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* News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty
International *
24 January 2002
MDE 15/010/2002
15/02
Two days after the latest arbitrary armed attack on Israelis
Amnesty International condemned the attack and urged the Israeli
authorities to change their policy.
"Injustice and repression have proved that they cannot
stop these attacks," said Amnesty International delegates leaving
today for Jerusalem. "Justice and human rights are the only way
forward and we call on Israel to choose it."
Israel has consistently committed grave violations of
human rights including unlawful killings when no life was in
imminent danger, house demolitions and administrative detention.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has sealed off the Gaza Strip
with a high wire fence and closed every town and village in the
West Bank behind concrete blocks, piles of earth and barriers
manned by soldiers. These closures have not stopped members of
Palestinian armed groups from escaping closed areas to carry out
arbitrary attacks on civilians on the roads of the West Bank and
in crowded places within Israel.
In the latest armed attack, on 22 January 2002, a single
gunman gunned down passers by in Jerusalem's main shopping street
killing two Israelis and wounding 14. The attack was claimed by
the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, apparently a faction close to
Fatah. This was in retaliation for the killing of four Hamas
members in Nablus and the occupation of Tulkarem.
"The way out of a cycle of violence and repression is not
more violence and more repression. It is a return to justice,"
Amnesty International said, reiterating its call for
international human rights observers to be deployed in Israel.
Background
After three weeks of relative ceasefire, on 10 and 11 January,
the IDF demolished 59 Palestinian houses in Rafah and damaged
some 200 other houses. The Israeli government alleged that this
was because Palestinians had constructed tunnels to smuggle arms
but the demolitions were apparently in reprisal for an attack the
previous day on an Israeli army post. Three days later, on 14
January, the IDF apparently extrajudicially executed an alleged
Fatah leader said to be responsible for a December attack on a
bus carrying Israeli settlers in the West Bank which killed 10
people. Over the next two days, the Palestinian armed groups
killed four Israelis in the West Bank, including a 72 year-old
man. On 18 January, in another random shooting of civilians
claimed by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed gunman killed
six and wounded 33 in a Bat Mitzvah celebration in Hadera within
Israel.
*** Amnesty International will begin a mission to Israel, the
Occupied Territories and the areas under the jurisdiction of the
Palestinian Authority today, 24 January 2002. The delegation is
composed of two staff members of the organization's International
Secretariat, Elizabeth Hodgkin and Maartje Houbrechts; Maria del
Pozo, a staff member of the Spanish Section of Amnesty
International; Karen Kennedy, a coordinator from the US Section
of Amnesty International; and David Holley an independent
military adviser. Delegates will investigate human rights
concerns in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the areas under
the jurisdiction of Palestine Authority, including unlawful
killings of Palestinians and Israelis, closures and house
demolitions.
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