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Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (17 - 23 February 2011)

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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continued Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

* 3 Palestinian civilians were killed by IOF in the northern Gaza Strip.

* A Palestinian resistance activist was killed and 6 others and 3 civilian bystanders, including two children, were wounded by IOF artillery shelling on Gaza City.

* IOF continued to target Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- Two Palestinian workers were wounded.

- IOF arrested 3 Palestinian fishermen in Khan Yunis.

* IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- 8 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were wounded.

- IOF arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 9 children, and two international human rights defenders.

* IOF conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones into the Gaza Strip.

- IOF arrested 10 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children.

* Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

- Israeli soldiers positioned at a military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 6 Palestinian children, including 3 children.

* IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- IOF destroyed 3 water wells and an agricultural room in Bani Na'im town, east of Hebron.

- IOF demolished 8 homes and two water wells in Sousia area, south of Hebron, rendering 40 Palestinian civilians homeless.

- Israeli settlers uprooted 200 olive seedlings and 70 olive trees in Qasra village, south of Nablus.