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by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)

Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

(21- 27 June 2018)

Israeli forces continued to use force against Palestinian peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian civilian was killed, and 84 others were wounded, including 11 children, 2 women and a paramedic, in the Gaza Strip.

19 Palestinian civilians were wounded in the West Bank.

Israeli warplanes launched 13 missiles against many targets in the Gaza Strip.

3 civilians were lightly wounded; a car and motorbike were destroyed; and 8 house windows sustained damage.

Israeli forces continued their collective punishment policy.

The external and internal walls of an apartment were demolished in eastern Barta’ah village in Jenin in the northern West Bank.

Israeli forces continued to open fire at the border areas in the Gaza Strip.
A shepherd was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces conducted 61 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 2 limited incursions were conducted in the southern Gaza Strip.

83 civilians, including 4 children and 2 women, were arrested in the West Bank.

22 of them, including 2 children and a woman, were arrested in Jerusalem.

Israeli authorities continued to create a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.

5 commercial facilities were demolished in Hizmah in addition to an iron fence in al-Tour and a parking in Silwan. Meanwhile, an agricultural land was levelled in al-‘Issawiyah.

3 families were forced to self-demolish their houses in Silwan and Sour Baher while a house was demolished in Beit Hanina.

3 shooting incidents were reported against the Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Sea, but no casualties were reported.

3 fishermen were arrested while their boat sustained severe damage.

Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 11th consecutive year.

Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.

10 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were arrested at the military checkpoints in the West Bank.


Summary

Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (21 – 27 June 2018).

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Israeli forces continued to use lethal force against Palestinian civilians, who participated in peaceful demonstrations organized within the activities of the “Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege” in the Gaza Strip, which witnessed for the 12th week in a row peaceful demonstrations along the eastern and northern Gaza Strip border area. During the reporting period in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 88 others, including 11 children, 2 women, a journalist and paramedic. Ten of those wounded sustained serious wounds. In the West Bank, the Israeli forces wounded 19 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children and a woman.
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