- 18 mei 2008
Mohammad Abdul-Shafy, 51
Samia Ahmad Al Saftawi, 55
Nofouth Hamada, 52
28 apr 2012, 13:17 , Respect -
Fahmi Abd al Jawaad al Darduk 15
The murder of 15.5-year old Fahmi Abd al Jawaad al Darduk
This time we came to the checkpoint especially in order to gather testimony about the murder of 15.5-year old Fahmi Abd al Jawaad al Darduk, who was shot by the soldiers at this checkpoint on Monday, May 19th 2008.
After he was shot, the army claimed that pipe bombs had been detected in his belt. That wires had been seen hanging from under his clothing. That three pipe bombs had been observed. Later it was said there were five. One of the perpetrators of this crime was cited for excellence.
A Palestinian ambulance arriving from Nablus twenty minutes later at the most was not permitted access to the bleeding boy until 11:30 PM. For two and a half hours he lay on the concrete floor of the checkpoint and no one was allowed to approach him, but the occupation forces. During this time all Palestinians in the area were violently pushed away and the blood washed away with water jets.
In its habitual knee-jerk reaction, Israel immediately publicized the announcement of the Occupation Forces’ PR office, aka the army spokesperson, that a twenty-year old had reached the Huwara checkpoint with three pipe bombs and was legally shot. After a while the reports spoke of a sixteen-year old carrying five pipe bombs. Then again just three. And lots of visible wires.
None of the four to six bullets hitting his body in various places and fired at a very short distance caused any kind of explosives to blow up.
We spoke with people there and they told us:
“We were here around the stall (one of the several vendors’ stalls in the taxi-park adjacent to the checkpoint), about twenty-thirty of us, I went to the stall closest to the checkpoint to get a cup of coffee. Just then I heard shouting inside the checkpoint. First, the soldiers yelling something like ‘he’s got explosives on him!’ and people were yelling at the soldiers that this was not true, that he had a cell phone on him, and then there were shots. Six or seven shots.”
“I went up to get a look, me and some others, and the soldiers yelled at us to get back. But people did not go back. And people inside yelled “He’s dead! He’s dead! The boy is dead!”. And they shouted that he must be taken to the hospital. Then the soldiers threw teargas at us. And they closed down the whole checkpoint. And made us leave the stalls and go to the Awarta checkpoint.”
“So we left the stalls open, just like that. Taxi drivers had to get out of their cars, everybody. Around 100-120 people. The whole crowd at the checkpoint. And the drivers. We were chased away.”
“They came to us running and ordered us to get out of there, quick. Lots of soldiers. They continued to chase us, running, and threw concussion grenades and teargas. Four-five grenades.”
“We ran off. They chased us away like goats. To Awarta CP, across from the army base nearby. And they held us there until 1:30 AM.”
“From there we could see everything going on at the Huwwara checkpoint.”
“When we were being pushed off on the road towards Awarta, there were settlers standing by at the bus-stop there, and they started throwing stones at us.”
“The soldiers watched… The soldiers watched.”
“We were held at Awarta until 1:30 AM. And we lost all our goods at the unattended stalls. I had to spend 50 NIS just to take a taxi. How else would I get home in the middle of the night. Everything I had at my stall I had to throw away. Lost all the money.”
“Why did they not let the ambulance approach, save his life. The ambulance got there very quickly, within 10-20 minutes. One of ours, from Nablus. But they wouldn’t let him through. A Jews’ ambulance came too, and the medics were told he’s dead.”
“The boy was inside the checkpoint, we didn’t see him. People standing in line with him told us what the soldiers did. Someone who had stood right behind him told us how he was killed. How the soldiers killed him.”
“He had just left his home. It happened at about 19:30-19:40. He had just got to the checkpoint, stood waiting for the inspection, nothing special, and he has two cell phones. And an earphone. The earphone wire passing under his shirt, not over it. Inside, not out.”
“When he went through the turnstile he was ordered to “lift your shirt, show your belly.” He lifted his shirt. When they saw the earphone wire, and the cell phone, they shot his head, immediately. Before he even passed through, he was shot in the head. The woman-soldier shot him. Yes, the woman-soldier. But she was not the only one. Not one shot. Six shots. That’s what people said who saw it. The man who was waiting next in line.”
“Until 23:30, the boy lay on the ground. No one was allowed to get close. From where we stood in the Awarta CP, we could see the checkpoint. We saw that the ambulance from Nablus was not allowed to approach. Nor doctors, no one. Everything was shut down. Only around 11:30 PM. Perhaps around midnight, then their IDs were checked and they were allowed to get near him.”
“But before that, the blood was washed away. With water. They brought a fire-truck with water jets.
We know the driver of the fire-truck and he told us that the next morning they had to come there and wash the spot again. To wash away the blood.”
“They killed the boy and his family. The whole family burnt out.”
“His parents didn’t know it was him, he was not carrying an ID. Perhaps the soldiers took it from him, or because he was too young to possess an ID. He was held, dead, at the hospital. Only the next day his parents found out it was him.”
“That day when it happened was absolutely horrific. Totally horrific.”
The boy’s father, interviewed on various Palestinian news channels, said Fahmi was a ninth-grade student at the Abd al Hamid al Saeh School, single brother to his seven sisters, and he had been on his way to pay a family visit in Ramallah. He never used to leave home without permission, and on his way to the checkpoint he was keeping in touch by telephone, because parents tend to worry, that’s how it is. The father said, painfully that the boy told him he had already gone through the checkpoint even though this was not true, probably to calm his father. He said the boy had a cell phone with an earphone, like most of the youngsters these days. And that everything the army reported is false accusation.
On the morrow of the murder, the soldiers came to the vendors who had witnessed what had happened, and asked them things like “Are you missing anything from your stalls?” As if trying to do-good with people. “What have you found missing? A coke bottle? That’s what the Occupations soldiers asked someone, caringly.
If anything had been stolen from you, just tell us, the officer said to someone else.
How unsurprising that the same policy that normally trashes their goods and scatters vendors’ food on the ground and chases them away in order to deny them their livelihood again and again, following the same law and norms, suddenly sends emissaries to inquire ‘caringly’ whether they’re missing some Coke.
And right on the day after they had witnessed the murder of a boy by the soldiers at the checkpoint.
“I heard from people who heard on an Israeli channel that the shooting was accidental… That’s what they say.”
No, we corrected the speaker. That’s not what they said. In Israel they said the boy was carrying explosives. And that’s why they killed him.
“Really, that’s what they told? They didn’t say it was a mistake?”
Witness after witness tell us similar renditions of the shooting, the shouts, the Palestinians’ pleas not to shoot, the ambulance prevented access, how the boy lay alone on the concrete for hours before anyone was allowed close, that he had merely been wearing a wired earphone, that this was just a boy, and that the family had been crushed.
“You want to know what happened, but even if you knew, what can you do with these soldiers? You cannot do anything. They killed him. He’s already dead. What could anyone do for his parents? Nothing can help them now. Nothing.”
“I mean… A human being is dead. A child.”
“Everyone says something about what happened, but that guy who was standing behind him, he told. We heard. He was shot and he died.”
“You cannot do a thing. I’ve seen you, poor women. Seen you being pushed once by the soldiers, and I said to you then I wonder what kind of garbage dump these soldiers came from, remember?”
“I’m telling you the truth.”
“And if a soldier will come, I’ll tell him there was nothing on this boy.”
“Why? listen: They fired at him, right? Why didn’t it blow up? I want to speak to television. If he had something on him, how come it didn’t blow up?”
“And if he wants to kill soldiers, would he also want to kill all the Palestinian people standing there? If he had wanted to kill anyone, it would be just the soldiers, anyway if he had had anything on him, it would blast when he was shot.”
“We wouldn’t want anyone to come kill anyone either. We want peace. We don’t want guys coming and making trouble. But if he did have explosives and was fired at, why didn’t the boy blow up? That’s what I say.”
“We don’t want blood, I want to repeat this. No blood. That’s what I want to say. Neither Jewish nor Arab. We want peace. First the Jews and Arabs lived together. There is enough land. Why not live in peace together. That’s what we want.”
“You know whose land this is here? The village of Burin. This guy who’s a vendor here, it’s his. Our land. But don’t think we don’t want to live together. We don’t want anything happening to any soldier. And to no Arab here.”
“But I ask you, if I had arms on me and I would want to pass through this checkpoint, I mean I know I would be inspected. I know that. So this is where I wouldn’t come. Who would come here like this?
I’m not afraid of anyone. I don’t want Arabs to die nor Jews to die. I want your children and all the Arabs and all the Jews to be one.”
“And if missiles were fired at us, we’d stand together.”
Fahmi’s body, so it turned out, was hit in various places. No one knows if he expired on the spot or slowly bled to his death. If he was conscious before dying. And whether he asked for help or talked.
Only the soldiers who murdered him, and those who came to conceal what had happened – they know the answer.
The army spokesperson announcement, Monday May 19th, 2008, 21:58
“An attempted attack against the Huwara checkpoint was thwarted”
A short while ago, a suspect Palestinian reached the Huwara checkpoint south of Nablus. His pacing to and fro aroused the suspicions of IDF soldiers on the spot. They called to him and noticed he was fidgeting with a belt he carried on his body. The belt was suspected as am explosive device.
As he did not stop moving, and suddenly dropped his hands towards the belt, he was shot by the force. On the Palestinian’s dead body three pipe bombs were found.
http://fwd4.me/0x82
Fahmi Abdul-Jawad Hussein al-Darduk, 15,
of Ayn Beit al-Ma refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire while lifting his shirt for a soldier at the Huwara checkpoint.
IOF troops at Huwara checkpoint killed a Palestinian boy
and then prevented ambulances from reaching him. IOF claimed that a Palestinian in his 20’s approached the checkpoint and was “playing with his clothes”, refused to adhere to IOF orders to stop, which, according to the IOF, forced them to shoot at him. However, PCHR investigations refute these claims. Even according to the IOF account of the shooting, IOF could clearly have used less lethal force and detained the young man.
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Abed Al Karem Al Ghalbaan, 57
Palestinian patient dies in Gaza; death toll due to continued Israeli siege stands at 158
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Majid Ziad Muhammad Okal, 11,
Majd Ziad Abu Okal of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while playing near a Palestinian rocket launching site.
Majde Ziyad Abu Oukal
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
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Hamdi Al Dahdouh, 32
Palestinian youth killed by Israeli military fire near Nablus
A Palestinian farmer killed
and two other Palestinians were injured by IOF excessive force.
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Mohammed Ahmed Seaabesh
Zayid Abu Wadi, 23
Ali Al Dahdouh, 32
Hamdi Al Dahdouh, 32
Five Palestinians, including one child, killed in Gaza on Tuesday 20th
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Mohammad Khamees Odah, 28
two members of the resistance were killed,
and three injured, in Gaza City. Four other resistance members were injured in a second attack in the same area earlier on the same day.
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Child died of wounds
sustained on 11 April during an IOF incursion into El-Bureij refugee camp.
28 apr 2012, 13:18 , Respect -
Dr. Abdul-Karim Hussein, 69
Another patient dies due to the siege, death toll mounts to 160
28 apr 2012, 13:18 , Respect -
IOF killed an elderly Palestinian
during an incursion into Gaza Valley village in the central Gaza Strip. They left him bleeding to death.
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Hussein Abdul-Karim Ramadan Ahel, 16,
of Gaza City, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his abdomen during a demonstration of 5,000 people at the al-Mentat checkpoint.
IOF killed a Palestinian child and wounded 16 civilians, including 6 children, when they used excessive force against a demonstration organized near al-Mentar (Karni) crossing, east of Gaza City, in protest at the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.
One killed 14 injured when Israeli troops attacked a peaceful protest east of Gaza
Abed Al Kareem Aheel 28 apr 2012, 13:18 , Respect -
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IOF killed 2 activists
of the Palestinian resistance during an incursion into al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
IOF killed 3 activists
of the Palestinian resistance and wounded a fourth during an incursion into al-Fukhari village, southeast of Khan Yunis.
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IOF shot dead a Palestinian farmer
in the northern Gaza Strip.
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Ibrahim Farid Madi 20 Muhannad Hamed Mohamed Awad 23Mohammed Hafez Abu Rizk 23
The Israeli army tanks leaves Gaza after killing five and kidnapping 25 others - 23 mei 2008
Ayesh Suleiman Moussa, 32
Egyptian man killed by Israeli forces on Israel-Egypt border
28 apr 2012, 13:20 , Respect -
Maria 26 mei 2008
Ward Hashim Sabiha, 10 days,
died of kidney disease at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which lacked necessary medicine, after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
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Maria 26 mei 2008
Faiza Khalil al-Farra, 1 week,
Sujud Khalil al-Farra, 1 week,
died, with her sister, of an unspecified illness at al-Naser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, which lacked the necessary drug "Alservictant," due to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. A third triplet sister died two days later.
28 apr 2012, 13:21 , Respect -
Maria 28 mei 2008
Saja Khalil al-Farra, 1 week,
died, two days after two triplet sisters, of an unspecified illness at al-Naser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, which lacked the necessary drug "Alservictant," due to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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Maria 28 mei 2008
Abdelrazeq Mo'amar, 21Naji Hamdan QishtaOsama Shehdeh Ghouti
Osama Alghewaiti, 33
Two Palestinian fighters killed, nine others wounded in separate Israeli attacks on Gaza
IOF killed 2 activists
of the Palestinian resistance and wounded 6 Palestinians, including 3 civilian, during an incursion into al-Shouka village, northeast of Rafah, and al-Fukhari village, southeast of Khan Yunis.
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Maria 29 mei 2008
Ahmad Al OmourKhalid Ali ShawafIhab al-BannaSamir Hamdi Qishta
Yosra Au Rock, 70
One civilian dies of wounds sustained on Wednesday
Palestinian civilian died
of injuries sustained by IOF on the previous day.
Troops kill an elderly woman in Khan Younis
She was shot by several rounds of live ammunition in her chest and other parts of her body.
IOF killed an elderly Palestinian woman
during an incursion into Khuza’a village, east of Khan Yunis.
28 apr 2012, 13:21 , Respect -
Maria 31 mei 2008
Hassan Khalil Abu Odeh
1 juni 2008
Sari Khamis Abu Samra
2 juni 2008
Sari Abu Samrah
A Palestinian dies of wounds he sustained several days ago during an Israeli attack
Report: the Israeli Siege on Gaza leaves 32 patients dead during the month of May
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Maria 4 juni 2008
Saousan Al Sultan, 28
Gaza patient dies due to Israeli siege, death toll hits 172
Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian woman died on Tuesday suffering from a chronic disease that could have been treated had the medicine been available in Gaza.
Saousan Al Sultan, 28, had acute Rheumatism and her Doctors reported that Sultan died because the essential medicine was unavailable in the Gaza Strip due to the siege.
The European Campaign to end the 'Siege' on Gaza issued a report on Monday stating that the 11 month siege of Gaza has caused the deaths of 32 patients in May alone.
According to the report there are 1329 other patients suffering from chronic disease who are at risk due to lack of essential medicine to treat their conditions. There has been 172 reported deaths since the start of the siege in June 2007.
The Israeli siege on Gaza has left the 1.6 million Palestinians living in the enclave lacking food, water, medicine and fuel supplies.
http://humanityvoice.net/news_details.php?id=404
Gaza patient dies due to Israeli siege, death toll hits 172
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Maria 5 juni 2008
Aya Hamdan Hamdan al-Najjar, 8,
IOF killed an 8-year-old child
in Khuza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, when they fired a missile that fell near her family’s house.
The child’s mother was also wounded. Additionally, a Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF during an incursion into ‘Abassan village, east of Khan Yunis.
Aya Nagar
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, 13:21 , Respect -
Maria 5 juni 2008
Adham Al Rajabi, 22
The Israeli army kills a Palestinian gunman and injures two in Hebron
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Maria 6 juni 2008
Bilal Khalil Sherbasi
Khalil Sokkar 27Jamal Yousef Abu-Qumsan
One Palestinian killed, at least 29 injured in night strikes on Gaza
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Maria 7 juni 2008
Faten Al Maqwasi, 48
Lotfi Al Buhiyssi, 57
Two patients die due to the Israeli siege on Gaza
A Qassam fighter killed , two others wounded in an Israeli shelling in Gaza
IOF killed an activist
of the Palestinian resistance, when they fired a tanks shell at a number of activists in al-Shoja’eya neighborhood. In addition, a Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in Khuza’a village, east of Khan Yunis.
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Maria 7 juni 2008
IOF shot dead a Palestinian civilian
in al-Shoja’eya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, when he attempted to offer help to a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance who had been wounded by IOF
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Maria 9 juni 2008
Mohamed Hassouna Mujahid Ksami
A large Israeli military action on Gaza not before two weeks
28 apr 2012, 13:22 , Respect -
Maria 10 juni 2008
Ahmed Adnan As-Safadi Mustafa Sabri AtallahYahya Mohammed Hamid
IOF killed 3 activists of the Palestinian resistance in al-Tuffah neighborhood in the east of Gaza City.
Three Palestinians killed in two separate Israeli army attack on Gaza