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Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (22-28 April 2010) Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:00 Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (22-28 April 2010) Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:00 Israeli Occupation Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) • Two Palestinian civilians were killed in the West Bank in a new extra-judicial assassination. • 20 Palestinian civilians, including three children, 4 women, 3 international human rights defenders and 2 cameramen, were wounded in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. • Israeli forces continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in border areas of the Gaza Strip, and continued to harass Palestinian fishermen at sea. • Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. • Israeli forces conducted 27 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 4 in the Gaza Strip. • Israeli forces arrested 45 civilians, including 14 children, 2 women, 2 cameramen including an Israeli cameraman, 5 Israeli solidarity activists and 2 Palestinian activists, in the West Bank. • Israeli forces continued to harass members of the popular committees against the Annexation Wall and to threaten them with arrest. • Israeli forces have continued measures aiming at creating a Jewish majority in occupied east Jerusalem • Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and to isolate the Gaza Strip from the outside world. • Israel has continued its settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. • Families in "al-Musafer" area, south of Hebron, were delivered notices ordering them to leave the area. • 70 dunums cultivated with grapes in Beit Ummar village were sunk with sewage water. • 20 olive trees were uprooted in Deir Estia in Salfit. Summary Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law continued in the OPT during the reporting period (22 – 28 April 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in the West Bank, and wounded 20 civilians, including 17 civilians in the West Bank and 3 civilians in the Gaza Strip. The wounded included 3 children, 4 women, 3 international human rights defenders and 2 cameramen. In the West Bank, on 26 April 2010, in a crime – which constitutes an extrajudicial execution – Israeli forces killed Ali Isma'el Swaiti, 45, in Beit 'Awwa in the West Bank district of Hebron, claiming that he had been wanted for several years. Swaiti was killed after the house he was in was demolished; five other Palestinians were wounded, including a child and a young woman. The Israeli spokesperson said that Swaiti had been wanted by the Israeli Security Service for eight years, as he was held responsible for carrying out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets near Hebron Israeli forces also used excessive force against peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders against the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. Twelve protesters, including an Israeli and an Italian solidarity activists, 2 children and one woman, were wounded as a result of the use of excessive force. Also a number of protesters suffered suffocation from gas inhalation or suffered bruises because they were beaten by Israeli forces. Ms. Luisa Morgantini, the former Vice-President of the European Parliament, was one of the protesters who fainted. In the Gaza Strip, on 24 April 2010, three civilians, including two women, one of them an international solidarity activist, were wounded and an old man was shocked when Israeli soldiers who were in their military jeep inside the border strip with Israel, east of Central Gaza, fired bullets at a peaceful demonstration organized by the Popular Committee against the Wall as the participants approached the border strip east of al-Maghazi refugee camp. On 25 April 2010, Israeli forces positioned in watchtowers near Beit Hanoun "Erez" crossing fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting stones and iron bars from the debris of the industrial zone, southwest of Beit Hanoun crossing. Israeli forces fired sporadically for 30 minutes, forcing the workers to flee the area in. No casualties were reported. On 28 April 2010, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in the east of el-Shaja'eya neighborhood, in the eastern Gaza City. This boy was a participant in a peaceful demonstration organized in condemnation of the security belt along the border line in the east of the city. When the demonstration reached Nahal 'Oz crossing, a 150 meters from the borders, some participants stoned the Israeli troops stationed at the borders, as a result, they opened fire towards the participants. The said boy was wounded by a bullet to the right thigh, and was pronounced dead a few hours later. Incursions: During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 27 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Israeli forces arrested 45 Palestinian civilians, including two women and 14 children, one of whom is 13 years old. Israeli forces also arrested 5 persons, including a cameraman from al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper, an Israeli cameraman and three international solidarity activists, in the weekly peaceful demonstration organized in Bal'ein village. The arrested were transported to an Israeli interrogation center in "Na'leh" settlement, west of Ramallah. They were release on Saturday morning, 24 April 2010. Israeli forces also arrested 3 participants in a vigil organized by "Youth Against Settlements" in protest against the continued closure of al-Shuhada street in the center of Hebron. The arrested are Issa 'Amr, 30, a member of Youth Against Settlements and two Israeli professors, Amiel Vardi and Jonathan Pollack. On 25 April 2010, 6 persons, including a child, from Selwan town in the southern old town of Jerusalem, were arrested while they were protesting against a demonstration organized by the settlers to claim the demolishment of 216 houses belonging to the Palestinians in the said town. Thus, during the reporting period, the number of the arrested persons reached 45, including 6 non-Palestinians. PCHR notes that through its observation of human rights violations committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, it is clear that Israeli forces are intentionally mistreating Palestinian civilians and terrorizing them while raiding their houses. Palestinian property and houses are also being intentionally damaged or destroyed. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces conducted 4 limited incursions as follows: On 22 April 2010, Israeli forces moved approximately 500 meters into the east of 'Abasan village, east of Khan Younis. Israeli forces bulldozed and leveled agricultural lands. At approximately 13:00 on the same day, Israeli forces moved to the south along the border strip and bulldozed agricultural lands in Khza'a village. Israeli forces then withdrew. On 25 April 2010, Israeli forces moved approximately 300 meters into the east of al-Qarara village, east of Khan Younis. They bulldozed and leveled agricultural lands in the area before withdrawing. Also on 25 April 2010, Israeli forces moved into al-Farahin neighborhood in 'Abasan village, east of Khan Younis. Israeli occupation forces bulldozed and leveled agricultural lands. Israeli forces moved to the south along the border strip and bulldozed agricultural lands in Khza'a village, before withdrawing. On 27 April 2010, Israeli ground forces, including 30 soldiers, moved approximately 200 meters into the north of the industrial zone, which is to the west of Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, in the northwest of Beit Hanoun town, in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli troops fired at a group of Palestinian workers who were collecting stones and iron bars from the debris in the area to force them to flee the area. Restrictions on Movement: Israeli forces have 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. Gaza Strip Israel had continuously closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for more than two and a half years. The illegal Israeli- imposed closure of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. • On Friday, 01 January 2010, Israeli forces decided to close Nahal Ouz crossing permanently, and to only allow the entry of fuels through Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, southeast of Rafah, claiming security reasons. • 1.5 million people are being denied their basic rights, including freedom of movement, and their rights to appropriate living conditions, work, health and education. • The main concern of the population of the Gaza Strip is to obtain their basic needs of food, medicines, water and electricity supplies. • Israel has continued to prevent the entry of raw construction materials into the Gaza Strip for more than two and a half years. • Israel has not allowed fuel supplies into the Gaza Strip, excluding limited amounts of cooking gas and energy fuel for Gaza Power Plant, since 10 December 2008. • The Rafah International Crossing Point has been opened for a few days for a number of patients who received medical treatment abroad and needed to return home to the Gaza Strip. • Israel had continued to close Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing to Palestinian civilians wishing to travel to the West Bank and Israeli for medical treatment, trade or social visits. • Israel has imposed additional access restrictions on international diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers seeking to enter the Gaza Strip. They have prevented representatives of several international humanitarian organizations from entering the Gaza Strip. • Living conditions amongst the Palestinian civilian population have seriously deteriorated; levels of poverty and unemployment are among the highest in the world.
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