PCHR weekly report: “Troops killed ten residents in Gaza and the West Bank”

Thursday July 05, 2007 23:15

by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories in the period between June 28 and July 4. During the reported period ten Palestinian were killed and 27 were injured.

PCHR photo

The PCHR reported that seven of the slain residents were killed by the army in the Gaza Strip in less than three hours. Three of them were executed.

Six of the killed residents are ordinary civilians including a child, a father and his son.

Twenty-seven residents were shot and injured in several Israeli attacks in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, among them 15 were injured in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli troops carried a total of 31 invasions in the West Bank and three in the Gaza Strip.

Also, soldiers kidnapped 92 residents, including nine children, in the occupied West Bank. Six residents were kidnapped at roadblocks and border crossings.

Twelve Palestinian residents, who were receiving treatment in Egypt, died after the Israeli authorities closed the Rafah border crossing and continued the total isolation of the Gaza Strip. The 12 residents died at the Egyptian side of the Crossing.

Seven residents, including four civilians, were killed in two Israeli strikes in the Gaza strip. Nine civilians, including two children were injured. The attack attacks were carried out on Saturday June 30.

The first attack was carried out on Saturday at 17:00 in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip when the Israeli air force assassinated three fighters of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, seven civilians, including two children were injured.

Three hours later, four civilians were killed and two others were injured when the army shelled a blacksmith workshop in Al Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. One father and his son were among the killed residents. Nine residents were injured in the attack.

Three more civilians, including a lawyer working with the PCHR, were injured in three Israeli attacks. The lawyer, Sharif Abu Nassar, was injured in another shelling to the same blacksmith workshop, and the other two residents were injured in two Israeli attacks in Beit Hanoun and Wadi Gaza area.

In the west Bank, three residents including one child, were killed by Israeli military fire. One of the casualties is a resistance fighter who was assassinated in an Israeli military invasion to Jenin city and its refugee camp.

The other casualty was killed in Balata refugee camp, in Nablus, after the army fired at him. Israeli soldiers claimed that the resident attempted to escape from the army; he was unarmed and is not affiliated with any resistance group.

The third casualty was a child who was shot and killed by the army in the southern west Bank city of Hebron. The child was carrying a toy gun, and was playing with other children when the army fired at them.

Moreover, one youth, Rami Al Wahsh, 18, died on June 29 at the Tunnel checkpoint south west of Jerusalem after the army barred an ambulance from transferring him into a Jerusalem hospital. The ambulance was an Israeli Magen David Adom vehicle.

The PCHR reported that the youth was seriously injured in a traffic accident in his head and other body parts but the army barred the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance from Crossing into Jerusalem, and even when an Israeli ambulance was called to the scene, soldiers barred the medics from transferring him to the Israeli ambulance, and said that “he does not have a permit to enter the city”.

Moreover, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest against the Annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, and injured four protesters who suffered gas inhalation.

The protest is part of weekly protests every Friday in participation with Israeli and international peace activists. The army used excessive violence and fired gas bombs, rubber-coated bullets, sounds bombs and attacks the protesters with batons.

The Gaza Strip remained under strict siege and continued to suffer from shortages of foods, fuels and medicine as the army continued to close its border and commercial crossings.

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