- 10 juni 2008
Hadeil Al Smierri, 8
Ibraheem Saa'ed
Gaza: the Israeli military kills 9-year old girl, a resistance fighter and wounds two other civilian
20 juni 2008
We could not even bury our daughter
On 11 June, eight-year-old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in southeastern Gaza was shelled by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Less than a week earlier, eight-year-old Aya Hamdan al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF helicopter.
These two young girls had been living just a few kilometers apart, both in villages in the southeastern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel.
Their violent deaths highlight both the continual dangers facing families who live anywhere near the Israeli border -- and the grim and rising child death toll in the Gaza Strip.
Sixty-two children have been killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip this year -- almost double the number of children who were killed by the IOF in Gaza during the whole of last year.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is still investigating the circumstances of Hadeel al-Sumairi's death. Her uncle, Amin Suleiman Ahmad al-Sumairi, has given PCHR an eye-witness account of the IOF invasion of al-Qarara village near Khan Younis, where Hadeel was killed.
"I was at home when I heard a huge explosion. I ran from my house and saw fire coming from the home of my brother, Abdul Karim. As I ran towards the house I could smell burning flesh."
IOF had just fired two tank shells into al-Qarara village, and both shells struck the house where Abdul Karim al-Sumairi and his family lived. His daughter, Hadeel, was killed instantly, her small body dismembered.
Six days earlier, on 5 June, Zahra Ibrahim al-Najjar was at her home in nearby Khizaa village with her young daughter, Aya.
"My daughter had finished school just one week earlier and was waiting for her friends to come and join her" says Zahra al-Najjar. " At about 2:00pm I heard the sound of [Israeli] drones and helicopters. I went to the window to see what was happening, but I didn't see anyone outside. I thought Aya was inside our building, or with a neighbor. Then there was a loud explosion."
The helicopter had just fired a rocket, which, with pinpoint accuracy, hit Aya as she stood just three or four meters from her own house.
Zahra al-Najjar, who was struck in the head by shrapnel from the rocket, did not know her daughter had just been killed. It was the neighbors who found a small hand in the rubble outside. After collecting the other parts of Aya's body, which were scattered over a distance of more than 150 meters, they then had the grim task of telling Zahra and her husband, Hamdan Hamdan al-Najjar, that their daughter was dead.
Zahra and Hamdan al-Najjar believe that Aya was deliberately targeted by IOF in retaliation for the death of an Israeli civilian earlier the same day. The Israeli man was killed between 11:00am and 12:00pm, by mortar shells fired from inside the Gaza Strip that struck the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
"The mortars [that killed the Israeli] had been fired at least two hours before Aya was killed" says Hamdan al-Najjar. "But those mortars were not fired from here, there was no shooting in our village, and there was no one outside our house except for my daughter. She was not carrying a gun and she did not fire a rocket. They wanted revenge for the death of the Israeli."
Parents of other children that have been killed by IOF in Gaza this year have also consistently alleged that their children were deliberately targeted by IOF.
On 20 May, 12-year-old Majde Ziyad Abu Oukal was killed in Jabaliya in northern Gaza by a missile fired from an IOF drone.
His parents, Ziyad and Tahariya Abu Oukal, believe he was deliberately targeted in order to put pressure on local parents to stop resistance fighters from launching rockets towards Israel.
The deliberate targeting of civilians is illegal under international human rights law, and constitutes a gross violation of human rights amounting to a war crime. PCHR is investigating these allegations in depth, and this summer will publish its findings in a report on child killings committed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
Driving along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip is a sinister experience. In between villages like al-Qarara and Khizaa are vast tracts of empty land and hundreds of boarded up and abandoned houses. IOF make frequent incursions here, and local Palestinian villagers are fleeing in fear of their lives, and the lives of their children.
"The Israelis can see everything from their planes," says Hamdan al-Najjar. "They could see Aya was alone outside, and they could see she was just a small child.
When we finally saw [the remains of] our daughter, there was almost nothing left of her. We could not even bury her properly, because her body had been completely destroyed."
All that Aya's parents have left of their daughter now is one small, grainy photograph.
This report is part of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights' Narratives Under Siege series.
http://www.imemc.org/article/55569 28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Raja' Abu Zied, 17
Fouziah Fakher, 59
Death toll of patients in Gaza reaches 184 due to the Siege
Raja Kamel Salim abu-Zid
of Rafah, Gaza, died of cancer after Israel denied her permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Ibrahim Mahmoud Al Masrei
IOF killed 2 activists
of the Palestinian resistance during an incursion into al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis. The girl’s aunt and another girl were also wounded.
On the same day, IOF killed an elderly Palestinian man and wounded his grandchild, when an IOF helicopter gunship fired a missile at a tent that serves as a site for the ‘Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Mohamed Assalyiah, 55
Gaza: during Israeli shelling one man killed, his granddaughter injured along with two civilians
IOF killed an elderly Palestinian man
and wounded his grandchild, when an IOF helicopter gunship fired a missile at a tent that serves as a site for the ‘Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Hadeel Abdul-Karim Suleiman al-Sumairi, 8,
of al-Qarara, near Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling while playing near her home.
IOF killed an 8-year-old girl The girl’s aunt and another girl were also wounded.
20 juni 2008
We could not even bury our daughter
On 11 June, eight-year-old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in southeastern Gaza was shelled by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Less than a week earlier, eight-year-old Aya Hamdan al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF helicopter.
These two young girls had been living just a few kilometers apart, both in villages in the southeastern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel.
Their violent deaths highlight both the continual dangers facing families who live anywhere near the Israeli border -- and the grim and rising child death toll in the Gaza Strip.
Sixty-two children have been killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip this year -- almost double the number of children who were killed by the IOF in Gaza during the whole of last year.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is still investigating the circumstances of Hadeel al-Sumairi's death. Her uncle, Amin Suleiman Ahmad al-Sumairi, has given PCHR an eye-witness account of the IOF invasion of al-Qarara village near Khan Younis, where Hadeel was killed.
"I was at home when I heard a huge explosion. I ran from my house and saw fire coming from the home of my brother, Abdul Karim. As I ran towards the house I could smell burning flesh."
IOF had just fired two tank shells into al-Qarara village, and both shells struck the house where Abdul Karim al-Sumairi and his family lived. His daughter, Hadeel, was killed instantly, her small body dismembered.
Six days earlier, on 5 June, Zahra Ibrahim al-Najjar was at her home in nearby Khizaa village with her young daughter, Aya.
"My daughter had finished school just one week earlier and was waiting for her friends to come and join her" says Zahra al-Najjar. " At about 2:00pm I heard the sound of [Israeli] drones and helicopters. I went to the window to see what was happening, but I didn't see anyone outside. I thought Aya was inside our building, or with a neighbor. Then there was a loud explosion."
The helicopter had just fired a rocket, which, with pinpoint accuracy, hit Aya as she stood just three or four meters from her own house.
Zahra al-Najjar, who was struck in the head by shrapnel from the rocket, did not know her daughter had just been killed. It was the neighbors who found a small hand in the rubble outside. After collecting the other parts of Aya's body, which were scattered over a distance of more than 150 meters, they then had the grim task of telling Zahra and her husband, Hamdan Hamdan al-Najjar, that their daughter was dead.
Zahra and Hamdan al-Najjar believe that Aya was deliberately targeted by IOF in retaliation for the death of an Israeli civilian earlier the same day. The Israeli man was killed between 11:00am and 12:00pm, by mortar shells fired from inside the Gaza Strip that struck the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
"The mortars [that killed the Israeli] had been fired at least two hours before Aya was killed" says Hamdan al-Najjar. "But those mortars were not fired from here, there was no shooting in our village, and there was no one outside our house except for my daughter. She was not carrying a gun and she did not fire a rocket. They wanted revenge for the death of the Israeli."
Parents of other children that have been killed by IOF in Gaza this year have also consistently alleged that their children were deliberately targeted by IOF.
On 20 May, 12-year-old Majde Ziyad Abu Oukal was killed in Jabaliya in northern Gaza by a missile fired from an IOF drone.
His parents, Ziyad and Tahariya Abu Oukal, believe he was deliberately targeted in order to put pressure on local parents to stop resistance fighters from launching rockets towards Israel.
The deliberate targeting of civilians is illegal under international human rights law, and constitutes a gross violation of human rights amounting to a war crime. PCHR is investigating these allegations in depth, and this summer will publish its findings in a report on child killings committed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
Driving along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip is a sinister experience. In between villages like al-Qarara and Khizaa are vast tracts of empty land and hundreds of boarded up and abandoned houses. IOF make frequent incursions here, and local Palestinian villagers are fleeing in fear of their lives, and the lives of their children.
"The Israelis can see everything from their planes," says Hamdan al-Najjar. "They could see Aya was alone outside, and they could see she was just a small child.
When we finally saw [the remains of] our daughter, there was almost nothing left of her. We could not even bury her properly, because her body had been completely destroyed."
All that Aya's parents have left of their daughter now is one small, grainy photograph.
This report is part of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights' Narratives Under Siege series.
http://www.imemc.org/article/55569 28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Mohamed Dulah, 20Moussa Ahmed HamoudaMustafa Saadi Batsh
Zaki Zuhd, 22
Gaza: three Palestinian resistance fighters killed by Israeli army fire
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Ahmad Munir SabihHassan Mohammed Abu ShaqfaMohammed Hamdan MekdadMohammed Sabri Abu Naja
IOF killed 5 Palestinian resistance activists and wounded 2 others in separate 3 incidents of air strikes and shooting in Beit Lahia and Jabalia towns in the northern Gaza Strip and Khuza’a village in the southern Gaza Strip.
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Majdi Adel Hammouda
Three Palestinians killed during the Israeli shelling targeting the Gaza Strip
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Hamada Saleh Hamada, 4 months,
Hasan abu-Mamar, 17
Hamada of Beit Lahya, Gaza, died of heart disease after Israel denied her permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
Hasan of Khan Younis, Gaza, died of cancer after Israel denied her permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Ahmed Monir Sbeih 20
IOF killed 4 Palestinian resistance activists and wounded 4 others in Khuza’a village in the southern Gaza Strip, and in Gaza City.
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Hassan Mohammed AbuShaqfa 28
Ashraf Naim Moshtaha 32
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Aa’ AL Breem, 20
Mo’taz Fuad Tafish, 28
Four Palestinians killed in Israeli army attacks on Monday
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Mahmoud Abu Shihab, 20
Yasser Abu Oleyyan, 22
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Mahmoud Al ShandyIslam Abdul Rahim Abdul Salam
Izz Al Azayzy
Mahmoud Asaliyya
Six Palestinians killed by Israeli shells in Gaza on Tuesday
IOF extra-judicially executed 6 members of the Army of Islam and wounded 2 others as well as 3 civilian bystanders in two separate attacks in the central and southern Gaza Strip. IOF aircrafts attacked two cars in the which the victims were traveling. - 17 juni 2008
Mousa Al Ainy
Salah Qaddouha
Motaz Daghmash
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Maria 17 juni 2008
Manal Odeh Odeh, 17,
of Gaza City, Gaza, died of cancer after Israel denied her permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Maria 19 juni 2008
Rami Nizar Abu Swerh
Two hours before the truce: One Palestinian killed two injured as the army attacked Gaza
IOF killed an activist of the Palestinian resistance and wounded 3 others in Gaza Valley village, nearly 500 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
An IOF aircraft fired a missile at those activists just one hour before the truce entered into force.
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Maria 20 juni 2008
Hamas: Israel violated ceasefire three times today
22 juni 2008
Rami Nizar
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Maria 24 juni 2008
Eyad Khanfar 24Tareq Abu Ghali 25
IOF extra-judicially executed 2 Palestinians in Nablus; a prominent activist of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) and a university student. This attack came after the Egypt-brokered truce between Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip and Israel entered into force on 19 June 2008, which indicates that IOF may escalate attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
On the same day, 12 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, were wounded when IOF used force to disperse a peaceful demonstration organized in protest to the construction of the Annexation Wall in Ne’lin village, west of Ramallah. A Palestinian child was also wounded in similar circumstance in Far’oun village, south of Tulkarm.
Soldiers assassinate two Palestinians in Nablus
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Maria 26 juni 2008
Muhammad Anwar Jamil abu-Sara al-Alami, 16
Adnan Aloush, 55
Muhammad of Beit Omar, near Hebron, killed by IDF gunfire to his heart during an incursion.
Gaza man dies after the army didn't allow him to leave the Strip for medical care
IOF shot dead a Palestinian child in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. IOF troops moved into the village and opened fire.
The child was killed when he was near his house.
The Israeli army kills a Palestinian boy near Hebron
Israeli military attacks funeral of slain youth
28 apr 2012, 13:23 , Respect -
Maria 28 juni 2008
Ayat Anwar Daheik, 8 months,
of Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza, died of heart disease after Israel denied her permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
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Maria 29 juni 2008
Muhammad Nasr Said Daraghma, 16,
of Tubas, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest and abdomen during an incursion.
IOF shot dead a Palestinian child in Tubas town. They set an ambush for a number of Palestinian children who are accustomed to gather in the area to throw stones and Molotov Cocktails at IOF military vehicles.
IOF troops fired at the children. One of the children was killed.
Youth killed in Tubas
28 apr 2012, 13:24 , Respect -
Maria 30 juni 2008
Report: 35 Palestinians killed, 230 kidnapped by the army during the month of June
28 apr 2012, 13:24 , Respect -
Maria Child Killings by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip June 2007 - June 2008
( Picture of Sabreen Abu Sneineh, 8, killed aug 12 2001)
From the beginning of the Second Intifada, in September 2000, until 30 June 2008, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed almost five thousand Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian territory.
The majority of victims were civilians, and 859 of them were children.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of other Palestinian men, women and children have been injured during IOF military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, some of them for life.
During international armed conflicts, including occupations by military forces, children are afforded protection under International Humanitarian Law (IHL), including the (1949) Fourth Geneva Convention, relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war.
Children are also granted protection under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), as persons who are especially vulnerable during war time.
The State of Israel has, however, consistently failed in its legal obligation to offer protection towards the
children of Palestine.
IOF have continued to use disproportionate and excessive force across the OPT, without regard for civilian life, including the lives of children. In the Gaza Strip, the civilian population has been continually subjected to intensive IOF military operations that have included mass bombardments in and around densely populated residential areas, as well as hundreds of extrajudicial execution operations.
Since September 2000, IOF have killed 2,051 civilians in the Gaza Strip, including 548 children.
Full report PDF
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Maria 3 juli 2008
Sabri Atwa Al Jirjawi, 26
Arab Negev man dies of wounds sustained 3 months ago
28 apr 2012, 13:24 , Respect -
Maria 5 juli 2008
Tariq Abed Ataywa Adwan, 16,
of al-Shouka, near Rafah, Gaza, died of wounds sustained on June 29 from an unexploded IDF ordinance.
28 apr 2012, 13:24 , Respect -
Maria 8 juli 2008
Mohammed Abdul Shakoor MajaydehWael Ali Hassan
28 apr 2012, 13:25 , Respect -
Maria 10 juli 2008
Talal Saeed Abid 32
Troops assassinate a resistance fighter in Jenin
Israeli army kills a Palestinian near a border fence in southern Gaza
28 apr 2012, 13:26 , Respect -
Maria 11 juli 2008
Israeli troops kill a 50-year old Palestinian man near Salfit
The Israeli army kills a Palestinian at a fire exchange with the Israeli troops