[News] Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians, Including 2 Children, in Less than 12 Hours

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians, Including 2 Children, in Less than
  12 Hours

author Wednesday October 21, 2015 16:05author by Palestinian Centre for 
Human Rights - PCHR
*http://www.imemc.org/article/73491*

Orders to Kill

    Number of Palestinian Victims Rises to 47 Killed, Including 12
    Children and Woman, in oPt, Since Early October, Occupied East
    Jerusalem Isolated and Divided into Small Cantons.

With the continuing international policy of silence over grave crimes 
and violations committed by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian 
territory (oPt), Israeli forces have continued to flagrantly commit more 
crimes and violations against the Palestinian civilians.

In less than 12 hours, Israeli forces killed four Palestinian civilians, 
including two children, from Hebron and a fifth in the Gaza Strip.

This escalation coincides with the Israeli arbitrary and coercive 
measures in occupied East Jerusalem and its suburbs to isolate the Arab 
neighborhoods in application of a series of the Israeli Cabinet's 
decisions.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns with the 
strongest terms the Israeli forces' disregard for the lives of 
Palestinian civilians, shooting-to-kill policy in suspicion of attempts 
to stab Israeli soldiers and settlers, and the arbitrary policies 
applied in occupied Jerusalem.

Moreover, PCHR calls upon the international community to take immediate 
action and fulfill its legal and moral obligations to protect the 
Palestinian civilians in the oPt. PCHR also believes that the silence of 
the international community towards these crimes encourages the Israeli 
government to continue its policy that violates the international 
humanitarian law.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR regarding the latest 
Israeli crimes:

· At approximately 08:00 on Tuesday, 20 October 2015, dozens of 
schoolboys from Beit Awwa village, southwest of Doura, southwest of 
Hebron, organized a protest heading to the annexation wall, west of the 
said village.

Due to which, Israeli forces moved into the area through the security 
iron gate at the wall. The protestors threw stones at Israeli soldiers 
who chased them and fired tear gas canisters until they reached the 
Palestinian houses.

At approximately 10:45, while four Israeli soldiers were present between 
the Palestinian houses, Oday Hesham Mohammed al-Masalma (24) was 
carrying a bag with olives inside it and walking between the trees.

Oday stabbed one of the soldiers in his arm, but the 3 other soldiers 
opened fire at him, due to which he fell to the ground and rolled in a 
dirt downhill.

They went after him and shot him dead. Israeli forces denied paramedics, 
who arrived in the Palestine Red Crescent Society's (PRCS) ambulance, 
access to the wounded for half an hour. Israeli forces then withdrew, 
while the corpse was taken to Hebron Governmental Hospital.

Following medical examination, it was found out that Oday sustained 
several bullet wounds to the left leg causing laceration in the blood 
vessels and a bullet wound to the back left side of the head. According 
to PCHR's investigations, Israeli forces could have arrested the 
aforementioned person after wounding him.

· At approximately 15:00, Israeli forces stationed on the main road, 
opposite to "Gosh Etzion" settlement, south of Bethlehem, opened fire at 
a Palestinian civilian vehicle. As a result, the driver Hamza Mousa 
al-'Amla (25), from Beit Oula village, west of Hebron, was killed by 
several bullets.

The corpse was taken by an Israeli military ambulance to an unknown 
destination. Israeli forces claimed that al-'Amla had run over 2 
settlers on the side of the road.

· In new cold-blooded crime, Israeli forces killed in the evening two 
children from al-Ja'bari family in the vicinity of "Kiryat Arba" 
settlement, east of Hebron.

According to PCHR's investigations and statements of eyewitnesses, at 
approximately 21:30, dozens of settlers organized a protest heading from 
"Kiryat Arba" settlement to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

Meanwhile, Bashar Nizam Jamil al-Ja'abari (15) and his cousin Hussam 
Isma'il Jamil al-Ja'abari (17) were on their way back home in al-Ras 
area adjacent to the aforementioned settlement.

While watching the demonstration, the two children stood beside an 
Israeli soldier, who was around the corner of al-Rajabi building that 
the Israeli settlers are attempting to seize control over.

The soldier was leaning against the wall and normally talking to the two 
children when the later asked the soldier to help them to cross via the 
iron gate, which separates the aforementioned building from where they 
live.

When the two children heading towards the gate were only two meters away 
from the soldier, other Israeli soldiers fortified in a military 
watchtower in the area opened fire at the children and killed them 
immediately.

The Israeli forces detained the children's corpses and denied the 
Palestinian civilians and ambulances access to the area.

In the Gaza Strip, at approximately 16:00, Israeli forces stationed 
along the border fence with Israel, east of al-Bureij refugee camp, 
opened fire at a group of Palestinian civilians, who were in an 
agricultural field that is around 350 meters away from the 
aforementioned fence.

As a result, Ahmed Sharif al-Sarahi (30) from Deir al-Balah was killed 
after being hit with 3 bullets to the chest, while two others were wounded.

The Israeli Army Radio reported that the Israeli forces killed a 
Palestinian sniper and wounded two others.

It should be mentioned that the Israeli warplanes had already targeted 
al-Sarhi's house in summer 2014 during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza 
Strip.

Thus, the number of the killed Palestinian civilians since early October 
has risen to 47 Palestinians, including 12 children and a woman, in the oPt.

The escalation of committing such crimes coincides with the Israeli 
arbitrary and coercive measures in occupied Jerusalem and its suburbs.

Following the Israeli Cabinet's decision to isolate the Arab 
neighborhoods in response to the "attacks" in the city, the Israeli 
forces started imposing a cordon on the villages and neighborhoods of 
occupied East Jerusalem by closing its entrances with cement cubes and 
establishing checkpoints in addition to erecting iron barriers in the 
streets and main roads.

All of this is part of the collective punishment policy practiced by 
Israeli forces against Jerusalemites. Since the aforementioned decision 
was issued, Israeli forces started to apply the policy of isolating the 
neighborhoods of the city from each other, and erecting iron barriers 
and checkpoints in the streets, especially in the Old City and its markets.

They tightly closed the entrances and streets leading to al-Sawana, 
al-Jouz Valley, Sour Baher, al-Mukaber Mountiain, al-Eisawiya, Silwan 
and Ras al-Amoud villages. Thus, they deliberately disrupt life in the 
occupied city, obstruct civilians' movement and increase their daily 
suffering.

PCHR strongly condemns these crimes that prove the increasing number of 
killings among Palestinian civilians in the oPt in general and occupied 
East Jerusalem in particular.

Moreover, PCHR stresses that in the above-mentioned cases, Israeli 
forces could have used less force against the victims or could have 
arrested and tied them if their allegations were true.

PCHR reiterates its call upon the international community to take 
immediate and effective actions to put an end to such crimes and 
reiterates its call for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth 
Geneva Convention of 1949 to fulfill their obligations under Article 1; 
i.e., to respect and to ensure respect for the Convention in all 
circumstances, and their obligation under Article 146 to prosecute 
persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same 
Convention and Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions.
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