Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations - Apr 12-18

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12 – 18 April 2012)
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Thursday, 19 April 2012

Israeli security forces fire tear gas towards Palestinian protesters during clashes outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah April 17, 2012.

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

IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
15 demonstrators, including two children and two Israeli human rights defenders, were wounded.
Dozens of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.

Two Palestinian civilians, including a woman, were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.

IOF conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one into the central Gaza Strip.

IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested 3 fishermen and confiscated their boat.

Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
IOF arrested 7 Palestinian civilians at various checkpoints in the West Bank.

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