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IOA killed 67 Palestinians so far in 2012, including women and children

Palestinian Information Centre
05/07/2012

NABLUS,(PIC)-- Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights stated that Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) had killed 67 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during the first half of the year of 2012.

Ahmad Tubassi, a researcher at the Foundation, said that 48 Palestinians, from the Gaza strip, have been killed in assassination operations, and which considered the most prominent abuses committed by the occupation forces against Palestinians during the first half of this year.

March and June had witnessed a remarkable increase in targeting Palestinian civilians through the bombing of civilian facilities, cars, motorcycles and homes, and through occupation forces' incursions and infiltration into the Gaza Strip, where 30 people were killed during March, while 25 citizens were killed in June, Tubassi explained.

The rest of the months had also witnessed various Israeli crimes where 57 people from Gaza have been killed and 10 in occupied West Bank, 5 martyrs during January, another 5 martyrs in April, two martyrs in the month of February one of them was from the West Bank and the other from Gaza strip.

Tubassi pointed out that among the martyrs there were 16 children aged between 4 and 16 years as well as 4 women.

Tadamun Foundation condemned the occupation racist practices in light of the escalation of killings and crimes against the Palestinian people in total violation of the international treaties that protect, the Human Rights and the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV) relating to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and with regard to human rights of peoples and ensure their security and living in peace, and all the international norms regarding the right to live in peace and security.

Tubassi also stressed on the need to stand against the Israeli assassination policy and indiscriminate bombing in the Palestinian territories which are totally contrary to all international laws and norms, which could be classified as war crimes. He warned against the serious threat for the Palestinian people's lives as Israeli officials and courts legalized the killing of innocent civilian people.

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