Israeli soldiers killed in cold blood 12 year old Palestinian child
Mohammad Al-Durra, as his father tried to protect him in vain with
his own body. As a result of the indiscriminate and excessive use
of machine gun fire by Israeli soldiers, journalists and bystanders
watched helplessly as the child was savagely murdered.
 

Palestinian Red Crescent Society medic Bassam Balbeisi
attempted to intervene and spare the child's life but live ammunition
to his chest by Israeli fire took his life in the process. The child
and the medic were grotesquely murdered in cold blood.
 

Mohammad's father, Jamal, was critically injured and permanently
paralyzed. Similarly, approximately 40 children were slain, without
the media taking notice or covering these tragedies.

To stop, condemn and prevent the future cold blooded slaughtering
of Palestinian children by Israel's savage killing machine, we urge
you to sign the petition. By adding your name and clicking the
submit button, you will sign a petition directed to the United
Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan urging him to form a special
International Tribunal to prosecute Israeli army soldiers and officers
responsible for this crime.

On Tuesday 3 October 2000, an Israeli army General confessed to his crime
without showing any sympathy or remorse. Instead, he shifted the blame on to
the victims and accused the Palestinians of using their children as human
shields on the front lines of clashes. The Israeli General intentionally
ignored the fact that these so called front lines are peoples' backyards and
schools. Mohammad Durra was walking home with his father after a day of
shopping for a used car. Neither he nor his father were participants in the
confrontations between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli army.
 

In addition, the Israeli General overlooked the fact that his army is an
occupying force oppressing a civilian society.

We demand the trial of the Israeli army officials responsible for this
crime as war criminals charged with genocide.

By adding your signature to the petition, you will help set an
international precedent to stop the violent murders of children throughout
the world and the barbaric generals of oppressive regimes will think twice
before attempting to murder another child.
 

Text of the Petition and location to sign is at
www.dura.org/addnew/addnew.htm?B1=Sign+Petition

Copy of text of Petition:

Dear Mr. Kofi Annan
United Nations' Secretary General
 
 

Call for International Criminal Tribunal
 
 

The unveiling by terrified camera men of the hail of live ammunition, sniper
operations, and shelling of densely populated residential areas undertaken
by the Israeli Military Occupation Forces has offered the world community at
large a glimpse of the naked truth of the bloody Israeli military policy and
brutal operations against the Palestinian people in the West Bank & Gaza.

The Global Community bared witness to the barbarous killing of innocent 12
year old Mohammad Al Durra and his father Jamal (who now lays paralyzed) on
3 October 2000 by Israeli Military soldiers. An ambulance driver from the
Palestinian Red Crescent Society was shot dead by live ammunition as he
attempted to help the father and son escape the heavy barrage of gunfire.

Mohammad Al Durra represents one of tens of innocent children shot dead by
Israeli soldiers.

How can the international community invest in global security and
cooperation, promote peace and sustainable development when it buries the
sun with its own hands. As a global community, we must address the
deliberate and fatal targeting by Israeli Defense Forces and Israel police
snipers, acts which have taken the lives of so many Palestinians from
September 28 at Al Aqsa Mosque and through October 3rd at 'Mafraq
Al-Shuhada' (martyrs crossing), the subsequent air and ground rocket attacks
of cities and villages in the West Bank and Gaza, and the Israel military
and police who have stood passively behind heavily armed Israeli settlers
shooting recklessly at nearby Palestinian villages and attacking Palestinian
pedestrians (men, women and children alike).

We, the people of the world, value the vote by members of the International
Community in favor of UN Security Council Resolution 1322 "deploring the
provocation carried out at Al Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on 28 September
2000, and the subsequent violence … throughout the territories occupied by
Israel since June 1967 resulting in over 80 Palestinian deaths and many
other casualties… Condemns acts of violence, especially the excessive use of
force against Palestinians, resulting in injury and loss of human life."

Moreover, we, the people of the world, urge the international community to
prepare initiatives to substantiate UN Security Council Resolution 1322
obligating Israeli occupying forces to honor the Fourth Geneva Convention,
hold an inquiry and investigation in the framework of a criminal tribunal
prosecuting Israeli army soldiers and officers responsible for the murder of
Mohammad Al-Durra and for the entire blood-bath which the Palestinian people
are witness to.

These criminal acts cannot be forgiven or forgotten.

Please fill in the form above and sign the petition by going to the above
website.