Field Update
On the morning of Sunday, 07
February 2010, two unknown gunmen fired at a doctor in Gaza City while he was
on his way to his work. He was wounded
by 3 bullets to the leg and foot. Three
days earlier, unknown militants abducted, tortured and shot at a man from
Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to investigations
conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately
08:30 on Sunday, two masked gunmen riding a motorcycle intercepted the car of
Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud al-Tayan, 48, when he was on his way to work in the
medical department at the Abu Khadra governmental complex in central Gaza City. The men forced Dr. al-Tayan out of his car,
and one of them fired at his left knee from a close range. Dr. al-Tayan told PCHR that he attempted to
escape after he had been wounded in the knee, but one of the gunmen chased and
fired at him. He was wounded by an additional
two bullets to the left foot. The two
gunmen fled when people gathered in the area. Dr. al-Tayan was evacuated to Shifa Hospital.
On Thursday, 04 February 2010,
Khaled al-Sama’na, 44, from Jabalya refugee camp, was admitted to Kamal ‘Edwan
Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip with wounds caused by several
bullets to the chest, the right thigh, the left leg and the back. He was also suffering from factures in the
thigh and the chest. Al-Sama’na was
placed in the intensive care unit due to his critical condition. According to Palestinian police sources,
al-Sama’na had been brought to the hospital by persons who had found him,
indicating that he had had been attacked more than 45 hours earlier.
PCHR strongly condemns these two
attacks, which represent part of the state of security chaos and proliferation
of weapons plaguing the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and calls upon the
Attorney-General’s office to fully investigate the incidents and bring the
perpetrators to justice.