Israeli occupation forces killed 12 Palestinians, including 6 children, according to an August 23-29, 2007 PCHR weekly report

PCHR weekly report: “Israeli army killed 12 Palestinians, including six children”

Friday August 31, 2007 04:15 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC saed at imemc dot org

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations and attacks against the Palestinians in the period between August 23 and August 29, 2007. During the reported period, Israeli troops killed twelve Palestinian s, including six children, and one resident died or earlier wounds.

PCHR weekly report: “Israeli army killed 12 Palestinians, including six children” The PCHR reported that three Palestinian children were killed in two Israeli extra-judicial executions that targeted resistance fighters.

Israeli troops conducted 21 invasions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Thirty-three Palestinians were kidnapped in the West Bank and thirteen in the Gaza Strip, the PCHR reported.

A total of 33 Palestinians, including 11 children and one mentally ill resident were injured. Among the injured are a mother and a brother of a killed child.

Israeli violations in the Gaza Strip:

The PCHR reported the five Palestinian children were killed by excessive Israeli military force in the Gaza Strip.

Eight Palestinians, including five children, were killed in the Gaza Strip, and one more resident died of wounds sustained two weeks ago during an invasion to an area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

On August 23, Israeli forces assassinated three members of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas after firing a missile at them as they were near a Car market in Gaza city.

On August 24, the army killed two children east of Jabalia as they were carrying hand grenades and standing 400 meters away from the border fence.

On august 27, one sheepherder was shot and killed by Israeli military fire as he was herding his sheep near the border.

On August 29, soldiers fired a surface-to-surface missile at an area close to a location used by resistance fighters to fire homemade shells. The missile killed three children, from Abu Ghazala family as they were playing in that area.

Eyewitnesses reported that no homemade shells were fired from that area at that time, and the children were playing at a considerable distance from that area.

On the same day, one resident died of wounds sustained two week earlier in an Israeli shelling to Gaza City.

The Israeli army continued it’s shelling to several areas in the Gaza Strip and injured one civilian on August 25 in a shelling to an area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

Six more Palestinians were injured after the army invaded Khuza’a area in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and one mentally ill child was injured in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. One resident from Gaza was detained at Erez crossing as he was heading back home to Gaza from Ramallah.

Soldiers used military bulldozers to uproot agricultural lands in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip remained under strict siege, and continued to suffer from sharp shortages of foods, medicine and fuels.

The Rafah border terminal, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, remained closed. All commercial crossings, especially Al Mintar remained closed.

The Kerem Shalom crossing, and the Nahal Oz Crossing, designated for the entry of fuels was opened.

Israeli violations in the West Bank: Soldiers killed four Palestinians, including one child, shot and injured 25 other residents including the mother of the slain child.

On August 25, under-cover forces of the Israeli army assassinated two fighters in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank; three Palestinians were injured.

On August 24, soldiers invaded Saida town, near the northern West Bank City of Tulkarem, and killed one child, and one resistance fighter; the half-brother of the slain child, and their mother were injured.

On August 29, fourteen residents, including nine children, were injured as the army invaded Qalqilia city in an attempt to kidnap resistance fighters. Moreover, three Palestinians, including one woman and one child, were kidnapped on roadblocks spread across the West Bank.

The Annexation Wall in the West Bank:

Troops attacked dozens of Palestinian, international and Israeli peace activists on Friday August 24, during the nonviolent weekly protest against the Annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah.

The army fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters, and violently beat the protesters. Two protesters were injured.

Soldiers also attacked peaceful protesters in Al Walaja village, near Bethlehem.

Also, troops kidnapped Awad Abdullah Abu Sway, 36, and his 65-year old father in Wadi Al-Haramiya area, south of Bethlehem. Awad is the coordinator of the Public Committee form the Land Defense which is active in nonviolent resistance against the Wall and settlements. Settlers and settlements:

Israeli settlers living in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank continued their attacks against the Palestinians residents.

The PCHR reported that on Thursday, 23 August 2007, settlers occupying El-Rigbi building near Kiryat Arba’ settlement, southeast of Hebron, attacked Palestinian houses by rocks and empty glass bottles; several windows in three houses were damaged.

On the evening of the same day, settlers attacked a house which is under construction in an attempt to prevent the completion of the construction.

On Saturday, August 25, settlers of Kiryat Arba’ settlement attacked one house located near an area targeted for illegal settlement expansion. Jerusalem:

Jerusalem remained off-limits to the Palestinian residents, and remained surrounded by military roadblock.

On August 23, four civilians were injured in Jerusalem when the army attacked a house in Wad Al-Jouz area during a dinner held by a family there.

Shaikh Ra’ed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel was present in the attacked house and was also injured.

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