Excellency,
I regret to inform that Israel, the occupying Power, has continued with its intentional killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians under its military occupation, in utter disregard for basic morality, the rule of law, including humanitarian and human rights law, and UN resolutions that have repeatedly demanded an end to such illegal policies and practices.
Since our last letter, the occupying Power’s forces have continued to shoot-to-kill and shoot-to-maim Palestinian civilians protesting peacefully against the injustice that their people have been subjected to as a result of decades of colonization, dispossession, apartheid and the structural violence of the occupation. Such systematic targeting of unarmed civilians, including children, is deplorable and illegal, constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity, and must be countered by the international community in both word and deed.
On 2 October, an Israeli sniper shot and killed an elderly Palestinian man, Ibrahim Ahmad Nassar al-Arouqi, age 74, as he stood in the street near his home in al-Maghazi refugee camp.
On 3 October, Ahmed Abu Habil, age 15, succumbed to his wounds after an Israeli soldier struck him with a tear gas canister that became lodged in his skull causing lethal damage.
On 5 October, Faris al-Sirsawi, age 12, Hussein al-Raqab, age 18, and Mahmoud Akram Samaan, age 24, were shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces. On 7 October, another child, still unidentified, was shot and killed.
On 12 October, Israeli forces continued their killing spree, executing seven Palestinians – Ahmed Abdallah Abu Naeem, age 17, Afifi Afifi, age 18, Mohammad Issam Abbas, age 21, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Taweel, age 22, Tamer Iyad Abu Armana, age 22, Abdallah Barham al-Daghma, age 25, and Mohammed Abdulhafid Ismail, age 29. [Read more…]
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