PCHR Weekly report: “16 Palestinians killed, 18 injured and 52 kidnapped in several Israeli attacks

Friday August 24, 2007 03:27 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 August 16 – 22. During the reported period Israeli troops killed 16 Palestinians, including three children, injured 18 and kidnapped 44.

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The PCHR reported that 10 of the 18 slain residents were extra-judicially executed by Israeli forces.

A total of 30 invasions were carried out by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank and two invasions into the Gaza Strip.

 Israeli attacks in the West Bank:

The PCHR stated that troops kidnapped 44 civilians, including one child in the West Bank, and carried out thirty invasions to several Palestinian communities. Three Palestinians were killed in these assaults.

The report revealed that on Thursday, August 16, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian child during an invasion into Kufor Dan village, west of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank.

Following the child’s death, resistance fighters exchanged fire with the invading forces, and one fighter was shot dead.

On Tuesday, August 21, one resistance fighter was shot dead by Israeli forces during an Israeli military invasion to Ein Beit Al Ma’ refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Also, 11 Palestinians civilians were shot and wounded by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank during the reported period.

The Israeli army carried a total of thirty invasions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and kidnapped 44 residents, including one child. This raises the number of Palestinians kidnapped by the Israeli forces since the beginning of this year to 1803.

The PCHR also reported that the army have tightened the siege imposed on Palestinian communities in the West Bank, isolated Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, and that troops positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians.

The Army also installed additional checkpoints on the main roads and intersections in the West Bank which remained under strict closure.

Attacks which targeted nonviolent protests against the Annexation Wall

Troops continued their excessive use of force against non-violent Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters against the Annexation Wall in the West Bank.

Soldiers claimed that the area of Wall construction of the village’s land is a closed military zone and tried to bar the protesters from reaching it. Troops then placed barbed-wires and attacked the protesters with batons before fire gas bombs and rubber coated bullets at them.

One member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and 4 journalists were injured.

In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, soldiers broke into and searched several houses near the Annexation Wall.

In Al Walaja village, near Bethlehem, soldiers attacked Palestinian and international protesters and injured one Palestinian resident and an Irish peace activist.

Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip:

Israeli soldiers killed 13 Palestinians, including two children, in the Gaza Strip during the reported period. Ten of the 13 slain residents were extra-judicially executed. The army carried two invasions into the Gaza Strip.

On August 18, soldiers shot dead a Palestinian civilian and arrested two others when they attempted to cross the border into Israel to search for jobs.

 On August 20, soldiers assassinated four members of Hamas’ armed wing, and two members of the Hamas-formed executive force in Al Boreij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

On August 21, the Israeli air force fired a missile at fighters in Al Qarara area, north of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Three fighters were killed and the army invaded the area and open fire at several houses and farmlands.

On August 22, soldiers assassinated one member of Hamas’ armed wing and injured another member east of Gaza City.

Also on August 22, two Palestinian children were killed when the army fired a missile at them as they were playing near an area used by resistance fighters as a launching pad for homemade shells.

A total of six Palestinians, including two children, were injured in the Gaza Strip during the reported period.

Also, soldiers kidnapped eight fishermen in Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Strip remained under strict siege and continued to suffer shortages in basic foods, medicine and fuel supplies. It remained isolated from the West Bank and the rest of the world.

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