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PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OPT (19– 25 May 2011)

(pic: PCHR - A number of Palestinian evacuate Ramadan al-Daghma who was wounded by Israeli force during a peaceful demonstration in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis, 20 May 2011)

Weekly report from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights

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

· A Palestinian civilian was killed by IOF near the border in the central Gaza Strip.
-A Palestinian civilian was wounded in the east of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip.

· Two Palestinian boys sustained severe burns as a smoke bomb, left by IOF in Hebron, exploded.

· IOF continued to target Palestinian farmers in border areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
-IOF fired at Palestinian farmers in two separate incidents, but no casualties were reported.

· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- Two demonstrators, including an international human rights defender, were wounded.
- IOF arrested 11 demonstrators, including 10 Israeli solidarity activists and an international one.

· IOF conducted 38 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
- IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children.
- The arrested civilians include the mother of Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, who was deported to Syria.

· IOF continued settlement activities and Israeli settlers continued their attacks in the West Bank.
- Israeli settlers caused severe damages to a Palestinian house, southwest of Bethlehem.
- Seventy olive trees in the vicinity of "Qidoumim" settlement, northeast of Qalqilya, were uprooted.
- Three women activists were attacked at Zaatara checkpoint, south of Nablus.

· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the Gaza Strip and tightened the siege on the West Bank.
- IOF arrested at least 3 Palestinians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

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