Thursday, February 3, 2011

Weekly Report: Israeli forces killed two civilians, conducted 31 incursions, arrested 23 civilians including 7 children, etc

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

• Two Palestinian civilians were killed and a third one was wounded by Israeli settlers in Nablus and Hebron.

• A Palestinian child was killed in the Gaza Strip by the explosion of a mysterious object apparently left by IOF.

• IOF continued to target Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.


- A Palestinian worker was wounded.

• IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- A Palestinian child was wounded.

• Israeli warplanes bombarded a tunnel on the Egyptian border south of Rafah.

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

- IOF arrested 23 Palestinian civilians, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and 7 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 3 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

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

- Israeli settlers burnt a car belonging to a Palestinian civilian south of Nablus... Read entire report