NOVANEWS
(12 – 18 May 2016)
Jerusalem – Nazi Forces Demolish House in Sho’fat Village, 8 Civilians Rendered Homeless.
- Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
– 7 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
– About 30 olive trees were burnt at the eastern entrance to Kufor Qaddoum village, northeast of Qalqilya.
- Nazi forces continued to open fire at the Gaza Strip border area.
– A farmer was wounded in the east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
- Nazi forces conducted 57 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
– 36 civilians, including 5 children, were arrested.
– 8 of them, including a child, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
– Among the arrested was a PLC member and the former Minister of Prisoners.
- Nazi forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
– Nazi forces arrested 12 fishermen, including 3 children, and confiscated 2 fishing boats and drowned a third.
- Nazi forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– 3 houses were demolished in al-Sowana neighbourhood and Shu’fat village, leaving 30 civilians homeless.
- 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.
– 13 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children and 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 (12 – 18 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 wounded 8 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Four of them were wounded in the West Bank and the 4 others were wounded in the Gaza Strip.
In the Gaza Strip, in the context of the use of forces against peaceful protests, 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, sustained bullet wounds to the lower limbs while participating in peaceful protests near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Nazi, east of al-Bureij. The wounded were taken to al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital to receive the necessary medical treatment. In addition, 2 of them were transported to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Concerning targeting border areas, on 18 May 2016, Essa al-Ejla (19), sustained a bullet wound to the right leg when Nazi forces stationed at the border fence, east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, opened fire. The aforementioned person was working in his farmland that is about 500 meters away from al-Muntar (Karni) crossing.
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