Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (02- 15 October 2014)

Israeli forces continue systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

•2 Palestinian civilians died of wounds they sustained during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

•Israeli forces continued to open fire at border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- A worker collecting metal pieces and stones was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip.

•7 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children and a woman, were wounded in different shooting incidents in the West Bank.

- 3 children were wounded while mishandling a sound bomb of the Israeli weapons' remnants.

•Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- A child and a photographer of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Settlement Activities were wounded in al-Nabi Saleh village.

•Israeli forces conducted 55 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

- 51 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, were arrested in the West Bank.

- 13 of those civilians, including 3 children, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.

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

- Israeli forces established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank.

- At least 5 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were arrested at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

- A Palestinian civilian was arrested at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, north of the Gaza Strip.

•Israeli navy forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip sea.

- Israeli navy forces opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats 5 times in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.

•Israeli forces continued to support settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- 124 olive trees were cut-off and burnt in the northern West Bank.

- Israeli settlers set fire to Abu Baker al-Seddiq Mosque in Aqraba village, southeast of Nablus.

Summary

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (02– 15 October2014).

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During the reporting period, 2 Palestinian civilians died of wounds they sustained during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip and a worker collecting metal pieces and stones in the northern Gaza Strip was wounded. In the West Bank, 12 Palestinian civilians were wounded , including 6 and a woman who was wounded in East Jerusalem.

In the Gaza Strip, on 10 October 2014, medical sources at Shifa Hospital pronounced Arafat Tafesh (30) dead due to wounds he sustained on 30 July 2014 during the Israeli offensive.

On 11 October 2014, medical sources at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis pronounced Jamal Abu Lebdah (50) dead of wounds he sustained on 03 August 2014 during the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

On the same day, a worker collecting metal pieces and stones was wounded when Israeli forces stationed along the border in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a group of workers near the border.

In the context of targeting fishermen, on 10 October 2014, Israeli gunboats opened fire thrice at Palestinian fishing boats sailing off al-Waha resort in the northern Gaza Strip, and off Rafah shore in the southern Gaza Strip.

On 11 and 13 October, Israeli gunboats opened fire at fishing boats off al-Waha resort and off Rafah shore respectively. However, neither casualties nor material damage were reported.

In the West Bank, 4 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were wounded in Nablus when Israeli forces moved into the city and its refugee camps to secure settlers who went to Joseph Tomb area to perform religious rituals.

On 14 October 2014, a civilian sustained a bullet wound to the face in al-Fare'ah refugee camp, south of Tubas, while a pregnant woman sustained injured in the chest as a window was broken due to the explosion of sound bomb around her house.

On the same day, 3 children from Beit Za'tah area in the east of Beit Ommar village, north of Hebron, sustained moderate wounds to their hands due to the explosion of a sound bomb of the Israeli weapons' remnants around their houses.

On 15 October 2014, a Palestinian woman was wounded when Israeli forces moved into various areas in East Jerusalem's Old City after worshipers had went out of the al-Aqsa mosque in which they gathered to prevent settlers from raiding the mosque on the last day of the Jewish Sukkot holiday. Israeli forces fired sound bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at the worshipers, due to which, a 22-year old woman sustained a bullet wound to the back and her 17-year-old brother sustained a fracture to the leg.

Israeli forces used excessive force against peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians, international and Israeli human rights defenders in protest at the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. As a result, a 15-year-old male was hit by a sound bomb to the face and a 48-year-old male sustained burns to the face as Israeli forces sprayed pepper spray on his face during al-Nabi Saleh weekly protest. It should be noted that he is the photographer of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Settlement Activities in the said village.

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