giovedì 26 luglio 2007

19-25/07/07. PCHR Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)


· 4 Palestinians were killed by IOF & a 5th Dies of Wounds in the Gaza Strip.


o IOF Commit two failed Extra-judicial executions.


· 11 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children and an elderly, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank.


o 6 of the Injured were wounded in the weekly Bal’in Demonstration, and 5 were wounded in Ein Beit El-Ma’ Refugee Camp west of Nablus.


· IOF conducted 29 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.


· IOF arrested 38 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and 35 in the Gaza Strip.


· IOF raze tens of Dunums of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip.


· IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT, and continues to isolate the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

o Severe humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip due to the closure.


o 6,000 Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the Gaza Strip border for 6 weeks. The number of travelers who died in Egypt so far is 16.


o IOF positioned at various checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 2 Palestinian civilians.

· Israeli settlement activity and attacks by Israeli settlers continue:


o Palestinian house demolished in Asakra village east of Bethlehem.


o Settlers set fire to farms in the West Bank


Public Document

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