[News] PCHR Weekly Report: 41 civilians injured, 47 abducted by Israeli forces
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PCHR Weekly Report: 41 civilians injured, 47 abducted by Israeli forces
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Friday October 30, 2009 09:40
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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=56961
According to the Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, produced by the Palestinian
Center for Human Rights, during the week of 22 - 28 Oct. 2009, 41
civilians, including 5 journalists, 8 women, and one child, sustained
injuries and bruises when Israeli forces used force against peaceful
demonstrations in the West Bank.
Israeli attacks in the West Bank:
Israeli forces conducted 25 incursions into Palestinian communities
in the West Bank, during which they abducted 47 Palestinian
civilians, including 17 children.
During the reporting period, Israeli forces stormed into the al-Aqsa
Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and used excessive force against
Palestinian civilians who attempted to stop the raid. The raid and
related incidents followed a call by extremist Jewish groups,
particularly the "Organization for Human Rights on the Temple Mount,"
urging extremist Jews to break into the al-Aqsa Mosque and its yards
to conduct Talmudic rituals to mark Rambam's ascension.
Since Saturday night, 24 October 2009, Israeli forces have been
intensively deployed throughout the Old City of Jerusalem. The
al-Aqsa Mosque and worshippers were subjected to a similar assault on
27 September 2009, when a number of Israeli settlers attempted to
break into the yards of the Mosque.
Journalist Diala Jwaihan told PCHR that the Israeli police violently
beat her when she photographed a police officer attacking an old
Palestinian civilians. They also cut her clothes. She sustained acute
bruises to the neck and the back and a muscular strain.
Journalist Mahfouz Abu Turk told PCHR that he was violently beaten by
members of "Border Guards" when he was near Bab Hotta area in the old
town. He suffered severe pains in the left foot and right knee and
sustained bruises to the back.
Journalist Mais Abu Ghazala told PCHR that when she attempted to
enter the al-Aqsa Maosque through Bab Hutta, an Israeli soldier
blocked an iron barrier on her right foot. She emphasized that she
saw an international journalist being beaten and her teeth being
broken. She learnt later that the journalist was French.
Israeli forces abducted dozens of Palestinian civilians, including
Hatem Abdul Qader, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. On
Monday, 26 October 2009, an Israeli court ordered the expulsion of
Abdul Qader from the al-Aqsa Mosque and the old town for 21 days.
On 27 October 2009, Israeli forces demolished 8 houses in East Jerusalem.
On Friday Oct. 23rd at noon, Fahmi Hamdi Shaheen, 39, PCHR's field
worker in Hebron and Bethlehem, was beaten an detained by Israeli
forces, when he was participating in a peaceful sit-in organized by a
number of Palestinian civilians, human rights defenders and
international and Israeli solidarity activists near "Kiryat Arba"
settlement, which stands on Palestinian land in Hebron. Israeli
forces used excessive force against participants at the sit-in.
According to Shaheen and eyewitnesses, at noon, when Shaheen was
participating in a peaceful sit-in organized by scores of Palestinian
civilians from Tallat al-Ja'abra area, local activists from "Youths
against Settlement" and French and Israeli solidarity activists,
Israeli forces and the so called Border Guard Police besieged the
participants, who raised and cheered slogans against occupation and
settlement. Israeli forces used force to disperse the sit-in. They
also abducted and violently beat Shaheen. Israeli forces declared the
area a closed military zone and tore down a tent set up on lands
threatened to be confiscated by Israeli forces for the purpose of
settlement expansion.
At approximately 13:10, Israeli forces took Shaheen to a detention
and interrogation center in a police station near "Kiryat Arba"
settlement. They also detained 3 Israeli solidarity activists.
Shaheen was informed that he was under detention, and in the evening
he was interrogated for charges of "incitement, obstruction of the
work of security forces and presence in a closed military zone."
Earlier, when Israeli forces started to disperse the sit-in and chase
the participants, they abducted 'Abdul Karim Ibrahim al-Ja'bari, a
land owner, and Badee' Dib Dwaik, a local activist, and 9
international and Israeli solidarity activists. Israeli forces
released them all after one or two hours in detention.
At approximately 23:45, upon the intervention of Lea Tsemel, an
Israeli lawyer, Shaheen was released on bail. He was warned not enter
the Israeli-controlled areas known as H2 area in the south and
southeast of Hebron.
Shaheen, who is an activist against the illegal settlements in
Hebron, reported that the Israeli police violently beat him when they
abducted him, although they knew that he works in the field of human
rights. He sustained bruises to the chest and the right shoulder.
Israeli settlement activities:
Israeli forces have continued settlement activities in the West Bank
in violation of international humanitarian law and Israeli settlers
have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. On 27
October 2009, scores of Israeli settlers from "Shavot Rachel"
settlement, which stands on lands belonging to Qaryout village,
southeast of Nablus, launched a series of attacks against Palestinian
farmers who were cultivating olives, nearly 500 meters away from the
settlement.
The settlers, escorted by Israeli forces, attacked farmers with
stones and violently beat a number of them. As a result of these
attacks, 5 Palestinian farmers sustained bruises, and Israeli forces
abducted Kamal 'Abdul Jawad Kassab, 29, claiming that he refused to
obey orders to leave the area.
Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip:
On Thursday Oct. 22nd, at approximately 03:15, an Israeli forces
warplane bombarded a workshop belonging to Shareef Mohammed Loulu in
Jaffa Street in the center of Gaza City. The workshop was destroyed.
Israeli forces have continued to close all border crossings to the
Gaza Strip for more than two years. The illegal Israeli forces
blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June
2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic
situation in the Gaza Strip.
1.5 million people are being denied their basic rights, including
freedom of movement, and their rights to appropriate living
conditions, work, health and education. The main concern of 1.5
million people living in the Gaza Strip is to obtain their basic
needs of food, medicines, water and electricity supplies.
Israeli Annexation Wall:
Israeli forces have continued to construct the Annexation Wall inside
West Bank territory. During the reporting period, Israeli forces used
force against peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian
civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders to
protest the construction of the Wall.
Following the Friday Prayer on 23 October 2009, dozens of Palestinian
civilians gathered in the center of Bil'in village, west of Ramallah.
They moved towards the Wall and following altercations threw stones
at Israeli forces troops positioned in the area. Immediately, Israeli
forces troops fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear
gas canisters at the demonstrators. Dozens of demonstrators suffered
from tear gas inhalations.
Also following the Friday Prayer on 23 October 2009, dozens of
Palestinian civilians and international and human rights defenders
organized a peaceful demonstration in Ne'lin village, west of
Ramallah, in protest to the construction of the Annexation Wall. They
clashed with Israeli forces troops positioned near the Wall. Israeli
forces troops fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear
gas canisters at demonstrators. As a result, 7 Palestinian civilians,
including two children, were wounded.
Also following the Friday Prayer on 16 October 2009, dozens of
Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders
organized a peaceful demonstration to protest the construction of the
Annexation Wall in al-Ma'sara village, south of Bethlehem. Israeli
troops closed the entrance of the village and attacked the
demonstrators. They fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the
demonstrators and violently beat a number of them. As a result, 3
Palestinian civilians sustained bruises: Ya'qoub Suleiman 'Alaa'
al-Din, 24; 'Omar 'Alaa' al-Din, 24; and 'Ali Mousa Zawahra, 24.
Recommendations to the international community:
Due to the number and severity of Israeli human rights violations
this week, the PCHR made a number of recommendations to the
international community. Among these were a recommendation that the
High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention comply with
the legal obligations detailed in Article 146 of the Convention to
search for and prosecute those responsible for grave breaches, namely
war crimes.
The PCHR calls for the immediately implementation of the Advisory
Opinion issued by the International Court of Justice, which considers
the construction of the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank illegal.
For the full text of the report, click on the link below:
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