PCHR
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

#1 Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms
Attacking Public Institutions and Officials

Field Update
28 March 2006

Director of the Agricultural Bureau in the Central Gaza Strip and a Security
Official Kidnapped in Two Separate Incidents in Deir al-Balah and Beit
Hanoun

On Monday morning, 27 March 2006, unknown armed persons kidnapped and
violently beat Nasser Yousef D'ib, 43, director of the agricultural bureau
in the central Gaza Strip, and stole his car. In the evening, militants
from the Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance
Committees, kidnapped a member of the Palestinian Military Intelligence
Services in Beit Hanoun.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 08:00 on
Monday, 27 March 2006, 6 unknown armed persons intercepted D'ib's car near
his house, while he was on his way to the agricultural bureau in al-Zawaida
village in the central Gaza Strip. They forced him out of his car and
handcuffed and blindfolded him. They then violently beat him and pushed him
into their car. Nearly an hour later, they dumped him in an area to the
east of Khan Yunis. Official documents and keys from the agriculture bureau
had been in D'ib's car, when it was taken.

At approximately 21:00 on Monday, militants from the Salah al-Din Brigades,
the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, kidnapped Ahmed
Mahmoud Sha'ban al-Za'anin, 25, a member of the Palestinian Military
Intelligence Services from Beit Hanoun, and took him to an unknown
destination.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, a civilian car, in which 4
militants were traveling, stopped near al-Za'anin as he was walking in
al-Sikka Street in Beit Hanoun. They forced him to get into the car and
took him to an unknown destination. At approximately 23:00, the kidnappers
handed al-Za'anin to the Military Intelligence Services in Beit Hanoun.

PCHR is concerned about the continuation of such attacks, which serve to
perpetuate the state of security chaos in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory. PCHR calls upon the Palestinian National Authority, represented
by the Attorney-General, to investigate these attacks and to bring the
perpetrators to justice.

#2 Security Chaos and Proliferation of Weapons
Using Weapons in Personal and Family Disputes

Field Update
28 March 2006

10 Students Injured as a Result of the Explosion of a Home-Made Hand Grenade
in Beit Hanoun

On Tuesday morning, 28 March 2006, 10 students were injured when another
student threw a home-made hand grenade at them in a quarrel related to a
family dispute in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 09:30, a
quarrel erupted inside Hayel 'Abdul Hamid Secondary School in Beit Hanoun,
with relation to a dispute between the families of al-Masri and al-Kafrna in
the town. The quarrel escalated and students used stones in it. Later, a
student threw a home-made grenade at other students, injuring 10 of them:

1. Mohammed Ayman al-Kafarna, 15, injured by shrapnel to the right
ear;
2. Mohammed Eyad al-Kafarna, 17, injured by shrapnel to the back;
3. Tayseer Basim al-Kafarna, 17, injured by shrapnel to the right
shoulder;
4. Ahmed 'Othman al-Kafarna, 15, injured by shrapnel to the right
shoulder;
5. Ahmed 'Abdul Rahman al-Kafarna, 17, injured by shrapnel to the
head;
6. Mohammed Hatem al-Kafarna, 17, injured by shrapnel to the right
hand;
7. Ahmed Jalal al-Kafrana, 17, injured by shrapnel to the hands;
8. Ghazi Marwan al-Kafarna, 18, injured bys shrapnel to the chest;
9. 'Ali Subhi al-Kafarna, 18, injured by shrapnel throughout the
body; and
10. Ibrahim Hassan al-Masri, injured by shrapnel to the right hand.

A police officer was also injured in the head by a stone, when the police
intervened to stop the quarrel.

It is worth noting that 7 persons were killed and 40 others, including 5
children, were injured during an armed dispute between the families of
al-Kafarna and al-Masri in Beit Hanoun in December 2005.

PCHR is concerned about the continuation of internal violence, including the
use of weapons in personal and family disputes, which constitute a continuum
of the state of security chaos in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. PCHR
calls upon the Palestinian National Authorities, represented by the
Attorney-General, to investigate such attacks, and to bring the perpetrators
to justice.

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