State assassination policy must stop
Geschrieben von Mr. Burns am 10. Juli 2001 22:32:57:
Als Antwort auf: Re: Palästinenser weiter gewalttätig - ob das Vertrauen schaft ? geschrieben von Johannes Johannes am 10. Juli 2001 14:12:34:
"The decision by Israel's security cabinet today to expand its targeting of Palestinians is a further dangerous step in its
policy of state assassination," Amnesty International said.The new guidelines reportedly allow Israeli security forces to take action against " known terrorists" even if they are not on
the verge of committing an attack. According to media reports, Israel's intelligence and military authorities have drawn up
a hit-list of Palestinians to be assassinated."The Israeli security forces who carry out the extrajudicial executions offer no proof of guilt, no right of defence," said
Amnesty International. "The Israeli authorities are showing an utter disregard of the right to life."The organization reiterated its condemnation of this liquidation policy and called on the Israeli authorities to stop it
immediately and to restore the right to life by investigating every killing.In the most recent cases, Israel killed three Islamic militants, Mohammed Besharat, Sameh Nuri Abu Hameish and Walid
Sidqi Besharat, in an helicopter missile attack in the area of Jenin, in the West Bank, on Sunday July 1.A week earlier, Usama Fathi Jawabra, a Fatah faction member, had been killed in an explosion in a public telephone booth in the West Bank city of Nablus.
Both the report of the investigation committee chaired by US former senator George Mitchell and the cease-fire agreement mediated by CIA director George Tenet and signed by Israel and the Palestinian Autority have called for an
end to extrajudicial killings.