Israel's Assassination Policy, Tikkun, August 30, 2001 "PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa Zabri was the latest victim of Israel's policy of assassinations. In the course of this Intifada, Israel extra-judicially assassinated at least 32 Palestinians. In the course of these assassinations an additional thirteen Palestinian bystanders were killed, including two children. These killings are part of an explicit policy to assassinate Palestinians suspected of acts of violence against Israelis. Israel did not devise the assassination policy in the wake of the current Intifada, but has employed this policy in the Occupied Territories and abroad for over 30 years ... The assassination policy violates the right to life, the most fundamental of all human rights, enshrined in international and Israeli law. Unnamed security personnel make a decision to kill a person, and the decision is carried out with no legal process whatsoever. The method Israel uses to carry out the assassinations raises several concerns which, in and of themselves, are sufficient to render the policy illegal. Most of the assassinations are conducted in densely populated civilian areas, and there is a high risk that bystanders will be killed - as has happened on several occasions. Errors may also occur both when selecting the target and while carrying out the assassination. The decision to assassinate a person is made in back rooms with no judicial process to examine the intelligence information on which it is based. The target of the assassination is not given a chance to present evidence in his defense or to refute the allegations against him."