File photo: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the meeting of the Central Council of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank October 28, 2018.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Monday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into an Israeli airstrike that killed three children in the Gaza Strip.
“The international community and its institutions must break their silence towards the incessant crimes committed by the occupation army,” the PLO said in a statement.
Three children aged between 12 and 14 were martyred late Sunday in the Israeli raid near the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army claimed that "the children were trying to tamper with the security fence and apparently planted an explosive device".
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the 30th session of the The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 28, 2018.
Abbas attends 30th session of PLO Central Council
The PLO accused the Israeli army of “deliberately killing” the three children.
“The ICC is requested to launch an immediate investigation into this crime,” it added.
In late December, 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome convention and appendixes related to the ICC, which accepted the Palestinian request to become one of its members in April 2015.
For the last seven months, Palestinians in Gaza have been staging regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to demand the right to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948.
They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.
Since the rallies began on March 30, more than 200 Palestinians have been martyred-- and thousands more injured -- by Israeli troops deployed along the other side of the buffer zone.
The Gaza-based Islamic Jihad group on Monday vowed “response” to an Israeli airstrike that killed three children in the blockaded Palestinian territory a day earlier.“The resistance factions will respond to the [Israeli] crime in the way they see fit,” the group said in a statement.Three children aged between 12 and 14 were martyred late Sunday in the Israeli raid near the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.The Israeli army claimed that "the children were trying to tamper with the security fence and apparently planted an explosive device".But the Palestinian group described the Israeli narrative as “lies and misleading”.“This is a complex crime that reflects how far the [Israeli] occupation’s fascism and terrorism has gone,” the Palestinian group said.For the last seven months, Palestinians in Gaza have been staging regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to demand the right to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948.They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.Since the rallies began on March 30, more than 200 Palestinians have been martyred-- and thousands more injured -- by Israeli troops deployed along the other side of the buffer zone.Twenty-six Palestinians arrested in West Bank raidsIsraeli airstrike martyrs three Palestinian children
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Three Palestinian children were martyred on Sunday by an Israeli airstrike near the eastern border of Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry."The ambulance crews transported bodies of three children aged between 12 and 14 from the site of the Israeli airstrike in the eastern region of southern Gaza," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in a statement.The children were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Al-Qidra added.The army claimed that "the children were trying to tamper with the security fence and apparently planted an explosive device".For the last seven months, Palestinians in Gaza have been staging regular demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to demand the right to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948.They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.Since the rallies began on March 30, more than 200 Palestinians have been martyred-- and thousands more injured -- by Israeli troops deployed along the other side of the buffer zone.Palestinian leader meets Omani envoy in RamallahPalestine slams new settlement homes in JerusalemPalestinian group announces Gaza ceasefire with IsraelOman offers help in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts
Israeli airstrike martyrs three Palestinian children