Reference number 37/2023
The date is June 7, 2023
Native language: Arabic
press release
The International Commission “Hashd” calls on the international community to stop the Israeli occupation’s crimes against Palestinian children.
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (Hashd) strongly condemns and rejects the Israeli occupation forces’ continued intentional targeting of civilians, especially children, which resulted in the death of the child, Muhammad Haitham Al-Tamimi (3 years), as a result of wounds sustained by occupation forces’ bullets.
According to verified reports, the occupying forces set up a military checkpoint at the main entrance to the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah, at around 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, which is 1-6-2023, restricting the movement of people’s vehicles. As the gate kept being locked and soldiers positioned nearby, a group of young men and boys gathered and threw stones at the soldiers, who fired live bullets, stun grenades, and gas bombs at protesters and vehicles parked near the entry point.
Haitham Ibrahim Tamimi, 44, was carrying his three-year-old son, Muhammad, in front of their home, just 50 meters from the occupation troops’ military checkpoint. The aforementioned went to his car, which was parked near the house, beside the military checkpoint, to keep it safe from the mayhem.
He got into the car, put his son Muhammad in the back seat, and started driving away.
The occupation soldiers opened fire on the car at that same time. As a result, he was hit in the shoulder with a live bullet, and his toddler son, Muhammad, was hit in the head from the right side, killing him.
With the death of the baby Muhammad Al-Tamimi, the total number of martyrs executed by the Israeli occupation since the beginning of the year has increased to 163, including 29 children and 6 women.
The International Commission (Hashd) affirms that Israel’s racist, systematic policies amount to war crimes under the rules of international humanitarian law, which provided general protection for civilians and special protection for children and women, as well as violations of international human rights law, particularly the principles and provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the first protocol attached to it, which stipulates protection of children during armed conflicts.
The International Commission (Hashd) calls on the parties to the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations institutions, particularly UNICEF and the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for the Protection of Children During Armed Conflicts, to take all necessary measures to protect children in occupied Palestine, as well as to work on the matter of the Israeli occupation state for its crimes against children and civilians, and to place the oath of commitment in the hands of the Palestinian people.
Finished.
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (Hashd)
