Summary
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (10 – 16 May 2012):
Shooting:
During the reporting period, IOF wounded 46 Palestinian civilians, including 3 journalists and 4 children, during the dispersion of peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and on the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba – the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their lands in 1948. Dozens of civilians also suffered from tear gas inhalation. IOF also arrested 5 demonstrators, including a Palestinian woman and a female Polish human rights defender.
In the Gaza Strip, on 10 May 2012, Israeli naval troops arrested two Palestinian fishermen in the northern Gaza City, but released them later. IOF also confiscated the fishing boat.