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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations - 30 Apr

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (19 – 25 April 2012)
Written by PCHR
Thursday, 26 April 2012



Israeli forces destroy agricultural facilities in Hebron

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

IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
A Palestinian civilian was wounded.
IOF arrested 6 demonstrators, including two photojournalists and two Israeli human rights defenders.
Dozens of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.

IOF conducted 81 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the central Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and a woman.

IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested two fishers, including a child, and confiscated their boat.

Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
IOF arrested 3 Palestinian civilians at various checkpoints in the West Bank.

IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
IOF razed areas of land in Qalandya village near Jerusalem for the purpose of the construction of the annexation wall.
IOF destroyed a barnyard and two water storage tanks in Hebron.
Israeli settlers attacked a school near Nablus.

Read the full report: Weekly_Report_On_Israeli_Human_Rights_Violations_in_the_Occupied_Palestinian_Territory - 30 Apr 2012.pdf

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