Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report

An Israeli military checkpoint at the northern entrance of Hebron

14 - 20 June 2007

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

• 14 Palestinians, including 5 children, were killed by IOF in the OPT.
  
• One of the victims was extra-judicially executed by IOF in Tulkarm.
  
• 5 children were killed in al-Shouka village in the southern Gaza Strip when they played with an object left by IOF.
  
• 31 civilians, including 11 children, 2 women and an American journalist, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
  
• IOF conducted 32 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 2 incursions into the Gaza Strip.
  
• IOF arrested 50 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and 2 others in the Gaza Strip.
  
• IOF transformed 2 houses into military sites in ‘Azzoun village, east of Qalqilya.
  
• IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT.
  
• IOF have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world and a humanitarian crisis is likely to emerge.
  
• IOF positioned at various checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 3 Palestinian civilians.
  
• IOF have continued settlement activities and Israeli settlers have continued to attacks Palestinian civilians and property in the West Bank.
  
• IOF demolished a house in Jerusalem.
  
• Israeli settlers burnt dozens of olive trees in the south of Tulkarm.

Summary