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In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 13 – 19 October 2011, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that in the past week, Israeli forces conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. Dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation. 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, sustained bruises in Hebron.

Israeli attacks in the West Bank:

Over the last week, Israeli forces abducted 12 Palestinians, including two children, in 47 separate invasions.

Israeli soldiers abducted 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, at various checkpoints in the West Bank.

Israel has continued measures aimed at creating a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. The Israeli government plans to establish a new settlement neighborhood between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and 950 dunums of Palestinian land will be confiscated for this purpose. The Israeli government published an advertisement in Israeli newspapers concerning the new neighborhood to enable people to appeal against its establishment. The daily newspaper reported that the land on which the neighborhood would be established is “a state land” and if no objections were presented against the establishment of the neighborhood within 60 days, the Israeli government would issue construction licenses for the neighborhood. According to Khalil al-Taufakji, a Palestinian maps and settlement expert, the new settlement plan would lead to the confiscation of at least 950 dunums of Palestinian land in the south of Jerusalem and the north of Bethlehem.

On 16 October 2011, Israeli forces attacked Palestinian civilians, including school children, who organized a peaceful sit-in in protest to Israeli measures banning teachers and school children from going to Cordoba School in Hebron. As a result, 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, sustained bruises.

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