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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (03 - 09 March 2016)

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  • Israeli forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt

  • 6 Palestinian civilians, including a child and 2 women, were killed in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

  • 8 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

  • Israeli forces continued to target the border areas along the Gaza Strip.

  • A Palestinian civilian was wounded in the east of al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.**

  • 4 Palestinian civilians were wounded during peaceful protests organized near the border fence.

  • Israeli forces conducted 85 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 12 ones in occupied Jerusalem.

  • 80 Palestinian civilians, including 25 children and 2 women, were arrested. Thirty of them, including 16 children and a woman were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.

  • Among the arrested were a photojournalist and a doctor.

  • Israeli forces raided Beit Ommar Orphanage.

  • Israeli forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.

  • Israeli forces issued administrative demolition decisions against a number of houses and commercial stores in Silwan village.

  • Settlement activities continued in the West Bank.

  • 10 dunums in Deir Ballout village, west of Salfit, were levelled.

  • A livestock barrack in Halhoul town, north of Hebron, was demolished.

  • Israeli forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.

  • Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 9th

  • Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.

  • 6 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were arrested at military checkpoints.

  • Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian patient while coming back to the Gaza Strip.