PCHR weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the OPT (26 June

PCHR weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the OPT (26 June – 02 July 2014)

Israeli settlers kidnapped, tortured and killed a Palestinian Child from Shu’fat neighbourhood in Occupied Jerusalem and mutilated his body.

In two new crimes of extra-judicial execution, 3 members of the armed groups were killed and another one was wounded.

Israeli forces stormed Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

A Palestinian civilian was killed in the north of the West Bank, and an old woman died due to a heart attack when Israeli forces raided her house, south of the West Bank.

19 Palestinian civilians, including the Palestine TV Reporter in occupied Jerusalem, were wounded, and one of them was arrested.
Israeli forces conducted 90 incursions in the West Bank.
3 houses were destroyed in Hebron on the ground of collective punishment.
76 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children, were arrested.
The building of Hend al-Husseini Faculty was raided in occupied Jerusalem.
The equipment of al-Rayyan Dairy Factory was confiscated in Hebron.

Israeli warplanes launched 24 airstrikes on civilian objects and paramilitary training sites in the Gaza Strip. 9 Palestinian civilians, including 3women and 2 children, were wounded by shrapnel, and 3 civilians, including two children, were injured by the flying glass. Moreover, 3 civilians sustained bruises. A chicken barn, greenhouses, a country house, two barracks for fodders and sheep were destroyed, and 3000 chicks died.

Israeli forces continued to fire at the border areas in the Gaza Strips 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded in the southern and central Gaza Strip.

Israel 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 2 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were arrested at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

Israeli naval forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza waters.

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

Settlers attacked Palestinian civilians and their property.
Settlers cut down 15 olive trees in Beit Ummar in the north of Hebron. more

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