First: Violations of basic human rights
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which coincided with the imposition of a
comprehensive blockade on the Strip, has caused a continuation of the siege that has
lasted for fourteen years, resulting in the violation of all the rights of the Palestinian
citizens of the Gaza Strip. This report focuses on the most prominent rights subject to
violation because of the recent Israeli aggression. These are the right to life and physical
integrity, the right to health, the right to housing, the right to education, the right to
freedom of journalistic work, and the right to worship. The following is an outline of
the most prominent facts available about the violations of these rights during the period
covered by the report.
1. The right to life and physical integrity
For the tenth consecutive day (since the start of the aggression (on 5/10/2021) the Israeli
occupation forces continued using air force missiles, artillery and tank shells, and naval
battleship shells in targeting Palestinian citizens and civilian targets, which constitutes
a serious violation of the right to life and physical integrity. Not only because it inflicts
injury on victims directly, but it also creates a state of total and collective loss of safety
for civilians and renders the entire Gaza Strip an insecure place in which everyone is at
imminent risk of losing their lives all the time.
As of Wednesday morning (19/05/2021), the toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza
Strip reached (219) martyrs. This includes (63) children, (36) women, a journalist, (2)
doctors, a disabled person, (16) elderly citizens, and (1,530) injured. The number can
still increase in light of the continued Israeli bombing and the ongoing searches under
the rubble of buildings that the Israeli occupation army targeted1. Among the victims
were entire families that the Israeli forces killed and wiped out, after targeting their
homes suddenly without warning. At the time of drafting this report, the targeting of
dozens of these families has been observed. These are; Al-Tanani, Al-Masry, Sherer,
Al-Talbani, Arafa, Amen, Issa, Al-Attar, Abu Hatab2 , and others. Among the victims
was the citizen Abed al-Rahman Yusef Subuh, 19 years old, from Al-Shati refugee
camp, who suffers from a mental and physical disability, whose body was recovered by
civil defense crews and his mother, after the bombing of the building in which they
lived, causing the apartment to fall on them3.
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, website, http://www.moh.gov.ps ./
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, on the fifth day of the aggression on Gaza ... state terrorism
is manifested and a displacement reminiscent of scenes of the Nakba, press release on May 14, 2021
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the escalation of the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure, 33 civilians were killed, including 3 children
and 3 women, and 107 civilians were wounded, including 21 women and 44 children, the death toll
from the aggression rose to 83, including 17 children and 7 women, and 318 wounded, including 95
children and 61 women, press release On May 13, 2021; The Palestinian Center for Human Rights,
targeting residential towers and destroying homes on the heads of their residents and the intensity
of the raids on the second day of the aggression on Gaza, press release on May 12
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a dangerous escalation in the Gaza Strip, killing 26 civilians,
including 9 children, a woman and her son with disabilities, and wounding 75 others, including 22
children and 7 women, press release on May 11 >2021shorturl.at/gQ128<