On Friday, 14 December 2007, 3 Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and
at least 30 others were injured, when hand grenade, which a participant in the
funeral procession of a Palestinian who had been killed by Israeli Occupation
Forces, exploded.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 11:15 on Friday,
a hand grenade carried by a participant in the funeral procession of Nasser al-Massar’ei,
a member of Fatah movement who had been killed by IOF on the previous day,
exploded. The hand grenade exploded when the funeral was moving in Sheikh Radwan
neighborhood in the north of Gaza City. As a result of the explosion, 3
Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed:
1)
Zuhair ‘Aadel ‘Awadh, 17, hit by shrapnel to the chest;
2)
Yousef As’ad Abu Riala, 19, hit by shrapnel to the chest;
and
3)
Mo’taz Fat’hi al-Massar’ei, 18, hit by shrapnel to the
head.
The spokesman of the Palestinian police stated that investigations led to the
person who was carrying the bomb. He was injured in the incident, and the police
guard him at the hospital.
PCHR is gravely concerned over increasing
casualties resulting from the misuse of weapons and calls for maintaining the
peaceful nature of peaceful assemblies. PCHR calls also upon the Palestinian
National Authority to take measures that can ensure the non-recurrence of such
incidents.
