Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Palestine (May 10,2007)

Report, PCHR, 10 May 2007

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian at a flying checkpoint at the entrance of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, 6 May 2007. (Khaleel Reash/MaanImages)

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

Three Palestinians were extra-judicially executed by IOF in the West Bank.

Thirteen civilians, including six children and a girl, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

IOF conducted 37 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

IOF arrested 60 Palestinian civilians, including six children and a woman.

IOF arrested four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT.

IOF positioned at various checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested six Palestinian civilians.

IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank; IOF soldiers abused a woman at a gate at the Wall at the entrance of a village near Jenin.

IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank.

IOF confiscated area of land in Kufor Qaddoum village near Qalqilya to establish a military road.

IOF demolished the building of a center for the rehabilitation of disabled children and a house in East Jerusalem.

Israeli settlers stormed a hill in Halhoul town near Hebron and vowed to establish a settlement outpost in the area.

Israeli settlers burnt at least 250 donums of agricultural land in Tulkarm.

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