Security Chaos

Attacks on NGO’s

Field Update

21 February 2007

House of Youth and Culture in Jabalia Burned by Unidentified Assailants

PCHR’s preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 2:30 on Tuesday, 20 February 2007, unknown assailants threw cocktail bombs inside the House of Youth and Culture Association near the Jabalia town municipality building in the north of the Gaza Strip. The targeted building caught fire that caused extensive material damages to a theater on the ground floor and the library on the second floor.

PCHR strongly condemns this crimes and calls upon the PNA, represented by the Attorney-General, to seriously investigate this crime, and bring the perpetrators to justice