The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 13 Palestinians (including a young girl), injured 15, and destroyed three homes, three stores and two vehicles over the past three days in the Gaza Strip.
Troops and armored vehicles penetrated the north Gaza town of Beit Hanoun and eastern Jabalia causing frequent damage to cultivated land and infrastructure.
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1am on Saturday 14 October 2006, 20 IOF tanks and armored vehicles entered eastern Jabalia under the cover of helicopters.
In three hours of incursion, they fired five missiles on resisting groups killing six: Ahmed Abu El Ein, aged 19; Sakher Abu Jabal, aged 21; Rami Abu Rashid, aged 23; Muhammad Shaqoura, aged 29; Sulaiman El Urr, aged 29; and Fayiz El Urr, aged 23.
All of those killed were from Jabalia refugee camp.
Four other people were also wounded in this attack.
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4pm on the same day, some 30 IOF armored vehicles and tanks penetrated the southern parts of Beit Hanoun and eastern Jabalia.
Bulldozers razed parts of the roads and the phone, electricity and water lines in the area.
At the same time, tanks fired shells at empty yards.
Before they withdrew at 9pm, bulldozers demolished a two-story house owned by Jihad Al Masri.
Moreover, at 3:50pm, an IOF drone fired a missile at a civilian car on the main street in al Zeitun neighborhood in Gaza city killing 30-year-old Raja'i Al Labban.
One person was also critically wounded in the attack.
Earlier at 11:50pm Friday, an IOF helicopter gunship fired two missiles at three adjacent stores in the same neighborhood and destroyed them.
The stores, which are owned by Saleh Al Riyashi, were attacked for the second time by IOF.
At 9:20pm Thursday 12 October 2006, an IOF drone fired a missile at a car on Manshiyeh Street in Bait Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Three people were killed: Emad El Maqousi, aged 30; Muhammad At Tallouli, aged 30; and Issam Dhahir, aged 29.
About one hour earlier, IOF jet fighters fired a missile at a house in the Mansoura Street east of Gaza city.
Field reports said that this attack was an attempt to assassinate a Palestinian armed activist, who was not in the house at the time of the bombardment.
Nevertheless, the house and an adjacent house were completely destroyed and three people were killed; two of whom, a young girl and her father, were in the other house.
They are: Ayman Saleh Farwana, aged 40; Iman Al Harazeen, aged 7; and her father Ayman Al Harazeen.
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights is concerned by, and strongly condemns, this escalation by IOF.
The excessive use of force in civilian areas without necessity, proportionality or discrimination causes serious damage to civilians' life and property.
Such acts represent grave breaches to international humanitarian law and are considered grave breaches equal to crimes of war and crimes against humanity.
As such, the Centre calls upon the international community to honor its legal and moral responsibilities and take immediate steps towards brining the Israeli violations to an end, and to provide effective protection to Palestinian civilians in OPT.
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