PCHR weekly report 7/10 - 13/10/2010: 2 children workers injured

extracts from PCHR weekly report 7/10 - 13/10/2010

IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers an farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip. - Two minor workers were wounded. 

Thursday, 07 October 2010  


At approximately 15:40, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northwest of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Mahmoud Ziad 'Abdul Jawad, 17, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the right thigh, when he was 400 meters away from the border.


Wednesday, 13 October 2010


At approximately 08:40, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the north of the Bedouin Village in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were colleting raw construction materials from the industrial zone. As a result, Ahmed Tawfiq Abu Hashish, 17, from the Bedouin village, was wounded by a bullet to the right foot, when he was approximately 600 meters away from the border.