Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
[A Palestinian woman waves her national flag in front of Israeli soldier during a peaceful demonstration organized in protest to the construction of the Annexation Wall in al-Ma'sara village, south of Bethlehem] Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). ►Two Palestinian civilians were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank. ►IOF conducted 19 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. ►IOF arrested 29 Palestinian civilians, including two women and a child, in the West Bank. ►IOF stormed houses of a number of activists against the construction of the Annexation Wall. ►Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. ►IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 3 Palestinian civilians (two journalists and a child). ►Israel has continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. ►IOF ordered a number of Palestinian farmers to the east of 'Aqraba village near Nablus to evacuate their property. ►Israeli settlers uprooted 15 olive trees in Deir Nizam village near Ramallah.