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UNITED NATIONS E Distr. Economic and Social GENERAL Council E/CN.4/1988/21 */ 10 February 1988 Original: ENGLISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Forty-fourth session Agenda item 4 QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE Note verbale dated 19 January 1988 from the Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Commission on Human Rights, transmitting letters dated 2 and 10 November 1987, 14 December 1987 and 18 January 1988 from the Permanent Observer of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations Office in Geneva ... has the honour to enclose herewith copies of five reports issued by the Palestine Liberation Orqanization in Geneva, relatinq to the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Iraqi Mission would highly appreciate it if this report be circulated as an official document of the forty-fourth session of the Commission on Human Rights. */ Reissued for technical reasons. GE.88-10736/2527G E/CN.4/1988/21 page 2 Annex I LETTER DATED 2 NOVEMBER 1987 FROM THE PERMANENT OBSERVER FOR THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA ADDRESSED TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS According to appeals launched by the Palestinian prisoners detained in the prisons of Al-Fara'a and Hebron, the conditions of detention in these two prisons have been seriously deteriorating for the last months. Systematic use of physical and psychological torture, beating and spraying rooms with gas, have become daily practices by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian prisoners in these prisons, makinq the conditions of their detention unbearable. Before these grave violations of the most elementary human rights of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, we request you to take the necessary steps in order that this information is brought before the next session of the Commission on Human Rights. (Signed) Nabil RAMLAWI Representative and Permanent Observer for the Palestine Liberation Organization E/CN.4/1988/2] paqe 3 Annex II LETTER DATED 10 NOVEMBER 1987 FROM THE PERMANENT OBSERVER FOR THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA ADDRESSED TO THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON SUMMARY OR ARBITRARY EXECUTIONS I am writiing to you following receipt of a letter sent to me by His Excellency Mr. Jan Martenson, Under-Secretary-General for Human Riqhts on 30 September and referring to Economic and Social Council resolution 1987/60 of 29 May 1987, entitled "Summary or arbitrary executions", by which the Council decided to renew your mandate for another year, in order to enable you to submit further conclusions and recommendations to the Commission on Human Riqhts. In this respect, I enclose herewith a list of cases of deliberate murder perpetrated by the Israeli occupation authorities aqainst Palestinian citizens in the Occupied Territories, within the period between 24 February 1985 and 28 October 1987. I do hope that the contents of this document will be useful to you within the framework of your mandate, and that they will appear in your report to the Commission on Human Riqhts in its next session. (Signed) Nabil RAMLAWI Representative and Permanent Observer for the Palestine Liberation Organization E/CN.4/1988/21 paqe 4 Appendix TOriqinal: Arabic] Arbitrary acts of murder by the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied territories durinq the period from 24/2/1985 to 28/10/1987 No. Date Circumstances 1. 24/2/1985 The child Tssa Muhammad Issa from Gaza was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation authorities durinq the funeral of Fathi al-Gharbawi at Bureii camp in the Gaza Strip. 2. 14/3/1985 Maryam Muhammad Hussein Ghannam from al-Majd was killed when she was struck by bullets fired by occupation troops durinq military exercises in the area. 30/3/1985 Ihab Muhammad Salih Manna' (18) from Nablus died of his wounds after beinq shot by the Israeli occupation authorities durinq the peaceful demonstrations held in the occupied territories in support of the conveninq of the Palestine National Council at Amman on 27/11/1984. 4. 28/6/1985 Nazim Hasan al-Rimawi (22) from Beit Rima disappeared after leavinq his father's house on 3 4 June. His body, found in a cave on 18 June, was mutilated, indicatinq that he had been tortured before beinq killed. 18/7/1985 Khalil Rajab Abu Mutawi' (48) from Gaza was found murdered at the settlement of Beit Yam, where he had been workinq on a construction site. 30/7/1985 The bodies of Rashid Muhammad Abu Mutawi' and Ahmad Muhammad Mahmoud Masa'id from Tubas were found near the settlement of Elon Moreh in the vicinity of Nablus, 50 metres from a dumpinq site for scrap vehicles. The investiqation showed that an explosion had occurred in the rear of the Peuqeot car in which they were travellinq. Rashid (24) , who worked as a teacher at al-Naiah University, and Ahmad (26), a farmer, had disappeared the previous Friday and were found by chance. 8/8/1985 The bodies of Riadh Mahmoud Hussein (26) and his wife Fatima (23) were found in their burnt-out car. They had been stabbed. 18/8/1985 Nur Abdul Khaliq Rajab (26) was shot and killed by Jewish settlers in his house at Khan Yunis on 16 Auqust. •5/CN. 4/1988/21 page 5 21/8/1985 Abdul Rahman Imran (32) from Khan Yunis was shot and killed by Jewish settlers the niqht before last while he was on his way home. 3/9/1985 Abdul Moneim Anis Abu Shalabi (36) from Khan Yunis died after being shot bv Jewish settlers in front of his house. V9/1985 Khalil Ulayyan Abu-1-Maid (42) from al-Mu'askarat al-Wusta was found murdered at a construction site at Beit Yam where he was working as a night-watchman. The circumstances of his death are obscure. 12/9/1985 Issa Muhammad Ahmad Masalimeh, a businessman from Bethlehem, was strangled by a Jewish settler, who tried to overturn his car to cover up the crime. 14/9/1985 Jamal Mahmoud Kheir ed-Din (52) from Jabalia camp was found murdered yesterday morning. The blood-stains on his mouth and his head indicated that he had been tortured and struck with a blunt instrument before his death. 18/9/1985 Mundhir Awadh Ibrahim Abdul Aziz from Gaza was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation authorities. 18/9/1985 Ahmad Mahmoud Awadh Allah Shaheen (43) from Jabalia camp died at Ramleh prison as a result of torture by Israeli intelligence officers. 20/9/1985 Mundhir Awwad Abdul Aziz from Gaza was arbitrarily shot and killed by occupation troops in Umar al-Mukhtar Street at Gaza. 23/9/1985 Ayman Fakhr Farhan Jundiya (6) from Gaza and his father were wounded two days ago when Israeli occupation troops opened fire on the car in which they were travelling. Although the father was not severely wounded, the child Ayman subsequently died of his wounds at Surouk Hospital at Beersheba. 29/9/1985 Musa Abu Sbeitan (50) from al-Tor was found murdered on the morning of 29 September in a deserted building in Sa"Vah ed-Din Street, Jerusalem. 20/10/1985 Bashar Darwish Sufyan from El-Bireh was killed when a bomb was thrown at his house. 22/10/1985 Abdul Nasir Muhammad Mahmoud Saba'ineh (18) from Qubatiya was found murdered on the Jenin-Nablus road near the village of Bir al-Basha. 12/11/1985 The body of Rabbah Abu Aziza (58) from Gaza was found on a construction site at Beit Yam. He had been murdered. E/CN.4/1988/21 page 6 22. 14/11/1985 The body of Ibrahim Abed Ismail from Haifa, who disappeared on 15 September, was found only two kilometres from his place of work at Dinita. The circumstances of his death are still obscure. 23. 23/11/1985 Ahmad Iqbal Ahmad al-Hindi from Sur Bahir died under obscure circumstances in the Israeli prison at Ashkelon. 24. 3/12/1985 The lawyer Aziz Boulos Shahhadeh from El-Bireh died after being stabbed by an unknown assailant while returning home at about 7 p.m. on 2 December. 25. 6/12/1985 The bodies of Shahir Abu Rumaila (31) and Tariq Qandil (29) were discovered in the fields of the settlement of Sadot Mikha near Beit Shemesh. They had been shot with bullets from a 9 mm revolver. 26. 21/12/1985 Hasan Abdul Halim al-Faqih (27) from El-Bireh, a journalist working for the newspaper al-Fajr, who disappeared 79 days ago, was found in the hills near the settlement of Beit Horon 12 km from Ramallah. He had been murdered. 27. 27/12/1985 The body of Fuad al-Kurd (30) from Deir el-Balah was found near the cemetery at Gaza on 26 December. He had been murdered. 28. 2/2/1986 Zaf ir al-Masri was assassinated when he was about to enter the municipal administration building. He was seriously wounded by shots fired at close range by Zionist extremists and died while being transported to hospital. 29. 3/3/1986 Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Dharra' (57) from Balata camp was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation authorities. 30. 14/3/1986 The body of Jamal Fahmi Ali al-Dabas from Aida camp was found in a mud-pit in the district of Bethlehem where he had disappeared on 25 February.