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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations 26 April

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 April – 02 May 2012)

Thursday, 03 May 2012


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

IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.

10 Palestinian civilians were wounded.

Dozens of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.

IOF opened fire at Palestinian communities in the Gaza Strip.

Two Palestinian civilians were wounded.

Some areas of agricultural land in the southern Gaza Strip were burnt.

IOF conducted 60 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 9 limited ones into the Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 29 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, in the West Bank.

IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 6 fishers, including a child, and confiscated their boat.

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

IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians at various checkpoints in the West Bank.

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IOF have continued efforts to create a Jewish demographic majority in East Jerusalem.

Israeli occupation authorities plan to establish hotels in “Givat Hamatos” settlement neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Israeli occupation authorities ordered the demolition of 7 houses in al-Bustan quarter in Silwan village to the south of the old town of Jerusalem.

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

IOF demolished two animal farms and an agricultural pool in Hebron.

IOF demolished an under-construction house and ordered demolition of another 6 houses in Qalqilya.

Israeli settlers attacked a school on ‘Ourif village, south of Nablus.

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