Attachments
- Israeli forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
- A Palestinian child was killed in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron.
- 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Israeli forces targeted the border areas in the Gaza Strip. However, no casualties were reported.
- Israeli forces conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one in the Gaza Strip.
- 57 civilians, including 15 children and a woman, were arrested. Thirty-two of them, including 12 children and the woman, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Sea.
- Israeli forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
- A residential building belonging to Ja'afrah Family was demolished in Silwan village in addition to 3 other houses in Beit Hanina, rendering 46 persons homeless.
- A printing house was shut down in al-Ram after confiscating its contents.
- Hundreds of Israeli settlers raided al-Aqsa Mosque on Jewish holidays.
- Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 9th year.
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Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
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11 Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints.
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A trader from Rafah was arrested at Beit Hanoun Crossing in the northern Gaza Strip.
Summary
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (20 – 26 October 2016).
Shooting:
Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have also continued to use excessive force against Palestinian civilians participating in peaceful protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the majority of whom were youngsters. During the reporting period, in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and wounded 3 others, including a child, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, in a new crime of excessive use of force, on 20 October 2016, Israeli forces shot dead Khaled Bahar Ahmed Bahar (15), from Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. The aforementioned child was directly hit with one bullet from a 10-meter distance when he was in an agricultural land in Beit Z'etah area, east of the village and threw stones at an Israeli military jeep in the area.
On 20 October 2016, a 23-year-old civilian from Old 'Askar refugee camp was hit with a metal bullet to the head when Israeli forces moved into Nablus and a number of civilians demonstrated against them. The wounded person was taken to Rafidia governmental hospital to receive medical treatment. His state was classified as stable.
In the Gaza Strip on 21 October 2016, Tariq Jalhoum (16) from Beit Lahia hHousing Project in the northern Gaza Strip was hit with a bullet in the right leg and bullet shrapnel in the left hand when the Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence, east of al-Shuja'yah neighbourhood, fired live and metal bullets at dozens of young men, who headed to Nahal 'Oz to participate in activities in solidarity with Jerusalem.