Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OPT (09– 15 June 2011)

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(pic: Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian civilian during a demonstration against Israeli settlement activities in al-Tawana village, south of Hebron)


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 died of wounds he had sustained during the wide scale Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

- A Palestinian civilian was wounded by IOF in Salfit.

- An old Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- Two Palestinian civilians were wounded.

- IOF arrested 4 Israeli human rights defenders and two Palestinian civilians.

· IOF conducted 50 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.

- IOF arrested 21 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children.

- The detainees include former Palestinian Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Wasfi Qabaha.

· IOF fired at Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.

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

- IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians, including a woman, at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

- IOF violently beat a Palestinian civilian at a military checkpoint near Hebron.

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

- IOF ordered the demolition of a school and two barracks in Salfit.

- IOF ordered stopping the construction of a mosque in Salfit and demolishing another one in Bethlehem.

- IOF destroyed two wells and ordered the demolition of another 3 ones.

- IOF demolished 3 tents and 10 barnyards in Jericho.

- Israeli settlers attacked 5 houses in Hebron.

- Israeli settlers leveled areas of land they had already seized near Hebron.


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