On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

14 - 20 February 2008

Attempts to offer first medical aid to a person who was wounded during clashes with IOF in Bal’ein village, west of Ramallah.

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks against Palestinian Civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Launching Intense Air Strikes against Gaza Strip Targets

20 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip. In addition, one Palestinian was extra-judicially executed in the West Bank.

8 of the victims, including 3 children and an elderly man, were killed during a series of air strikes.

5 of the victims were killed by IOF in Khan Yunis.

28 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and an international human rights defender, were injured by IOF gunfire.

IOF escalated air strikes against civilian targets in the Gaza Strip

3 workshops and 2 buildings of the Ministry of Interior were destroyed.

IOF conducted 36 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 2 into the Gaza Strip.

IOF arrested 67 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, and three civilians in the Gaza Strip.

4 houses were transformed into IOF military sites.

IOF seized properties of the Islamic Charity and the Islamic Youth Association in Hebron.

IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT.

4 Palestinian civilians were arrested by IOF at various checkpoints in the West Bank.

IOF confiscated 900 donums of agricultural land in villages located southwest of Hebron for the purpose of further constructing the Annexation Wall.

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

IOF demolished a house in East Jerusalem.

Summary