NOVANEWS
(24– 30 March 2016)
- Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
- 2 Palestinian civilians were wounded and then shot dead in Hebron, south of the Gaza Strip.
– 6 Palestinian civilians were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Nazi forces continued to target the border areas along the Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
- Nazi forces conducted 83incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one in the central Gaza Strip.
– 76 Palestinian civilians, including 27 children and 2 women, were arrested.
– Fifteen of them, including 9 children and a woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
– A Palestinian from Rafah was arrested in mysterious circumstances.
- Nazi forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– A room and a playground in Silwan village were demolished, paving the way for the confiscation of 14 dunums for the interest of “national parks”.
- Nazi Jewish Settlement activities continued in the West Bank.
– A house, a farm, a playground and 2 electricity and water networks at the northern entrance to Bethlehem were demolished.
- 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.
– 4Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints.
– Nazi forces arrested 2 Palestinian patients at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, north of the Gaza Strip.
Summary
Nazi violations of international law and international humanitarian law in theoPt continued during the reporting period (24 – 30 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, Israeli forces killed2 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and wounded6 others; 3 of whom in the West Bank and the 2 others in the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, Nazi forces extra-judicially executed 2 Palestinian civilians in Hebron, south of the West Bank,and wounded 3 others.
In a crime that amounts to an extra-judicial execution, on Thursday, 24 March 2016, Nazi forces killed 2 Palestinian civilians in Hebron. Nazi soldiers opened fire at both of them after the latter stabbed an Nazi soldier in his shoulder. After the 2 Palestinians were wounded, Nazi soldiers opened fire again at them and shot them dead.
Following a video was published displaying the crime, Nazi forces announced they have detained the soldier that opened fire and initiated an investigation. PCHR stresses that this crime was committed because the Nazi military and political leaders allowed the soldiers to shed the Palestinians’ blood. It should be noted that the 2 killed Palestinian were identified as Ramzi Aziz Qasrawi (20) and Abul Fattah al-Sharif (20).
On 25 March 2016, a Palestinian old man was hit with a bullet to the head during his participation in Kufor Qaddoum weekly protest, northeast of Qalqilya.
On 26 March 2016, Israeli forces wounded 2 Palestinian when the former opened fire at al-Naqqar neighbourhood, west of Qalqilya, where a number of Palestinian youngsters gathered and threw stones at Nazi soldier.
In the Gaza Strip, Nazi forces wounded 3 Palestinian civilians in the northern and central Gaza Strip. On 25 March 2016, Nazi forces wounded 2 Palestinian civilians, who were participating in a peaceful protest, north of the Gaza Strip. The first was wounded by a bullet to the right leg and the second was hit with a tear gas canister to the face. On the same day, in a similar protest in the east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, a civilian was hit by a gas canister to the left thigh.
In the context of targeting border areas along the Gaza Strip, on 25March 2016, Nazi forces stationed behind a sand barrier at the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Nazi, east of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, opened fire at the border area. On 26 March 2016, Israeli forces stationed at the border fence, east of Abu Safya area, east of Jabalia too, opened fire sporadically at the border area. On 29 March 2016, Nazi forces stationed at the border fence, east of Gaza Valley, opened fire towards shepherds and farmers. As a result, they fled fearing for their lives, but neither casualties nor material damage were reported.
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