IOF kill mother in front of her children inside their house in Khan Yunis
URUKNET
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the killing of a mother in front of her children yesterday, during an IOF incursion into New Abasan town, east of Khan Yunis.
PCHR investigations indicate that at approximately 16:30 on Wednesday, 7 May, IOF troops raided the house of Majdi Abd El-Raziq El-Daghma during an incursion into New Abasan.
The troops opened the outside metal door, then blew up the wooden interior door. The force of the blast killed 33 year old Wafa Shaker El-Daghma instantly. The IOF troops then stormed into the house and covered her body with a rug, having ascertained that she was dead. The troops then detained her 3 children, who had all witnessed the killing of their mother, in one of the rooms of the house. A soldier remained on guard at the entrance to the room. The children, who included a two year old, were confined inside the room for the next six and a half hours.
At approximately 23:00 the children were finally able to leave the room after the IOF withdrew from the house. Twelve year old Samira ran to a neighboring house, and the neighours called an ambulance. Wafa Shaker El-Daghma's body was immediately transferred to Naser hospital in Khan Yunis.
In addition to the killing of Wafa Shaker El-Daghma one Palestinian resistance member was also killed, and twenty three others were injured. IOF also damaged 22 houses, destroying several in the process.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights:
- Reiterates its condemnation of the killing of Wafa El-Daghma, which represents a continuation of Israeli war crimes in the OPT and is another clear indicator of IOF disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians. The Centre considers these actions to be acts of reprisal and collective punishment, and therefore in violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949).
- Affirms that IOF uses excessive force against Palestinian civilians without any threat to the lives of IOF troops, which is a violation of International Humanitarian Law.
- Calls upon the international community to act immediately to stop these crimes; and renews the call to the High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligation under Article 1 of the Convention to ensure that it is respected at all times, and their responsibilities under Article 146 to pursue perpetrators of serious violations of the Convention, which are determined in Article 147 that lists violations of the Convention amounting to war crimes.
This is the exact intention all along. To kill the mothers and make the children orphans - or to kill the children to break the hope and spirit of the mothers - or kill them both.
This is what feeds "israel". This murdering madness of complete innocents, women and children, is their number 1 cowardly weapon and top priority.
Many of the militant / gangland-type leaders of this thing called "israel", decade after decade, have followed the one encompassing dynamic: destroy Palestine by killing its offspring and its mothers.
"israel" doesn't want to know any other way to live, nor how to conduct business, except to keep going in its usual sickness.
True to its form, a belligerent, highly mutated cancer, raging and growing before and since '48, this is all that "israel" has been and ever will be.
Until a Mighty Force finally reckons with it once and for good.
..that they just threw the family's rug on top of her and left,
is proof that they don't care enough to prevent atrocity;
as that is their goal.
..how any human being could allow these attacks on INNOCENT people, in their homes..
is way beyond my comprehension.