Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations

Israeli forces continue systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

•Israeli forces killed Director of the Palestinian Authority Commission against the Annexation Wall and Settlement Activity, Minister Ziad Abu 'Ain, on the International Day of Human rights.

•Israeli forces continued to open fire at border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- 2 Palestinian civilians were wounded in the north of the Gaza Strip.

- 6 Palestinian civilians, including 2 brothers, a woman and 3 girls, were wounded due to the explosion of 2 objects of Israeli military remnants in the Gaza Strip.

•Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child and a photojournalist of Palestine TV, were wounded during peaceful protests against the annexation wall and settlement activity.

- 11 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, were wounded during other protests.

•Israeli forces conducted 64 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the southern Gaza Strip.

- 93 Palestinian civilians, including 13 children and 3 women, were arrested in the West Bank.

- 30 of these civilians, including 9 children and 2 women, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.

- 2 Palestinian civilians were arrested while attempting to infiltrate into Israel via the border fence.

•Israel continued to impose a total closure on the oPt and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

- Israeli forces established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank.

- At least 8 Palestinian civilians, including a girl, were arrested at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

•Israeli navy forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip sea.

- Israeli navy forces arrested 12 fishermen, seized 5 fishing boats and damaged fishing tools and equipment.

•Israeli forces continued their measures to create Jewish majority in occupied Jerusalem.

- 5 Palestinian civilians were deported out of Jerusalem for 5 months.

- Settlers attacked 2 Palestinian civilians while being in their work in West Jerusalem.

•Israeli forces continued to support settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- Israeli settlers cut off 60 olive seedlings in Aqraba village, southeast of Nablus

Summary

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (04 – 10 December 2014).

Shooting:

During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed Ziad Abu ‘Ain, Director of the Palestinian Authority Commission against the Annexation Wall and Settlement Activity and member of the Revolutionary Council in Fatah movement. Israeli forces also wounded 16 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; 14 of whom, including the 7 children and a photojournalist, were wounded in the West Bank; while the other two ones were wounded in the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, 3 girls and a woman were wounded due to the explosion of suspicious objects of the Israeli military remnants in the family house in the Gaza Strip, and 2 brothers were wounded in similar incident in the south of the Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, in a new crime on 10 December 2014, Ziad Abu ‘Ain (55), Director of the Palestinian Authority Commission against the Annexation Wall and Settlement Activity and member of the Revolutionary Council in Fatah movement, after Israeli soldiers attacked him.

In the same context, 10 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children, were wounded during protests organized in protest at Israeli soldiers' and settlers' attacks in al-Aqsa mosque particularly and Israeli attacks in oPt generally.

In the Gaza Strip, on 04 December 2014, 4 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and 3 girls, were wounded due to the explosion of a suspicious object of Israeli military remnants during the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

On 05 December 2014, in excessive use of force, Israeli forces wounded 2 Palestinian civilians near the border fence, east of Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip.

In the context of targeting fishermen in the Gaza Strip sea, Israeli gunboats opened fire twice at Palestinian fishing boats sailing within the allowed fishing. Moreover, Israeli navy forces arrested 12 fishermen and took them to an unknown destination, seized 5 fishing boats and damaged other fishing tools.

The full report is available online at:

http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10775:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-04-10-december-2014-&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183

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