Weekly Report on Israeli Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
The occupied Palestinian territory is witnessing more Israeli war crimes
(From (26/04/2018 to 02/05/2018
Summary:
During the period covered by the present report (26/04/2018 to 02/05/2018), Israeli Occupation Forces continued their grave and systematic violations of the rules of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the occupied Palestinian territory. These violations were manifested in the use of armed force against Palestinian civilians, tightening the policy of blockade and closure, the appropriation of land to serve its settlement projects, and the Judaization of Jerusalem.
Details:
- Occupation forces continue to use lethal force against peaceful Palestinian civilians in Gaza Strip
- (4) civilians martyred, including a child, on the fifth Friday of the Al-A’wda and Siege Breaking March
- (383) civilians, including (67) children, (8) women, and (6) journalists, and (4) paramedics were injured in peaceful marches.
- (10) Palestinian civilians, including a child, a journalist and a paramedic, were injured in the West Bank
- Israeli warplanes strike Gaza port
- Occupation forces carried out 64 incursions in the West Bank and a limited incursion in Gaza Strip
- (59) citizens, including (7) children were arrested
- The Israeli occupation authorities continue to Judaize the occupied East Jerusalem
- A residential building in Issawiya was razed and a Palestinian civilian was forced to raze a car park in Silwan
- Israel Nature Authority is carrying out excavations at Ar-Rahma Cemetery adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque
- Settlement work continues in the West Bank
- (42) dunums of al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, were confiscated under the pretext of “security purposes
- (5) residential rooms, (5) sheep barns were razed, and (4) units of solar cells were confiscated in Masafer Yatta
- Settlers cut down 14 olive trees south of Nablus and razed lands west of Salfit
- The occupation forces continue to divide the West Bank into cantons and continue its unjust blockade on Gaza Strip for the eleventh consecutive year and hindering the movement of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank at flying and permanent checkpoints