Friday, June 06, 2008

Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 23/2008 (29 May - 04 June 2008)

uruknet.info, June 5, 2008

PCHR (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights)

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A number of Palestinian civilians who were arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces during an incursion into the Gaza Strip


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

· An elderly Palestinian woman was killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.

· A Palestinian civilian died from previous injuries.

· 12 Palestinians, including 8 civilians, were wounded by IOF in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

· IOF conducted 33 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 5 ones into the Gaza Strip.

· IOF razed 295 donums[1] of agricultural in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.

· IOF completely demolished one house, and partially demolished five others in the southern Gaza Strip.

· IOF arrested 43 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, in the West Bank, and detained 11 others in the Gaza Strip.

· IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT.

· IOF have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

· 2 Palestinian civilians were arrested by IOF at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

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

· Ehud Olmert gave a green line for the construction of 884 housing units for settlers in Occupied East Jerusalem.


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