Peter Lerner is a Jewish religious settler. He came from England, where he was a member of the extremist Zionist movement "Bnei Akiva".
He lived in "Modi'in" settlement between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Peter Lerner is a former spokesperson of the Israeli military civil administration in Beit Ill near Ramallah. I know him personally, his duty in Beit Ill was to justify murdering and demolishing the Palestinian houses and confiscating agricultural land.
Since 2002, he works as a coordinator of genocide and as a spokesman for the IDF in Gaza. He maintained that he was in charge of humanitarian coordination in the Gaza Strip, and under his coordination Gaza was turned by the IDF soldiers into a concentration camp.
Peter Lerner committed crimes against humanity and genocide against the sick Palestinians from Gaza.
Due his work as a military coordinator he caused the death for the sick person from Gaza who died at the border near his office. Most of the sick people who died were granted Israeli permission for medical treatment in Israel and outside. The patients died because the office of Peter Lerner and his team delayed them for hours at the border in Erez.
Here are the names of some of the persons who died in front of Peter Lerners office at the Erez border and because of the orders from his office to delay the ambulance until these persons died in the ambulance, waiting at Erez:
Nimer Muhammad Sheheber, 77 year old, he died at the Israeli border on 23 10 2007
Muhammad Ahmad Ibrahim Mansur, 23 years old, he died at the Border, on 23 5 2007
Wael Hasan Abu Wardeh, 27 years old, died on 3 8, 2007
Dr. Nathmi Mustafa Ashor, died at Erez Border on 23, 5 2007
Aida Abed Al-A'al, 31 years old died on 10 11 2007
Sabri Al-Kurdi 21 years old.
Muna Fayez Nofal 37 years old.
Ysra Al-Amarin.
Fatimah Al-Battah, 45 years old
Jamel Issa 63 years old
Muhammad Sona Allah 56 years old.
Zuher Bader Hussen, 49 years old
Uodeh Musallam, 57 years old
Josef Iyad abu Maryam, 5 years old.
Abrahim Abu Nahel a year and four months old
Nimah Allosh, 27 years old.
Wahid Saleh, 46 years old
Talat Abu Hatab, 46 years old.
Abed Al-kader Abu Amer 46 years old
Bassam Harah, 46 years old
Mahmoud Abu Taha, 23 years old.
Nael Al-Kurdi, 22 years old
Sana Muhammad Al-Haj, 6 months old.
Amir Al-Yaziji, 9 years old
Laila Elewah, 59 years old
Jamil Hamad, 46 years old
Ibrahim Hamad, 63 years old
Fatimah Ayyash, 55 years old
Fatimah Hanieh, 53 years old
Jaber Al-Talla'a, 33 years old
Rowaidah Kishik, 54 years old
Ismael Al-Garabli, 37 years old
Zuhir Bader, 49 years old
Rawan Diab, 13 months
Aeshah Abu Ganimah, 51 years old
Ahmad Hussen Abu Harb, 55 years old
Naser Awad Muhrah, 60 years old
Mahmous Ali Abu Hasnah, 55 years old
Badeah Al-Siedi, 54 years old
Hala Zannon, three months
Radi Mahmoud Abu Redeh, 54 years old
Subhi Abu Marzok, 54 years old
Amal Yunis Sebaih Abu Banat, 35 years old
Rawan Nassar, 15 years old
Dua'a Adil Nassar, 18 years old
Ala'a Anwar Haraza Allah, 26 years old
Zaherah Khalil Ridwan, 49 years old
Nada Iyad Al-Aga, 13 years old
Ahmad Kamel Al-Daieh, 59 years old
Dlal Ahmad Udih Msallam, 57 years old
If you want, you can write and ask him why he did not permit the sick people to have the necessary treatment at the right time, and why he and the officers above him caused their death? Is the murder of Palestinians and powerless sick people called a “humanitarian mission” by the standards of the Israeli occupation?
idfnadesk@idf.gov.il or europacdesk@idf.gov.il
Currently, Peter Lerner is the spokesperson of the war criminal Avi Mizrahi, (אלוף אבי מזרחי), the chief of so-called "Central Command" of the IOF. His duties are to falsify the truth and to cover up the war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the IOF soldiers in the occupied Palestinian territories and instead to spread the zionist propaganda of Avi Mizrahi and his office.
Addition: In a personal Email sent to me on 2 February 2009, Peter Lerner provided me with the following information, copied as-is from his Email, which confirms what is written about him above, and confirms his participation in the genocide against the Palestinian people. What he describes as "help" is essentially the commission of crimes against humanity and the participation in the genocide and war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza. With his Email, Peter Lerner confirms that he directly participated and justified the conversion of Gaza into an extermination camp for the people who live there.
1. I was born and grew up in England. Indeed I was a proud member of Bnei Akiva.
2. I came to Israel at the age of 12. – I have never lived in a settlement. Jerusalem, Modi'in, Tel Aviv.
3. I joined the army in 1992 and was posted at the Civil Administration in the West Bank. At the Civil Administration I filled position both as spokesman and liaison officer to the international organizations working in the region. I was the main interlocutor to those bodies carrying out international aid to the Palestinians.
4. From 2004 – 2006 I studied in University for a BA in social sciences. Remember we used to speak about the academic world?
5. 2006-2008 – I was posted at the Coordination & Liaison Administration to the Gaza Strip, again responsible for facilitating activities of the International community. Serving my country and the world in their assistance to the people of Gaza. (At no time responsible for approving movement of people for medical assistance in Israel). At no time, throughout the two years, did I even cross in to Gaza.
6. 2008 –today Serving as the Spokesman of the coordination of Government Activities in the Territories.
Addition 2009-03: Modi'in is an illegal colony - look here for some info (PDF).