66 Killed and Wounded in a Series of Israeli Attacks on Gaza

النمسا تهتف بصوت واحد: إسرائيل قاتلة الأطفال

Al Mezan condemns IOF escalation and calls for urgent international intervention. The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escalated its attacks on the Gaza Strip today. Twenty-six air-strikes and dozens of artillery attacks were launched on Gaza during the evening hours. These attacks followed an air-strike in which Ahmed Al-Jaa’bari, leader of Hamas military wing, was killed at 3:50 pm in Gaza city.

Most IOF attacks against resistance members and locations occurred in residential areas; therefore, most of the casualties and injuries were among civilians. According to information collected by Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights in Gaza, seven people were killed and 59 injured in the IOF attacks. Among those killed were two children and a woman. Sixteen of the injured were children and eleven were women. The persons who were killed were:

  •     Ahmed Al-Jaa’bari, 59, leader of the Al Qassan Brigades;
  •     Mohammed Al-Hams, Jaa’bari’s companion;
  •     Mohammed Kaseeh, 18;
  •     Issam Abu Al-Mi’za, 19;
  •     Mrs. Heba Al-Mashharwi –Turk, 19;
  •     Rinan Arafat, 3; and
  •     11-month-year-old Omar Al-Mashharawi.

According to latest report from Gaza, the IOF continued aerial attacks on the central Gaza Strip late Friday, killing four Palestinians including a Hamas leaders. The attack on al-Maghazi refugee camp, which killed al-Qassam Brigades leader Ahmad Abu Jalal and three others, brought the death toll to 28 since Israel’s assault on Gaza began Wednesday.

Extra-judicial assassinations against resistance members occurred in residential areas. The IOF opened artillery fire directly on houses; including the house of Al-Mashharawi family and Arafat family, in which multiple civilian casualties and injuries occurred. Hundreds of houses and apartments were damaged around the Gaza Strip due to the heavy-missile attacks by the IOF.

The past five days saw a serious escalation of the hostilities in Gaza. On 11 November 2012, Palestinian resistance members fired an anti-tank rocket at an Israeli military jeep. The IOF retaliated by attacking a wake-house and a group of young civilians who were playing football in the east of Gaza city. Attacks continued since then, until today morning when the news reported a truce brokered by Egypt. However, the IOF attacks starting today afternoon may lead to the renewal of the hostilities in the coming days.

Al Mezan strongly condemns the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. IOF attacks continue to fail to observe the relevant rules of international law; therefore, cause death and injury to civilians and destroy civilian objects in violation of international law. Al Mezan calls on the United Nations Secretary-General and international community to intervene urgently and bring this Israeli escalation to an end. Israeli large-scale military operations against Gaza; such as Operation Cast Lead in the 2008/9 winter, have always failed to ensure due respect for civilians and civilian property. Al Mezan’s documentation of the IOF attacks during this week indicate that such violations by IOF persisted, as IOF violated the prohibitions against targeting civilian persons and objects; including extra-judicial executions.

Al Mezan highlights that the silence of international community will only encourage the IOF to continue these violations of international law. Efforts to ensure respect to human rights and international law will save lives and evade civilians further hardship; especially for Gaza’s population who have been living under Israeli closure and violence for years.

Al Mezan therefore reiterates its calls on international community; especially the UN and EU, to exert pressure on Israel; the occupying Power, to halt its attacks on Gaza, and to ensure full respect for international law. As IOF violation of IHL continue, Al Mezan also calls for the convening of the conference of the States Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Times of War (of 1949) to consider the serious violations of the Convention and the two Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions in the occupied Palestinian territory.

4 comments to 66 Killed and Wounded in a Series of Israeli Attacks on Gaza

  • Gonzo

    Israel has no justification to exist and it must soon be returned to the eternal realm of non existence….

  • NameRequired

    Lets face it, yeah, some people would say “Not all Israelies are like that”, well, yeah, not all of them, but if it is not all of them, then I have the perception that they must be very few that I can feed all of them for a month for free (and I know some of them will not complain). Whats wrong with these people? And dont start the “muslims are worst”, cut the bullshit!!! We all already know what the fuck is happening!!!; yes they are still managed by greedy assholes from their side so they can full fill their greedy agenda but jews have gone too far. I believe this is it.

  • Mike

    once again the crazy Zionists are using American taxpayer dollars to fund their murder of the Palestinians. I use the term Zionists (not Jews) because I believe real Jews do not stand for this atrocity. Gaza is nothing more than an open-air death camp where power, water, food, medicine and basic human dignity are rationed by the Israeli military. I challenge any open-minded American (like myself) to live in these conditions and see what effect it has on them?? How would anyone feel if their child was murdered in his or her sleep? Would they EVER want peace with the ones responsible for the killing? The answer is a resounding NO!! I do not condone the rockets shot into Israel but under the circumstances, what else can they do? Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be brought to trial in a world court. His trail of death is endless and he will not stop until Israel is 100% Jewish. What other country anywhere in the world is defined by a religion like Israel is? They themselves call it the “Jewish Nation of Israel” WTF is that? Can I say the “Christian Nation of America?” No, because I would be sued by other religions, atheists and agnostics alike. When will the world wake up and see that this modern day genocide must stop.

  • Madame Salam,

    These animal demons in the pretense and guise of human beings led by their chief murderer, Bugsy, are bloodthirsty criminals and nothing else. They set this whole thing up in order to commit genocide and blame the victims, just the same way they did in 2009.

    Bugsy” is a name in 1940’s and later New York and other eastern American cities that was used by organized crime hitmen for a criminal so crazed by bloodlust, that even the other criminals thought he was insane. So from now on and even before this a long time back, the only proper name for Benny Netanyahu is to use his Russian Western Pale of Settlement (including Eastern European districts) last name, Milikovski, and the only first name that really fits at all. Hence, the New York Times headlines should read, “Bugsy Milikovski kills little babies in Gaza with insane glee.” An all points bulletin should be sent out for his arrest. Notice he is considered extremely deranged.

    This isn’t even illegal war. It is far, far worst than that, it is criminal insane murder for blood drinking insane demonic bloodlust.

    Free Palestine!!!

    Steve

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