Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the OPT (27 Sep - 3 Oct)

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

A Palestinian fisherman was killed, and his brother was wounded, while they were fishing in the northern Gaza Strip. IOF used force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.

Dozens of protesters sustained bruising and suffered from tear gas inhalation.

IOF conducted 42 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. A Palestinian civilian was wounded in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. IOF arrested 14 Palestinians, 3 of them children, in the West Bank. Jewelry was stolen from a house in Qaryout village, east of Nablus. IOF occupied a house and turned it into a military observation point in Hebron.

Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the oPt and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. IOF established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank. IOF arrested at least 4 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, at military checkpoints in the West Bank. IOF arrested 3 Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip who attempted to enter Israel.

IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank, and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. IOF confiscated 75 dunums of land in Wadi Fouqin, west of Bethlehem, and Israeli settlers pumped wastewater onto the land. IOF began to establish a settlement outpost in an area south of Bethlehem. 60 olive trees were damaged and cut down, and their crops damaged, in Burin, south of Nablus. more