Jihad Abu Sneima 14
Killed 11 sept 2006 killed by army shells in Rafah, his brother (20) is clinically dead after the Israeli army shelled an area near the Gaza International Airport |
OPERATION SUMMER RAINS JUNE 30-AUG 31 2006
Nidal Abdul Aziz al-Dahdouh 14
Killed 30 aug 2006 killed by IDF sniper fire |
Eyad Al Sarsek 14
Killed 30 aug 2006 killed when Israeli tanks fired at residents houses in the area |
Muhammad Abdullah Suleiman al-Ziq 14
Killed 29 aug 2006 by an IDF missile fired from a drone |
'Aref Ahmad 'Eid Abu Qaydah 14
Killed 1 aug 2006 by a missile fired from a helicopter while near his home |
Saleh Ibrahim Abdul-Rauf Nasr 14
Killed 26 july 2006 |
Saleh Ibrahim 'Abd a-Ra'uf Naser 14
Killed 24 july 2006 |
Muhammad Awad Muhammad Muhra 14
Killed 20 july 2006 |
Eyad Abu Srour 14
Killed 8 july 2006 |
OPERATION SUMMER RAINS JUNE 30-AUG 31 2006
Hisham Ashraf Farouq al-Mughrabi 14
Killed 13 june 2006 11 Palestinians, Including a Man, His Two Children and Two paramedics, Killed and 30 Others Wounded in an IOF Air Strike on a Civilian Car in Gaza |
Allam Abu Saud 14
Killed 6 mar 2006
Five children killed by Israeli violence in a single day on Monday
An Israeli air strike killed Raad Al-Batash, 8, Mahmoud Al-Batash, 15, and Ahmad a-Sweisi, 14, on Monday. Sumiyya Al-Batch, the mother of Raad and Mahmoud, was also wounded. And in a separate incident, two brothers, Allam and Nidal Abu Saud, 14 and 15, were blown to pieces when an undetonated explosive left by the Israeli military in their neighborhood suddenly exploded near them.
Eight other passers-by were wounded in the air strike, most of them children, and Sukar's aunt, who lives nearby, died of a heart attack when she was told the news of the boys' deaths.
According to the Israeli military, the missile fired by the Israeli Airforce was targeting a car driven by two Palestinian resistance fighters, who were also killed by the attack. Military sources said that by the time the crowd was identified, it was already too late to divert the two missiles from their courses.
But a report by Israeli human rights group B'tselem called the attack a war crime, for the fact that it violated the principle of proportionality, a central tenet of international law. "Given the time and place chosen for the attack, the planners should have known that it was liable to injure many innocent civilians. Despite the extensive harm to civilians resulting from yesterday's attack, Israel has once again failed to provide any evidence regarding the necessity of the action or the lack of alternates that would entail lesser harm to civilians. These facts create a grave suspicion that yesterday's attack was disproportionate and thus constitutes a war crime", said a report by the group released Tuesday morning.
Over 800 Palestinian and 123 Israeli children under the age of 18 have been killed in Israel and the occupied territories since the current open conflict erupted in September of 2000, according to human rights groups.
Most of the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces died of multiple gunshot wounds. But at least 40 were killed by explosives left behind by Israeli forces that did not explode on impact, like the Abu Saud brothers killed on Monday.
Killed 6 mar 2006
Five children killed by Israeli violence in a single day on Monday
An Israeli air strike killed Raad Al-Batash, 8, Mahmoud Al-Batash, 15, and Ahmad a-Sweisi, 14, on Monday. Sumiyya Al-Batch, the mother of Raad and Mahmoud, was also wounded. And in a separate incident, two brothers, Allam and Nidal Abu Saud, 14 and 15, were blown to pieces when an undetonated explosive left by the Israeli military in their neighborhood suddenly exploded near them.
Eight other passers-by were wounded in the air strike, most of them children, and Sukar's aunt, who lives nearby, died of a heart attack when she was told the news of the boys' deaths.
According to the Israeli military, the missile fired by the Israeli Airforce was targeting a car driven by two Palestinian resistance fighters, who were also killed by the attack. Military sources said that by the time the crowd was identified, it was already too late to divert the two missiles from their courses.
But a report by Israeli human rights group B'tselem called the attack a war crime, for the fact that it violated the principle of proportionality, a central tenet of international law. "Given the time and place chosen for the attack, the planners should have known that it was liable to injure many innocent civilians. Despite the extensive harm to civilians resulting from yesterday's attack, Israel has once again failed to provide any evidence regarding the necessity of the action or the lack of alternates that would entail lesser harm to civilians. These facts create a grave suspicion that yesterday's attack was disproportionate and thus constitutes a war crime", said a report by the group released Tuesday morning.
Over 800 Palestinian and 123 Israeli children under the age of 18 have been killed in Israel and the occupied territories since the current open conflict erupted in September of 2000, according to human rights groups.
Most of the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces died of multiple gunshot wounds. But at least 40 were killed by explosives left behind by Israeli forces that did not explode on impact, like the Abu Saud brothers killed on Monday.
Ahmad a-Sweisi 14
Children in occupied Palestine are prone to playing with bullet casings, artillery shells and other military paraphenalia left behind by Israeli forces when the troops withdraw from the neighborhoods. Sometimes the devices turn out to be live, and explode, killing or wounding the children.
A report by the Gaza City Palestinian Police Department in July 2005 showed that in 2003, 36 explosion incidents were recorded, claiming the lives of five children, and wounding 135. In 2004, police records documented 105 explosion incidents, in which two children were killed and 88 wounded. In 2005 until late June, the police statistics showed 35 explosion incidents, causing two deaths and 21 injuries, mostly children. Abu Azoum appealed to residents to make their children fully aware of the dangers of the remnants of explosives, not to pick them up or come near them, as they may contains unexploded parts.
The Palestinian police handles incidents of the explosion of the suspected devices and unexploded bombs. Saleh Abu Azoum, director of explosives engineering of the police, said, "We have a well-trained team equipped with the most modern equipment; they are capable of handling any kind of suspected object even if it is extremely dangerous."
However, Azoum noted that much of the necessary equipment was denied entry into Gaza by Israeli forces, saying, "The European Union (EU) provided the Palestinian police with four advanced automated explosive-detection devices but the Israeli occupation forces hindered the arrival of the rest of the EU-donated equipment." The Police Report also accused Israeli occupation forces of deliberately leaving behind explosives and landmines when retreating from Palestinian neighborhoods, causing deaths among innocent residents, in particular children who played with the objects.
Israeli Commander Eliezer Shakedi said on Tuesday morning that the Israeli Airforce makes "super-human efforts in order to reduce the number of innocent casualties in aerial strikes", and said that the number of civilian casualties has decreased dramatically over the last two years. Human rights groups, however, dispute that claim, saying that over 2/3 of the 3,829 Palestinians killed in the last five years have been civilians.
In February, the Resalah Center for Human Rights in Gaza issued a report condemning the killing of children by Israeli Occupation Forces. According to the report, Israeli Occupation Forces killed 797 children under the age of 18 between 28 September 2000 and 30 December 2005, approximately the time period of the Al Aqsa Intifada. The center pointed out that many children who weren't killed have been left with physical and psychological damage.
The center confirmed that those children were killed without any reason and that they hadn't committed any illegal or violent activities against the Israelis. The Center pointed out that many children were killed in aerial strikes. Other children were killed by random shooting and others as bystanders during targeted assassinations.
The Center criticized myths perpetuated in the Israeli and international media that Palestinian mothers send their children to die in order to receive more international sympathy, noting the high number of children killed at home or at school, or between home and school.
The report also stated that Israeli soldiers treat peaceful protests and marches as if they are battlefields, and shoot randomly into crowds, suggesting, "They should follow police methods of crowd dispersal to reduce danger to children in the area."
Resalah Center lawyer Ramzy Abu Jalhoum called on the international community and all human rights organizations to intervene immediately to protect the Palestinian children and to stop the Israeli killing of children.
After Monday's attack, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that it represents a dangerous escalation against the Palestinian people, adding that such escalations do not serve to push the peace process forward.
Hamas leaders called the air strike a "massacre". Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said that "if the international community remains quiet the situation will explode."
http://www.imemc.org/article/17187
Children in occupied Palestine are prone to playing with bullet casings, artillery shells and other military paraphenalia left behind by Israeli forces when the troops withdraw from the neighborhoods. Sometimes the devices turn out to be live, and explode, killing or wounding the children.
A report by the Gaza City Palestinian Police Department in July 2005 showed that in 2003, 36 explosion incidents were recorded, claiming the lives of five children, and wounding 135. In 2004, police records documented 105 explosion incidents, in which two children were killed and 88 wounded. In 2005 until late June, the police statistics showed 35 explosion incidents, causing two deaths and 21 injuries, mostly children. Abu Azoum appealed to residents to make their children fully aware of the dangers of the remnants of explosives, not to pick them up or come near them, as they may contains unexploded parts.
The Palestinian police handles incidents of the explosion of the suspected devices and unexploded bombs. Saleh Abu Azoum, director of explosives engineering of the police, said, "We have a well-trained team equipped with the most modern equipment; they are capable of handling any kind of suspected object even if it is extremely dangerous."
However, Azoum noted that much of the necessary equipment was denied entry into Gaza by Israeli forces, saying, "The European Union (EU) provided the Palestinian police with four advanced automated explosive-detection devices but the Israeli occupation forces hindered the arrival of the rest of the EU-donated equipment." The Police Report also accused Israeli occupation forces of deliberately leaving behind explosives and landmines when retreating from Palestinian neighborhoods, causing deaths among innocent residents, in particular children who played with the objects.
Israeli Commander Eliezer Shakedi said on Tuesday morning that the Israeli Airforce makes "super-human efforts in order to reduce the number of innocent casualties in aerial strikes", and said that the number of civilian casualties has decreased dramatically over the last two years. Human rights groups, however, dispute that claim, saying that over 2/3 of the 3,829 Palestinians killed in the last five years have been civilians.
In February, the Resalah Center for Human Rights in Gaza issued a report condemning the killing of children by Israeli Occupation Forces. According to the report, Israeli Occupation Forces killed 797 children under the age of 18 between 28 September 2000 and 30 December 2005, approximately the time period of the Al Aqsa Intifada. The center pointed out that many children who weren't killed have been left with physical and psychological damage.
The center confirmed that those children were killed without any reason and that they hadn't committed any illegal or violent activities against the Israelis. The Center pointed out that many children were killed in aerial strikes. Other children were killed by random shooting and others as bystanders during targeted assassinations.
The Center criticized myths perpetuated in the Israeli and international media that Palestinian mothers send their children to die in order to receive more international sympathy, noting the high number of children killed at home or at school, or between home and school.
The report also stated that Israeli soldiers treat peaceful protests and marches as if they are battlefields, and shoot randomly into crowds, suggesting, "They should follow police methods of crowd dispersal to reduce danger to children in the area."
Resalah Center lawyer Ramzy Abu Jalhoum called on the international community and all human rights organizations to intervene immediately to protect the Palestinian children and to stop the Israeli killing of children.
After Monday's attack, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that it represents a dangerous escalation against the Palestinian people, adding that such escalations do not serve to push the peace process forward.
Hamas leaders called the air strike a "massacre". Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said that "if the international community remains quiet the situation will explode."
http://www.imemc.org/article/17187
Fadel Khaleel Abu Arram 14
Died 22 sept 2005 of wounds sustained last month |
Mousa Jamal al-Alamah 14
Killed by settler hit and run 26 july 2005 |
Raghib abdul-Rahman al-Masry 14
Killed 18 july 2005 when soldiers fired at hundreds of residents trying to cross the checkpoints to get back to their homes |
Odai Mufid Mahmoud Asi 14
Killed 5 may 2005 Israeli military murders school children at anti-Wall protest Odai was shot in the left side of his stomach. Killed, with his cousin (15) |
Salah a-Din 'Ikab Saqer Abu Muhsin 14
Killed 20 jan 2005
Salah's friend Taufik Abu Muhsan, aged 14
I'm an 8th grade student at the junior high school in Tubas. On Thursday morning, 20 January 2005, I woke up early in the morning and was very excited because it was the first day of the holiday. I took five shekels from my father and five from my mother and went to the toy store. I bought a plastic toy gun. All of my friends play with toy weapons. We like to play a game we called "the Israeli army against the Arabs." Around 8:30 A.M. [on 20 January 2005], my friend Salah a-Din came over to play with me on the street near my house, where most kids our age play. We played the role of Arabs and our friends pretended to be the Israeli army. Two army jeeps were parked around 150 meters away. They were searching vehicles driving towards Tayasir village. We didn't pay any attention to them since they were far away. There were about six soldiers standing near the Israeli jeeps.
At around 10:30 AM I saw one of the soldiers stick his head out through the roof of the first jeep and aim his weapon at us. I heard one shot and then another two or three shots. I saw Salah a-Din fall to the ground without making a sound. His chest was bleeding. I tried to pick him up, but I couldn't.Then a vehicle came from the east. The driver got out of the car, picked Salah a-Din up and took him to the clinic. The jeep from which Salah a-Din was shot drove over to where Salah had fallen down. We ran away and hid in my backyard. We could see from there that a soldier got out of the jeep and picked something up off the ground. Maybe it was the toy gun that Salah a-Din was playing with.
My father told me later that Salah was taken to hospital in Jenin. An hour and a half later, I heard on the loudspeaker that he was dead , and everyone was called to participate in the funeral. I felt terrible. He was my friend, and we studied together. We were playing together, and we were far away from the soldiers. Nothing happened to cause the soldiers to fire. At night, my father came home and broke the pistol that I bought that morning. He told me that that was the reason that Salah a-Din had died, because he, too, played with a plastic rifle.
Taufik Muhammad Hassan Abu Muhsan, aged 14, is an 8th grade and resident of Tubas. His testimony was taken by Salma a-Deb'i, in his house, on 23 January, 2005.
http://www.btselem
Killed 20 jan 2005
Salah's friend Taufik Abu Muhsan, aged 14
I'm an 8th grade student at the junior high school in Tubas. On Thursday morning, 20 January 2005, I woke up early in the morning and was very excited because it was the first day of the holiday. I took five shekels from my father and five from my mother and went to the toy store. I bought a plastic toy gun. All of my friends play with toy weapons. We like to play a game we called "the Israeli army against the Arabs." Around 8:30 A.M. [on 20 January 2005], my friend Salah a-Din came over to play with me on the street near my house, where most kids our age play. We played the role of Arabs and our friends pretended to be the Israeli army. Two army jeeps were parked around 150 meters away. They were searching vehicles driving towards Tayasir village. We didn't pay any attention to them since they were far away. There were about six soldiers standing near the Israeli jeeps.
At around 10:30 AM I saw one of the soldiers stick his head out through the roof of the first jeep and aim his weapon at us. I heard one shot and then another two or three shots. I saw Salah a-Din fall to the ground without making a sound. His chest was bleeding. I tried to pick him up, but I couldn't.Then a vehicle came from the east. The driver got out of the car, picked Salah a-Din up and took him to the clinic. The jeep from which Salah a-Din was shot drove over to where Salah had fallen down. We ran away and hid in my backyard. We could see from there that a soldier got out of the jeep and picked something up off the ground. Maybe it was the toy gun that Salah a-Din was playing with.
My father told me later that Salah was taken to hospital in Jenin. An hour and a half later, I heard on the loudspeaker that he was dead , and everyone was called to participate in the funeral. I felt terrible. He was my friend, and we studied together. We were playing together, and we were far away from the soldiers. Nothing happened to cause the soldiers to fire. At night, my father came home and broke the pistol that I bought that morning. He told me that that was the reason that Salah a-Din had died, because he, too, played with a plastic rifle.
Taufik Muhammad Hassan Abu Muhsan, aged 14, is an 8th grade and resident of Tubas. His testimony was taken by Salma a-Deb'i, in his house, on 23 January, 2005.
http://www.btselem
Hazem Tal'at Mahmoud al-Hut 14
Killed 15 jan 2005
Killed 15 jan 2005
OPERATION DAYS OF PENITENCE 28 SEPT-15 OCT 2004
Suleiman Abed Hussein Abul-Foul 14
Killed 7 oct 2004 |
Saber Ibrahim 'Asaliya 14
Killed 3 oct 2004 |
Nidal Muhsin Mahmoud al-Madhoun 14
Killed 3 oct 2004 |
Ziad Ala Diab Othman Shams 14
Killed 30 sept 2004 |
Muhammad Rifat Ahmad Rihan 14
Killed 30 sept 2004 |
Tamer Abdul-Aziz Nihad abul-Shakyan 14
Killed 30 sept 2004 |
Nidal Said Lufti al-Bishawi 14
Killed 30 sept 2004 |
Ahmad Ibrahim Abdul-Fatah Madi 14
Killed 28 sept 2004 |
Said Muhammad Hidu Abul-Eish 14
Killed 28 sept 2004 |
OPERATION DAYS OF PENITENCE 28 SEPT-15 OCT 2004
Muhammad Jamal Jaber abu-Musbah 14
Killed 2 sept 2004 |
OPERATION FORWARD SHIELD 29 JUNE- 5 AUG 2004
Hamada Zarb 14
Killed 5 july 2004
Killed 5 july 2004
OPERATION FORWARD SHIELD 29 JUNE- 5 AUG 2004
