On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

16 - 22 August 2007

Target of IOF Extra-judicial Execution in El-Bureij on 9 August 2007

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


16 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

10 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF.

18 Palestinians were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

IOF conducted 30 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and two ones into the Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 44 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank.

IOF shelled fishing boats and arrested 8 Palestinian fishermen in Rafah.

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 has emerged.

Summary