NOVANEWS
(17 – 23 March 2016)
Jerusalem – Nazi Forces Demolish Commercial Store Belonging to Khader Ebeidat in al-Mukaber Mount.
- ·Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
– 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed in the West Bank.
– 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded in the Gaza Strip.
- ·Nazi forces continued to target the border areas along the Gaza Strip, due to which, a shepherd was wounded.
- ·Nazi forces conducted 69 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones in the southern Gaza Strip.
– 61 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a woman, were arrested. Thirty of them, including 2 children and the woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
– Nazi forces raided the Zakat Committee office in Qabatya and the Arab American University in Jenin.
- ·Nazi forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– Nazi forces suspended the financial allocations (national insurance) of 3 Palestinian prisoners, whom were accused of the killing of a settler.
– 2 underconstruction houses were demolished by Nazi forces and a family was obliged to self-demolish its house.
- ·Settlement activities continued in the West Bank.
– 6 commercial stores in the central market in Beita village, south of Nablus, were demolished.
– The house of the only eyewitness to the arson attack against Dawabsha family in Douma village, southeast of Nablus, caught fire too.
- ·Nazi forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
- ·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.
– 5 Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints.
– Nazi forces closed Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, north of the Gaza Strip, for Jewish Holidays.
Summary
Nazi violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (17 – 23 March 2016).
Shooting:
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 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank and 4 others in the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, Nazi forces killed 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child. Two of them were killed at “Ariel” settlement intersection, north of Salfit; one was killed at “Gosh Etzion” Nazi Jewish settlement intersection, south of Bethlehem; while the child was killed at Abu al-Reesh military checkpoint in the centre of Hebron.
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http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=7977
