On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

20 - 26 September 2007

Israeli Occupation Forces continue to demolish houses.



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



13 Palestinians, including a child, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.

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

47 Palestinians, including 12 children and a journalist, were wounded by IOF.

30 of these Palestinians, including 6 children, were wounded by IOF in Beit Hanoun.

IOF shelled space areas and agricultural lands in the Gaza Strip.

IOF conducted 33 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 4 ones into the Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 85 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and 4 ones in the Gaza Strip.

IOF razed 258 donums[1] of agricultural land and demolished 23 houses in the Gaza Strip.

IOF destroyed 2 apartment buildings in Nablus and the neighboring ‘Ein Beit al-Maa’ refugee camp.

IOF used a Palestinian civilian as a human shield in ‘‘Ein Beit al-Maa’ refugee camp.

IOF transformed 3 houses in the West Bank into military sites.

IOF have closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron during the holy Ramadan Month for 3 sporadic days.

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.

Palestinian civilians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been denied access to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

IOF troops arrested 5 Palestinian civilians at checkpoints in the West Bank.

IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attacks Palestinian civilians and property.

Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian child in Hebron and 2 paramedics in Bethlehem.

An Israeli settler stabbed a Palestinian civilian in Jerusalem.

Summary