13 Palestinians killed, 47 injured in a September 20-27, 2007 PCHR Report

PCHR weekly report: “13 Palestinians killed, 47 injured”

Friday September 28, 2007 02:53 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC saed at imemc dot org

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, based in Gaza, published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied territories in the period between September 20 and 27, 2007. During the reported period, Israeli troops killed 13 Palestinians, including one child, and injured 47, including 12 children.

Photo by PCHR

The Israeli army carried repeated invasions and attacks in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and imposed further restrictions on movement.

Seven of the killed residents were assassinated, and thirty of the injured residents, including six children, were injured in a large scaled military invasion into Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The PCHR reported that troops carried 33 invasions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and kidnapped 85 residents in the West Bank and four in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip:

On September 20, soldiers killed four Palestinians in Wadi Gaza (Juhr Al Deek) village, in the central part of the Gaza Strip. One of the slain residents was a child who was shot and injured in his head, and fell in front of a military bulldozer.

The was crushed to death under the bulldozer.

One resident was seriously injured in the invasion, and was kidnapped and taken to an unknown destination.

On September 26, troops shot and killed four residents, including two civilians and one child, and seriously injured three other residents after firing a tank shell at them in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

On the same day, the army extra-judicially executed five fighters, members of the Army of Islam after firing two missiles at their vehicle in Beit Hanoun.

During the invasion, at least 14 houses were fully or partially demolished, and the army razed 258 Dunams of agricultural lands. A total of 23 houses were demolished in the Gaza Strip during the reported period.

The Gaza Strip remained under strict siege since 16 months, and remained totally isolated from the rest of the world and thus nearly 2.5 million residents are practically imprisoned in the Gaza Strip and are facing harsh conditions due to the siege.

A few amounts of medical and food supplies made it into the Gaza Strip and the Israeli government declared the coastal region as a “hostile entity”.

Israeli attacks in the West Bank:

Israeli troops carried a large-scaled military offensive in Ein Beit Al Ma’ refugee camp west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

During the offensive, soldiers destroyed two apartment buildings in Nablus city and in the refugee camp. Soldiers also used several civilians as human shields. Twelve civilians were wounded during the offensive.

The PCHR reported that soldiers occupied three Palestinian houses and turned them into military posts. Soldiers also made holes in the walls of some houses and used the holes to move from one house to another.

In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, soldiers have closed the Ibrahimi mosque (The Cave of the Patriarchs) during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, for three sporadic days.

Five residents, including one child, were kidnapped at military roadblocks in the West Bank.

Although Israel claimed that it would ease the restrictions on the movements of the Palestinian residents, additional roadblocks were installed and the Palestinian areas continued to be divided and isolated.

Jerusalem:

Jerusalem remained off-limits to the Palestinian residents and thousands of civilians were not allowed to reach Al Aqsa Mosque in the holy city for prayers especially during the ongoing holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

On September 23, an Israeli settler stabbed a Palestinian civilian in an area southeast of Jerusalem.

According to information available to PCHR, at approximately 21:30, Hamza Taleb Suleiman, 25, from Beit Safafa neighborhood in Jerusalem, was walking in al-Malha area, southwest of the city. An Israeli settler who was also walking in the area took a knife out of his pocket and stabbed Suleiman.

A number of Palestinian civilians attempted to offer him first medical aid, but Israeli settlers drove them away from the area. Later, the Israeli police and ambulances arrived at the area, and Suleiman was evacuated to an Israeli hospital.

Attacks carried by settlers:

On Saturday morning, 22 September 2007, an Israeli settler from “Kiryat Arba” settlement, in Hebron, attacked a 16-year old child when he got out of his house, which is located to the north of the aforementioned settlement.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, the settler who was traveling in his own car stopped near the child and hit him to the chest, using a sharp tool. The child was moderately injured.

On Saturday evening, settlers attacked an ambulance and its crew while transferring a Palestinian child to a local hospital.

Soldiers initially stopped the ambulance at a roadblock and allowed it through but an extremist settlers group intercepted the ambulance and pointed their guns at the two paramedics and forced them out of the vehicle.

The two medics were violently beaten by the settlers while soldiers, present in the area, did not attempt to intervene.

The Wall:

The PCHR reported that last Friday four civilians were injured after the Israeli army used excessive force against nonviolent protesters during the weekly nonviolent protest in Bil’in village west of Ramallah.

The weekly protests are held by Palestinian residents of the village, Israeli and international peace activists.

Soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators, and violently beat them, the PCHR stated.

Also, Tal A'dasah, of Biet Hanina, north of East Jerusalem was turned into an isolated island by the Annexation Wall that surrounds the area and totally isolates the town after closing its only outlet to the nearby town of Bir Nabala earlier last week.

Full PCHR report in English, and PCHR recommendations:

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