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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

No. 33/2010

12 – 18 Aug. 2010

 

 

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the OccupiedPalestinian Territory (OPT)

 

 

·               A Palestinian resistance activist was killed by IOF in the southern Gaza Strip.

 

·               IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

-        An Israeli human rights defender was injured.  

-        IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians, and 5 international human rights defenders.

 

·               IOF continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in the Gaza Strip’s border areas.

-     A Palestinian worker was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip.

 

·               IOF expanded the buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip.

 

·               Israeli warplanes bombarded civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip.

 

·               IOF conducted 21 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones into the Gaza Strip.   

-          IOF arrested 14 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, in the West Bank.

 

·               Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

-          Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested a Palestinian woman.

 

·               Israel has continued to take measures aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem.

-          Guards of Israeli settlements attacked Palestinian civilians in Jerusalem.

 

·               IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

-        IOF decided to establish 23 buildings in 8 settlements in the West Bank to be used as classrooms.

-        IOF decided to establish a new secular settlement to the east of Nablus.

-        Israeli settlers uprooted 150 olive trees in Nablus.

 

 

Summary

 

Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (12 – 18 August 2010):

 

Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian resistance activist and wounded a worker in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli human rights defender in the West Bank. 

 

In the Gaza Strip, on 16 August 2010, IOF killed a Palestinian resistance activist during armed clashes in the east of Khan Yunis. 

 

On 14 August 2010, a Palestinian worker was wounded when IOF fired at a number of workers who were collecting raw construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip. 

 

During the reporting period, Israeli warplanes bombarded a number of civilian facilities in the southern and central Gaza Strip.

 

Incursions: During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 21 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 14 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children.  IOF also arrested two Palestinian civilians, 4 Israeli human rights defenders and an international one.

 

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted 3 limited incursions into Palestinian communities, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land.

 

Restrictions on Movement: Israel had continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

 

 

 

The full report is available online at:

http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=6793:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory--24-30-june-2010-&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183

 

 

 

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