16 jan 2009
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Rice and Livni Nazi's work in pictures
- 16 jan 2009
Aya 'Iz a-Din Muhammad Abu al-'Eish, 14Mayar 'Iz a-Din Muhammad Abu al-'Eish, 16
(4:13) Israeli TV airs telephone call to father after children killed -English 2 x viewed (2:49) Gaza doctor's tragedy caught on Israeli TV - 17 Jan 09 1 x viewed
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Nur Shahab a-Din Muhammad Abu al-'Eish, 17Bisan 'Iz a-Din Muhammad Abu al-'Eish, 21
Details of Last Hours:
Dr. Ezz E-Deen’s story presents a typical tragedy which every Gazan family lived during the 22 day Israeli offensive on the strip. A life summarized in two scenes, happy starting and heartbreaking ending. One common character stands alone in the darkness that covered Gaza narrating his story of pain, loneliness and grief with eyes that endlessly shed tears. In this story Dr.Ezz E-Deen is our narrator.
Dr.Ezz El-Din Abul Aish had a wonderful family consisting of a tender wife and three little flowers named Bisan, Aya and Mayar. Yet and before too long, Dr.Ezz El-Din Abul Aish bid his wife farewell who had a chronic disease that weakened her. Dr. Ezz E-Deen was in an impossible mission to compensate his children for losing their mother.
He loved to hear their laughs and innocent talks coming out of their room at night. In their room, the three sisters busied themselves with some stuff escaping away from their fears of being the coming victims in the news. One of them was holding a book studying for the exams, the other was sitting at her computer viewing the latest news and the third was at the balcony checking the atmosphere.
In a moment, the whole scene was turned upside down, when a missile hit the girls’ room turning all of them into pieces. The father was in shock for a moment and his eyes streamed with eyes.
"It was heartbreaking, it is beyond words. I screamed at the top of my lungs, but with no response as the neighbors had left. Thus I called Shlomi Eldar, Israeli channel 10 Gaza strip affairs reporter, who aired my cries for help live on air. Rapidly I called military officials to persuade them to allow my injured family members to be hospitalized." The sad father narrates.
With difficult to stop his cries and tears, Dr. Ezz El- Din continued "Paramedics couldn’t match the remains to the bodies; Mayar’s head, as well as Nour’s , split and their faces couldn’t be identified since they were totally distorted."
Dr.Ezz El-Din Abul Aish strenuously denied what the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) declared, as they said shelling the doctor’s house was in return for the shots and mortar shells which had been fired from it, he replied: "They knew it was my house; however they shelled it. I wonder why! A couple of days ago, my daughters were by my side, laughing and playing but now they are lying under the dust. Of what guilt have they been killed? A promising future would have awaited them."
Her Dreams:
Mayar was distinguished by her knowledge and ethics just like her two other sisters. She was exceptionally fond of mathematics and computer science.
Because of her love for computers, Mayar was charting her teachers’ notes using Microsoft Office Excel. Her aunt said, "She was modest, loving and never preferred any one to another."
On Friday 16th of January, 2009, the occupation forces put an end to Mayar’s life as well as her aspiration to become a doctor with their brutal shells. They concealed her innocent features and turned her smile into tears shed by her loved ones over their big loss.
Her father said wailing "Why were they killed of no guilt? Israel has not only killed my daughters but it has also killed every beautiful thing in my life."
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'Ali Kamal Badawi al-Barawi, 13
'Ali Kamal Badawi Khader, 13 - ‘Alaa’ Fathii Dawood Al-Qiram, 14
'Aala Place of Death: Few meters away from his home near Tal Al-Hawa, near the Community College of Professional and Applied Sciences, the South-west of Gaza City. A missile from an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft.
Details of the last hours:
‘Alaa’, 14, woke up that day on hearing the loud screams of his frightened young sister, Amerah. The caring brother rushed towards her sister to find his beloved father’s dead body that was nothing more that a heap of shreds. His father had gone to rescue a wounded man who had sought refuge in his home’s walls. Poor ‘Alaa’ could not believe his eyes; he wandered about the room trying to comprehend what had just happened.
The brave fourteen-year old ‘Alaa’ chose to challenge the ruthless Israeli reconnaissance aircrafts that were crowded the Palestine sky, and run in his desperate attempt to get his father some help.
Unfortunately, the Israeli reconnaissance aircrafts fired its ruthless missile into his body even before he could reach the main street. The Israeli missile tore him into shreds at the doors of near the Community College of Professional and Applied Sciences.
More Details:
‘Alaa’ was the apple of his father’s eye; as he was his only son. His father dearly loved his little angel. In his childhood, ‘Alaa’ had suffered from a terrible accident that left him with Cerebral Palsy. The loving father never gave in; he did not refrain doing any effort to cure his little angel by all possible means. Fortunately, ‘Alaa’ responded to the treatment and recovered a little bit; however, it still had affected his education capacity.
He was pretty conscious and used to help his dear father in his small store.
His step mother gave up her career as a kindergarten supervisor so as to take care of the two-year old ‘Alaa’ then. She says: "I spent all these years raising my beloved son and taking good care of him so as to see him growing up before my eyes, but, alas, these cruel criminals have robed me of my little boy.”
The step mother feels guilty that she had given in to her children’s wishes to stay with their father as she went to her father’s place to bring some needs. She left children: ‘Alaa’, Amerah, and ‘Esmat with her husband unknowingly that this was her last time to behold her precious ‘Alaa’.
She says: "It could have been easier and more bearable for me if they have had cut me into pieces instead of murdering my beloved son."
Haya’, his younger sister, remembers her beloved brother with eyes full of tears:" My dear brother was very kind and tender-hearted … He used to buy me candy all the time… He was a very kind, quite and passionate brother."
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'Abdallah Muhammad 'Abed al-Juju, 16 - Esmat Fathi Daoud 16
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'Omar Mahmoud Ramadan al-Marnakh, 17 - Mus'ab Naser Badwan D'ana, 17
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Ahmad 'Abed 'Ali Baner, 17 - Shadi al-'Abed 'Ali Baner, 28
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Ashraf Ribhi al-'Abed Baner, 34
Faiz 'Ali al-'Abed Baner, 35 - 'Abed 'Ali 'Abed Baner, 48
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'Abdallah Nawaf Na'im, 19
'Abd a-Rahman Haitham Judah Zamlat, 19 - Ahmad Mansur Husseini Hasunah, 20
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Muhammad Yasser Mansur al-Qaram, 21 - Muhammad Osamah 'Abd al-Fatah 'Aqilan, 21
Mahmoud Khader 'Abed Bahar, 21
Hamuda Zayed Ahmad Thabet, 21
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Fadi Hassan Khader Hasanein, 24 - Husam Muhammad 'Ali Abu Daqah, 25
- Joseph Nye, Fayez Hassan 27
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Bilal Taysir Taha Musa, 28
Husam Hassan Rajab al-Jamasi, 35 - Alaa Saeed Khamis Moudd 40
- Subhi Mohammed Khamis Moudd 52
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Nasser Yusef 'Abd al-Hadi a-Sifi, 41
Hashem Rabah Muhyi a-Din al-Hto, 47
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Faiz Sa'id Faraj Smali, 52
Nassar 'Abd al-Mahdi Nassar Mutawe'a, 81
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(15:27) Embedded with Gaza medics 4 x viewed
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(6:00) Israel Hits UN School in Beit Lahiya (good report English) 3 x viewed
- 15 jan 2009
CAST LEAD
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(1:41) Children suffer in Israel's war on Gaza - 15 Jan 09 1 x viewed
More than 1,000 people have been killed as a result of Israel's offensive. More than 300 of the dead are children.
A senior United Nations official has said that the number of child casualties has tripled since Israel launced its ground invasion.
Many have seen their parents and siblings die before their eyes. For those who have survived, the physical and emotional scars of what they have witnessed may never leave them.
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Maria 15 jan 2009
Gazan babies born into war
(3:27) Gazan babies born into war - 15 Jan 2009 2 x viewed
Many of the more than 40,000 pregnant women in Gaza are unable to leave their homes for medical treatment because of the Israeli onslaught and hospitals swamped with the thousands of injured.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros has the story of one mother who has not seen her baby since he was born on the first day of Israel's offensive
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Malak Salameh 'Abd al-Hai Abu 'Aytah, 2 - Anwar Salman Rushdi Abu 'Aytah, 7
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Ahmad Salameh 'Abd al-Hai Abu 'Aytah, 15
Zakiyyeh 'Abd al-Hai 'Ali Abu 'Aytah, 50
Ahmadof Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed, with two cousins and an older relative, by an IDF missile in Beit Lahya.
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Name of Victim: Al-Batran family (Death of six members of the family, most of them children)
Age: Various Ages
Date of Death: Friday, January 16, 2009
Place of Death: Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza Strip.
Weapon Type: air strike on their home
Cause of Death: A mother and her five children from the Al-Batran family were killed Friday afternoon in an Israeli air strike on their home in the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources identified the dead as
30-year-old Manal, and her children
12-year-old Wala,
8-year-old Izz- Ad-Din,
10-year-old, Bilal,
11-year-old Islam, and
7-year-old Ihsan.
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'Iz a-Din 'Issa 'Abd al-Hadi al-Batran, 3 - Bilal 'Issa 'Abd al-Hadi al-Batran, 6
Izaldeen:of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed, with her mother, twin brother, sister, and two other brothers, by an IDF missile fired from an Apache helicopter while at home in Bureij refugee camp's Block 4.
Bilal: Details of the last hours:
Through their window, Bilal and his younger brother were pointing at Israeli aircraft. Suddenly, the aircraft aimed at the window through which the kids were looking and bombed the house, killing the kids, shattering their bodies on the tree braches outside their house. It took their family three days to pick up the torn bodies of the two kids.
The mother (Manal, 35 years), the eldest daughter (Islam, 14 years), and the twin (Ihsan and Iman, 11 years) fell martyr when they were in a hurry packing their suitcases to go to the house of their grandpa, Hassan Al-Sha`rawi who lives in the same camp, for fear that they may be endangered under the Israeli offensive assault.
In the meanwhile, baby `Abdel-Hady was in the reception hall, to the west south of the apartment, playing with his toys. When he saw his father starting to perform maghrib (sunset) prayer in Al-masjid Al-Kabir mosque, the baby crawled descending five stairs. The father had to carry the baby in order to take him to his mother. But before he took one step into the room, a missile bombarded the house killing all its inhabitants, save the father and his baby. The mother and the rest of her children were dead.
Hobbies: Playing football.
Dreams: Aspired to become a teacher.
Ihsan Isa Abdul-Hadi al-Batran
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Ihssan 'Issa 'Abd al-Hadi al-Batran, 10Iman 'Issa 'Abd al-Hadi al-Batran, 10
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Islam 'Issa 'Abd al-Hadi al-Batran, 14
Manal Hassan 'Ali al-Batran, 32
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Mus'ab Subhi Muhammad Muwaded, 16
'Alaa Sa'id Khamis Muwaded, 33
Subhi Muhammad Khamis Muwaded, 51
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UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
(5:40) UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza 5 x viewed
"Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland.
During a Commons debate on the fighting in Gaza, he urged the government to impose an arms embargo on Israel.
Sir Gerald, who was brought up as an orthodox Jew and Zionist, said: "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town a German soldier shot her dead in her bed.
"My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians."
He said the claim that many of the Palestinian victims were militants "was the reply of the Nazi" and added: "I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants."
He accused the Israeli government of seeking "conquest" and added: "
They are not simply war criminals, they are fools."
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Rice and Livni Nazi's work in pictures
Hanin Abu Jalal 16. She died jan 21 2012Salha family
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Rawan Isma'il Muhammad a-Najar, 6 - Muhannad 'Amer Khalil al-Jdeily, 7
Rawans familyof Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling in Jabalya.
Muhannad: Lived with his parents and five siblings in Al Bureij camp, Central Gaza.
On 16 January 2009, one day before the end of the war, there were several explosions and stones broke their asbestos roof, falling on the room where they were sitting. Fearing for his family, Mohannad’s father told his wife to take the children to her mother’s house.
While they were at their grandmother’s house, there was a huge explosion. “I saw strong lights, as if they were around me in the hall,” Khalil (15), Mohannad’s brother, recalls. “I felt as if I had had an electric shock. I saw the window of the room flying in the air. Then, windows, doors and stones started flying in the air and falling down on us. It was like a living hell.” Khalil al-Jadili (15)
Khalil lost consciousness. He woke up when he was being taken to the hospital, and saw his legs on his chest. In pain and confusion, he fainted again.
At the hospital, he learned he had lost his legs in the explosion. He was also told his brother Mohannad had died, and his other brother, Abed al-Hadi (14), had lost an eye. Both Khalil and Abed al-Hadi were transferred to Eygpt for further treatment.Abed al-Hadi (14)
Abed al-Hadi returned to Gaza three weeks later, and Khalil had to be transferred to Cairo to undergo several surgeries on his legs. He returned to Gaza in March 2009, and had to learn how to live without his legs. In June 2009 he was taken to Slovenia, where he was taught how to walk with prosthesis.
The following information is based on an affidavit taken on 15 February 2010 from Khalil al-Jadili (15), Mohannad’s brother.
Mohannad al-Jadili (7) lived with his parents and five siblings in Al Bureij camp, Central Gaza. During the first days of Operation Cast Lead, “Things were very scary. (…) Days went by and the bombing and shelling to the camp killed and injured many people,” says Khalil (15), Mohannad’s brother. On 4 January 2009, Israeli tanks stationed about one and a half kilometre east of their camp. From then on, the situation became worse.
On 16 January, at around 6:00am, a huge explosion woke up Mohannad’s family. In fear, they all gathered in a room and turned on the television to watch the news. At around 3:00pm, they heard that the war could come to an end. At that moment, there were several explosions and stones penetrated their asbestos roof, falling on the room where they were sitting.
“Take the children and go to your mother"s house,” Mohannad’s father said to his mother.
At their grandmother’s house, they all sat together. “I remember Mohannad was standing in the hall about two metres away,” says Khalil. All of a sudden, there was a huge explosion. “I saw strong lights, as if they were around me in the hall,” he recalls. “I felt as if I had had an electric shock.
I saw the window of the room flying in the air. Then, windows, doors and stones started flying in the air and falling down on us. It was like a living hell. My body felt as if it was on fire. I felt I was buried under stones and I couldn"t move. Doors, windows and stones were on top of me.
I was feeling unimaginable pain, beyond description, but I couldn"t tell exactly where. All my body was in pain. Then, I started hearing people screaming around me and saying, „Get out, get out, we"ve been bombed." After that, I felt dizzy and no longer heard anything.”
Khalil lost consciousness. He woke up as he was being taken to the hospital, and saw his legs on his chest: “I held my head and tried to sit up but I couldn"t. I looked around and saw legs on my chest. They were my legs and I was alone in the trunk.
At that moment, I completely fainted.” Khalil woke up again in the hospital. He was in the intensive care unit.
The next morning, Khalil heard somebody screaming. He recognized his brother Abed al-Hadi’s (14) voice. “What"s wrong with him?” he asked the doctor. “He lost his eyes,” the doctor replied. Khalil was shocked: “I cried but without making sounds. The tears just rolled down my cheek and I started thinking about my family and wondering what happened to them.” al-Jadili family
At that moment, Khalil remembered what had happened, and immediately looked at his legs: “I looked down but couldn"t see anything because I was covered with sheets. I extended my hand and lifted the sheets and saw my legs wrapped in bandages, but my legs were very short.
I tried to move my legs to feel them but they didn"t move. I didn"t feel them either. I didn"t understand anything. I called in a doctor and asked him „Where are my legs?" But he turned his face and started crying loudly.
Another doctor came in and said to him: „Get out, I"ll tell him myself."
The doctor told Khalil he had lost his legs, but assured him he would be able to walk with artificial legs.
At 8:00am, the family was allowed to visit Khalil and Abed al-Hadi: “I looked at the entrance and I saw my mother. I wished I could get up and throw myself in her lap because I felt great pain lying there alone. I wished I could hug her but she hugged me instead and started crying.”
Then, their brother Basem (11) came into the room. As his mother kept crying, Khalil asked her who had died.
“Mohannad,” she replied. Khalil could not talk anymore. “I became quiet. (…) Why was he killed? He was playing in front of me, so why was he killed? I won"t see him again ever?” Khalil kept thinking.
At around 9:00am, doctors told Khalil that he and his brother Abed al-Hadi would be sent to Egypt for treatment. They were taken in two ambulances, accompanied by their father and their uncle. At the hospital in Al Arish, Egypt, Khalil received some visits:
“Some Egyptians came to visit me that day.
They were very nice to me. They kept laughing with me and asking me whether I needed anything. They even gave me some money, clothes, and a lot of food,” he says. The next day, he saw what was left of his legs without bandages for the first time: “They removed the bandages and I saw broken legs for the first time in my life. I couldn"t think of anything. I looked at them but I was scared. I saw flesh torn apart with very strange shape.”
Shortly after, Abed al-Hadi came into Khalil’s room. Only one of his eyes was wrapped with bandages. “Can you see?” Khalil asked him. “Yes, but only with one eye,” he said. Khalil started shouting and crying: “Abed al-Hadi can see!” Abed al-Hadi hugged Khalil and “the four of us started crying so loudly that a nurse came running to the room; she cried with us and ran out of the room.”Abed and Khalil
Abed al-Hadi was sent back to Gaza, and Khalil was transferred to Cairo for further treatment. He returned to Gaza on 15 March 2009 to the warm welcome of his family and friends. “I found many people waiting for me; almost all the neighbours and relatives. It was really hard. I looked at them and they kept welcoming me but their faces were sad, especially because I was on a wheelchair.” After the visitors had left, the problems began. “I wanted to use the bathroom but I couldn"t (…).
The first day I had to do it in a bottle, says Khalil. But taking a shower was even more difficult: “My mother came in and said: „I"ll help you take a shower." I became very ashamed but she said: „Don"t be shy, I"m your mother." She kept talking to me and making me feel comfortable. Eventually I agreed.”
A week later, the Al Bureij Municipality installed slopes in Khalil’s house and this made his life easier. He learned how to handle the wheelchair in a programme from Doctors Without Borders. In June 2009 he was taken to Slovenia, where he was taught how to walk with prosthesis.
At school, Khalil felt everyone’s support: “I know you"re thinking about how to go to your class on the second floor,” the principal said, and continued: “Don"t worry because the class from now on will be held here on the first floor just for you.”
Speaking to DCI, Khalil says: “Everyone is trying to make me happy, but I feel I"ve changed. I mean, I"ve become moody and bad-tempered, but I can"t help it. Sometimes it"s really hard to go out to the street in a wheelchair.”
Muhanad Amr Khalil al-Jdeili
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Muhammad Atef Muhammad abul-Husni, 12
Mohannad: Details of Last Hours:
It was another spring full of tears and sighs for the Palestinian families living in besieged Gaza Strip. In a modest house with asbestos fragile ceil lived one of these Gazan families who drowned in poverty and deprivation. It is Mohannad’s family.
Due to the non-stop Israeli bombarding of the enclave during the 22 day Israeli offensive on Gaza Strip, Mohannad's family was used to seek refuge at night in the grandfather’s house, which is ceiled with reinforced concrete, and returned to their home in the daytime.
On Jan 16th, Mohannad's mother, Om Khalil, decided not to return to house in the daytime because rockets and shells were continuously striking the Strip. Yet, at noon and after Israel had declared a 4 hour truce, the atmosphere seemed quite safer so the mother decided to go back home.
At home, Om Khalil prayed Friday prayer with her dear son Mohannad, and then they sat reciting Qur'an. Instead of having sweet dreams of tomorrow and playing with other children like all other children in the world, Gazan children use to ask about death and which kind of horrible end they would have. It wasn’t strange that Mohannad asked his mother after praying about the grave and how it looks like; is it wide or narrow? Actually, to him the tomb might be the final shelter from the harsh non- stop Israeli attacks!
Hours quickly passed. Suddenly, a sound of an explosion was heard and the house was shaken violently when an Israeli tank launched a missile towards the pharmacy located near Mohannad's house. With terrified quick steps, the mother fled with her children to the grandfather’s house. Yet, another Israeli missile quicker than their steps was launched towards them to critically injure two of the children and deadly hit the third.
One of the missile fragments cut Mohannad's brother Khalil's body into two pieces curbing him for the rest of his life, another stayed in Abd Elhady's eye blinding him, and the deadly one was for Mohannad who violently threw himself in his mother's hug moaning from the pain for few minutes before his death.
His Dreams:
Joy and fun are two synonyms to the childhood that Mohannad lived all over his eight years. He stuck to his innocence till his last breath. "He loved playing all the time even in the hours of war", his mother said. In the day of his death, he woke up from dawn to play. His voice raised with laughing not concerned with the bombings and constant.
Mohannad loved teaching and wished that years would pass quickly to finish his to work as a teacher in one of Gaza's schools. He made his younger sister sat in front of him to teach her the basics of reading and writing exactly as his teacher did.
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Ibrahim, 18 and Kassab Shurrab, 28
10 sept 2012
PCHR Succeeds in Ensuring Reparation for the Family of Two Victims of the Israeli Offensive in Gaza
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) was able to secure reparation for the family of Kassab and Ibrahim Shurrab, who were killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) during "Operation Cast Lead" (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009).
PCHR was able to conclude a settlement of 430,000 NIS (approximately USD 107,500) with representatives of the Israeli military prosecution, which will be paid to the victims' family within the upcoming weeks in return for the closing of their claim.
On 16 January 2009, the IOF opened fire for no reason and without prior warning at the car Mohammed Kassab Shurrab and his two sons – Kassab (28) and Ibrahim (18) – were traveling in, during a humanitarian truce declared by the IOF to allow Palestinian civilians to obtain necessary goods. As a result of the Israeli gunfire, the car collided into a wall. Shortly after, Israeli soldiers stationed in a nearby house headed towards the car. They ordered Mohammed Kassab Shurrab and his two sons to get out of the care before they began firing at them. Kassab was killed instantly and Ibrahim was wounded in his leg by a bullet. The following day, Ibrahim died as the IOF denied him access to medical treatment.
After PCHR was authorized on 08 March 2009 to be the legal representative for the Shurrab family, PCHR submitted a civil complaint to the Compensation Office of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to applicable legal procedures, demanding compensation for the family. It also submitted a criminal complaint to the Israeli military prosecution – the Southern Command – demanding that an investigation into the crime be opened and that all responsible Israeli soldiers be held accountable.
As PCHR did not receive any response to either the civil or criminal complaints and was concerned that the family would lose their chance for justice before the end of the two-year statute of limitation period enforced by Israel, on 19 August 2010, PCHR filed a compensation claim before the Haifa Magistrate Court demanding compensation for the Shurrab family for the killing of their two sons by the IOF.
PCHR supported the claim with documentary evidence supporting its argument that the IOF were unequivocally responsible for the deaths of the two civilians, which forced the Israeli prosecution to seek a settlement to close the claim.
This is the second case in which PCHR was able to ensure compensation through a settlement with the Israeli prosecution for victims of "Operation Cast Lead" in the Gaza Strip. In July 2011, PCHR was able to reach a similar settlement, under which the Abu Hajjaj family obtained 500,000 NIS as financial compensation for closing the case of Raya Abu Hajjaj (64) and her daughter Majida (37), who were killed by the IOF during "Operation Cast Lead."