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Field Update
07 February 2010

PCHR Calls for Investigation of Two Shooting Incidents in Gaza

On the morning of Sunday, 07 February 2010, two unknown gunmen fired at a
doctor in Gaza City while he was on his way to his work. He was wounded by
3 bullets to the leg and foot. Three days earlier, unknown militants
abducted, tortured and shot at a man from Jabalya refugee camp in the
northern Gaza Strip.

According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human
Rights (PCHR), at approximately 08:30 on Sunday, two masked gunmen riding a
motorcycle intercepted the car of Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud al-Tayan, 48, when he
was on his way to work in the medical department at the Abu Khadra
governmental complex in central Gaza City. The men forced Dr. al-Tayan out
of his car, and one of them fired at his left knee from a close range. Dr.
al-Tayan told PCHR that he attempted to escape after he had been wounded in
the knee, but one of the gunmen chased and fired at him. He was wounded by
an additional two bullets to the left foot. The two gunmen fled when people
gathered in the area. Dr. al-Tayan was evacuated to Shifa Hospital.

On Thursday, 04 February 2010, Khaled al-Sama'na, 44, from Jabalya refugee
camp, was admitted to Kamal 'Edwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern
Gaza Strip with wounds caused by several bullets to the chest, the right
thigh, the left leg and the back. He was also suffering from factures in
the thigh and the chest. Al-Sama'na was placed in the intensive care unit
due to his critical condition. According to Palestinian police sources,
al-Sama'na had been brought to the hospital by persons who had found him,
indicating that he had had been attacked more than 45 hours earlier.

PCHR strongly condemns these two attacks, which represent part of the state
of security chaos and proliferation of weapons plaguing the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, and calls upon the Attorney-General's office to fully
investigate the incidents and bring the perpetrators to justice.

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