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Nablus: Extra-judicial execution
2 August 2002
Early this morning, Israeli forces committed an extra-judicial execution.
Amjad Jabour (25) from the village of Salem, east of Nablus, was killed.
According to LAW's information and eye-witnesses at around 2.30 am a great number of Israeli forces invaded Salem village and surrounded homes. At around 2.45 AM the soldiers knocked on the door of the home belonging to Rida Ishtayeh and forced him to evacuate his home and to follow them at gunpoint to the home of activist Amjad Jabour. They forced Ishtayeh to enter the home of Jabour's home and ask him to leave the home
with his hands up, with his upper clothes removed.
An eyewitness stated that Jabour left his home unarmed with his hands up.
Immediately Israeli troops arrested him and drove him forty meters away from his home until they reached a place close to the eyewitness' home.
At 3.25 am the soldier's turned off the lights of their military vehicles.
A few minutes later, the eyewitness heard heavy gunfire. She looked
outside the window to see what happened. She saw someone on the ground.
When the shooting stopped and the Israeli soldiers left the area, her husband left his home and saw the dead body of Amjad Jabour.
There were signs of bullet holes in various upper parts of his body. The Israeli forces located at the entrance of Nablus prevented the transfer of the dead body to city hospitals. Jabour is a father of five children, the oldest is six years old.
Until today, LAW and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) have not received a response to the urgent request submitted on July 25, 2002 to the Israeli Supreme Court based on their former petition
(769/02) to the Court demanding to immediately issue an interim
injunction ordering Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Minister of Defense Benyamin Eliezer, the Israeli army and Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon to end the policy of assassinations.
Since the submission of the original petition, 40 persons, who have been
targeted for assassination have been killed along with fourteen bystanders.
This is in addition to 53 Palestinians, who have been targeted for assassination, of which 21 were confirmed by official Israeli reports, in addition to at least 25 bystanders who were killed from the beginning of the Intifada and until the date of the submission
of the original petition.
Extra-judicial killings cannot be reconciled with the Fourth Geneva
Convention, which seek to protect the lives of protected persons, and
violate human rights norms that affirm the right to life and the
prohibition on execution of civilians. The circumstances under which most extra-judicial executions are carried out, suggest complete disregard for
the risk involved to the lives of bystanders.
LAW strongly condemns Israel's assassination policy. Israel is legally
responsible for the acts of its agents, and is under corresponding
obligations to ensure that its agents adhere to the Convention and to
prosecute those agents who commit grave breaches.
All state signatories
to the Fourth Geneva Convention have also the right and are under a
positive obligation to seek out and prosecute individuals responsible for committing or commissioning grave breaches, where ever the perpetrators be.
Article 148 of the Fourth Geneva states that 'no High Contracting
Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting
Party of any liability incurred by itself or by any other High
Contracting Party...'
Israel's ongoing human rights violations further illustrates the need for the immediate deployment of an international protection presence to prevent violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention and to protect Palestinian protected persons within the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment is a non-governmental organization dedicated to preserving
human rights through legal advocacy. LAW is affiliate to the
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the International Federation
for Human Rights (FIDH), and the World Organization Against Torture
(OMCT).
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TAC: As we a see these Jewish animals murdering, miaming, demolishing and plundering embryonic Palestine and as they continue to colonize another people's land--can Jews around the world feel pride in their hearts?
TheAZCowBoy,
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