NOVANEWS
Israeli forces have continued to open fire in the border areas in the Gaza Strip.
1 child was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces wounded 4 civilians, including 1 child, while offering protection to Israeli settlers as they carried out attacks.
Israeli forces have continued to use excessive force against peaceful protestors in the West Bank.
3 protestors were wounded during peaceful protests against the annexation wall and settlement activities.
Israeli forces conducted 63 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 3 limited incursions in the Gaza Strip.
32 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children, were arrested in the West Bank.
Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the oPt and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
Israeli forces closed the border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel for 3 days.
Israeli forces established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank.
8 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were arrested at checkpoints.
Israeli forces have continued activities aimed at creating a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
3 houses in al-Tour village and al-Thawri neighbourhood were demolished.
Israeli forces have continued to support settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
Two agricultural rooms and a water well were demolished and more demolition notices were issued in the West Bank.
Settlers conducted a series of violent attacks against Palestinian civilians and set fire to dozens of dunums of farmlands.
Settlers set fire to dozens of vehicles in Deir Jarir village in Ramallah.
Israeli naval forces have continued to target Palestinian fishermen at sea.
Israeli naval forces continued to open fire on Palestinian fishing boats to force them to sail within the limit of 3 nautical miles.
A fisherman was seriously wounded in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Summary
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period 25 April – 01 May 2013.
Shooting:
During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 2 others in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 7 civilians in the Gaza Strip.
In the Gaza Strip, on 30 April 2013, Israeli forces extra-judicially killed a Palestinian member of the Salafi-Jihadist movement when an attack was launched from an Israeli drone as he was on his motorbike in front of Bader military site, northwest of Gaza City. As a result, he died immediately. The deceased was a security officer at Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Israeli forces admitted carrying out the attack; representatives of the Israeli forces stated that they had executed a senior official in the Gaza Strip who had carried out many operations involving the launching of rockets, and who had been planning to launch rockets on Eilat from Egypt. It should be noted that this is the first extrajudicial killing following the cease-fire agreement that was reached on 21 November 2012, following the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
The full report is available online at:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/
