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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (07– 13 August 2014)

Attachments

·Israeli forces launch a new offensive on the Gaza Strip.

  • 24 Palestinians, including 20 civilians, and an Italian journalist were killed.
  • The civilian victims include 5 children and a woman.
  • 13 Palestinians, 12 of whom are civilians, including 3 children and 3 women, died of previous wounds.

·Israeli warplanes launched dozens of airstrikes targeting houses and civilian facilities.

  • 36 houses were destroyed and dozens of others were damaged.
  • 9 mosques were attacked and 4 of them were destroyed.

·Israeli forces continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

  • 2 Palestinian civilians killed in protests against the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
  • 62 Palestinian civilians, including 17 children, were wounded.
  • 3 civilians were wounded in protests against the construction of the annexation wall.

·Israeli forces conducted 49 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

  • 2 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed during Israeli incursions.
  • 92 Palestinians were arrested, including 74 ones who were arrested in Jerusalem.

·A Palestinian child was killed and 2 others were wounded in 2 separate explosions of objects left by Israeli forces.

·Israel continued to impose a total closure on the oPt and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

  • Israeli forces established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank.
  • At least 2 Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints in the West Bank.

·Israeli forces continued to support settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

  • Israeli settlers attempted to run down a Palestinian woman in Beit Safafa village, south of Jerusalem.
  • Israeli settlers set fire to a car in Yassouf village, east of Salfit.