Indiscriminate Fire

Palestinian Rocket Attacks on Israel and Israeli Artillery Shelling in the Gaza Strip

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• Map of Gaza Strip

• I. Summary

• Palestinian Rocket Attacks

• Israeli Artillery Shelling

• Case Studies

• Methodology

• II. Recommendations

• III. International Humanitarian Law

• IV. Background

• Palestinian Armed Attacks from Gaza

• V. Palestinian Rocket Attacks since the IDF Withdrawal

• Weapon Used and Method of Attack

• Civilian Harm

• Deploying Military Objectives in Densely Populated Areas

• Palestinian Justifications

• Role of Palestinian Security Forces

• Legal Conclusions

• VI. Israeli Artillery Shelling Since the IDF Withdrawal

• Weapon Used and Method of Attack

• Civilian Harm

• IDF Justifications

• Legal Conclusions

• Appendix I. Case Study: The Gaza Beach Incident

• Eyewitness Accounts

• Analysis

• Shrapnel

• Artillery Shell Craters

• Injuries

• Timing

• IDF Explanations

• Appendix II. Case Study: Palestinian Rockets Attacks from and IDF Shelling of the Nada Apartments Complex

• The Nada Apartments Complex

• Prelude to IDF Artillery Shelling of the Nada Apartments

• Early Afternoon of July 24, 2006

• Afternoon and Evening of July 24, 2006

• Events of Wednesday, July 26, 2006

• Events of Friday, July 28, 2006

• IDF Warnings and Liaison with Palestinian Security Forces

• IDF Explanations

• Appendix III. Locally Made Rockets Entering Israel from Gaza
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• Appendix IV. Israeli Artillery Shells Entering Gaza
  PDF file (1 page, 113 kb)

• Appendix V. Locally Made Rocket and Artillery Casualties
  PDF file (1 page, 101 kb)

• Appendix VI. Human Rights Watch Letters and IDF Responses
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• Acknowledgments

July 2007   Volume No. 19, No. 1(E)