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Lawlessness Breeding Ground for Gaza Social Woes
GAZA STRIP, December 1 (IslamOnline.net) – Lawlessness and instability in the Gaza Strip are the main culprit for the unprecedented crimes and social woes, though isolated, that plagued the Gaza Strip recently, a Palestinian human rights activist has said.
Mu'en Dibiss, a lawyer with the Independent Agency for Palestinians' Rights, said the weapon chaos has also added insult to injury.
Law experts attributed the odd increasing rate of crimes to the absence of the role of the judiciary in addition to the lack of trust in the law.
"The current year has witnessed 61 killings, compared to 43 in2003 ," Dibiss told IslamOnline.net Tuesday, November30 .
He pointed out that brutal vendettas were responsible for the most of the crimes.
Over the past few weeks, Gazans woke up to the news of the occurrence of bizarre and shocking crimes.
On Saturday, November27 , a university lecturer was killed in his office in cold-blood.
Masked people on November 11 kidnapped13 -year-old Mohammad Shuweikh, asking his family for paying 5000 Jordanian dinars in ransom.
Two weeks ago, a family took the law into their own hands by killing a child of another family in front of his school in a horrible vendetta.
More and more, a driver killed a mechanic after refusing to repair his car right away.
2004 Scores High
According to estimates released by the Palestinian Al-Mizan Center for Human, the year 2004 comes first in the crimes' chart with146 injured and 43 killed.
"Field research indicates that in addition to the killings, 14 government institutions and NGOs have been attacked," the center said in a statement.
It also said that kidnappings, robberies and marauding public properties have escalated during2004 .
The center documented kidnappings of ranking government officials, children, journalists and peace-loving activists.
The center called for resorting to litigation instead of blind retaliations and investigating all incidents contravening laws.
Isolated
But Salah Al-Bardawil, a writer and journalist, said the crimes are a phenomenon and isolated.
"The Palestinians are united by resisting the Israeli occupation and singled out for their intimate relations based on fraternity and love," he told IOL.
"We are the people of the praiseworthy Intifada and the uphill struggle for a statehood."
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has warned that such crimes and smuggling weapons to criminals endangered the Palestinian social fabric.
It blamed in a statement widespread government corruption, nepotism and selfishness for the emergence of these crimes.
Palestinian National Security Advisor Jabriel Rajoub vowed on Monday, November29 , to crack down hard on gangsters and outlaws.
PLO Chairman and Fatah's presidential candidate Mahmmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has also pledged to put an end to the weapon chaos ahead of the January 9 election.
A state of insecurity swept the Gaza Strip in July, forcing late president Yasser Arafat to overhaul the Palestinian security system.
The Palestinian Authority had declared a state of emergency in the Strip following the kidnapping of top Palestinian security officials and four French aid workers.
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-12/01/article01.shtml
Law experts attributed the odd increasing rate of crimes to the absence of the role of the judiciary in addition to the lack of trust in the law.
"The current year has witnessed 61 killings, compared to 43 in2003 ," Dibiss told IslamOnline.net Tuesday, November30 .
He pointed out that brutal vendettas were responsible for the most of the crimes.
Over the past few weeks, Gazans woke up to the news of the occurrence of bizarre and shocking crimes.
On Saturday, November27 , a university lecturer was killed in his office in cold-blood.
Masked people on November 11 kidnapped13 -year-old Mohammad Shuweikh, asking his family for paying 5000 Jordanian dinars in ransom.
Two weeks ago, a family took the law into their own hands by killing a child of another family in front of his school in a horrible vendetta.
More and more, a driver killed a mechanic after refusing to repair his car right away.
2004 Scores High
According to estimates released by the Palestinian Al-Mizan Center for Human, the year 2004 comes first in the crimes' chart with146 injured and 43 killed.
"Field research indicates that in addition to the killings, 14 government institutions and NGOs have been attacked," the center said in a statement.
It also said that kidnappings, robberies and marauding public properties have escalated during2004 .
The center documented kidnappings of ranking government officials, children, journalists and peace-loving activists.
The center called for resorting to litigation instead of blind retaliations and investigating all incidents contravening laws.
Isolated
But Salah Al-Bardawil, a writer and journalist, said the crimes are a phenomenon and isolated.
"The Palestinians are united by resisting the Israeli occupation and singled out for their intimate relations based on fraternity and love," he told IOL.
"We are the people of the praiseworthy Intifada and the uphill struggle for a statehood."
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has warned that such crimes and smuggling weapons to criminals endangered the Palestinian social fabric.
It blamed in a statement widespread government corruption, nepotism and selfishness for the emergence of these crimes.
Palestinian National Security Advisor Jabriel Rajoub vowed on Monday, November29 , to crack down hard on gangsters and outlaws.
PLO Chairman and Fatah's presidential candidate Mahmmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has also pledged to put an end to the weapon chaos ahead of the January 9 election.
A state of insecurity swept the Gaza Strip in July, forcing late president Yasser Arafat to overhaul the Palestinian security system.
The Palestinian Authority had declared a state of emergency in the Strip following the kidnapping of top Palestinian security officials and four French aid workers.
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-12/01/article01.shtml
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