NOVANEWS
(14 – 20 January 2016)
Nazi Forces Demolish Number of Civilian Facilities in Hebron.
- ·Nazi forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
– 5 Palestinian civilians were killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
– A Palestinian civilian was killed and his brother was wounded in a deliberate run-over attack by settlers in the West Bank.
– 23 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a female journalist, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- ·Nazi forces continued to open fire at border areas along the Gaza Strip border area and a Palestinian civilian was wounded in the east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood.
- ·Nazi forces conducted 127 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones in the southern Gaza Strip.
– 77 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, were arrested.
– 6 of them were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
- ·Nazi forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip sea.
– 2 fishermen were arrested and their fishing boat was confiscated.
- ·Jewish majority efforts continued in occupied East Jerusalem.
– Nazi forces demolished a house in Beit Hanina and obliged a civilian to demolish a livestock barrack on his own.
– Nazi Jewish Settlers wrote racist slogans on the walls of a church.
- ·Illegal Nazi Jewish Settlement activities continued in the West Bank.
– 7 houses and 9 livestock and poultry barracks were demolished, and 47 fruitful trees were cut off.
- ·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 other were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
– 4 Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints.
– An elderly woman from the Gaza Strip was detained and prevented from praying in al-Aqsa Mosque.
Summary
Nazi violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (14 – 20 January 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. Occupied East Jerusalem witnessed similar attacks. During the reporting period, Nazi forces killed five Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; three of them were in the West Bank and the two others were in the Gaza Strip. Moreover, a Palestinian civilian was killed and his little brother was wounded in a deliberate run-over attack by a settler.
Nazi forces also wounded 24 Palestinian civilians, including seven children and a female journalist. 11 of them, including three children, were in the Gaza Strip and the reminaing others were in the West Bank. Concerning the nature of injuries, 11 civilians were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel, 11 others were hit with rubber-coated metal bullets and two were hit with tear gas canisters.
In the West Bank, Nazi forces killed three Palestinian civilians and wounded 13 others, including four children and a female journalist.
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http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=7757
