Thursday, October 7, 2010

Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in Occupied Territories

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

· IOF willfully [shot] a Palestinian worker in occupied Jerusalem.

· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. - A Palestinian child was wounded.

· IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers an farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- A worker was wounded.

· IOF conducted 18 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and a limited one into the Gaza Strip.

- IOF arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including a judge and a child.

· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

- Israeli troops stationed at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested at least two Palestinian civilians.

· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- Israeli began to build 350 housing units in a number of settlements in the West Bank.

- IOF delivered noticed ordering the demolition of a number of houses in Far'oun village, south of Tulkarm.

- Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Beit Fajjar village, south of Bethlehem. Read more