A/HRC/19/20 19. On 7 January 2011 at approximately 3.30 a.m., a large number of IDF troops surrounded a house in Hebron, silently broke into the second floor of the house and immediately rushed for the bedroom. Three soldiers entered the bedroom and immediately opened fire at close range on Omar Qawasmeh, a 66year-old man who was asleep in his bed. Approximately 14 bullets were fired at him. According to accounts collected by OHCHR, when the soldiers realized that they had targeted the wrong floor they proceeded to the first floor of the house where they arrested the intended target of the raid. IDF announced that it would investigate the killing and on 19 January, announced that it would terminate the career of one of the soldiers involved in the operation. 17 20. On 13 July 2011, at around 5 a.m., 21-year-old Ibrahim Omar Sarhan from el-Far‟a refugee camp was shot in the leg by an IDF soldier and subsequently bled to death. According to the account collected by OHCHR, the victim and his cousin had finished dawn prayers at a mosque in el-Fa‟ra camp and were walking home. A number of IDF soldiers appeared at the end of the narrow alley where the victim and his cousin were walking. The cousin was quickly physically immobilized by some of the soldiers while the victim turned around and started running away. An IDF soldier fired in the direction of the victim, who was hit in the thigh but continued running away until he reached a neighbor‟s place. IDF entered the house where the victim was lying, almost unconscious, and started providing first aid to the victim. An ambulance arrived at the scene and took the victim to al-Rafidiya hospital in Nablus where, upon arrival, the victim was pronounced dead. The accounts collected by OHCHR and the circumstances of the incident indicate that the victim was not involved in any violent act against IDF during their operation in the camp. 21. On 1 August 2011, at approximately 2:30 a.m., IDF troops entered Qalandia refugee camp to conduct a search and arrest operation targeting three teenagers accused of stone throwing, arson and destruction of property. Some camp residents, alerted to the presence of IDF in the camp, had gathered on the adjacent roofs and started throwing stones at the soldiers. This lasted approximately 30 minutes. The soldiers then left the courtyard, firing several hundred rounds in many directions, while advancing toward the road that leads out of the camp. At the same time in an adjacent street, in which the situation was calm and no stone throwing was taking place, another group of soldiers was making its way towards the group of stranded soldiers, when they came face to face with five unarmed young men. According to the accounts collected by OHCHR, one of the soldiers immediately opened fire in the direction of the young men, killing 25-year-old Ali Hasan Abed Khaleefah and 22-year-old Mo‟atasim Essa Othman Odwan and wounding another. 22. On 23 September 2011, in Qusra, in the northern West Bank, an unarmed Palestinian civilian was shot dead by IDF following clashes between settlers and Palestinians. Clashes erupted after IDF refused to remove a group of settlers who had trespassed into privately owned Palestinian land. The soldiers focused their efforts instead on removing the Palestinians. Eyewitness accounts collected by OHCHR indicate that the soldiers formed a line and stood in between the settlers, some of whom were armed, and the Palestinians. IDF used tear gas to disperse the Palestinians, then resorted to rubber bullets against the Palestinians and 17 8 IDF, “IDF terminates military career of soldier involved in Hebron incident”, press release, 19 January 2011.