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Mohammad Abdul-Jawad Zo’rob

May 21, 2019May 22, 2019 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 21, 2019: Mohammad Abdul-Jawad Zo’rob, 30, died from complications resulting from wounds he suffered in April 2018, when Israeli soldiers shot him during the Great Return March processions in the Gaza Strip.

His parents said their son was shot by Israeli army fire on April 27^th, 2018.

They added that he suffered various complications since then, and developed tumors that eventually led to his death, especially amidst the lack of medical supplies in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip.

He was shot with an expanding bullet, and underwent several surgeries, but also suffered several infections in the wound area, eventually resulting in cancer.

Israeli soldiers have killed 307 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, and injured more than 29000, since the Great Return March procession started in the Gaza Strip, on Palestinian land Day, March 30^th, 2018.

Mohammad was from Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

Abdullah Jom’a Abdul-‘Al

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 contact@ifamericansknew.org

May 10, 2019: Abdullah Jom’a Abdul-‘Al, 24, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while participating in the non-violent Great Return March protests on the Gaza-Israel border.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has confirmed that the soldiers killed Abdullah, after shooting him in the pelvis, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

His death came when Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly Great Return March processions on Palestinian lands along the eastern areas of the Gaza Strip, killing Abdullah and wounding 30, including four children, and one medic who was shot in the head while providing treatment to wounded Palestinians.

The medic, identified as Mohammad Abu T’eima, was shot as he, and several other medics, were providing treatment to wounded protesters, who were shot by the soldiers on Palestinian lands, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers engaged in the excessive use of force against the protesters by firing a barrage of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity gas bombs at them.

Abdullah was from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

Hani Ramzi ‘Afana

September 14, 2018September 15, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

September 14, 2018: Hani Ramzi ‘Afana, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers using excessive force against peaceful protesters in the eastern Gaza Strip for the 25^th Friday in a row. Hani was one of three Palestinian civilians killed at the protest, including a child. The soldiers also wounded 148 others, including 19 children, 5 women and 5 paramedics with live bullets and direct tear gas canisters. Six of those wounded sustained serious wounds.

According to PCHR fieldworkers’ observations, the border area witnessed heavy deployment of the Israeli forces this week as the army fired live bullets and tear gas canisters, increasing the number of casualties comparing with the previous weeks, despite the peaceful nature of the demonstrations.

The Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against the peaceful demonstrators who posed no threat or danger to the life of Israeli soldiers in the areas of demonstrations.

Investigations and observations by PCHR’s fieldworkers emphasize that the demonstrations in all areas were, as always, fully peaceful, and neither weapons nor armed persons were seen. However, the Israeli forces’ snipers continued to position on the hills, behind the sand berms and in military jeeps along the border fence.

At approximately 16:30, thousands of civilians, including women, children and entire families, started swarming to the 5 encampments established by the Supreme National Authority for the Great March of Return and Breaking Siege along the border fence, east of the Gaza Strip governorates. They raised flags and chanted national songs.

Hundreds, including children and women, approached the border fence with Israel, set fire to tires and gathered 300 meters away from the main border fence. Some of them attempted to throw stones at the Israeli forces, pulled parts of the barbed-wire fence established inside the Palestinian territories and released balloons along the border fence.

The Israeli shooting, which continued until 19:30, resulted in the killing of 3 civilians, including a child. The killed civilians were identified as:

Hani Ramzi ‘Afana (21), from Rafah, was hit with a live bullet to the chest in eastern Rafah.
Mohamed Khalil Ghazi Shaqqourah (20), from al-Maghazi refugee camp, was hit with a live bullet to the chest in eastern al-Bureij camp.
Shady ‘Abed al-‘Aziz ‘Abed al-‘Al (11), from Jabalia, sustained deep wounds after being hit with a solid object, which caused a fracture to his skull, during his participation in Abu Safiyah area, northeast of Jabalia, according to the Ministry of Health.

Moreover, 148 civilians, including 19 children, 5 women and 5 paramedics, were wounded with live bullets and direct tear gas canisters.

Six of those wounded sustained serious wounds, in addition to dozens suffering tear gas inhalation and seizures after tear gas canisters were fired by the Israeli soldiers from the military jeeps and riffles in the eastern Gaza Strip.

PCHR condemned the crimes committed by the Israeli forces, believing it is as a result of Israel’s enjoying impunity thanks to the U.S. and so encouraging the Israeli forces to commit further crimes upon an official decision by the highest military and political echelons.

PCHR emphasized that continuously inflicting casualties, either killed or wounded, is unjustified, and using lethal force to target and kill civilians, who exercise their right to peaceful assembly or while carrying out their humanitarian duty, is a serious violation of the rules of international law, international humanitarian law, the ICC Rome Statute and Fourth Geneva Convention.

Thus, PCHR called upon the ICC Prosecutor to open an official investigation in these crimes and to prosecute and hold accountable all those applying or involved in issuing orders within the Israeli Forces at the security and political echelons.

PCHR also reiterated its call upon the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances and their obligations under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

PCHR called upon Switzerland, in its capacity as the Depository State for the Convention, to demand the High Contracting Parties to convene a meeting and ensure Israel’s respect for this Convention, noting that these grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions regarding the guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection in the occupied territories.

Hani was from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

Bilal Mustafa Khaffaja

September 7, 2018September 8, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

September 7, 2018: Bilal Mustafa Khaffaja, 17, was killed by Israeli forces during a Great Return March demonstration in the besieged Gaza Strip. Nearly 400 Palestinians were wounded on the same day, many shot with live fire from the Israeli forces.

Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza said the soldiers killed Bilal after shooting him with a live round in the chest, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

He added that the soldiers also injured nearly 400 Palestinians, including 45 with live fire, and added that 70 of the wounded were moved to several hospitals, while the rest received treatment in make-shift hospitals. Among the wounded were at least fifteen children.

Media sources in Gaza said the soldiers, including sharpshooters, stationed on sand hills and fortified posts, fired dozens of live rounds, in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity gas bombs at the protesters, along the eastern part of the Gaza Strip.

Dr. al-Qedra said the Israeli army continued its excessive use of force against the processions for the 24^th consecutive week of Friday protests in Gaza.

The soldiers also shot one Palestinian east of Jabalia town, in northern Gaza, causing moderate wounds, before he was rushed to the Indonesian hospital in nearby Beit Lahia.

Another Palestinian was shot in his leg, east of Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, before he was rushed to the European hospital, suffering a moderate injury.

The soldiers also attacked and injured several Palestinians, east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza, and east of Rafah, in the southern part of the coastal region.

One of the wounded Palestinians was rushed to Abu Yousef Najjar hospital, in Rafah, after suffering a moderate injury, while dozens were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation.

Dr. Al-Qedra said the Israeli military killed 173 Palestinians, including three medics and two journalists, and injured 19139 others in the Gaza Strip, since the Great Return March procession started on Palestinian Land Day, March 30^th, 2018.

Bilal was from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

Sa’adi ِAkram Abu Muammar

August 17, 2018August 18, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

August 17, 2018: Sa’adi ِAkram Abu Muammar, 26, was killed by an Israeli army sharpshooter, while he was participating in a non-violent protest near Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Sa’adi is a married father of two daughters, Rahaf, 5, and Aseel, 3, and his wife is seven months pregnant.

He was one of two Palestinians killed on August 17th by the Israeli military while participating in the ‘Great March of Return’ protests.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, two Palestinians and injured 270 others, including 60 who were shot with live fire.

In addition to Saadi, the soldiers killed Karim Abul-Fatayer, 30, who was shot in the head at a protest near al-Boreij refugee camp in central Gaza. Karim was shot in his eye, and the bullet exited through the back of his head after fracturing his skill and scattering his brain.

The Health Ministry also said the soldiers injured 270 Palestinians in several parts of the Gaza Strip, during the Great Return processions; 166 of them were treated in field clinics, and 104 were rushed to hospitals.

Among the wounded are 60 who were shot with live fire, including 19 children, in addition to nine medics, who were injured by shrapnel or suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

The Health Ministry in Gaza said the latest Israeli assaults bring the number of slain Palestinians since March 30^th, to 170, in addition to 18300 who were injured.

The protests, which began on March 30th, 2018, call for ending the 12-year-long Israeli blockade of Gaza and for the right of return of the refugees.

Many of the casualties occurred on May 14, when Israeli forces attacked Palestinian protesters marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of historical Palestine and the ensuing ethnic cleansing of half a million Palestinian refugees. It also marked the date that the U.S. President, Donald Trump, chose to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, thus denying the right to exist for the nearly one million Palestinian residents of Jerusalem.

Saadi was from Rafah, in southern Gaza. Source: IMEMC

Ahmad Jamal Abu Louli

August 11, 2018August 11, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

August 11, 2018: Ahmad Jamal Suleiman Abu Louli, 40, died of wounds sustained a day earlier when Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire during the Great Return March.

The Health Ministry said that Ahmad was shot with a live round in the pelvis, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

On the same day of his serious wounds, the soldiers killed two Palestinians, including a medic, and injured 307 others; 85 of the wounded were shot with live fire, and five remain in critical conditions.

The slain Palestinians have been identified as volunteer medic, Abdullah Qutati, 20, and Sa’id al-’Aloul, 55.

Israeli soldiers have killed 160 Palestinians, and injured at least 17500 others, including dozens who suffered life-threatening wounds, since the beginning of the Great Return March procession, on Palestinian Land Day, March 30^th, 2018.

Ahmad was from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

Abdul-Karim Radwan

July 19, 2018July 20, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

July 19, 2018: Abdul-Karim Radwan, 22, was killed by a missile dropped by an Israeli military drone east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, while three others were injured, one of them seriously.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Abdul-Karim died from his serious wounds in a hospital in Rafah, despite all efforts to save his life.

According to the Health Ministry, three other Palestinians were injured by the Israeli missile, including one who suffered serious wounds, and is currently on life support.

Media sources in Gaza said the slain Palestinian is an officer with the Field Control Department of the Palestinian Interior Ministry.

Furthermore, three armored Israeli military bulldozers advanced approximately 50 meters into Palestinian lands in southern Gaza, and placed sand barriers.

Commenting on the casualties in Gaza, the Israeli army claimed it targeted “Palestinians flying flammable balloons near a post run by the armed wing of Hamas in Rafah,” and added that Palestinian fighters “fired mortar shells at soldiers operating near southern Gaza.”

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, in the period between March 30th and July 17th, 2018, Israeli forces killed 142 Palestinian non-violent demonstrators, and wounded 16496.

7901 of the wounded were treated in field trauma stabilization units, while 8695 of the wounded were transferred to several hospitals. 17 of the slain Palestinians are children. 68 of the wounded had limbs amputated. Israeli army fire also caused damage to 58 Palestinian ambulances in several parts of the Gaza Strip.

During this period, Palestinian demonstrators have gathered each Friday at the border fence between Gaza and Israel for the ‘Great March of Return’, in which they are demanding a lifting of the decade of sanctions against Gaza, the opening of the border, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees to homes they were forcibly removed from in 1948 during the creation of the state of Israel.

Abdul-Karim was from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC

Abdul-Fattah Abu ‘Azzoum

June 28, 2018June 28, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

June 28, 2018: Abdul-Fattah Mustafa Abu ‘Azzoum, 17, died from serious wounds he suffered earlier at dawn, after Israeli soldiers fired shells at Palestinians in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry said the child suffered serious head wounds, inflicted by fragments of an Israel shell.

He was rushed to Abu Yousef Najjar Hospital, in Rafah, where he underwent an urgent surgery, but later succumbed to his wounds at the Intensive Care Unit.

Another Palestinian was also injured in the Israeli attack, and suffered moderate-to-severe wounds to several parts of his body.

The Israeli army claimed that the two Palestinians “were crawling towards the border fence,” when the soldiers fired a shell at them.

On Wednesday evening, the soldiers shot four Palestinians, including one who suffered serious wounds, and detained one child, east of Rafah, after the army claimed they attempted to breech the border fence.

On June 24, a young man, identified as Osama Khalil Abu Khater, 29, died from serious wounds he suffered, two days earlier, when Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire during a protest at the Gaza border fence.

The latest deaths bring the number of Palestinians, killed by Israeli army fire and shells since the “Great Return March” processions started on Palestinian Land Day, on March 30^th 2018, to 133 including two journalists, identified as Yasser Mortaja, 31, and Ahmad Abu Hussein, 25.

The soldiers also killed two medics, identified as Razan Najjar, 22, and Mousa Jaber Abu Hassanein, 36, injured 223 others, in addition to causing damage to 37 ambulances. Abdul-Fattah was from Rafah. Source: IMEMC

Amin Mansour Abu Moammar

March 30, 2018April 6, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

March 30, 2018: Amin Mansour Abu Moammar, 22, was killed by Israeli army fire in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian was shot with live fire during nonviolent processions on Palestinian lands, hundreds of meters away from the border fence, in Rafah.

Palestinian medical sources said the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds at the protesters, wounding more than twenty, including three who suffered serious wounded.

The corpse of the slain Palestinian, and the wounded, were rushed to Abu Yousef an-Najjar Hospital, in Rafah.

The soldiers also killed Mohammad Kamel Najjar, 25, near the border fence, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, after the army fired dozens of live rounds at hundreds of nonviolent Palestinian protesters, marching near the border fence, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said the soldiers shot at least 54 with live fire, and caused dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, in several parts of the Gaza Strip.

Among the wounded Palestinians are ten, including a young woman, who were shot with live fire, east of the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza city; most of them were shot in their legs, and suffered moderate injuries.

At least seven Palestinians were shot with live fire, east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip, 4 in nearby Rafah, and were rushed to Nasser Hospital, the European Hospital and Abu Yousef Najjar Hospital, while dozens more suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

Reports from the Red Crescent in Gaza revealed that the soldiers shot with live fire 10 Palestinians in Gaza city, 20 in Jabalia, 8 in Deir al-Balah, 12 in Rafah, and seven in Gaza Younis.

The reports do not include many Palestinians, who are receiving treatment in field clinics, which were installed in several parts of the Gaza Strip.

The injuries and fatalities took place in six areas in the besieged Gaza Strip, after thousands of Palestinians marched on their lands, marking the Palestinian Land Day, and protesting the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine, including Jerusalem.

Earlier on Friday morning, the soldiers fired tank and artillery shells at Palestinian farmers, east of the Al-Qarara area, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one, identified as Omar Wahid Nasrallah Sammour, 27, and seriously wounding another.

On Thursday evening, the Palestinians installed tents 700 meters away from the fence, east of Gaza city, while medics installed mobile clinics, especially since the army is preparing to use live ammunition against the nonviolent protesters.

The army also infiltrated cellular networks in Gaza, especially phones owned by organizers of the processions, and tried to provide false information regarding places of protests. Amin was from Rafah, in southern Gaza. Source: IMEMC

Mohammad Kamel Najjar

March 30, 2018April 6, 2018 contact@ifamericansknew.org

March 30, 2018: Mohammad Kamel Najjar, 25, was killed by Israeli soldiers who fired dozens of live rounds at hundreds of Palestinian protesters, nonviolently marching near the border fence, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC) has reported that the soldiers killed Mohammad with live fire, and injured at least ninety others, including three who suffered serious wounds, in several parts of the Gaza Strip.

The soldiers also killed another Palestinian, Amin Mahmoud Moammar, 38, from Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, also after shooting him with live fire.

The PRC added that at least 54 Palestinians were shot with live fire, and dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

Among the wounded Palestinians are ten, including a young woman, who were shot with live fire, east of the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza city.

Reports from the Red Crescent in Gaza revealed that the soldiers shot with live fire 10 Palestinians in Gaza city, 20 in Jabalia, 8 in Deir al-Balah, 12 in Rafah, and seven in Gaza Younis.

The reports do not include many Palestinians, who are receiving treatment in field clinics, which were installed in several parts of the Gaza Strip.

The army also infiltrated cellular networks in Gaza, especially phones owned by organizers of the processions, and tried to provide false information regarding places of protests. Mohammad was from Tal az-Za’tar area, in northern Gaza. Source: IMEMC