Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 

Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

(08 – 14 June 2017)

 

 

• Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in the Gaza Strip in new crime of excessive use of force.

• 21 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were wounded during peaceful demonstrations organized along the Gaza Strip borders.

• Israeli forces conducted 38 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones in the Gaza Strip.
• 46 civilians, including 10 children, were arrested in the West Bank.
• 12 of them, including 6 children, were arrested in Jerusalem.
• Among those arrested were former Minister, Wasfi Qabha, and Hamas leader ‘Abdel Khaleq al-Natsheh.

 

• Israeli forces continued to target the Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.

 

• Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure…