PCHR weekly report 16/12 - 22/12/2010: 2 workers, including 1 child, and 1 sheperd injured, airstrikes

extracts from PCHR weekly report 16/12 - 22/12/2010:

IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- Two Palestinian workers, including a child, and one shepherd were wounded.

Sunday, 19 December 2010


At approximately 09:00, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northern of the Bedouin Village in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian shepherds in the north of the village. As a result, Ejmai'an Fareed Abu Hwaishel, 19, was wounded by a bullet to the right foot.

Monday, 20 December 2010



At approximately 09:00, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers to the north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Rafeeq 'Aayesh al-Sous, 30, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the left leg, when he was nearly 600 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

 Tuesday, 21 December 2010


At approximately 00:15, Israeli warplanes bombarded an empty tract of land belonging to Khaled Ibrahim Salman in Hamdoush area in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. As a result, a nearby bird farm belonging to Salah 'Abdul Hadi Taha was damaged and at least 1,800 chickens were killed.

Also at approximately 00:15, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a house belonging to Samar Marzouq Abu Mo'ammar in al-Shouka village, northeast of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. As a result, the 110-square-meter house, which was uninhabited, was completely destroyed. Additionally, a grocery was destroyed and two houses were damaged:

1. A 24-square-meter grocery belonging to Hatezm Marzouq Abu Mo'ammar was destroyed;
2. A 110-square-meter house belonging to Tawfiq Shihada Abu Mo'ammar, in which 10 individuals live, was damaged; and
3. A 100-square-meter house belonging to Tawfiq Shihada Abu Mo'ammar, in which 11 individuals live, was damaged.

 Αt approximately 00:30, Israeli warplanes bombarded a space area in the east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya, located nearly 600 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. No casualties were reported. 

At approximately 07:15, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers to the north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Rami Hassan Sous, 17, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the right leg, when he was nearly 400 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Wednesday, 22 December 2010


 

At approximately 12:25, Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Jabalya town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian farmers who were working on their agricultural land, but no casualties were reported.