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Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non-profit) http://www.pchrgaza.org _________________________________ Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory IOF offensive on the Gaza Strip is still ongoing 01– 07 January 2009 NO 01-2009 Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in No. 01/2009 the Occupied Palestinian Territory 1 – 7 January 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Have Continued Their War on the Gaza nd for the 2 Consecutive Week under International Silence IOF Offensive on the Gaza Strip • 698 Palestinians have been killed. • The victims include 433 civilians and 165 civil police officers. • The civilian victims include 158 children and 40 women. • Dr. Nizar Rayan, a senior leader of Hamas, was assassinated together with his 4 wives and 11 of his children. • IOF bombarded a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip, killing 15 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, and wounding dozens of others. • IOF attacked medical and civil defense crews, killing 6 medical personnel. • IOF bombarded 2 UNRWA schools, 2 public ones and a private one. • 2354 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 622 children and 252 women, have been wounded. • 1597 houses have been destroyed and hundreds of houses and flats have been damaged. • 13 mosques have been destroyed. • 37 workshops and industrial facilities have been destroyed. • 67 security sites and training sites of resistance groups have been destroyed. • 34 buildings of public buildings have been destroyed, including those of ministries, governorates, municipalities, the Palestinian Legislative Council, and educational institutions. • A state of compulsory mass displacement of civilians has prevailed in border areas as a result of continuous air strikes. • Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip have been cut off from other areas in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 29 Omer El Mukhtar St., El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip tel/fax: +972 (0)8 282 4776 – 282 5893 www.pchrgaza.org 1 Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in No. 01/2009 the Occupied Palestinian Territory 1 – 7 January 2009 • Access to food and medicines is extremely difficult, and electricity is completely cut off in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. Daily Violations of Human Rights • A Palestinian civilian was killed by IOF in Qalqilya. • 25 Palestinian civilians, including 12 children, and a human rights defender, were wounded by IOF in the West Bank. • IOF conducted 17 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. • IOF arrested 42 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, including 4 children, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, a former minister and 2 mayors. • IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT. • The Gaza Strip is completely isolated from the outside world. • IOF troops positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including 2 women. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 29 Omer El Mukhtar St., El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip tel/fax: +972 (0)8 282 4776 – 282 5893 www.pchrgaza.org 2 Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in No. 01/2009 the Occupied Palestinian Territory 1 – 7 January 2009 Summary Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continued to wage the bloodiest and most brutal war against the Gaza Strip since its occupation in 1967, under an international and Arab conspiracy of silence. IOF have launched a series of surprising air strikes against security and governmental many civilian facilities, including workshops, houses, medical warehouses and even mosques in a grave precedent. IOF warplanes have so far continued to fly over the Gaza Strip terrifying the Palestinian civilian population. Many Palestinian families have received phone calls from the Israeli intelligence, which ordered them to vacate their houses as they would be bombarded. Such phone calls confused Palestinian civilians. PCHR believes that this declared war target Palestinian civilians and their property, and statements of Israeli political and military officials herald a humanitarian catastrophe and a persistent war at all levels. The international community is required more than ever before to immediately act to stop this gravest offensive since the Gaza Strip was first occupied by IOF. According to what PCHR field workers have been able to document so far, the number of civilian victims in the first ten minutes of the offensive on the Gaza Strip is the highest since the beginning of this offensive. PCHR reiterates its condemnation in the strongest terms for this bloody war, and calls upon the international community, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and international organizations to immediately act to stop such grave and unprecedented deterioration in the human rights situation and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip. Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law escalated in the OPT during the reporting period (1 – 7 January 2009): IOF Offensive on the Gaza Strip IOF have continued their offensive on the Gaza Strip. They have increasingly bombarded civilian facilities, mosques and houses, without paying attention to the lives and safety of Palestinian civilians. Israel claims that such civilian facilities, mosques and houses were related to Hamas, but investigations conducted by PCHR indicate that IOF have used excessive lethal force and that the majority of the facilities that have been targeted are public and private property located in densely populated areas, making Palestinian civilians pay a heavy price from their lives and property. All of the victims of recent attacks are civilians, and dozens of houses have been heavily damaged. Due to the current siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, the reconstruction or reparation of the houses that have been destroyed or damaged is extremely difficult. IOF warplanes have destroyed most buildings of the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip, including those of ministries and security services. The first wave of air strike was surprising and left many deaths and casualties. For the 2nd consecutive day, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have continue its open offensive on the Gaza Strip. Using their most powerful destructive arsenal, IOF have continued to target civilian facilities, mosques, schools and houses, with disregard to the lives of the Palestinian civilians. During the reporting, the most brutal crime committed by IOF in the Gaza Strip was the extra-judicial execution of Dr. Nizar Rayan, a senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), together with his 4 wives and 11 of his children. This heinous crime reminds of the extra-judicial execution of Sheikh Salah Shehada at al- Daraj Neighborhood in Gaza City on 23 July 2002, that resulted in the killing of Shehada, his wife, his child and more than 15 civilians, mostly children. In both crimes, IOF were aware of the presence of large numbers of civilians in the targeted populated houses. Such attacks constitute war crimes, whose perpetrators and their military and political leaders must be prosecuted. Another horrible crime was the bombardment of an UNRWA school in Jabalya refugee camp, as a result of which 37 Palestinian civilians Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 29 Omer El Mukhtar St., El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip tel/fax: +972 (0)8 282 4776 – 282 5893 www.pchrgaza.org 3 Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in No. 01/2009 the Occupied Palestinian Territory 1 – 7 January 2009 were killed and 40 others were wounded. The victims include 10 members of one same family, including 5 children and a woman. Another horrible crime was also the bombardment of a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip, as a result of which 15 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, were killed and 27 others were wounded. several houses were also bombarded and families were trapped under the debris. According to PCHR's documentation, IOF have launched at least hundreds of air and sea strikes against the Gaza Strip. These strikes have targeted, security and training sites, workshops, public and private institutions, mosques, educational institutions and many other civilian facilities.. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at least 90% of the Palestinian who have been killed during the reporting period are civilians, many of whom are children. IOF have employed their full-fledged arsenal to attack Palestinian populated areas. Thousands of civilians, mainly those who reside in areas close to the Palestinian- Egyptian border, have fled from their houses in the wake of several raids launched by IOF on the southern Gaza Strip. A state of compulsory mass displacement of civilians has prevailed in the area. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was forced to open its schools to shelter the civilians and provide their basic needs, amidst a climate of fear and bitter cold. In addition, thousands of Palestinian civilians throughout the Gaza Strip have been forced to flee of their homes and look for safe shelters because their homes were completely or partially destroyed by IOF air strikes, amidst the lack of minimum components of human life. According to what PCHR field workers have been able to document the IOF offensive has resulted in the following deaths and casualties: 698 Palestinians, including 433 civilians, have been killed throughout the Gaza Strip. The victims include 158 children and 40 women. Additionally, 996 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 218 children and 113 women, have been wounded. The number of civilian deaths does not include at least 165 civil police officers who were killed on the first day of the IOF offensive, when they were not engaged in any hostilities. The victims are distributed as follows: Northern Gaza Strip: 222 Palestinians, including 198 civilians, have been killed. The victims include 37 children and 14 women. Additionally, 1,096 Palestinians, including 380 children and at least 1,000 women, have been wounded.
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