Thursday, March 10, 2011

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (03-09 Mar. 2011)


7 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded by IOF and Israeli settlers in Qasra village, southeast of Nablus.

· IOF launched a series of air strikes against civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.

- A car was bombarded, and 4 offices, stores and 12 flats were damaged in Nussairat refugee camp.
- Two rooms were destroyed and 6 houses were damaged in al-Zawaida village. 

· IOF continued to target Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats in the northern Gaza Strip.

· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.
- 4 Palestinian civilians, including two children, and an international solidarity activist, were wounded.
- Two journalists suffered from tear gas inhalation.

· IOF conducted 42 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.  
- IOF arrested 10 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- Israeli soldiers positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 4 Palestinian civilians, including a woman.
- IOF closed al-Mentar (Karni) crossing completely.

· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- IOF demolished an agricultural barrack in Beit Uammar town near Hebron.
- IOF delivered notices to 12 Palestinian civilians in Jenin and Hebron ordering them to stop construction of a number structures.
- Israeli settlers transported large amounts of mud to Arats village near Bethlehem and damaged large areas of Palestinian agricultural land.
- Israeli settlers continued to throw stones at Palestinian civilian vehicles on the main roads in the West Bank.

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