Key Events
Massacres in Gaza (June 2006)
The Gaza Beach attack took place at approximately 4:40pm on Friday, 9 June 2006. An Israeli naval boat stationed off the coast of Beit Lahya fired seven successive artillery shells at civilians on the beach in the Waha area, north of Beit Lahya. The shells landed on the beach, which had been crowded with men, women and children at the time. Seven civilians from the same family (father, mother and five children) were killed. (Added 12 June 2006)

A further thirty-two civilians, including thirteen children, were injured. Two of the injured sustained serious wounds. On 13 June, another attack was carried out on a Gazan highway, killing eleven and injuring thirty. On 20 June, three Palestinian children were killed and 15 others wounded in a failed extrajudicial execution attempt carried out by Israel.

Overview
  • Does Israel have a policy of killing Palestinian civilians? Nigel Parry (13 June 2006)
  • Israel Spinning Out of Control, Sam Bahour (13 June 2006)

    Media Coverage
  • US Corporate Media Misses Target in Israel�s Aerial Assault on Gaza, Patrick O'Connor (23 June 2006)
  • 'Escalation', 'retaliation' and BBC double standards in Gaza, Jonathan Cook (26 June 2006)

    Background: Israel's Impunity
  • PNGO Calls for International Investigation in Gaza Strip Killings and Condemns Israeli Atrocities against Palestinians, Press Release, PNGO (25 June 2006)
  • A Week of Israeli Restraint, Tanya Reinhart(22 June 2006)
  • "Don't worry - it's just another Palestinian child's death", Leigh Brady (31 March 2006)
  • Failure to Probe Civilian Casualties Fuels Impunity, HRW (22 June 2005)
  • BY TOPIC: Human Rights


    GAZA BEACH ATTACK, 9 JUNE

    Commentary
  • Begging for a Response: Israel's ongoing air strikes on Gaza are politically motivated, Sam Bahour (10 June 2006)
  • Audio: EI's Abunimah discusses Gaza massacre, Abbas referendum on Chicago Public Radio (10 June 2006)
  • Waiting to Exhale, Zachary Wales (14 June 2006)
  • 30 Years and the denials keep coming, Christopher Brown (16 June 2006)
  • The truth lies buried under Gaza sands, Jonathan Cook (21 June 2006)
  • A Week of Israeli Restraint, Tanya Reinhart (22 June 2006)

    Accounts
  • Gaza: On the beach, Mona Elfarra (11 June 2006)
  • Black weekend, bloody mud, and white sand, Sami Abu Salem (11 June 2006)

    Human Rights Reports
  • Human Rights Watch: Artillery Strike Probably Killed Palestinian Family, HRW (13 June 2006)
  • Serious Escalation in Israeli Attacks: 14 Palestinians killed in past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, including 2 parents, 5 of their children and 2 brothers; 36 injured, Field Report, PCHR (11 June 2006)
  • Israeli human rights organizations: End killing of civilians, Report, Israeli HROs (10 June 2006)

    Key Media Coverage
  • Revealed: the shrapnel evidence that points to Israel's guilt, Donald Macintyre in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, The Independent (14 June 2006)
  • Who really killed Huda Ghalia's family? Chris McGreal in Beit Lahia, The Guardian (16 June 2006)


    GAZA HIGHWAY ATTACK, 13 JUNE

    Witnesses reported that an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a van on a busy highway. Civilians ran to help the passengers, two members of Islamic Jihad, and the aircraft fired a second missile into the crowd. Eleven people were killed in total, nine of them civilians, and a further 30 civilians were injured. The dead included two medics and two children.

    Human Rights Reports
  • 11 Palestinians, Including a Man, His Two Children and Two paramedics, Killed and 30 Others Wounded in an IOF Air Strike on a Civilian Car in Gaza, Press Release, PCHR (13 June 2006)


    GAZA ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION, 20 JUNE

    Human Rights Reports
  • 3 Palestinian children killed and 15 others wounded in a failed extra-judicial execution attempt carried out by IOF, Report PCHR (21 June 2006)

    The Human Cost
  • A short trip to Gaza made them orphans, Sami abu Salem (23 June 2006)


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