8 Persons, Including 2 Children and 3 Women, Wounded Due to Explosions of
Home-Made Rockets in Populated Areas in Gaza
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Wednesday, 24 August 2011 00:00
Field Update
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In the past five days, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)
documented the injuries of eight persons, including two children and three
women, due to the explosions of home-made rockets in populated areas across
the Gaza Strip. The injury of one of the women was described as serious.
PCHR calls upon concerned authorities to investigate these incidents, to
take necessary measures to ensure the non-recurrence of such incidents and
to provide protection to civilians.

The latest incident took place at approximately 01:40 on Monday, 22 August
2011, when a home-made rocket landed onto the roof of a 3-storey house
belonging to Sobhi Ibrahim Shakhsa, 53, where three families live, in
al-Tawaheen area in al-Shuja'ya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. As
the result of the rocket's explosion, three sons of Shakhsa were shocked and
were transported to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Besides, the rocket made a
hole in the roof, falling part of the southern wall of the house and
damaging the water network and doors. In his testimony to a PCHR field
worker, Shakhsa said that the Explosives Police arrived at the scene and
collected the rocket's shrapnel, but the civil police did not come to
investigate the incident.

Earlier, at approximately 20:00 on Sunday, 21 August 2011, another home-made
rocket hit the western side of the house of Mas'oud Ibrahim al-Sheikh, 53,
near Dar al-Arqam School in al-Toffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. As a
result, his son Ra'ed Mas'oud al-Sheikh, 8, was moderately wounded by
shrapnel to the head, and his daughter Samar Mas'oud al-Sheikh, 28, was
seriously wounded by shrapnel to the pelvis and back, and consequently, was
admitted into the intensive care unit at Shifa Hospital.

At approximately 20:45 on Saturday, 20 August 2011, Sa'd Bakr al-Salhi, 16,
from Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip and Naheda Hashem Salem,
53, were evacuated to Shifa Hospital, as the former was wounded by shrapnel
to the right hand and the latter was wounded by shrapnel throughout the
body. Medical sources described their wounds between light to moderate. The
two persons were wounded due to the explosion of a home-made rocket while
exiting from Sa'eed Murad Mosque near al-Helou Hall, southeast of Jabalya in
the northern Gaza Strip.

At approximately 03:00 on Friday, 19 August 2011, Mohammed Yusef al-Najjar
Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah received Abdul Sattar
Selmi Abu Snaima, 21, from al-Shouka village, east of Rafah, as he was
wounded by shrapnel throughout the body. Medical sources described his wound
as moderate. According to Palestinian police sources, Abu Snaima had been
wounded when a home-made rocket landed in front of his house, which is
located near al-Shouka clinic.

PCHR in concerned over increasing casualties resulting from explosions of
home-made weapons. PCHR calls upon concerned authorities to investigate
these incidents, to take necessary measures to ensure the non-recurrence of
such incidents and to provide protection to civilians.