Monday, November 9, 2009

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

Yatta, Hebron - a Palestinian farmer checking his olive trees after Israeli settlers had uprooted them

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Blockade on the Gaza Strip

· Three civilians in the West bank and the Gaza Strip sustained bullet wounds when IOF fired at them.

· 12 civilians, including 2 cameramen, 8 women, sustained injuries and bruises when IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations in the West Bank.

· IOF conducted 15 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and a one into the Gaza Strip.

· IOF arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including one child, in the West Bank, and a wounded civilian from the Gaza Strip.

· Israeli naval troops continued to attack Palestinian fishermen and boats in the Gaza Strip.

· IOF have increased measures aimed at creating a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.

· IOF demolished 4 houses in Jerusalem and displaced 34 individuals.

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

· IOF razed 14 donums of agricultural land and destroyed 1,000 meters of retaining walls surrounding Palestinian lands and 300 meters of irrigation networks in Hebron.

· IOF delivered new demolition notices to Palestinian houses in Hebron.

· IOF have continued to impose a total blockade on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

· IOF deported a Palestinian student from Bethlehem University to the Gaza Strip.

· IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 2 Palestinian civilians at least.

· IOF have continued to maltreat Palestinian civilians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2008/05-11-2009.htm

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