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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9309)	11/21/2005 12:45:52 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 27 Oct - 9 Nov 2005 reliefweb.int 18 Palestinians, including 5 children, were killed by IOF. 9 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF in the northern Gaza Strip. 58 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children, were wounded by IOF. IOF launched 21 aerial attacks on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip. IOF conducted 63 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Houses were raided and 108 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children, were arrested by IOF. 17 houses were transformed by IOF into military sites. IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; they have closed all border crossings of the Gaza Strip; they expanded Za'tara checkpoint to separate the north of the West Bank from other areas; and they arrested 16 Palestinian civilians, including two children, at various checkpoints in the West Bank. IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank. Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the OPT; 5 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were injured; and 8 houses were damaged. Summary Israeli violations of international law continued in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) during the reporting period (27 October -- 9 November 2005):(1) Killings: During the reported period, IOF killed 17 Palestinians, including 5 children, in the West Bank. An 18th Palestinian died from a wound he sustained last September. In addition, 58 Palestinian civilians, including 21 children, were wounded by the Israeli gunfire. In the Gaza Strip, IOF killed 11 Palestinians. Nine of the victims, including 5 civilian bystanders, 3 of whom were children, were extra-judicially executed by IOF. A Palestinian gunman was killed in the northern Gaza Strip when IOF fired an artillery shell at him. A Palestinian civilian died from a wound he sustained by IOF last September. These extra-judicial executions followed a statement by the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he gave the Israeli military a green light to launch a wide scale operation against what he called "Palestinian Terrorism," and a focused offensive, including extra-judicial executions, against the Islamic Jihad. The Israeli military Chief of Staff Dan Halutz admitted committing extra-judicial executions against Palestinian in the context of a policy rather than as a response to bombings carried out by Palestinians. Halutz stated at a meeting of the Committee of Foreign and Defence Affairs at the Israeli Knesset on Tuesday, 8 November 2005, that executing activists of Islamic Jihad "would continue as a policy adopted by the army rather than in response to attacks only." Extra-judicial executions involve executing a person without trial and without allowing him/her to defend him/herself and as such constitute a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949. This policy also violates international human rights law, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966. [more]