Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
8 Palestinians were killed by IOF.
A woman from Rafah died from a previous wound she has sustained when IOF attacked her and her two children, who were killed in the attack.
Two of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF.
26 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children and a woman, were wounded by the IOF gunfire.
IOF launched a series of air strikes on a number of houses in the Gaza Strip.
Two houses were destroyed in Rafah and Jabalya.
IOF conducted 44 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and two others into the Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested 64 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, including 5 children and 4 women.
IOF arrested the Deputy Prime Minister and the Secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
IOF raided offices of 3 charitable societies in Hebron.
IOF razed at least 30 donums[1] of agricultural land and arrested 5 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF have imposed a tightened siege on the Gaza Strip and there have been shortages of foodstuffs and fuels; and IOF positioned at a various checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 9 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; they confiscated more areas of land in Tulkarm; they resumed the construction of a section of the Wall near "Shavi Shomron" settlement in the northern West Bank; and they used force to disperse a peaceful demonstration protesting the construction of the Wall in Bal'ein village, west of Ramallah.
Summary
As the international community has remained silent, IOF have continued to wage a full scale offensive on the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip. During the reported period, IOF have continued their attacks on Palestinian civilians and property.
PCHR, monitoring with utmost concern the developments of this offensive, calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and United Nations, to immediately intervene to force IOF to stop this offensive and lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.
The outcome of crimes committed by IOF since 25 June 2006:
216 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 45 children and 11 women, have been killed by IOF.
At least 842 Palestinian civilians, including 240 children and 28 women, have been wounded by the IOF gunfire.
At least 221 air-to-surface missiles and hundreds of artillery shells have been fired at Palestinian civilian and military targets in the Gaza Strip.
Buildings of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National economy, the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister and a number of educational institutions have been destroyed.
The electricity generation plant, providing 45% of the electricity of the Gaza Strip, was destroyed, and electricity networks and transmitters have been repeatedly attacked.
6 bridges linking Gaza City with the central Gaza Strip and a number of roads have been destroyed.
Hundreds of donums of agricultural land and dozens of houses have been destroyed.
Hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including 9 ministers and 30 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), including the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Secretary, have been arrested. Minster of Prisoners' Affairs, Minister of Labor and Second Deputy Speaker of the PLC were released.
The Palestinian governmental compound in Nablus has been destroyed.
Many families in Rafah, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia have been forced to leave their houses.
IOF intelligence has warned some Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip by phone tevacuate their houses, which would be attacked.
27 houses belonging tactivists of Palestinian factions were destroyed by IOF warplanes.
IOF have imposed a strict siege on the OPT, and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
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