Field Update

On Sunday evening, 2 May 2010,
Ibrahim Suleiman al-Malalha, 18, was killed and four members of his family were
wounded, as a projectile landed on their house in the west of Khan Yunis.

According to investigations
conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately
20:00 on 2 May 2010, an RPJ projectile landed on a tin-made house belonging to
Suleiman Zeyad al-Malalha, 65,
in the west of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan
Yunis. As a result, al-Malalha; his son
Ibrahim, 18; his wife Salmiya, 60; and his two daughters Huda, 23, and Fatmah,
33, were wounded. All of them were
transported to the hospital to receive medical treatment. Ibrahim was pronounced dead two hours
later. In his testimony to PCHR,
al-Malalha said that the projectile landed on a room, where the whole family was
sitting in. All the family members were
wounded by shrapnel and the neighbors hurried up to transport them to Nasser
Hospital in Khan Yunis to receive medical treatment. Al-Malalha added that the projectile came
from the eastern side of the house as military training was being conducted inside
a military site for one of the Palestinian resistance groups, approximately 700 meters away from the
house. He further said that many
projectiles landed close to their house and adjacent ones. Residents of the area warned the head of that
military position of the risks posed to their lives.

PCHR was informed that the police
had come to the area and started investigating what had happened.

PCHR reminds Palestinian resistance
groups of their duties regarding the protection of Palestinian civilians and
calls upon them to abstain from carrying out any military activity from inside
civilian-populated areas and those adjacent to them. PCHR is deeply concerned over the
re-occurrence of such incidents, which constitute a constant threat to the
lives of civilians.