NOVANEWS
(04 – 10 January 2018)
- Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
– 22 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, were killed, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
– 15 of them were hit with live bullets, 6 were hit with rubber-coated metal bullets, and 2 were hit with sound bomb shrapnel.
- Nazi warplanes targeted an agricultural land, east of Rafah City, and sprayed poisonous pesticides in the eastern Khan Younis.
- Nazi forces conducted 72 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one was conducted in the southern Gaza Strip.
– 62 civilians, including 8 children, were arrested.
– 18 of them, including 6 children, were arrested in Jerusalem.
- Nazi authorities continue to create a Jewish Majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
– Excavations started to build a footbridge for the settlers in Silwan.
- 3 shooting incidents targeting the Palestinian fishing boats occurred in the Gaza Strip.
– 8 fishermen, including 2 children, were arrested after 5 of them were wounded and 3 boats were confiscated in northern Gaza Strip.
- Nazi authorities continued their settlement activities in the West Bank.
– Construction of 900 new settlement units was approved to be marketed in “Arayel” settlement in northern West Bank.
– Settlers uprooted 15 olive trees and attacked Palestinian cars in Nablus.
- A shooting incident was reported towards the border areas of the 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 11th consecutive year.
– Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
– 2 Palestinian civilians 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 (04 – 10 January 2018).
Shooting:
During the reporting period, Nazi forces wounded 28 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Fifteen were hit with live bullets, 11 were hit with rubber-caoted metal bullets and 2 were hit with sound bomb shrapnel. In the Gaza Strip, the Nazi forces continued to chase Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Sea, target border areas, and carry out several airstrikes against.
In the West Bank, on 29 December 2017, Nazi forces wounded 21 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children. On 04 January 2018, Nazi forces wounded 12 civilians, including 5 children, within 10 minutes only when dozens of Nazi Gestapo undercover agents “al-Mosta’aribeen” sneaked into Dheishah refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, to carry out an arrest campaign. After an hour, an Nazi infantry force of 100 soldiers moved into the camp. When they approached al-Walijah neighbourhood in the camp, dozens of Palestinian children and youngsters gathered to throw stones, empty bottles and Molotov Cocktails at them to prevent them from moving forwards. The Nazi soldiers immediately fired live bullets and rubber-coated metal bullets at the Palestinians. As a result, 7 of them were wounded with live bullets and the 5 others were hit with rubber-coated metal bullets; 2 of them suffered serious wounds.
On the same day, Nazi forces wounded a 20-year-old civilian with a bullet to the head when dozens of Palestinian youngsters gathered at the main entrance to Deir Nizam village, northwest of Ramallah, after the funeral of Mos’ab al-Tamimi (17). The Nazi soldiers opened fire at the youngsters wounding the 20-year-old civilian, who was transferred to Istishari Hospital in al-Rihan Suburb to receive medical treatment. His condition was described very serious.
On 05 January 2018, Nazi forces wounded a 19-year-old Palestinian civilian with a rubber-coated bullet to the right thigh when they moved into Qaddourah refugee camp in the centre of Ramallah.
On 06 January 2018, two Palestinian civilians were wounded with sound bomb shrapnel in their feet when Nazi forces suppressed a protest on Salah al-Deen Street in the centre of the City.
On 07 January 2018, a 20-year-old civilian was hit with a bullet to the left side of his waist. Doctors said that his condition is critical. That occurred when Nazi forces moved into al-Mazra’ah al-Gharbiyah village, northwest of Ramallah, and a number of children and youngster protested against them.
