers noticed clear bruises in different parts of the body.
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1:30pm on Sunday 14 March 2010, Mohammed Marzoq Mu'amr,65, was killed in a family feud that erupted in the vicinity of Sofa crossing in Al Shoka village, northeast Rafah.
Three other persons were also injured in the same incident.
According to medical sources at the European Gaza Hospital, their injuries are described as critical.
Police arrived at the scene and arrested about 30 persons who participated in the feud.
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8:23pm on Saturday 13 March 2010, masked men driving a white minibus kidnapped Hamad Mohammed Suliman Abu Jazar, 42.
According to information collected by Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Abu Jazar was driving his motorcycle in Khalid bin Al Waleed Street, in   the Al Brazil neighborhood when the minibus blocked his way.
They pushed him into the minibus where three armed men were inside.
The armed men beat Abu Jazar with the end of their guns and rifles.
Then they took him to an area behind the Collective Club in the Al Brazil neighborhood.
An hour later, they left him.
Abu Jaza was admitted to Abu Yousif An-Najar Hospital where he received medical treatment.
  According to Al Mezan's monitoring and documentation, there is a deterioration of the security situation in the Gaza Strip, as the number of these kinds of incidents continues to increase.
This situation raises concerns that a state of security chaos could return to Gaza as was the situation between 2003 and 2007.
  Al Mezan calls on the Gaza Government to act upon its obligations and to initiate prompt, effective investigations in these incidents; particularly those involving the use of small arms in such attacks, and in family feuds, and to prosecute the perpetrators of such criminal acts without delay.
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