Report: 348 Palestinians extra-judicially executed since Sept. 2000

The first part of the report discusses international standards prohibiting extra-judicial executions. These include the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and additional protocols and the Rome Statute. The second part discusses the official Israeli position vis-a-vis extra-judicial executions. Israeli legislative, executive and judicial authorities officially support this policy, making Israeli the only state in the world that officially commits these crimes.

The third part of the report includes statistics of extra-judicial executions during the reporting period. These statistics showed that IOF committed 96 extra-judicial executions against Palestinian activists from all political parties in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Israel accused them of involvement or planning operations against Israeli targets in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) or Israel. The total number of victims in these 96 crimes was 173 Palestinians: 150 were intended targets and 23 were civilian bystanders. The civilian victims included three women and three children. In the Gaza Strip, IOF committed 63 extra-judicial executions that killed 119 Palestinians (103 targeted and 17 bystanders); while in the West Bank IOF committed 33 extra-judicial executions that killed 54 Palestinians (50 targeted and four bystanders).

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