As a human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely concerned about the escalation in violence in the Gaza Strip, which constitutes a serious threat to the life and safety of the civilian population therein.
On Friday 9 March, an Israeli airstrike targeted and killed Zuhair al-Qaissi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC), and his son-in-law Mahmoud Hanini, who had been released in October 2011 in the prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel. Such killings fuelled a spiral of retaliatory and disproportionate attacks, which lasted four days. According to Al-Haq’s documentation, the Israeli airstrikes have resulted in the death of 25 Palestinians, including five civilians, two of whom were children, as well as the wounding of some 80 people, mainly civilians. At the same time, according to media reports, four Israeli civilians have been injured as a result of the indiscriminate rockets fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
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