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.
  • For a more-detailed report, please visit: electronicintifada.net

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