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At the time of posting, the <b>New York Times</b> is reporting that the Arab death toll has in fact exceeded 350. <b>Labor Standard</b> joins al-<span class=SpellE>Awda</span> and all other fighters for peace and justice in demanding the immediate, total, and unconditional end of the Israeli air strikes on Gaza and the immediate cessation of U.S. financial and military support to the state of Israel.]</i></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has continued its airstrikes on Gaza. For the third day in a raw, Israeli aircrafts, helicopter gunships and surveillance drones have continued to roam Gaza s skies, spreading death around the impoverished coastal strip. Attacks targeted dozens of houses and other civilian premises, such as mosques and education facilities that are located in urban areas causing dozens of civilian casualties. These attacks continue as the international community failure to uphold applicable international law seems to encourage more Israeli attacks, despite their clear disregard of civilian life and international law.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan</span> Center s monitoring indicates that at least 30 Palestinians (12 children and one woman) have been killed since yesterday, whereas the number of people who have been injured reached 158 (25 children and 14 women). 38 houses were targeted directly by the IOF and approximately 3,000 homes have sustained varied degrees of damage. Additionally, the IOF airstrikes targeted and destroyed 4 mosques, 34 workshops, 16 security installations, 3 CBO offices, 3 fishing boats and 6 vehicles. This is besides the bombardment of a building in the Islamic University. The UNSCO office and a building hosting international UN staff and a number of their cars were also damaged.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>As IOF s attacks continue, more casualties and damages are expected to occur in Gaza.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Two of the most tragic events took place in <span class=SpellE>Jabalia</span> refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip, and <span class=SpellE>Rafah</span> refugee camp in the south of the Strip. In <span class=SpellE>Jabalia</span> refugee camp an Israeli airstrike targeted the <span class=SpellE>Emad</span> <span class=SpellE>Aqel</span> Mosque in Block 4 of the camp. The Mosque was destroyed. But so were tens of the refugee <span class=SpellE>camp s</span> humble homes, which asbestos roofs and weak walls fell down. Two homes adjacent to the Mosque were completely destroyed, one of which on their inhabitants, killing five girl children and injuring six, including an infant, a toddler and two girl children as well as their parents. Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan s</span> field worker reported that the victims were identified as:</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>4-year-old <span class=SpellE>Jawahir</span> Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>8-year-old Dina Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>12-year-old <span class=SpellE>Sahar</span> Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>14-year-old <span class=SpellE>Ikram</span> Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>17-year-old <span class=SpellE>Tahrir</span> Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Those who were injured are:</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>Two-week-old Bara Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>2-year-old Mohammed Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>11-year-old <span class=SpellE>Samah</span> Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>16-year-old <span class=SpellE>Iman</span> Anwar <span class=SpellE>Ba lousha</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>The parents of the children were also injured in this attack, which destroyed tens of homes and caused various injuries to another 24 civilians.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>In the southern Gaza camp of <span class=SpellE>Rafah</span>, Israeli aircraft destroyed tens of homes in a series of airstrikes. The bombardment of the Al-Attar family and the Al-<span class=SpellE>Absi</span> family were particularly severe. According to Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan s</span> field investigations, at approximately 1am today, 29 December 2008, Israeli aircrafts launched two airstrikes which simultaneously hit the houses of Al-Attar family and the Al-<span class=SpellE>Absi</span> family in the camp. The latter house was completely destroyed and many of its inhabitants were buried under its rubble. Three of the family s children were killed and five other persons were injured. Medical sources in <span class=SpellE>Rafah</span> reported to Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan</span> that the children s mother sustained serious wounds. Those who were killed in this house were identified as:</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>3-year-old <span class=SpellE>Sedki</span> <span class=SpellE>Ziad</span> Al-<span class=SpellE>Absi</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>12-year-old Ahmad <span class=SpellE>Ziad</span> Al-<span class=SpellE>Absi</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>14-year-old Mohammed <span class=SpellE>Ziad</span> Al-<span class=SpellE>Absi</span>.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Three other people from Al-Kurd family, who reside a neighboring house, were also injured in this attack, which caused damage to another four houses.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Aircrafts also bombarded and destroyed the Al-Attars house in <span class=SpellE>Rafah</span>. Four other neighboring homes were severely damaged and four people residing an adjacent home were injured, including 12-year-old <span class=SpellE>Mahmoud</span> Abu <span class=SpellE>Hashim</span>. The Al-Attar family had evacuated their house shortly before the shelling.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>IOF s airstrikes also targeted civilian premises in <span class=SpellE>Rafah</span>, including the buildings of <span class=SpellE>Rafah</span> Municipality and Governorate, and metal workshops, a medicine stores, and police stations.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>The IOF also intensified its attacks on the borderline between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, forcing thousands of civilians to evacuate their homes starting approximately 40 minutes after midnight today. Families sheltered in UNRWA schools, which are not equipped to receive refugees, especially in the cold winters.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>In Gaza City, IOF s attacks have continued to target civilian premises. One attack targeted a two-story house owned by the <span class=SpellE>Kishku</span> family in <span class=SpellE>Az-Zeytoun</span> neighborhood in the city, at approximately 7pm yesterday. Israeli aircrafts hit the house with missiles while its 13 inhabitants were inside it, killing one woman and a girl child and injuring another six. Those who were killed were:</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>8-year-old <span class=SpellE>Ibtihal</span> Abdullah <span class=SpellE>Kishku</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>22-year-old <span class=SpellE>Maisa</span> <span class=SpellE>Muneer</span> <span class=SpellE>Kishku</span>.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>At approximately 1:20pm yesterday, 28 December 2008, Israeli aircrafts fired missiles into two uninhabited apartments in the Al <span class=SpellE>Azhar</span> and the Education apartment compounds in Tel Al <span class=SpellE>Hawa</span> area in Gaza City. Numerous apartments were damaged. Later at night, Israeli aircrafts fired five heavy missiles at a building hosting classrooms and the labs of the Science and Engineering colleges at the Islamic University in Gaza City. The building was completely destroyed and other buildings at the university were damaged.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan s</span> field workers reported that the IOF launched numerous attacks on police and security buildings in Gaza City, including the presidential guesthouse in <span class=SpellE>Ansar</span> security compound. Israeli aircrafts and naval vessels took part in these attacks, which also struck the fishermen s haven and destroyed three fishing boats.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Also in Gaza City, at approximately 2:30am today 29 December 2008, Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at the house of Ala <span class=SpellE>I kilan</span> in the Beach refugee camp, destroying it and causing damages to tens of houses in the camp.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>In Khan <span class=SpellE>Younis</span>, south of the Gaza Strip, Israeli aircrafts bombarded various targets. At approximately 9:15pm on 28 December 2008 fired a missile into a crowd of people in Al <span class=SpellE>Qarara</span> town, east to Khan <span class=SpellE>Younis</span>, killing 22-year-old Ahmad Fayyad and moderately injuring another man.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>At 10:20pm on the same day IOF bombarded the <span class=SpellE>Ezadin</span> Al <span class=SpellE>Qassam</span> Mosque in the town of <span class=SpellE>Abassan</span>, east to Khan <span class=SpellE>Younis</span>, destroying the mosque and causing severe damage to many houses around it. About an hour later, Israeli aircrafts bombarded the Abu <span class=SpellE>T emeh</span> family s house in <span class=SpellE>Bani</span> <span class=SpellE>Suheial</span> town, also east to Khan <span class=SpellE>Younis</span>. The house was destroyed and many other houses damaged.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>In the Middle Gaza district, IOF fired missiles at an empty car in the An-<span class=SpellE>Nuseirat</span> refugee camp. Three bystanders were killed, including a child. They were identified as:</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>15-year-old <span class=SpellE>Diya</span> Abu <span class=SpellE>Khubizeh</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>20-year-old Mohammed Abu <span class=SpellE>Khubizeh</span>,</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span>21-year-old <span class=SpellE>Younis</span> Abu <span class=SpellE>Khubizeh</span>.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>At approximately 11:30pm on Sunday 28 December 2008, Israeli aircrafts bombarded the house of <span class=SpellE>Talal</span> Hassan <span class=SpellE>Issa</span> in the Al-<span class=SpellE>Bureij</span> refugee camp. The house was completely destroyed and tens of other houses were damaged. However, no casualties were reported. Eyewitnesses reported to Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan</span> that the inhabitants had evacuated following a telephone call informing them that their house would be attacked.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>This Israeli bloody escalation comes while the tight siege of Gaza which has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis for Gaza s 1.5 million people, who have had to live under severe shortages of food, water, medicine and power. These conditions impact seriously on the services sectors, especially as some of their facilities are being bombarded.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>According to the monitoring of Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan</span> Center for Human Rights there is evidence that the IOF has perpetrated grave breaches of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Gaza during the past few days. Many of the IOF s conducts qualify as war crimes and/or crimes against humanity. The Israeli aggression also represents a multiple violation of human rights standards.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>It has been observed that the IOF target civilian premises directly and wantonly, while showing blatant disregard to civilian life and property. Israel s <span class=GramE>attempts to prescribe its recent actions as self-<span class=SpellE>defence</span> against Hamas and rocket launchers is</span> distorted and misleading. When a state chooses to resort to the use of force, it is bound by rules that prevent it from the abuse of this force, for its actions must observe the basic principles of IHL and human rights, both of which absolutely prohibit the disproportionate use of force and place an obligation on it to distinguish between military and civilian targets. In pursuing political gains in Gaza, Israel must show respect for human rights.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Therefore, and as the international community continuous failure to uphold its own legal and moral obligations, by turning a blind eye to the recent developments in Gaza and refraining from taking any effective actions to restrain Israel s violations or providing aid and protection for innocent civilians, Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan</span> calls for an urgent convention of the conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Times of war, of 1949, to consider the continuous, and scandalous, disregard of its obligations under the Convention and taking the necessary measures to ensure respect of its rules with regard to the Israeli action in Gaza.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Al <span class=SpellE>Mezan</span> Center, while welcomes the worldwide popular reactions in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, calls for more pressure by civil societies on their governments to ensure that they take actions in compliance with their international obligations, which require them to act to stop and punish war crimes.</p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'>END</p> </div> </body> </html>