The IOF have intensified crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip by targeting a house in Khan Younis, killing two family members and wounding 15 other citizens, among them 7 children and 3 women.
This is the seventh incident where civilians are becoming subject to assassination, 28 have been killed and tens of others injured in the latest Israeli offensive.
Based on Al Mezan investigations, on June 21st at approximately 6.
10pm,Israeli military planes fired two missiles; the first landed on Salah Il DinSt.
in Khan Younis, and the second hit a house owned by Abdul Qader Ahmad,killing two members of the family: Zakaria Ahmad, 45, and Fatima Ahmad, 35,both severely wounded by shrapnel.
It is worth noting that Zakaria is a resident in Saudi Arabia who came to visit the Gaza Strip; he had beeninvited for lunch at his sister's house.
The shelling resulted in the wounding of 15 other members of the Ahmad family, among whom 7 were children, 3 were women, and two are in critical condition according to medical sources; the shelling caused partial damage to the house, an adjacent workshop and a car.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns this crime which is the latest in a string of assassination crimes committed by the IOF; it confirms that the IOF intend to hurt civilians based on Al Mezan field evidence.
This incident is the seventh to target civilians during the last days, killing 28 and injuring a number of citizens.
Al Mezan denounces the IOF justification for a number of assassination crimes under the pretext that it has been targeting "wanted" Palestinians;this justification indicates the IOF disregard of their commitment according to the law which bans all types of extrajudicial killings.
Further, Al Mezan reconfirms that such assassinations constitute war crimes according tointernational humanitarian law, most notably the Fourth Geneva Convention,and is a flagrant violation to the human rights community, mostly a vioaltion of the International Convention of Civil and Political rights.
Thus, Al Mezan once again calls upon the international community, most notably the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention which should ensure respect of the agreement under any circumstances, to immediately intervene to put a halt to Israeli war crimes and provide protection to civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) in the face of augmenting war crimes.
Al Mezan believes that the intervention of the international community constitutes a legal and ethical obligation and a pressing necessity in the status quo, especially under the suffocating siege that the IOF has imposed on the Gaza Strip and the augmenting IOF offensive, taking advantage of the international silence; this situation will lead to a further deterioration of the human rights situation.