Friday, August 7, 2009

Weekly Report: July 30-Aug 5, 2009

PCHR

Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Closure on the Gaza Strip

  • 3 international human rights defenders and a Palestinian journalist were injured when Israeli Forces used force against peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the Annexation Wall in the West Bank.

  • Israeli Forces conducted 31 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

  • Israeli Forces arrested 25 Palestinian civilians, including two children, and an American human rights defender in the West Bank.

  • Israeli Forces have continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

  • Israeli troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child.

  • Israeli Forces have continued measures aimed at establishing a Jewish majority in occupied east Jerusalem.

  • Israeli Forces seized houses belonging to Palestinian civilians living in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and handed them over to Israeli settlers; 52 Palestinian civilians, including 25 children, have become homeless.

  • Israeli Forces ordered the demolition of 5 houses in al-Bustan neighborhood.

  • Israeli Forces have continued illegal settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

  • Israeli settlers continued their attempts to seize more Palestinian land.

  • Israeli settlers razed and set fire to areas of agricultural land in the West Bank. Full story