Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations

Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations
Report, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 26 April 2007

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

* Nine Palestinians, including two children, were killed by IOF in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

* Four of the victims were extrajudicially executed by IOF.

* Eighteen civilians were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

* Thirteen of these civilians, including a journalist, four women and four international human rights defenders, were wounded when IOF used force to disperse a peaceful demonstration against the construction of the Annexation Wall in Bal'ein village near Ramallah.

* Two children were wounded as a result of the explosion of a mysterious object of the remainders of IOF.

* IOF conducted 30 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

* IOF arrested 44 Palestinian civilians, including eight children and a girl.

* IOF transformed a Palestinian house into a military site.

* 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 settlement activities in the West Bank.

* IOF demolished a house in occupied Jerusalem.

* IOF demolished seven houses to the south of Hebron, rendering 48 Palestinians homeless.

* Israeli settlers moved back to the evacuated "Homseh" settlement near Nablus.

* Israeli settlers have continued to occupy a house in Hebron for the fifth consecutive week.