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<h1 class="reader-title">Excessive Use of Force and Collective
Punishment: IOF Kills 3 Palestinians and Destroys a Prisoner’s
House in Less than 24 Hours</h1>
<span>February 6, 2020</span></div>
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<p>The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR): The
newest Israeli killing of Palestinians under its policy
of excessive use of force, the Israeli occupation forces
(IOF) killed 3 Palestinians and wounded 8 others in less
than 24 hours in Jenin and Hebron, north and south of
the West Bank.</p>
<p>Of the Palestinians killed, 2, including a policeman,
were shot and killed during an IOF raid into Jenin to
demolish a prisoner’s house, for the second time. This
falls under the Israeli policy of collective punishment
employed against families of Palestinians accused of
carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers and/or
settlers. Meanwhile, the third Palestinian was killed by
an Israeli sniper in a protest in Hebron.</p>
<p>According to PCHR investigations, at approximately 1:30
on Thursday, 06 February 2020, IOF, backed by 20
military and construction vehicles, moved into
al-Basateen neighborhood north of Jenin.</p>
<p>The soldiers were deployed among civilian houses and
topped the roofs of some while 30 of them raided
Palestinian prisoner, Ahmed Jamal Ahmed al-Qumbo’s,
house (220 sqm, home to 8 persons, including 2
children) to execute a demolition order issued by an
Israeli court 48 hours prior. Al-Qumbo’ has been
arrested since 17 January 2018, and the house was built
only 9 months ago following IOF’s earlier demolition.</p>
<p>The soldiers did a thorough search of the house with a
large number of police dogs; afterwards, the Israeli
bulldozers proceeded to level the house to the ground.
During the demolition, a number of Palestinian civilians
gathered and threw stones and empty bottles at IOF
military vehicles present at the scene.</p>
<p>Immediately, IOF responded with live and rubber bullets
and toxic tear gas canisters; the situation quickly
escalated. As a result of the Israeli shooting, 2
Palestinians were killed, one on the spot and the other
succumbed to his wounds hours later, and 7 were wounded.
The two killed were identified as 1. Yazan Monther
Khaled Abu-Tabykh (19), a university student from Wad
Bourqin area west of Jenin, was shot with a live bullet
in the chest and killed immediately; and 2. Tariq Loay
Ahmed Badwan (24), a Palestinian police officer from
Qalqiliyah, was shot with a live bullet in the abdomen
while inside the police station. He was transferred to
the hospital where his condition was classified as
critical and he was pronounced dead at 11:40 on
Thursday.</p>
<p>It should be noted that IOF detonated prisoner
al-Qumbo’s house for the first time on 24 April 2019,
under the pretext of being charged with involvement in
the killing of an Israeli settler, Arail Shefeh, from
“Hefat Gilad” settlement, southwest of Nablus, on 09
January 2018.</p>
<p>At approximately 16:00 on Wednesday, 05 February 2020,
an Israeli sniper stationed on a building’s roof near
Israeli Military Checkpoint (56) established on
al-Shuhada’a Street, fired 3 live bullets at Mohammed
Salman Ta’mah al-Haddad (17) from a distance of 100
meters as Mohammed was near an old market, 50 meters
away from the checkpoint’s entrance.</p>
<p>As a result, Mohammed was shot and injured with a live
bullet in the heart and fell on the ground. A number of
young men managed to reach Mohammed and transferred him
via an ambulance to Hebron Governmental Hospital.</p>
<p>A few minutes later, doctors pronounced Mohammed’s
death after being shot with a live bullet that
penetrated his heart and caused severe bleeding. The
shooting was reported during a protest organized by
dozens of young men, who threw stones at IOF and burned
tires near the abovementioned checkpoint.</p>
<p>These crimes are part of IOF’s grave escalation in the
oPt since the U.S President Trump declared his
Middle-East Peace Plan known as “the Deal of the
Century” on 28 January 2020. IOF suppressed more than 60
protests against Trump’s plan at seam points
confrontation in the West Bank, including occupied East
Jerusalem.</p>
<p>As a result, dozens of civilians were shot and injured
with live and rubber bullets in addition to many others
suffocated due to tear gas inhalation.</p>
<p>PCHR strongly condemns the IOF’s crimes, which prove
the ongoing Israeli use of excessive force against
Palestinian civilian, who did not pose danger or threat
to the soldiers’ lives.</p>
<p>PCHR condemns the crime of demolishing Qombo’s house
for the 2nd time as part of IOF’s collective punishment
policy against the Palestinian civilians.</p>
<p>PCHR reminds that this policy is internationally
prohibited according to Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention, which states that: “No protected person may
be punished for an offense he or she has not personally
committed. Collective penalties and likewise all
measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected
persons and their property are prohibited.”</p>
<p>Therefore, PCHR reiterates its call upon the
international community to take immediate action to put
an end to the Israeli crimes. PCHR also reiterates its
call upon the High Contracting Parties to the 1949
Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations
under Article 1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for
the Convention in all circumstances and their
obligations under Article 146 to prosecute persons
alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva
Convention.</p>
<p>These grave breaches constitute war crimes under
Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I)
Additional to the Geneva Conventions regarding the
guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection
in the oPt.</p>
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