Field
Update

On
Thursday, 05 April 2012, Mohammed Yasser Mohammed Saleh, 17, from Jabalya
refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, while playing with a firearm belonging
to a relative.

According
to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR),
at approximately 12:45 on the reporting day, the body of Saleh was brought to
Kamal Odwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, as he was hit
by a bullet that penetrated and exited his chest.

The
police opened an investigation into the incident and reported that initial
investigations indicate that there is no criminal suspicion and that Saleh was
playing with a firearm belonging by a relative in an under-construction
apartment in his father’s house.

PCHR
is sad for the death of Saleh and expresses grave concern that casualties
continue to be caused by the misuse of weapons.  PCHR calls upon the Palestinian Authority to
take necessary measures to ensure non-recurrence of incidents relating to the
misuse of weapons and to provide protection to Palestinian civilians.