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NOVANEWS
(09 – 15 November 2017)
· Nazi forces continued to apply the collective punishment policy
– A house belonging to the family of Nemer al-Jamal was blown up in Beit Sorik village, northwest of occupied Jerusalem.
· Nazi forces conducted 89 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 7 similar incursions in Jerusalem.
– 82 civilians, including 20 children and 2 women, were arrested.
– 34 of them, including 19 children and the 2 women, were arrested in Jerusalem and its suburbs.
· Nazi forces continue to target the border areas in the Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
· Nazi authorities continue to make a Zionist Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– A shop and part of a house were self-demolished in Silwan village.
– Nazi forces demolished an under-construction building and agricultural facility in al-‘Issawiyah village.
– A storehouse was demolished, and a container was confiscated in al-Joz Valley neighbourhood.
· Nazi forces continue settlement activities in the West Bank
· A waterline supplying 250 dumums planted with onion was levelled in al-Baqi’ah area in the Northern Jordan Valley.
· A road was built for military purposes, and 300 meters of the road between ‘Atouf and al-Ras al-Ahmar were destroyed.
· Nazi forces continued to target the Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
– 4 shooting incidents targeting the Palestinian fishing boats occurred in the Northern Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
· Nazi forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 10th year.
– Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
– 14 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, were arrested at the checkpoints in the West Bank.
Summary:
Nazi violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (09 – 15 November 2017).
Shooting:
During the reporting period, Nazi forces continued to use force against the protests in the West Bank. In the Gaze Strip, They also continued to chase Palestinian fishermen in the Sea and target farmers and houses in the border areas.
In the Gaza Strip, as part of targeting fishermen in the sea, PCHR monitored the Nazi naval forces’ escalation against fishermen in the Gaza Sea although it was announced that the Gaza fishermen are allowed to sail to 9 nautical miles instead of 6. This proves that the Nazi forces continue their policy of targeting fishermen in their livelihoods. During the reporting period, Nazi gunboats chased fishing boats and opened fire at them 4 times; 3 of them in the north-western Beit Lahia and one in the western Soudaniyah area, west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
As part of targeting the border areas, on 09 November 2017, Nazi soldiers stationed along the border fence between the Nazi state and the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza Valley village in the central Gaza Strip opened fire at the agricultural lands along the eastern areas.
On 13 November 2017, Nazi soldiers stationed along the border fence between illegaly occupied Palestine 1948 and the Gaza Strip, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip opened fire at the agricultural lands, east of ‘Abasan al-Kabirah. As a result in both incidents, farmers there were terrified and forced to flee and leave their work behind. Neither casualties nor property damage was reorted.
In the West Bank, Nazi forces continued to use force against the protests organized by Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders against the annexation wall, confiscation of lands and crimes of settlement expansion. During the reporting period, dozens of Palestinian civilians, international human rights defenders organized protests in Ni’lin and Bil’in villages, west of Ramallah, al-Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the city, and Kafer Qadoum village, northeast of Qalqiliyah, in protest against the annexation wall and illegal Nazi Jewish settlement activities. Nazi forces forcibly dispersed the protests. As a result, many of the protesters suffered tear gas inhalation while others sustained bruises due to being beaten up by the Nazi soldiers.
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