NOVANEWS
(04 – 11 May 2016)
- Nazi forces continued to open fire at the Gaza Strip border area.
– A Palestinian woman was killed and 2 others, including a child, were wounded.
- Nazi warplanes carried out 10 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
– A civilian and 2 members of Palestinian armed groups were wounded.
- Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
– 6 Palestinian civilians, including 2 journalists, were wounded in the West Bank.
- Nazi forces conducted 74 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one in the Gaza Strip.
– 68 civilians, including 13 children and 2 women, were arrested.
– 20 of them, including 5 children and a woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
- Nazi forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
– 2 Palestinian fishermen were arrested and their fishing boat was confiscated.
- Nazi forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– Nazi Jewish Settlement organizations seized a plot of land in Shaikh Jarrah and a property in Jerusalem’s Old City.
- Settlement activities continued in the West Bank.
– An underconstruction house in al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, was 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.
– 8 Palestinian civilians, including a woman, were arrested at military checkpoints in the West Bank.
Summary
Nazi violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (04 – 11 May 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 carried out 10 air strikes and at least 8 shelling incidents against Palestinian armed groups’ sites and agricultural areas in the Gaza Strip’s border area.
As a result, a Palestinian woman was killed and 5 others, including a child, were wounded. Six of them, including 2 journalists and a mentally disordered person, were wounded in the West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, in new killing crime resulting from random shelling and excessive use of force, on 05 May 2016, Nazi forces killed Zana Atiya Mohammed al-Emour (59) and wounded one of her relatives namely Amir al-Emour (16) due to a shelling attack that targeted the land in which they were working in the east of al-Fokhari village, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
On the same day, Khzaima al-Farra (21) sustained shrapnel wounds to the legs while harvesting wheat near a landfill, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, when Nazi forces opened fire at agricultural lands in al-Fokhari area.
Concerning airstrikes, on 04 May 2016, Nazi warplanes carried out 2 air strikes in Rafah.
On 05 May 2016, Nazi war planes carried out 5 airstrikes on Palestinian armed groups’ sites in the northern and southern Gaza Strip. As a result, a civilian and 2 members of armed groups sustained minor wounds.
On 06 May 2016, Nazi war planes fired a missile at an agricultural land about 800 meters away from the border fence between the Gaza Strip and the illegal Nazi state, east of Khuza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported.
On 07 May 2016, Nazi war planes carried out 2 air strikes; only 10 minutes between them, in agricultural lands in Abassan village, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
In the context of targeting the border area, on 04 May 2016, Nazi forces stationed at the border fence, east of Khan Yunis, fired a number of shells that landed around a field control site in al-Fokhari area, southeast of the city. Moreover, they fired shells at Palestinian armed groups’ outposts in al-Shouka village, east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported.
On 05 May 2016, Nazi forces stationed at the border fence carried out 5 shelling attacks against Palestinian armed groups outposts and agricultural lands in al-Shouka village, east of Rafah; Palestinian armed groups’ watchtowers, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip; and agricultural lands, north of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.
On 06 May 2016, Nazi forces fired a number of shells at the eastern part of Khuza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported also.
In the context of targeting Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea, Nazi gunboats stationed in the sea off Beit Lahia shore, north of the Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats. A gunboat approached a fishing boat and then arrested Uranus al-Sultan (19) and Mohammed al-Sultan (23), both from al-Atatrah neighbourhood in Beit Lahia. Israeli forces confiscated the fishing boat and released the 2 fishermen at 00:30, the following day.
In the West Bank, on 05 May 2016, Nazi forces wounded Arif Jaradat (22), a mentally disordered person, with a bullet to the left side of the belly while moving into the southwest of Sa’ir village, east of Hebron. The bullet was fired from a distance less than 10 meters while the aforementioned person was shouting at the Nazi soldiers without posing any threat to them. Moreover, there were no confrontations in the area.
Concerning the use of force against peaceful protests, 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded during Kufor Qaddoum weekly protest, northeast of Qalqilya. Among the wounded were 2 journalists.
On 07 May 2016, Nazi forces opened fire at a Palestinian civilian from Beit Ommer village, north of Hebron, while attempting to enter East Jerusalem via the annexation wall in Hummos valley area in Sour Baher village to get to his work. As a result, he sustained a bullet wound to the leg and was then transported to al-Hussein Hospital in Beit Jala for medical treatment.
The full report is available online at:
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8104
