On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

4- 10 October 2007

The suffering of Palestinian civilians at Israeli military checkpoints.


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



A Palestinian was killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian died from a wound he had sustained during an extra-judicial execution attempt carried out by IOF.
17 Palestinians, including 8 children, were wounded by IOF.
IOF carried out 2 extra-judicial executions against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but they failed.
IOF conducted 21 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 ones into the Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested 34 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
IOF razed at least 100 donums[1] of agricultural land and destroyed a number of civilian facilities in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun.
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 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, at checkpoints in the West Bank.
IOF confiscated at least 1,130 donums of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem to construct new sections of the Annexation Wall.
IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attacks Palestinian civilians and property.
IOF started to establish a road for settlers inside Palestinian communities in the north of Jerusalem.


Summary