Informing humanitarians worldwide 24/7 — a service provided by UN OCHA

oPt

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16-22 December 2010)

Attachments


- 5 activist of the Palestinian resistance were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.

- Another 4 activists were wounded by Israeli air strikes.

- IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- Two Palestinian workers, including a child, and one shepherd were wounded.

- Israeli warplanes attacked a number of targets in the Gaza Strip.

- A factory of dairy products was destroyed in the southern Gaza Strip.

- A house and a grocery were destroyed and another two houses were damaged in Rafah.

- A bird farm was damaged and 1,800 chickens were killed.

- Two sites of the 'Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) were destroyed.

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

- 5 Palestinian civilians were wounded.

- IOF arrested 5 human rights defenders.

- IOF conducted 34 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

- IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

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

- Israel has continued to take measures aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem.

- IOF demolished a houses and forced two Palestinian civilians to demolish their houses in Jerusalem.