Mobilisation d’Amnesty International - Bande de Gaza

Lettre modèle à adresser aux autorités israéliennes

Salutations :

– Prime Minister : Dear Prime Minister
– Ministers : Dear Minister
– IDF Chief of General Staff : Dear Lieutenant-General

Dear...

I would like to bring to your knowledge my deep concerns about the humanitarian situation due to the military operations conducted by the Israeli forces in the Gaza strip.

Since the beginning of the Israeli army “Operation Summer Rains” on 28 June 2006, the number of Palestinian casualties has sharply increased.

Between 28 June and 13 July, some 80 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and some 200 others were injured. Many were killed in armed clashes but many others were unarmed, including some 13 children.

This brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces this year to some 240. In the same period Palestinian armed groups have killed some 20 Israelis.

On 8 July 2006, a Palestinian woman and two of her children aged six-year- old and 20 year-old were killed and five other members of the same family were injured when an Israeli Air Force dropped a bomb close to their home in the Shaja’iya district of Gaza City. In another attack, three Palestinian children were killed and one was seriously injured on 10 July, when an Israeli Air Force missile fell near the children in an area previously used as soccer field near their home in Beit Hanoun. In the night of 11-12 July 2006 an entire family, Nabil and Salwa Abu Salmiya and their seven children aged between seven and 17, were killed when the Israeli Air Force bombarded their home in a densely populated residential district in Jabaliya, north of Gaza City

On 8 July, the UN humanitarian agencies operating in the Occupied Territories (the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children’s Funds (UNICEF) ) issued a statement, expressing concerns about the situation in the Gaza Strip. According to WFP, 70% of the Gaza population were unable to cover their daily food requirements without assistance in June. WHO said that the public health system is facing a grave crisis as 50% of the hospitals and care centres are having to rely on generators for their electricity and the stock of fuel will last for a maximum of two weeks. UNCEF reported that the families in Gaza Strip are afraid to send their children out door because of the heavy firing in civilian areas.

The above examples are clear violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights treaties which Israel has ratified.

Please note that Amnesty International also condemns the hostage-taking and killings of Israeli civilians by Palestinian armed groups and demands for the immediate release of the Israeli soldier, Gilas Shalit, currently being held hostage.

Regarding the israeli authorities, I urge them :

– To put an immediate end to deliberate attacks on civilian property and infrastructure (such as the recent attacks on the Gaza electricity power station and bridges), and to end the use of excessive and disproportionate force which continues to claim the lives of unarmed Palestinians, including children, and endangers the lives of the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip.

– To take urgent and concrete measures to restore the supply of electricity and water - at Israel’s own expense - to the Palestinian population in the affected areas of the Gaza Strip, and to remedy the long-term damage caused.
– To ensure that independent and impartial investigations are carried out into the killings by Israeli forces of scores of Palestinian civilians, including several children, in recent weeks and months.

– To promptly lift the closures and the arbitrary restrictions imposed on both the Rafah and Karni crossings in to Gaza, and allow the passage of persons and goods in and out of the Gaza Strip.

Thank you for taking my request into consideration.

Sincerely

Nom, adresse, signature

Contact :

Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister and Minister for Social
Welfare and Science and Technology
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan Street
P O Box 187
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91919, Israel
Fax : +972 2 566 4838
+972 2 670 5475
E-mail :
rohm@pmo.gov.il
pm_eng@pmo.gov.il

Tzipi Livni
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
9 Yitzhak Rabin Boulevard
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91035
Israel
sar@mfa.gov.il

Haim Ramon
Minister of Justice
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah al-Din Street
Jerusalem 91010
Israel
sar@justice.gov.il

Amir Peretz
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
Ministry of Defence
37 Kaplan Street
Hakirya
Tel Aviv 61909
Israel
sar@mod.gov.il
pniot@mod.gov.il

Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz
IDF Chief of General Staff
c/o Ministry of Defence
7 A’ Street
Hakirya
Tel Aviv
Israel
info@mail.idf.il

Prime Minister and Minister for Social
Welfare and Science and Technology
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan Street
P O Box 187
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91919, Israel

Lettre modèle à adresser aux groupes armés palestiniens

Dear... personnalité (citée en dessous)

I would like to bring to your knowledge our deep concerns about the humanitarian situation due to the military operations conducted by the Israeli forces in the Gaza strip and also the fact that Palestinian armed groups continue to launch “qassam” rockets into Israel.

Amnesty International condemns the killings and attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians and civilians infrastructure, and other human rights violations committed by Israeli forces and demands that Israel immediately cease such violations. But it also appeals on the Palestinian Authority :

– To immediately release, without harming him, the Israeli soldier whom they are currently holding hostage and to desist from committing such abuses.
– To put an immediate end to the targeting of Israeli civilians, including by immediately ceasing the launch of rockets into Israeli towns and villages.

Thank you for taking my request into consideration.

Sincerely,

Nom, adresse
Signature

Hamas
Mr. Khaled Mesh’al
Head of Hamas political bureau
E-mail :
hoood88@hotmail.com

Palestinian armed groups
Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas armed wing)
E-mail :
info@alqassam.ps
webmaster@alqassam.ps
english@alqassam.ws

al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (Fatah armed wing)
E-mail :
webmaster@kataebaqsa.org
kataeb_aqsa@hotmail.com

Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades (armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committee - PRC)
E-mail :
moqawmh@hotmail.com

Lettre modèle à adresser à l’Autorité palestinienne et au responsable du Hamas

Salutations
President : Your Excellency
Prime Minister : Dear Prime Minister
Ministers : Dear Minister
Khaled Mesh’al : Dear Mr Mesh’al

Dear ...,

I would like to bring to your knowledge our deep concerns about the humanitarian situation due to the military operations conducted by the Israeli forces in the Gaza strip and also the fact that Palestinian armed groups continue to launch “qassam” rockets into Israel.

Amnesty International condemns the killings and attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians and civilians infrastructure, and other human rights violations committed by Israeli forces and demands that Israel immediately cease such violations. But it also appeals on the Palestinian Authority :

– To spare no effort to ensure that the Israeli soldier currently held hostage by Palestinian armed groups is not harmed and is promptly released ;

– To spare no effort to prevent the launch by Palestinian armed groups of “qassam” rockets or other projectiles from the Gaza Strip into Israel :

Thank you for taking my request into consideration.
Sincerely

Nom, adresse
Signature

Palestinian Authority

Mahmoud Abbas
President
Office of the President
Ramallah
Fax : + 972/970 2 296 3179
+972/970 2 296 9740

Isma’il Abd al Salam Ahmad Haniyeh
Prime Minister
Fax : + 972/970 8 282 2159
+972/970 2 295 0979
+ 972/970 8 288 1225
E-mail :
ihaniyyeh@hotmail.com
diwan@pmo.gov.ps

Sa’id Muhammad Sha’aban Sayam
Minister of the Interior and National Security.
Fax : + 972/970 8 283 9311
+ 972/970 2 240 9872
+ 972/970 8 284 0165
+ 972/970 8 288 1322
+ 972/970 8 284 8776

Mahmoud Khaled al-Zahar al-Zahar
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Fax : + 972/970 8 286 8971
+ 972/970 2 2403772
+ 972/970 8 284 5040
E-mail :
mofaweb@gov.ps

Hamas
Mr. Khaled Mesh’al
Head of Hamas political bureau
E-mail :
hoood88@hotmail.com