From: "Lawsociety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
UPDATE: Israeli forces continue military assault in Ramallah
Israeli forces round up Palestinian men and teenagers
LAW offices in Ramallah entered and destroyed by Israeli army
Israel enters Palestinian controlled-areas in Hebron
30 March 2002
At 1.30 pm, Israeli forces entered al-Ra'ya Hospital. Six soldiers with
dogs entered the hospital and demolished the entrance to the health
insurance room and tried to enter a room with injured persons to arrest
them. Doctors and staff prevented them, because the staff feared
infections from the animals. After 15 minutes they left the hospital.
There are now six tanks opposite the hospital.
Reports from Ramallah indicate that Israeli forces have started to round up all men between the age of 14 and 40 years old. House-to-house raids have been reported and the Israeli forces are currently rounding up Palestinian men and teens at the square of al-Omari Mosque near El-Bireh Municipality and in other areas.
Besides, Sakher Habash, member of the central committee of Fatah, who was arrested in his home in Ramallah, also arrested in the round-up of
Palestinians underway in Ramallah is Qais AbdelKarim Abu Leila, the
deputy leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP).
Palestinian policeman Hussain Husni Asqar (25) from Qalqilya, was
pronounced dead. He died of his wounds sustained while resisting Israeli occupation forces at Friends' School. He was shot in his head, chest and leg. Another three Palestinian policemen are still in critical condition. They have been admitted to Ramallah hospital and Sheikh Zayd hospital.
In addition to several other buildings in Ramallah, Israeli forces
entered al-Isra' building, located on Radio Boulevard on the way to the
compound of the Palestinian Authority. Israeli forces destroyed the front door and invaded the building, which hosts among commercial offices and shops, the Ramallah office of LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, Addameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association, al-Sharq TV, the Center for Democracy, and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Office. Israeli forces have destroyed office equipment, including computers, photocopiers, faxmachines, which they have thrown out of the windows.
Meanwhile Israeli forces entered Palestinian-controlled areas in Hebron, also known as "H1". This area covers residential sectors as well as the commercial areas of Bab Al-Zawiya and Wadi Al-Tuffah, situated west of the Old City.
LAW urgently calls on the international community to take effective
measures in order to protect the rights and lives of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and specifically to immediately send an independent, effective protection force to the area.
LAW calls on the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to comply with their obligations to ensure respect for the Convention, by taking urgent action to prosecute Israel's grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention (war crimes).
LAW also calls upon the European Union, a vital trading partner for
Israel, to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel and renew its
arms embargo against Israel as a means to pressure Israel into compliance with basic norms of human rights and international humanitarian law.
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LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving human rights through legal advocacy. LAW is affiliate to the
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Federation Internationale des Ligues de Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) and the World Organisation Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).
LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, PO Box 20873, Jerusalem, tel. +972-2-5833530, fax. +972-2- 5833317, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.lawsociety.org
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