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Violations du Droit international par “l’armée !!” d’occupation israélienne
Samedi, 21 mai 2011 - 17h09
Saturday 21 May 2011
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On the 63rd Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Their Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)
· Two Palestinian children were killed in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The child who was killed in the Gaza Strip was mentally disabled and was killed by a shell fired by IOF.
A child in the West Bank sustained serious wounds by the explosion of a suspicious object left by IOF.
. IOF used excessive force against peaceful demonstrations commemorating the Palestinian Nakba.[1]
144 civilians were wounded in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The wounded include 47 children, 5 women and 4 journalists.
· IOF continued to target Palestinian fishermen at Gaza sea.
IOF fired at Palestinian fishing boats, but no casualties were reported.
· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests against the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank.
Three demonstrators, including a child and an international human rights defender, were wounded.
IOF arrested 10 demonstrators, including 2 Israeli solidarity activists.
· IOF conducted 20 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children.
· IOF continued settlement activities and Israeli settlers continued their attacks in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians and property.
IOF raided the Orphanage School in al-Thawri neighborhood of the occupied East Jerusalem and terrorized the students in the school.
· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the Gaza Strip and tightened the siege on the West Bank.
IOF arrested at least 4 Palestinians at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
IOF imposed a total closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on the anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
Summary
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (12 – 18 May 2011):
Shooting:
During the reporting period, IOF killed two Palestinian children. One of the children was willfully killed in Jerusalem while the other, who is mentally diabled, was killed in the Gaza Strip due to the use of excessive lethal force. IOF also wounded 148 civilians, including 49 children and an international solidarity activist. Of the wounded, 144 ones were wounded when IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, 3 civilians were wounded in peaceful protests against settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall. A Palestinian child was also wounded by the explosion of a suspicious object left by IOF.
In the West Bank, on 13 May 2011, IOF killed a Palestinian boy in cold blood in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. The child was killed when a bullet was shot at him from the direction of two houses which were occupied earlier by Israeli settlers in the center of Silwan. They boy was walking on a dirt road and was between 10 and 15 meters from the two houses when he was shot. It should be noted that members of a private security agency and members of the Israeli Border Guards provide protection to settlers who has seized two houses.
In the Gaza Strip, on 15 May 2011, IOF used excessive lethal force to kill a mentally disabled Palestinian child near Nahal Oz border crossing, east of Gaza City. The child was killed by a shell fired at him by IOF. Medical crews found the child’s body nearly 300 meters to the west of Nahal Oz crossing. The body was taken to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to statements given to a PCHR fieldworker by the forensic medicine department, the boy was hit by shrapnel from a shell to the chest and the head.
On 15 May 2011, IOF used excessive force to disperse participants in peaceful demonstrations commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. As a result, 144 Palestinian civilians, including 47 children, 5 women and 4 children, were wounded. In the Gaza Strip, 105 people were wounded, including 31 children, 3 women and 3 journalists. In the West Bank, 38 civilians were wounded, including 16 children, 2 women and a journalist. PCHR strongly condemns the use of excessive force against peaceful demonstrations in the OPT and calls upon the international community to immediately take action to compel the Israeli government to stop its systematic crimes against Palestinian civilians.
IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, three demonstrators, including a child and an international solidarity activist, were wounded. In addition, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders participating in peaceful protests in the West Bank suffered from tear gas inhalation and bruises as they were beaten by IOF.
On 13 May 2011, a Palestinian child was seriously wounded by the explosion of a suspicious object left by IOF in the Jordan Valley in the northeast of the West Bank.
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