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Palestinian Appeals for Launching Investigation Into Israel's Use of Chemical Weapons in Gaza

August 20, 2014

	Abu Marzouq and Al-Reshq

Appeals to launch investigation into Israel’s use of chemical weapons in Gaza

[ 20/08/2014 - 10:10 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

A Palestinian human rights organization has called for the launch of an investigation into Israel’s potential usage of chemical weapons during its military campaign in besieged Gaza.

Al-Damir Association for Human Rights said in a press statement on Wednesday: “Ever since Israel has initiated its aggression on Gaza, Palestinians and professional authorities, particularly medics, had mounting suspicions that Israel might have fired mortars and rockets that released gases similar to the ones discharged by burned trash. Israel has also used fighter drones to spray such chemical gases.”

Palestinian citizens, especially at the border areas, near to the seacoast, have been inhaling such toxic smells overnight, leading to breathing difficulties and eye and throat irritations, among many other health disorders, the report pointed out.

Medics have had mounting suspicions that Israel unleashed deadly weapons which have cut the bodies of Gaza civilians into shreds, leaving no shrapnel traces over the casualties’ bodies.

In light of such violations, Gaza medics strongly believe that the Israeli occupation has been using DTMEK-based mortars and rockets that caused several limb amputations among Palestinian civilians.

The human rights organization raised alarm bells over the repercussions of such potential Israeli violations, dubbing them “flagrant breaches of international laws.”

Al-Dhamir called on the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to immediately step in so as to investigate Israel’s potential use of chemical weapons and the aftermaths of such crimes on the Palestinian citizen and environment.

Israeli genocides renewed against Gaza civilian families

[ 20/08/2014 - 07:14 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- 

An unspeakable Israeli massacre rocked the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening after a drove of Israeli fighter jets shelled a populated home, leading to several casualties.

The Israeli warplanes resumed their arbitrary strikes on different areas across the Strip, targeting a mosque, a cemetery, and al-Aqsa TV headquarters besides of the shelled house.

Local Palestinian sources said a round of Israeli rocket fire razed Al-Dalu’s family home, in al-Sheikh Redwan neighborhood, west of Gaza, to the ground.

At least two civilians were killed while some 16 others sustained critical wounds in the process, the same sources reported.

Other casualties are believed to be still lying beneath the mounds of pile into which the blasted home was turned.

Palestinians medics said a baby girl and a lady were killed in the attack, carried out via five rocket rounds.

Another Palestinian home sustained remarkable damage after the Israeli occupation forces shelled a nearby cultivated land.

At least ten civilians were left wounded in a wave of Israeli strikes targeting Palestinians’ cultivated lands across the Strip.

Israeli sources claimed three missiles landed Tuesday afternoon in Beer Sheba in 1948 occupied Palestine.

The attacks cropped up just a few hours before the expiration of a 24-hour-ceasefire set to end overnight Tuesday.

At least 2020 Palestinians were killed while thousands sustained severe wounds in the ongoing Israeli offensive rocking besieged Gaza since July 7.

Israel murders 11 disabled Palestinians during Gaza offensive

[ 20/08/2014 - 07:44 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

At least 11 Palestinian disabled civilians were killed while dozens sustained severe wounds in the Israeli military aggression targeting besieged Gaza since July 7 that took away the lives of some 2020 Palestinian citizens, human rights data revealed.

The rehab sector in the Palestinian non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) said in a press statement on Tuesday that hundreds of Gaza casualties have become handicapped due to the violent Israeli strikes targeting civilian homes and institutions.

The Israeli attacks have deliberately targeted relief institutions and rehab centers, leading to a massive destruction among 22 institutions including al-Wafa rehab hospital and the headquarters of Mabarat al-Rahma organization, where three disabled citizens were killed, the survey documented.

“Israeli attacks on rehab institutions aim at intensifying the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and preventing the bulk of disabled people from the offered services.”

The rehabilitation sector called on all Arab and international volunteer and donor parties to rally round the disabled Palestinian citizens and restock healing centers with the urgent medical and humanitarian aids needed in healing the wounds of Gaza casualties.

Several Palestinians with special needs were forced to depart their shelled homes, leaving their wheelchairs, crutches, mattresses, stethoscopes, and medicines, among many other mobility aids, under the mounds of pile into which their homes turned.

The statement urged the concerned institutions to appeal to international courts and take legal action against such Israeli crimes, calling on the official and popular parties to pool resources so as to live up to the psycho-physical needs of the Gaza disabled people.