NOVANEWS
(08 – 21 September 2016)
Hebron: Nazi Forces Close Entrances to Beit Ommar Village
Photo by: Mohammed Elayan
- Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
- 8 civilians were killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
– Among the killed was a Jordanian person, who was killed in occupied Jerusalem, and 5 children.
– 13 civilians, including 4 children, were wounded in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
- Nazi warplanes carried out 3 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, due to which 2 agricultural rooms and a water well were destroyed.
- Nazi forces targeted the border area along in the northern Gaza Strip and wounded a farmer.
- Nazi forces conducted 116 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 2 limited ones in the southern Gaza Strip.
– 110 civilians, including 31 children and a woman, were arrested.
– 33 of them, including 12 children and the woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
- Nazi forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– A Palestinian civilian was obliged to self-demolish his house while another house was demolished in Beit Hanina neighbourhood.
– A house was vacated for the interest of a settlement organization in the Old City.
- Nazi forces continued settlement activities in the West Bank.
– Settlers set fire to 13 olive trees, east of Qalqilya.
- Nazi forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
– A fisherman was wounded and his boat sustained material damage in the northern Gaza Strip.
– 6 fishermen were arrested off Deir al-Balah shore and their boat was confiscated.
- Nazi forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 9th year.
– Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
– 4 Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints.
– A businessman was arrested at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing.
Summary
Nazi violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (08 – 21 September 2016).
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Nazi forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have also continued to use excessive force against Palestinian civilians participating in peaceful protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the majority of whom were youngsters. During the reporting period, Nazi forces killed 8 civilians, including 5 children and a Jordanian person, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
They also wounded 15 others, including 4 children. Eleven of them were in the West Bank, including 2 girls, while the 4 others were in the Gaza Strip. In the Gaza Strip, Nazi Navy forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen and chase them in the sea, while Nazi land troops continued to target the border area. In addition, Nazi warplanes carried out 3 airstrikes in Gaza.
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