02/08/10

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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). A child was wounded in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. IOF fired bullets and projectiles from the ground, air and sea at civilians and civil targets in the Gaza Strip. IOF conducted 19 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF arrested 20 Palestinian civilians and an American human rights defender in the West Bank. IOF stormed houses of a number of activists working against the construction of the Annexation Wall. IOF naval troops have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip. IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world. IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested one Palestinian civilian. Israel has continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. IOF closed off 150 donums in Beit Ummar and prevented civilians from accessing them. The corner stone was laid for a new settlement compound in Hebron. A Palestinian civilian was forced to demolish a room of his house in the old city of Jerusalem. Israeli settlers seized one floor of a building belonging to a Palestinian family.

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