June 16 - Emergency National Action- Protest Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians
6:00pm at Union Square Park South

4 DAYS, 6 ATTACKS, 18 PALESTINIANS SLAUGHTERED, SCORES INJURED...THIS IS ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL.......

(see below for details of the murders)

Force it into the headlines, call your local media, complain, inform and demand coverage...

Rally in anger, in memory, in support of the Palestinian struggle to survive.........

Friends and supporters of Justice in Palestine: join Chicago, New York, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Boston, and dozens of other cities in North America, calling for a Day of Action in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Genocidal Apartheid Israeli State.

WHEN: Friday, June 16th, 2006, at 5:00 PM.
WHERE: Union Square South

**PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY**

EMERGENCY RESPONSE:
PROTEST ISRAEL'S MURDER OF PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS!
END THE SIEGE ON PALESTINE!
RESPOND TO HODA CRIES FOR JUSTICE!

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

On Tuesday noon, 13 June 2006, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed a new extra-judicial execution in Gaza City, which killed 11 Palestinians, including 9 civilian bystanders. A man, his two children and two paramedics were among the victims. The targeted person in this attack was a member of the Islamic Jihad. Investigations conducted by PCHR indicate that IOF aircrafts launched a missile at dozens of civilians, including paramedics, who gathered near a civilian car shortly after IOF aircrafts attacked it, targeting a member of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad. Thus, the number of extra-judicial executions committed by IOF in the past 4 days has mounted to 6, which have killed 18 Palestinians and have wounded at least 40 others. This latest attack and other similar attacks have come as an implementation of a series of decisions taken by the Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz to escalate extra-judicial executions against Palestinian militants to stop launching locally made rockets at Israeli towns. Peretz has been also considering intensifying military operations in the Gaza Strip, whose victims are often unarmed civilians.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 11:45 on Tuesday, 13 June 2006, an IOF aircraft launched one missile at a civilian vehicle (Voks Wagen) that was traveling near Martyr Mohammed al-Durra Hospital in al-Tuffah neighborhood in the northeast of Gaza City. Two members of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, were traveling in the car. The missile directly hit the car, killing the two members of the al-Quds Brigades: Hammouda al-Wadiya; and Shawqi al-Saiqali. Palestinian civilians living in the area gathered around the car and two paramedics from the nearby hospital came to provide first medical aid. Immediately, IOF aircrafts launched another missile at the car, killing 10 civilians, including a man, his two children and the two paramedics:

1. Hussam Hamad, a paramedic;
2. 'Adnan Daoud Taleb, 35;
3. Ashraf Farouq al-Mughrabi;
4. Hisham Ashraf al-Mughrabi, 7;
5. Maher Ashraf al-Mughrabi;
6. 'Ali al-'Omari;
7. Ibrahim al-Da'lees;
8. Rafeeq al-Mubayed; and
9. Mousa Nasrallah.

In addition, at least 30 other civilians, including a number of children, were wounded; the wounds of 12 of them have been described by medical sources as serious.

PCHR strongly condemns this latest attack. PCHR is gravely concerned over the Israeli escalation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). PCHR asserts that such crimes serve to escalate tension in the region and threaten the lives of Palestinians. PCHR calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop such crimes, and reiterates its calls for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to meet their obligations to ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the OPT.

On Friday evening, June 9th, 2006, at least seven Palestinian civilians were killed when Israel Navy gunboats firing artillery shells hit a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. Some 40 others were wounded. Among the dead were three children, three women and one man. Many of those wounded in the attack were also children, Palestinian sources said. Hoda came back to the beach to find her family murdered in cold blood by Israeli bombing.

This horrifying escalation of violations by the Israeli occupation forces, coupled with the prolonged humanitarian crisis that the Palestinian people are already enduring, is fueling rising tensions and instability on the ground. As the European and U.S. governments demand the freezing of humanitarian assistance to the people of Palestine, Israel has continued its military attacks against the Palestinians, arresting hundreds more civilians, destroying countless homes and property, expanding its illegal settlements and its Apartheid Wall, and imposing more than five hundred checkpoints and roadblocks throughout the territories, including in and around East Jerusalem, seriously restricting freedom of movement and suffocating the economic and social life of the Palestinian people.

In the past week, Israeli forces have launched missile air strikes against "targets" in densely populated civilian areas of the occupied Palestinian territories, directly intended to kill Palestinian civilians, a policy of extra-judicial executions that has continued unabated even though the democratically-elected Hamas-led Palestinian government, and the vast majority of resistance organizations, have complied with a self-imposed, unilateral truce against the Israelis for over a year.

On June 5th, Israel launched an air strike against a car in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, killing Mr. Imad Mohammad Assaliya and Mr. Majdi Tayseer Hammad, and wounding three other people. And on June 7th, the occupation forces, using artillery bombardment, attacked a national security post east of Gaza City, killing four Palestinian men.

Moreover, Israeli continues to raid Palestinian cities and villages, carrying out military and arrest operations. On May 31st, Israeli soldiers stormed the Balata refugee camp east of the city of Nablus, shooting and wounding two Palestinian children in an "operation" to arrest six other Palestinians in the camp, including two women. A series of arrests have also been carried out in the Qalqilya, Jenin, Al-Khalil (Hebron), Bethlehem and Ramallah areas, typically with no information given to the families of those detained as to their whereabouts or conditions. Israel's army also continues to restrict the movement of ambulances treating wounded or sick civilians, and has even fired upon ambulances during the recent period, including the shooting at one, which was carrying a woman in labor, on May 27th, destroying the vehicle's engine, terrorizing the woman, and delaying her arrival at the hospital.

END THE SIEGE ON PALESTINE NOW!
END ISRAELI OCCUPATION NOW!