A woman mourns during the funeral of Ibrahim Abu Olba, killed in an airstrike in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, April 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published a new report entitled "Extra-judicial executions ... Official, Declared Israeli Policy" covering Israeli extra-judicial executions against Palestinians during the period from 1 August 2006 till 30 June 2008. The report is the ninth of its kind in a special series on extra-judicial executions by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against Palestinian activists during the al-Aqsa (second) intifada. The first part of the report discusses international standards prohibiting extra-judicial executions. These include the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and additional protocols and the Rome Statute. The second part discusses the official Israeli...
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