Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

9 - 15 August 2007

Gaza Airport Observation Tower after IOF Bombardment on 9 August 2007

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

8 Palestinians including 3 Civilians killed: 7 by IOF and 1 by Armed Guards of a Religious School in Jerusalem.

An elderly woman and a person with mental health problems killed.

Palestinian from Israel killed by Israeli guards in Jerusalem.

31 Palestinian civilians were wounded by IOF gunfire in the OPT.

8 of the Injured, including 4 children and a French human rights defender, were wounded in the weekly Bal’in Demonstration.

24 injured during an IOF incursion into New Abasan in the southern Gaza Strip.

IOF conducted 32 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 61 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and 1 in the Gaza Strip.

IOF raze 60 Dunums of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip.

IOF bombard the closed Gaza Airport with artillery and heavy machine guns.

IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT, and continues to isolate the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

Severe humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip due to the closure.

IOF positioned at various checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 2 Palestinian civilians.

Israeli settlement activity and attacks by Israeli settlers continue:

IOF military order closes 8 Palestinian shops in Hebron’s old city.

Summary