Publish to Newswire
Add an EventFrom the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Israeli forces assassinate three Palestinians
Report, PCHR, 7 February 2006
Palestinian relatives of Rami Hannoun, who was killed after an Israeli air strike on Monday, mourn during his funeral in Gaza February 7, 2006. (MAANnews/Wesam Saleh)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed two extra-judicial executions in less than 8 hours, leaving two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip dead and a third dead in the West Bank. This raises the total number of extra-judicial executions committed by IOF in the past two days to 4, killing 8 Palestinians.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 20:00 on Monday, 6 February 2006, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Jabalya, fired an artillery shell at a civilian car (a white Hyundai), which was traveling on a dirt road near Hammouda fuel station, nearly two kilometers to the west of the border. The shell did not hit the car and members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, who were traveling in the car escaped, apart from two who did not have enough time to escape as an IOF aircraft launched a second missile at the car. The two members were instantly killed: Hassan Mustafa 'Asfour, 25, from Beit Lahia; and Rami Khamis Hannoun, 27, from Jabalya refugee camp.
At approximately 04:00 on Tuesday, 7 February 2006, an IOF undercover unit moved into Nablus. Members of the unit surrounded the al-Ashqar apartment building in the Rafidya neighbourhood in the west of the city. Soon afterwards, at least 25 IOF vehicles, including a bulldozer, moved into the city to reinforce the undercover unit. IOF opened fire at a flat on the first floor and prevented ambulances from entering the area. At approximately 11:15, IOF withdrew from the area and ambulances evacuated a body from the targeted flat to Rafidya Hospital. The victim was identified as Ahmed Suleiman Raddad, 32, from Saida village near Tulkarm, a leader of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad. According to medical crews, he was hit by at least 15 live bullets to the head, the right shoulder and hand. PCHR's field worker in Nablus, who saw the victim's body, reported that the face was severely injured. It is worth noting that Raddad survived an attack on 5 February 2006, when IOF set an ambush targeting him on the road linking Balata and 'Askar refugee camps, east of Nablus.
PCHR strongly condemns these latest crimes and asserts that such crimes by IOF increase tension and threaten the lives of Palestinian civilians. PCHR calls upon the international community to meet its responsibilities, and calls particularly upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to fulfill their obligations under the Convention to ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed two extra-judicial executions in less than 8 hours, leaving two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip dead and a third dead in the West Bank. This raises the total number of extra-judicial executions committed by IOF in the past two days to 4, killing 8 Palestinians.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 20:00 on Monday, 6 February 2006, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Jabalya, fired an artillery shell at a civilian car (a white Hyundai), which was traveling on a dirt road near Hammouda fuel station, nearly two kilometers to the west of the border. The shell did not hit the car and members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, who were traveling in the car escaped, apart from two who did not have enough time to escape as an IOF aircraft launched a second missile at the car. The two members were instantly killed: Hassan Mustafa 'Asfour, 25, from Beit Lahia; and Rami Khamis Hannoun, 27, from Jabalya refugee camp.
At approximately 04:00 on Tuesday, 7 February 2006, an IOF undercover unit moved into Nablus. Members of the unit surrounded the al-Ashqar apartment building in the Rafidya neighbourhood in the west of the city. Soon afterwards, at least 25 IOF vehicles, including a bulldozer, moved into the city to reinforce the undercover unit. IOF opened fire at a flat on the first floor and prevented ambulances from entering the area. At approximately 11:15, IOF withdrew from the area and ambulances evacuated a body from the targeted flat to Rafidya Hospital. The victim was identified as Ahmed Suleiman Raddad, 32, from Saida village near Tulkarm, a leader of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad. According to medical crews, he was hit by at least 15 live bullets to the head, the right shoulder and hand. PCHR's field worker in Nablus, who saw the victim's body, reported that the face was severely injured. It is worth noting that Raddad survived an attack on 5 February 2006, when IOF set an ambush targeting him on the road linking Balata and 'Askar refugee camps, east of Nablus.
PCHR strongly condemns these latest crimes and asserts that such crimes by IOF increase tension and threaten the lives of Palestinian civilians. PCHR calls upon the international community to meet its responsibilities, and calls particularly upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to fulfill their obligations under the Convention to ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Add Your Comments
Comments
(Hide Comments)
>Palestinians want to have their future state on the 1967 >borders, which include the entire Gaza Strip and occupied >West Bank, with Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) as its >capital.
So now you're asking for what you were offered, and rejected in 1948? And now want back land that you lost when you tried to destroy Israel in '67?
Are you the world's -stupidest- people?
And I wonder if Israel had lost any of those wars - and it would only take one, what chance do you think they would have to go back to the Arabs and say "Sorry, I didn't realize we were playing for keepsies".
PK
So now you're asking for what you were offered, and rejected in 1948? And now want back land that you lost when you tried to destroy Israel in '67?
Are you the world's -stupidest- people?
And I wonder if Israel had lost any of those wars - and it would only take one, what chance do you think they would have to go back to the Arabs and say "Sorry, I didn't realize we were playing for keepsies".
PK
Security services in January arrested members of a Hamas terror cell in Hebron responsible for a series of deadly shooting attacks in 2005 that killed six Israelis and injured eight more, it was revealed Monday. On June 24, 2005, the cell murdered Aviad Mantsur, 16, and Avichai Levy, 17, at the Beit Haggai junction. On October 26, Matat Rosenfeld-Adler, 21, Kineret Mendel, 23, and Oz Yisrael Ben-Meir were murdered at the Gush Etzion junction. On December 16, the terrorists killed Yossi Shok on route 60.
Hassan Asfour, the head of a Palestinian Kassam rocket cell, and Rami Hanouna, who was also involved in firing rockets into Israel, were killed Monday by Israeli aircraft over Gaza as they were on their way to launch more rockets.
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Donate
$75.00 donated
in the past month
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network