At approximately 6:15 pm on Saturday, 28 February, 2004, an Israeli fighter plane fired missiles on a civilian vehicle in a crowded street in the north of Gaza City.
Three Palestinians were killed immediately while 9 other adults and two children were wounded.
The targeted car, a grey Subaru, was driving down the crowded Saftawi Street in Jabalia when it was attacked and entirely destroyed.
The three people who were killed are: - Mahmoud Abdul Fatah Judeh, aged 24 from Jabalia; - Ayman Shaban Ad-Dahduh, aged 23, and - Ameen Hamdan Ad-Dahduh, aged 41.
According to medical sources, the body parts were collected from the bombardment location and brought to the hospital.
In addition, eleven bystanders were wounded in the attack including two children.
Seven-year-old Mutaz Nafith Al Shrafi has been reported clinically dead at hospital.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns Israel's continued extra-judicial assassinations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), which show brutal disregard of civilian life.
Such acts constitute war crimes prohibited by international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War.
Al Mezan Center for Human Right appeals to the International Community to intervene to safeguard the lives and human rights of Palestinian civilians.
The Center, in particular, calls upon the High Contracting Parties of the 4th Geneva Convention, who bear a moral and legal obligation to ensure Israel's compliance with the Convention in all cases, to take all the necessary steps to guarantee its respect in the OPT.