Destruction incurred to a sewage plant belonging to the Municipality of al-Nussairat by an Israeli air strike – 19 August 2011
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Gaza Strip
IOF killed 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
5 of the victims are civilians, including two children and a physician.
3 workers we missing when Israeli warplanes bombarded a tunnel in Rafah.
A Palestinian resistance activist died of a previous wound in Gaza City.
14 Palestinians, including 5 children and two women, were wounded by IOF the Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes launched 41 air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip.
A number of civilian buildings and 6 training sites of Palestinian resistance groups were destroyed or damaged.
IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
A Palestinian civilian was wounded and dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.
IOF conducted 27 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
Two Palestinian civilians were wounded by IOF in Hebron and Bethlehem.
IOF arrested 77 Palestinians, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, two journalists, academics and social figures. .
Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on access of Palestinians to Jerusalem during Ramadan Month.
IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
Israeli settlers set fire to two cars and bear two children near Ramallah.
Israeli settlers uprooted 52 fruitful trees in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.
Summary
During the reporting period, IOF launched a new military offensive on the Gaza Strip, which continued for 3 days. They bombarded civilian facilities and training sites of Palestinian resistance groups, and targeted a number of activists of resistance groups. A number of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, were killed were wounded, and a number of civilian facilities were damaged. This offensive came a few hours following armed attacks in the southern Israeli city of Eilat near the Egyptian border, which left 8 Israelis and 7 attackers killed, and injured a number of other Israelis, according to Israeli media reports.
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (18 – 24 August 2011):
Shooting:
During the reporting period, IOF killed 17 Palestinians, including 5 civilians (two children, a physician, a worker and a farmers), in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 20 Palestinians, including 6 children and two women in the Gaza Strip, and 3 others in the West Bank. Additionally, an activist of the Palestinian resistance died of a previous wound in the Gaza Strip.
In the Gaza Strip, a few hours following the armed attack in Eilat, on Thursday evening, IOF extra-judicially executed 5 members of the Popular Resistance Committees and the child of one of them in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
On Friday, 19 August, IOF launched a series of air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. As a result of these attacks, 5 activists of the Palestinian resistance, a physician and a child were killed and 5 Palestinians, including two children and two women, were wounded.
On Saturday, 20 August 2011, 7 Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were wounded by Israeli attacks.
On Sunday, 21 August 2011, a Palestinian child was wounded and a number of civilians sustained bruises.
On Wednesday, 24 August 2011, IOF extra-judicially executed a leader of the Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) in Rafah. A passing child was wounded. On the same day, IOF killed a farmer in al-Boreij refugee camp. They also killed a resistance activist in Gaza City. On the same day, a worker was killed and 4 others were wounded when IOF bombarded a tunnel in Rafah.
In the context of such escalation against the Gaza Strip, IOF launched at least 41 air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. They destroyed or damaged a number of civilian buildings and 6 training sites of Palestinian resistance groups.
Additionally, on 19 August 2011, a resistance activist died from a previous wound he sustained by IOF in Gaza City.
In the West Bank, two Palestinian civilians were wounded by IOF during incursions into Hebron and Bethlehem.
During the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, a Palestinian civilian was wounded and dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation.
Incursions:
During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 27 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 77 Palestinian civilians. Most of the detainees were arrested in Hebron.
In conjunction with the current escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched in the early morning of Sunday, 21 August 2011, a large-scale military campaign against many neighbors and streets and dozens of houses in Hebron. During this campaign, IOF arrested at least 53 Palestinians, mostly members and activists of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, two journalists, some academics and members of charitable associations.
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights
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