International Committee of the Red Cross Condemns Israel's Inhumane
Measures Against the Palestinian People
8 November 2001
Palestine Media Center - PMC
http://www.palestine-pmc.com
Yesterday 7 November, President Arafat met with the General Director
of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mr. Paul
Grossrieder. The President discussed the details of the persistent
Israeli violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory since the outbreak of Israeli hostilities fourteen months
ago.
Mr. Grossrieder stated that the Israeli execution of the three
Palestinians in Nablus on 6 November was "a barbaric act". "Not only
is it highly unacceptable, it is one of the worst human rights
violations that one could possibly imagine. I do hope this would be
the last of such an act", the General Director stressed. "The Israeli
occupation forces should have allowed the Palestine Red Crescent
Society ambulances and medical crews to treat the injured," he added.
Mr. Grossrieder also stressed that the International Committee of the
Red Cross is going to forward an official complaint to the Israeli
government for carrying out acts that contravene human rights
standards.
Finally, the General Director confirmed to the President that the ICRC
is going to increase the number of its employees in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip "for better observation and more comprehensive reports". He
also stated that the ICRC will do all it can to provide aid and
improve the living conditions of Palestinians detained by the Israeli
occupation authorities.
On 6 November, at approximately 1 pm, PRCS ambulances arrived at Tel
south of Nablus City to rescue three injured Palestinians. However,
Israeli occupation soldiers prevented the medical team from reaching
the three reportedly injured Palestinians. After the medics were
unsuccessful in saving an Israeli soldier's life, as he had been
severely wounded, seven Israeli occupation soldiers executed the three
injured Palestinians as they bleeding less than a hundred meters away
from the witnessing medical crew.
Palestinians shot by soldiers at close range, witnesses say
By Lee Hockstader, The Washington Post, 11/8/2001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58804-2001Nov7.html
TELL, West Bank, Nov. 7 -- Summoned to a rocky hillside in the
northern West Bank, Dalya Diab, a Palestinian medic, arrived at the
scene of a dwindling exchange of gunfire between Israeli troops and
Palestinian guerrillas. While she was trying to revive a mortally
wounded Israeli officer, she said, another Israeli officer told her
three Palestinians were involved in the battle. Two were wounded, she
recalled him telling her, and one was unscathed.
Moments later, as she helped carry the dying Israeli officer to a
jeep, she said she heard gunfire, glanced up the hill and saw a small
group of Israeli soldiers standing close together, firing their
automatic weapons toward the ground. "When the shooting was finished,
we went back to the Israeli officer," said Diab, 29. "Then he said the
three terrorists were already dead."
What she saw, Diab alleged, was the Israelis executing their
Palestinian prisoners. She said she became certain after she saw their
bodies, all of which she said had severe and apparently close-range
bullet wounds to the head. Her account of the wounds was confirmed by
two other medics and two ambulance drivers who recovered the bodies at
the scene, and by the chief pathologist in Nablus, who examined the
corpses...
...Journalists who asked Diab and an ambulance driver to lead them to
the scene today found skull fragments, brain matter and patches of
blood on the ground. That was the spot where the Palestinian medics
and the pathologist said the three Palestinians had been shot through
the head, and, judging from lacerations and burn marks around the
wounds, at point-blank range...
