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Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 28 Jan.- 03 Feb. 2010

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

- A child was wounded in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron.

- IOF fired bullets and projectiles from the ground, air and sea at civilians and civil targets in the Gaza Strip.

- IOF conducted 19 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

- IOF arrested 20 Palestinian civilians and an American human rights defender in the West Bank.

- IOF stormed houses of a number of activists working against the construction of the Annexation Wall.

- IOF naval troops have continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.

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

- IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested one Palestinian civilian.

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

- IOF closed off 150 donums in Beit Ummar and prevented civilians from accessing them.

- The corner stone was laid for a new settlement compound in Hebron.

- A Palestinian civilian was forced to demolish a room of his house in the old city of Jerusalem.

- Israeli settlers seized one floor of a building belonging to a Palestinian family.