N0 36-2009
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Closure on the Gaza Strip
- A Palestinian child was killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
- 6 Palestinian civilians, a resistance activist and an Israeli journalist were wounded by IOF gunfire.
- IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations organized to protest the construction of the Annexation Wall in the West Bank.
- IOF conducted 38 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 5 into the Gaza Strip.
- IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including two children, in the West Bank, and 5 children in the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli naval troops continued to attack Palestinian fishers and fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.
- IOF have continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including two women.
- IOF have continued measures aimed at establishing a Jewish majority in occupied east Jerusalem.
- IOF extended the closure of a Palestinian development center for one year.
- IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
- Israel laid the foundation for a new settlement between "Ma'ale Adomim" settlement and East Jerusalem.
- Israel approved the construction of hundreds of housing units in Israeli settlements.
- IOF destroyed 4 water tanks in Hebron.
Summary
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (03 – 09 September 2009):
Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian child and wounded 6 Palestinian civilian, a resistance activist and an Israeli journalist.
On 04 September 2009, IOF shot dead a Palestinian child in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip, as he was walking with his family towards their farm in the border area.
On 03 September 2009, a Palestinian resistance activist was wounded in fighting during an Israeli military incursion into the east of Gaza City.
On 09 September 2009, a Palestinian civilian was wounded in Beit Hanoun town, when Israeli troops positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at him.
On 03 September 2009, an IOF warplane bombarded a tract of land in 'Abassan village, east of Khan Yunis. The bombardment made a large crater in the area, but no casualties were reported.
In the West Bank, on 03 September 2009, a Palestinian child was injured when a sound bomb left by IOF in Ne'lin village, west of Ramallah, exploded.
IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders to protest the construction of the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; 4 Palestinian civilians, including a journalist and a child, and an Israeli journalist were wounded.
Incursions: During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 38 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted 5 limited incursions into Palestinian communities, during which they leveled areas of previously razed Palestinian land. They also arrested 5 Palestinian children who were grazing animals.
Restrictions on Movement: IOF have continued to impose a tightened closure on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
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