On Tuesday 20 August 2013 a colonel who serves as director of the office of the Palestinian presidency’s secretary general broke into a house in Ramallah and fired inside it allegedly because his child was attacked by another child living in the house. As a result of the indiscriminate shooting the colonel’s child who was accompanying him was injured by a bullet to the foot. This attack constitutes a form of misuse of weapons a phenomenon which prevails in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) and the testimony of the affected house’s owner Ms. Hanan Du’ais Abu Kwaik 44 at approximately 03:00 on Tuesday 20 August 2013 Colonel Sa’id Ahmed director of the office Tayeb Abdul al-Rahim secretary general of the Palestinian presidency his bodyguard and his child stormed Abu Kwaik’s house in al-Hayat housing community in Baten al-Hawa neighborhood in Ramallah. The colonel and his bodyguard were armed. Colonel Ahmed searched for Abu Kwaik’s child 13-year-old Bahaa’ and when he found him he attempted to force him out of the house claiming that Bahaa’ had attacked the colonel’s child but Bahaa’ was able to escape. Immediately the colonel opened fire indiscriminately. As a result the colonel’s child was injured by a bullet to the foot and the house was damaged.
Source: PCHR Gaza
