Human Rights
EI's Human Rights section offers reports and news about human rights violations on the ground, bringing you feature articles, statements from international bodies, and reports from local and international human rights organisations, including the Weekly report on human rights violations from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. Quality submissions are welcomed.
Eighty-nine children and 30 women amongst Gaza's confirmed dead
Press release, Al Mezan, 5 January 2009
On the 10th day of its aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has seriously escalated its military operations, targeting mostly civilian targets, particularly homes. Air strikes and artillery shells hit tens of homes. IOF also targeted medical facilities and ambulances. A Civil Defense team was hit as it tried to fight a fire following the bombardment of a clinic. [MORE]
Water, sewage system "collapsing" in Gaza, says official
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2009
GENEVA (IRIN) - The UN has warned that power networks were down in large parts of the Gaza Strip on 4 January, with hospitals relying on generators. Without power for pumps, 70 percent of Gazans are estimated to be without tap water. Israel has been blocking fuel supplies, and stocks are dwindling, the latest (4 January) report by the UN's humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territories said. [MORE]
Testimony: "They found her body in the kitchen"
Testimony, B'Tselem, 4 January 2009
I turned on the generator to turn on the light. Then we heard the sound of planes in the sky. I heard a buzz and within a few seconds, I found myself under ruins. Everything collapsed so quickly, like in an earthquake. The smoke was thick. I couldn't see any of my family, who had been sitting with me a few moments earlier. Abdallah Kashku testifies to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem on the Israeli bomb strike that killed his daughter and sister-in-law. [MORE]
Testimony: Five girls in one family killed by Israeli bombing
Testimony, B'Tselem, 4 January 2009
On Monday [29 December], around 11:50pm, I woke up and heard my husband calling to me: "Samira, Samira, they shelled the mosque, get up and see, and recite the Shahada [Prayer of the dying]." It was dark, and I couldn't see anything. I recited the Shahada. I felt something heavy choking me and pressing on my body. Samira Balousha testifies to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem about the deaths of her five daughters. [MORE]
Fifty-two Gazans killed as Israeli forces invade
Press release, Al Mezan, 4 January 2009
Fifty-two people have been killed by the IOF throughout the Gaza Strip since yesterday evening (seven children and three women). Another 182 have been injured (26 children and 10 women). IOF has continued to show disregard to the rules of international law relevant to armed conflict, inflicting severe harm to civilian life and property. [MORE]
Israeli forces bomb schools and mosque
Press release, Al Mezan, 3 January 2009
Israeli attacks on Gaza have continued for an eighth day. The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) targeted more civilian objects. This includes bombardment of more houses and the Civil Defense building in Bani Suhaila town and the American School in northern Gaza. Air raids have also targeted open areas within the neighborhood, but particularly along the eastern and northern borders and the border between Gaza and Egypt. IOF's naval vessels escalated their bombardment of Gaza's beaches. [MORE]
Hundreds dead, thousands injured and displaced
Report, Al Mezan, 2 January 2009
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has continued its military operation -- code-named "Cast Lead" -- against the Gaza Strip for the seventh consecutive day. Air raids and attacks from ground forces and naval vessels have continued to target civilian objects. There has been an increase in the air raids targeting houses of resistance members. [MORE]
Israel extrajudicially executes Hamas leader and his family
Report, Al Mezan, 1 January 2009
The most significant attacks by Israeli forces today was an air raid that targeted the houses of Abu al-Jabin family and Nizzar Rayyan, who is a leader in the Hamas movement. At approximately 2:40pm today, Israeli aircrafts fired five heavy missiles at the two houses, which are located in the middle of Jabaliya refugee camp. [MORE]
The civilian targets of Israel's bombing
Report, Al Mezan, 31 December 2008
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has continued its military operation in the Gaza Strip for the fifth day. Today, it targeted an ambulance and its medical crew with a missile, killing a doctor and an orderly and critically injuring its driver. According to Al Mezan Center's monitoring, the number of Palestinian casualties since the start of Israel's Operation Cast Lead at 11:30am on 27 December 2008 has risen to 315, of whom 41 were children and nine women. [MORE]
"If there is an Israeli invasion hospitals will collapse"
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 31 December 2008
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IRIN) - In Gaza's main hospital, the director's office is under virtual siege, according to an IRIN journalist in Gaza. Relatives of the injured are desperate to get their kin transferred to Egypt for emergency treatment. There is a fear here that the already overstretched healthcare system will collapse if Israel mounts a ground offensive into the tiny coastal strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians. [MORE]
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