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Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 24 February 2010

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

- 6 Palestinians, including one child, were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

- IOF launched aerial, naval and land attacks on Palestinian civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.

- IOF used force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest of the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities.

- IOF conducted 21 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and two incursions into the Gaza Strip.

- IOF arrested 21 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, in the West Bank.

- IOF closed two civil associations in Beit Safafa village, south of Jerusalem.

- IOF demolished 3 houses and razed 17 donums[1] of agricultural land in al-Musaddar village in the central Gaza Strip.

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

- IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 4 Palestinian civilians.

- Israel has continued its settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- A new settlement plan to build 549 housing units in Sour Baher village south of Jerusalem was proposed.

- The Israeli government decided to include the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Bilal Ben Rabah Mosque in Bethlehem on the list of Israeli archaeological sites.

- IOF ordered the demolition of a number of houses and civilian facilities in the West Bank.

- Israeli settlers seized a 100-donum area of land near Ramallah, and uprooted 45 olives trees near Nablus.