Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Gaza City) PCHR

Friday, 15 December 2006

The PCHR issued its report for the week of 7 through 13 December outlining human rights abuses in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces arrested 40 Palestinians this week, including six children and attacked two radio stations. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights photo that accompanied the weekly report ran with the caption, "Thousands of Palestinian civilians waiting for the Rafah border crossing to open." The full text of the report follows: Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) Two Palestinian couple were killed by the explosion of a mysterious object from the remainders of IOF. A Palestinian woman died from a heart attack when IOF detonated a sound bomb inside her house. 11 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded by IOF. IOF conducted 27 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF arrested 40 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children. IOF raided offices of two local radio stations in Hebron. An IOF bloodhound bit and injured a Palestinian woman in Nablus. IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside the West Ban; IOF have continued to construct a section of the Wall in ‘Azzoun ‘Atma village, south of Qalqilya. Summary Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law continued in the OPT during the reported period (7 – 13 December 2006): Killing: During the reported period, a Palestinian couple were killed in Sa’ir village, northeast of Hebron, and their child was seriously wounded on 9 December 2006, when a mysterious object exploded in junks collected by the husband from an area used by IOF as a training site. On 12 December 2006, a 56-year-old Palestinian woman died from a heart attack when IOF detonated a sound bombs inside her house. On 10 December 2006, a Palestinian child was wounded in al-Fara’a refugee camp, southeast of Jenin, when IOF fired at a number of children who demonstrated against them. In the Gaza Strip, in violation of the truce between IOF and the Palestinian side, IOF fired at a number of Palestinian civilians, wounding 10 of them. On 7 December 2006, 4 Palestinian civilians, including two brothers, were wounded in separate incidents of shooting by IOF in the northern Gaza Strip. On 8 December 2006, two Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded when IOF fired at a number of Palestinian civilians who were searching for wires and metals in the northern Gaza Strip. On 10 December 2006, IOF fired at a Palestinian civilian who was farming his land in the northern Gaza Strip, wounding him seriously. On 13 December 2006, an IOF gunboat opened fire at a fishing boat opposite to Rafah seashore, wounding 3 Palestinian fishermen, including two brothers. Continued...