Rights group calls for inquiry into internal projectile fire

[nalnn]

Source: Maan News Agency

he Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a statement of concern Tuesday, in the wake of the fall of several projectiles on a house and soft-drinks factory in the northern Strip, in which six civilians were injured.

A report from the organization said it was the third home-made projectile to land on civilian property in Gaza in the past week, and called on government officials to investigate.

The group noted that "members of the Palestinian resistance continue to store explosives or to treat such explosives in locations close to populated areas," commenting that the practice "poses a major threat to the lives of the Palestinian civilians and constitutes a violation of both International Human Rights Law and the International Humanitarian Law."

According to testimony, PCHR said that a projectile exploded in a house belonging to Ahmed Kheir al-Batsh, 62, in the As-Salam neighborhood in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring a mother and son, who were both hospitalized for shrapnel wounds.

Read more: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=373722

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Wow! Color me surprised to see this coming out of the PCHR. Good on 'em!

[DavidDvorkin]

1. So it's a violation of international law because the weapons fell in the Strip and not in Israel?

[nalnn]

2. By someone's

By someone's reckoning, you could easily garner that from this announcement.