8 july 2020
Israeli troops invaded earlier on Wednesday some parts of the eastern Gaza city, in the Gaza Strip.
Local Palestinian media outlets, including Maan News Agency, said that a number of armored Israeli army vehicles, including three military bulldozers, invaded a border fence area, between eastern Gaza city an Israel, about tens of meters , deep into Palestinian-owned farm lands.
The sources added that the invasion occurred with a number of Israeli drone, hovering over the area and other parts of the city.
No causalities or more details were reported.
Israeli troops are reported to have continued to carry out invasions in different parts of the coastal enclave, quite frequently, since Israel has imposed a siege on Gaza, back in 2007.
In some of such invasions, Israeli army tanks open fire on adjacent Palestinian homes and farm lands, causing injuries of farmers and their family members.
Local Palestinian media outlets, including Maan News Agency, said that a number of armored Israeli army vehicles, including three military bulldozers, invaded a border fence area, between eastern Gaza city an Israel, about tens of meters , deep into Palestinian-owned farm lands.
The sources added that the invasion occurred with a number of Israeli drone, hovering over the area and other parts of the city.
No causalities or more details were reported.
Israeli troops are reported to have continued to carry out invasions in different parts of the coastal enclave, quite frequently, since Israel has imposed a siege on Gaza, back in 2007.
In some of such invasions, Israeli army tanks open fire on adjacent Palestinian homes and farm lands, causing injuries of farmers and their family members.
In the summer of 2014, Al Mezan and LPHR worked together to examine egregious acts of horror against civilians in Gaza, trapped in a closed-off territory while under military bombardment run by Israel’s political and military leadership; its emblematic feature being that dozens of entire families were killed and maimed by targeted military attacks against family homes for the duration of the military offensive between 7 July and 26 August.
For six years, Al Mezan and LPHR have worked relentlessly on behalf of victims, survivors and their families to pursue accountability for clearly apparent serious violations of international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law; including engagement at the international level with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza Conflict.
Reflecting the empirical evidence, Al Mezan and LPHR have voiced grave concerns about the systemic impunity deeply embedded within Israel’s military investigation process, despite which Al Mezan engages with in good faith to seek legal redress, accountability and justice for victims, survivors and their families.
However, the appalling and clearly foreseeable pattern of impunity repeats itself year after year. No criminal charges, prosecutions, or convictions for clearly apparent serious violations against civilians in Gaza during the 2014 military bombardment. No genuine investigations, no legal accountability, no justice for victims, survivors and their families. Gross injustice and total systemic impunity prevailing. Six years on it is overwhelmingly clear to our organisations that Israel is unwilling to provide genuine investigations for these grave cases.
For six years, the authoritative words of the UN independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza Conflict have remained gravely extant: “The commission is concerned that impunity prevails across the board for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law allegedly committed by Israeli forces, whether it be in the context of active hostilities in Gaza or killings, torture, and ill-treatment in the West Bank.” [bolded for emphasis by Al Mezan and LPHR]
The empirical record is plainly and strikingly clear: Israel is unwilling to hold its political and military leadership to account. The output of the fundamentally flawed investigation system unquestionably activates the mandate of the ICC. It is accordingly and necessarily incumbent on the ICC Prosecutor to meet the hope and imperative of victims, survivors and their families, and bring an end to the devastating cycle of systemic impunity.
-The recurrent serious violations that have egregiously harmed thousands of civilians in Gaza over the years without distinction—men and women, boys and girls, the elderly and people with disabilities—must be met with an effective accountability deterrent.
Against this devastating context, Al Mezan and LPHR strongly welcome the 20 December 2019 announcement by ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, that she is ready to open a criminal investigation into the situation in Palestine. We view it as a seminal step towards achieving legal accountability and justice for the many victims, survivors and their families of alleged serious international crimes perpetrated by Israeli forces and their military and political leadership.
Our organisations did also note the important caveat that the Prosecutor’s significant decision to open an investigation has been made without yet making a crucial determination on the genuineness and scope of Israel’s investigative processes vis-a-vis the 2014 hostilities in Gaza.
On this sixth anniversary, and on behalf of the thousands of victims, survivors and their families, Al Mezan and LPHR wish to make a respectful, solemn and grave appeal to the ICC Prosecutor to make the objectively necessary determination that Israel has been demonstrably unwilling to provide genuine investigations, and accordingly the Office of the Prosecutor will undertake the responsibility, pursuant to the fundamental objectives of the Rome Statute, to investigate the 2014 attacks on Gaza.
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Al Mezan) is a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization that works for the protection and promotion of Palestinian human rights and the rule of law in Gaza as part of occupied Palestine.
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) is a lawyer-based charity in the UK that works on projects to protect and promote Palestinian human rights. LPHR’s mission is to use our expertise to meaningfully contribute towards transforming the critical human rights situation impacting Palestinians.
For more on Al Mezan’s and LPHR’s work in this area, please see the following:
For six years, Al Mezan and LPHR have worked relentlessly on behalf of victims, survivors and their families to pursue accountability for clearly apparent serious violations of international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law; including engagement at the international level with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza Conflict.
Reflecting the empirical evidence, Al Mezan and LPHR have voiced grave concerns about the systemic impunity deeply embedded within Israel’s military investigation process, despite which Al Mezan engages with in good faith to seek legal redress, accountability and justice for victims, survivors and their families.
However, the appalling and clearly foreseeable pattern of impunity repeats itself year after year. No criminal charges, prosecutions, or convictions for clearly apparent serious violations against civilians in Gaza during the 2014 military bombardment. No genuine investigations, no legal accountability, no justice for victims, survivors and their families. Gross injustice and total systemic impunity prevailing. Six years on it is overwhelmingly clear to our organisations that Israel is unwilling to provide genuine investigations for these grave cases.
For six years, the authoritative words of the UN independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza Conflict have remained gravely extant: “The commission is concerned that impunity prevails across the board for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law allegedly committed by Israeli forces, whether it be in the context of active hostilities in Gaza or killings, torture, and ill-treatment in the West Bank.” [bolded for emphasis by Al Mezan and LPHR]
The empirical record is plainly and strikingly clear: Israel is unwilling to hold its political and military leadership to account. The output of the fundamentally flawed investigation system unquestionably activates the mandate of the ICC. It is accordingly and necessarily incumbent on the ICC Prosecutor to meet the hope and imperative of victims, survivors and their families, and bring an end to the devastating cycle of systemic impunity.
-The recurrent serious violations that have egregiously harmed thousands of civilians in Gaza over the years without distinction—men and women, boys and girls, the elderly and people with disabilities—must be met with an effective accountability deterrent.
Against this devastating context, Al Mezan and LPHR strongly welcome the 20 December 2019 announcement by ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, that she is ready to open a criminal investigation into the situation in Palestine. We view it as a seminal step towards achieving legal accountability and justice for the many victims, survivors and their families of alleged serious international crimes perpetrated by Israeli forces and their military and political leadership.
Our organisations did also note the important caveat that the Prosecutor’s significant decision to open an investigation has been made without yet making a crucial determination on the genuineness and scope of Israel’s investigative processes vis-a-vis the 2014 hostilities in Gaza.
On this sixth anniversary, and on behalf of the thousands of victims, survivors and their families, Al Mezan and LPHR wish to make a respectful, solemn and grave appeal to the ICC Prosecutor to make the objectively necessary determination that Israel has been demonstrably unwilling to provide genuine investigations, and accordingly the Office of the Prosecutor will undertake the responsibility, pursuant to the fundamental objectives of the Rome Statute, to investigate the 2014 attacks on Gaza.
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights (Al Mezan) is a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization that works for the protection and promotion of Palestinian human rights and the rule of law in Gaza as part of occupied Palestine.
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) is a lawyer-based charity in the UK that works on projects to protect and promote Palestinian human rights. LPHR’s mission is to use our expertise to meaningfully contribute towards transforming the critical human rights situation impacting Palestinians.
For more on Al Mezan’s and LPHR’s work in this area, please see the following:
- LPHR and Al Mezan Complaint Submission [pdf] made to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict concerning large-scale destruction and damage to family houses in the Gaza Strip, with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 (published September 2014)
- LPHR, Al Mezan and Medical Aid for Palestinians Complaint Submission [pdf] to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict concerning destruction and damage to medical infrastructure, and loss of life and injury to civilians and medical personnel, in Gaza, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 (published February 2015)
- LPHR, Al Mezan and Medical Aid for Palestinians Joint Report: [pdf]
- No More Impunity: Gaza’s Health Sector Under Attack (published June 2015)
- Al Mezan report: [pdf] No Reparations in Israel for Palestinians: How Israel’s Amendment No. 8 Leaves no Room for Recourse (published December 2015)
- LPHR and Al Mezan joint update [pdf] – including survey of families on hope for justice – to its September 2014 report to the UN Commission of Inquiry on large-scale destruction and damage to family houses in the Gaza Strip, with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014 (published December 2016)
- Al Mezan and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Joint Report: [pdf] Gaza 3 Years On: Impunity over Accountability – Israel’s unwillingness to investigate violations of international law in the Gaza Strip (published August 2017)
- LPHR and Al Mezan Joint Report: [pdf] Justice Denied: Gaza human shield survivors and the systemic failure of Israel’s military investigation system to provide accountability (published September 2018)
- LPHR Report: [pdf] Eleven key points relevant to the complementarity assessment being undertaken by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the grave issue of targeted airstrikes against family homes in Gaza (published April 2019)
- LPHR Statement: [pdf] A seminal step towards legal accountability and justice for victims, survivors and their families: ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision that she is ready to open an investigation into the situation in Palestine (published December 2019)
- LPHR, Al Mezan and Medical Aid for Palestinians Joint Report: [pdf] Chronic Impunity: Gaza’s Health Sector Under Repeated Attack (published March 2020)
6 july 2020
Israeli warplanes Sunday evening stroke two sites to the southeast of the city of Gaza, according to WAFA correspondent. video video
He confirmed that Israeli fighter jets fired at least five rockets at a site and an agricultural land to the east of al-Zaytoon neighbrohood, setting on it fire and causing properties damages.
He added that the Israeli artillery fired two shells at another plot of agricultural land to the northeast of the al-Shejaiya neighborhood.
No human casualties were reported, however.
Israel claimed the round of airstrikes in the war-battered strip came in retaliation to a rocket fire from the enclave.
Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
He confirmed that Israeli fighter jets fired at least five rockets at a site and an agricultural land to the east of al-Zaytoon neighbrohood, setting on it fire and causing properties damages.
He added that the Israeli artillery fired two shells at another plot of agricultural land to the northeast of the al-Shejaiya neighborhood.
No human casualties were reported, however.
Israel claimed the round of airstrikes in the war-battered strip came in retaliation to a rocket fire from the enclave.
Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
30 june 2020
Israeli naval vessels attacked early on Tuesday morning a number of Palestinian fishing boats, off the coast of Gaza, while Israeli tanks rolled into the eastern parts of the coastal enclave.
Local Palestinian media sources in Gaza said on Tuesday that fishing boats, sailing off the coast of northern Gaza, were exposed to indiscriminate Israeli navy fire.
The sources added that the Israeli naval vessels forced few fishing boats, carrying several fishermen, to leave the shores immediately, shortly after they began their daily routine of earning a living, just three nautical miles, inside the northern sea area of Alsudaniya.
This new fresh attack by Israeli naval vessels is a part of a long series of Israeli navy attacks on fishermen, since Israel has imposed a marine siege on the coastal enclave, back in 2007. By then, Israel began restricting fishing into only 3 9 nautical miles, along the Gaza’s 45-km-long coast.
In the meantime, local sources and witnesses said today that Israeli army tanks and bulldozers invaded few tens of meters depth, into the eastern parts of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, mainly in the Abbasan village.
The sources added that Israeli bulldozers, backed by tanks, began bulldozing in Palestinian-owned farm lands , amidst heavy indiscriminate army fire.
Also, witnesses in Alburaij refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, confirmed that a number of Israeli army tanks, invaded the border area of Alburaij, rolling tens of meters, deep into Palestinian-owned farm lands. No further details were reported.
Israeli troops attacks on the Gaza Strip’s lands and shores have been frequently reported over the past several years, as Israel has been enforcing a land, sea and air siege on the 2-million residents Gaza Strip, since 2007.
Local Palestinian media sources in Gaza said on Tuesday that fishing boats, sailing off the coast of northern Gaza, were exposed to indiscriminate Israeli navy fire.
The sources added that the Israeli naval vessels forced few fishing boats, carrying several fishermen, to leave the shores immediately, shortly after they began their daily routine of earning a living, just three nautical miles, inside the northern sea area of Alsudaniya.
This new fresh attack by Israeli naval vessels is a part of a long series of Israeli navy attacks on fishermen, since Israel has imposed a marine siege on the coastal enclave, back in 2007. By then, Israel began restricting fishing into only 3 9 nautical miles, along the Gaza’s 45-km-long coast.
In the meantime, local sources and witnesses said today that Israeli army tanks and bulldozers invaded few tens of meters depth, into the eastern parts of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, mainly in the Abbasan village.
The sources added that Israeli bulldozers, backed by tanks, began bulldozing in Palestinian-owned farm lands , amidst heavy indiscriminate army fire.
Also, witnesses in Alburaij refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, confirmed that a number of Israeli army tanks, invaded the border area of Alburaij, rolling tens of meters, deep into Palestinian-owned farm lands. No further details were reported.
Israeli troops attacks on the Gaza Strip’s lands and shores have been frequently reported over the past several years, as Israel has been enforcing a land, sea and air siege on the 2-million residents Gaza Strip, since 2007.
29 june 2020
The Israeli occupation army on Monday morning carried out a limited incursion with bulldozers into the southern border of the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli military bulldozers advanced a few meters into a border area in Rafah area in southern Gaza and embarked on razing plots of agricultural land.
The border areas of Gaza are repeatedly exposed to Israeli military incursions and gunfire attacks, which prevents hundreds of farmers from working their lands near the security fence.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli military bulldozers advanced a few meters into a border area in Rafah area in southern Gaza and embarked on razing plots of agricultural land.
The border areas of Gaza are repeatedly exposed to Israeli military incursions and gunfire attacks, which prevents hundreds of farmers from working their lands near the security fence.
28 june 2020
Israeli navy attacked this morning Palestinian fishermen sailing off the Gaza Strip, causing damage to at least one boat, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the navy fired water at fishermen who were sailing off the Sudaniya shore, north of the Gaza Strip, and forced them to return to the harbor.
Meanwhile, Israeli naval boats also attacked another group of fishermen who were sailing off the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, causing damage to at least one boat and forcing the fishermen to return to the harbor.
No injuries were reported.
Israel allows fishermen to sail only three nautical miles into sea in the northern Gaza shores, which they say is not enough to catch fish, a vital source for their daily living.
Israeli navy harassment of Palestinian fishermen off Gaza is an almost daily occurrence aimed at discouraging them from proceeding with fishing, a vital source of income to thousands of Gaza families.
He said that the navy fired water at fishermen who were sailing off the Sudaniya shore, north of the Gaza Strip, and forced them to return to the harbor.
Meanwhile, Israeli naval boats also attacked another group of fishermen who were sailing off the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, causing damage to at least one boat and forcing the fishermen to return to the harbor.
No injuries were reported.
Israel allows fishermen to sail only three nautical miles into sea in the northern Gaza shores, which they say is not enough to catch fish, a vital source for their daily living.
Israeli navy harassment of Palestinian fishermen off Gaza is an almost daily occurrence aimed at discouraging them from proceeding with fishing, a vital source of income to thousands of Gaza families.
27 june 2020
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Israeli warplanes and artillery bombed several sites in the besieged Gaza Strip late last night causing damage but no injuries, reported WAFA correspondent. video
He said warplanes bombed a site in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip destroying the site and causing a big hole in the ground. video Warplanes also attacked two sites in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, destroying them and causing fire and damage to nearby property. video They also fired three missiles at two other sites in the central and northern Gaza Strip, also causing damage. Israeli artillery also fired two shells at a site near the Martyrs Cemetery, northeast of Gaza City, causing fire and heavy destruction. |
No injuries were reported among the Palestinian population, said the correspondent.
Israel claimed the attacks came in reprisal for the firing of two projectiles from Gaza into southern Israel, of which one fell in an open area without causing any damage or harm while the other fell inside the Gaza Strip. video
Israel claimed the attacks came in reprisal for the firing of two projectiles from Gaza into southern Israel, of which one fell in an open area without causing any damage or harm while the other fell inside the Gaza Strip. video
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