Alwaght- The Israeli regime has killed 150 Palestinians in a period of 100 days since October 1st last year following the start of the al-Quds(Jerusalem) uprising known as Intifada, a human rights group says
The report, published by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, documents the abuses carried out by the Israeli regime forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, al-Quds and the besieged Gaza Strip between October 1, 2015 and January 8, 2016.
The report notes that it has been 100 days since grassroots, mostly youth-led protests broke out in al-Quds, in reaction to increasing Israeli regime’s incursions in to and restrictions on Islam’s al-Aqsa Mosque. Since then, mass protests and individual attacks have spread across the West Bank and in to Gaza and communities of Palestinian in the occupied territories..
The story told primarily by the international media is one of Palestinian stabbers and Israeli retaliation in self-defense. However, as the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documents in its 100-day report, proven Palestinian attacks are relatively small in number and often committed by lone youth, while the number of arrests, harassment and executions committed by Israeli regime forces are increasingly excessive and disproportionate.
The rights group in its report states that data collected indicate that 150 Palestinians, including seven women and 27 minors, were extrajudicially e x e c u t ed, with Israel refusing to release the bodies of 24 to their families. In contrast, 27 Israelis, including one woman, were killed in revenge attacks by Palestinians.
In addition, 15,759 Palestinians were injured, 92 seriously—including 58 journalists and 103 emergency medical personnel.
The rights group notes that, the behavior of the Israeli military constitutes violations of international law, and thus demands that the United Nations and other international bodies, as well as governments doing business with Israel, act now to pressure Israeli authorities to stop the abuse of human rights and end the root cause of the unrest: its decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories.
