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Today, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights send letters to the United Nations’ Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Louise Arbour and the diplomatic missions to the Palestinian National Authority. The letters addressed the Israeli gross human rights violations in Gaza. Al Mezan urged them to take urgent action to protect civilians after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Killed 96; including 25 Children and six women, and injured over 200 in Gaza in four days. It warned from exacerbating civilians’ suffering under continued unlawful collective punishment.
In the letters, Al Mezan directed attention to the IOF’s military action in Gaza since Wednesday 27 February 2008, which has left one Palestinian killed and more than two injured every hour – over one fourth of whom were children. This escalation is coupled with collective punishment of Gazans; rendering them vulnerable to extreme poverty, disease and de-development. Al Mezan warned about graver human rights violations when the IOF execute its threat of expanding the military operations; especially after the Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, Matan Vilnai, described the large scaled attacks as a ‘routine operation’.