April 20, 2010

GAZA, (PIC)-- Al-Mizan centre for human rights issued its quarterly report on the Israeli violations of international humanitarian law against the Gaza people during the first three months of 2010.

The center said that 13 Gazans were killed by the IOF during the reporting period and 62 others were injured, 11 of them were children.

In addition, the IOF kidnapped 45 Gazans, 21 of them were fishermen and others were civilians collecting the rubble of destroyed structures in Gaza, according to the report.

It showed that the IOF bulldozers leveled 30 dunums of lands and destroyed 14 houses during 13 incursions into the Strip.

The report also affirmed that that the IOF continued its attacks on Palestinians particularly near the eastern and northern Gaza borders with Israel, which is an area inside Gaza that Israel declared as a security buffer zone.

Al-Mizan center's investigations indicate that the IOF always fires at any Palestinian near the eastern and northern borders and claims that its troops fire on Palestinians only when they are 300 meters from the border fence, but many attacks occurred when civilians were more than a kilometer from the borderline.