Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations 10 -16 May

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (10– 16 May 2012)

Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00

Fire breaks out in olive field near the annexation wall in Bel’in village near Ramallah as Israeli forces fired at a Palestinian peaceful protest, 11 May 2012

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.
16 Palestinian civilians, including 3 journalists, were wounded in peaceful protests organized in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
30 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were wounded in peaceful demonstration organized on the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
Dozens of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.
IOF arrested 5 demonstrators, including a Polish human rights defender.

IOF conducted 41 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
IOF arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested two fishermen 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 two 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.
Israeli settlers uprooted 15 grape saplings and seized 6 dunums of agricultural land in al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem.
Israeli settlers uprooted 14 trees in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.

Read the Full Report here:
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