The Massacre Continues, 130 martyrs, thousands wounded and hundreds of houses destroyed

28 October 2000

For the 29th consecutive day the belligerent Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression against the Palestinian civilians and civilian property.
The use of lethal and excessive force has increased.
The clashes today have concentrated in Rafah, KhanYounis and Der Albalah.
As a result, 20 civilians have been wounded, including: Mohammad Mustafa Aljazzar, 18 years old, from Rafah.
A bullet penetrated his head and came out through the eye, his state is considered critical.
Mohammad Sad Alhusain, 15 years old, from Khan Younis.
A bullet penetrated his chest and came out through the back.
His condition is also considered critical.
Aziz Yousef Ibrahim Attanih, 32 years old, was martyred as he suffered from a head injury resulting from being hit by a part of a missile fired by Israeli helicopters on 19th October.
He was a correspondent to the Palestinian news agency (Wafa).
Yesterday, Friday, Bethlehem, Bait Sahur, Bait Jala and Jericho were struck with missiles from Israeli helicopters aiming at civilian houses.
The firing was concentrated in the center of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.
The occupation forces also specifically targeted civilian houses in Rafah; which caused damages to houses far from the clashes, the Canada refugee camp and Tal Assultan areas, aside from the daily targeting of the civilian houses situated in the neighborhood of Salah Eddin Gate and Tel Zu’rob.
The siege imposed by Israelis upon the cities in the West Bank has continued.
The siege does not only affect travel, transportation of the wounded and of goods, but also picking the olives since the forces of occupation prevent the citizens from arriving at their fields, thus threatening thousands of families to lose their source of income.
Yesterday the clashes between the belligerent occupation forces and civilians continued, and the number of injured reached 200 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The following lost their lives: Ghassan Yousif Salim Awaissa, 28 years old, from Ramallah, struck in the chest by a bullet.
Bashir Salah Shalwit, 15 years old, from Qalqilya, struck in the abdomen by a bullet which penetrated his right lung.
Ahmad Mohammad Khalil Qasim, 25 years old, from Tulkrum, struck by several 500 mm caliber bullets in different parts of the body.
Jabr Ahmad Jabr Almishal, 23 years old, from the Shati refugee camp in Gaza, struck by a bullet to the chest using a silencer.
AL-MEZAN Center for Human Rights emphasizes that the occupation forces intentionally use excessive and lethal force to kill the highest possible number of Palestinian civilians.
They also intentionally and heavily target civilian property to frighten civilians and cause the greatest possible material loss.
AL-MEZAN also emphasizes the infringement of the 4th Geneva Convention and the principle of international and humanitarian law by the Israeli occupation forces through committing war crimes against the Palestinians.
The commitment of such war crimes demands the immediate intervention of the international community, especially the high contracting parties to the Geneva Convention to stop the crimes and present the perpetrators before the court according to the legal bases.
And demands that the necessary steps be taken to protect the Palestinian civilians.
AL-MEZAN demands that the High commission for Human Rights of the United Nations implements the resolution E/CN.
4/S-5/L.
2/Rev.
1 and sets up a body to inspect the facts, and to stop the crimes committed by the occupation forces against the Palestinian civilians.
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