Middle East and North Africa

Photos Gaza: IDF House Demolition Injures



Foreground right: the al-Qassim house, demolished in a controlled explosion October 22, 2002. Left, house of Fayez Dib Barakat. Nine people inside the Barakat house were injured by the explosion, some severely.

(c) 2002 Johanna Bjorken/Human Rights Watch


Ehad Fayez Barakat, aged seven, with his mother Afdal.

(c) 2002 Johanna Bjorken/Human Rights Watch


The IDF destroyed three additional houses in the al-Salaam district on October 22. Rubble visible right is the former home of Salah Hassan Salah al-Shaar.

(c) 2002 Johanna Bjorken/Human Rights Watch


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