[News] Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08 – 13 November 2018)
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PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (08 – 13 November 2018)
November 15, 2018
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/New Israeli Military Esclation in the Gaza Strip: Israeli warplanes
carried out dozens of airstrikes, launching 197 missiles at civilian
buildings and military sites belonging to Palestinian Armed Groups./
/2 Palestinian civilians were killed and 20 others were wounded,
including 5 children and 4 women. Many civilian facilities, residential
houses, and security sites were targeted and completely destroyed./
*_Shooting:_*
During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinian
civilians, including 2 killed during their participation in the Great
March of Return and Breaking the Siege Protests while the 2 others were
killed during the escalation the Gaza Strip witnessed in the middle of
the week. Moreover, the Israeli forces wounded 172 civilians, including
27 children, 15 women and 4 paramedics. In the West Bank, a person
wounded succumbed to his wounds while Israeli forces wounded 17
Palestinian civilians, including 9 children and a paramedic.
The Gaza Strip has witnessed a military escalation, where the Israeli
forces have unprecedentedly used warplanes and artillery shells since
the 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip. This escalation has started after
an Israeli special undercover unit “Mista’arvim” infiltrated the day
before yesterday, 11 November 2018, Khan Younis in the Southern Gaza
Strip and killed 7 members of the Palestinian armed groups, mainly a
commander in al-Qassam Brigades from Khan Younis, creating a state of
maximum alter among the Palestinian armed groups and tension among the
Palestinian civilians. This undercover operation was followed by
barrages of rockets launched deep into the Israeli towns adjacent to the
Gaza Strip. Since Monday afternoon, 12 November 2018, and until the
reporting period, upon a decision by the highest Israeli military and
political echelons, the Israeli forces carried out intense airstrikes
against many civilian facilities and residential houses in addition to
sites belonging to the security services and others to the Palestinian
armed groups, launching at least 40 missiles. The Israeli artillery
shelling also targeted the areas adjacent to the border fence with
Israel. Due to the hostilities, 2 civilians were killed and 20 others
were wounded, including 5 children and 4 women in addition to the
destruction and severe damage in many residential houses, other civilian
facilities and security sites.
As part of using excessive force against the peaceful protests along the
Gaza Strip borders, on 08 November 2018, the Israeli forces killed
Mohammed Abu Sharbin (20) from Rafah City after wounding him with a
bullet that hit his upper chest and exited his back during his
participation in the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege
protests in eastern al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip. On 09
November 2018, the Israeli forces killed Rami Qahman (28) while
participating in the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege
protests in al-Shawkah village, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
after being wounded with a bullet to the neck.
In the same context, during the reporting period, the Israeli forces
wounded 152 civilians, including 22 children, 11 women, and 4
paramedics. Three of those wounded sustained serious injuries.
*Injuries in the Gaza Strip between 08 and 13 November 2018 in Each City*
City Injuries
Total Children Women Journalists Paramedics Critical
Conditions
Northern Gaza Strip 31 11 2 0 3 2
Gaza City 55 0 5 0 0 0
Central Gaza Strip 21 6 3 0 0 0
Khan Younis 43 4 1 0 1 0
Rafah 2 1 0 0 0 1
Total 152 22 11 0 4 3
As part of the Israeli airstrikes, the Israeli forces fired artillery
shells at sites belonging to the Palestinian armed groups along the
border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
As part of targeting the Palestinian fishermen in the sea, the Israeli
forces continued to escalate their attacks against the Palestinian
fishermen, indicating the on-going Israeli policy to target their
livelihoods.
In the West Bank, medical sources at al-Istishari Specialist Hospital in
al-Rihan Suburb declared the death of Mohammed Shreiteh (28) from
al-Mazra’ah al-Gharbiyah, northwest of Ramallah, as he succumbed to
wounds he sustained during his participation in the peaceful protests
against settlements on 26 October 2018. The above-mentioned had been
wounded with a bullet to the front side of the head, fragmenting part of
his brain.
in the same context, during the reporting period, the Israeli forces
wounded 17 Palestinian civilians, including 9 children and a paramedic,
in separate shooting incidents.
*_Incursions:_*
During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 65
military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
During those incursions, Israeli forces arrested at least 18
Palestinians, including 4 children.
*_Israeli Forces continued to create a Jewish Majority in occupied East
Jerusalem:_*
As part of the Israeli house demolitions and notices, on 08 November
2018, the Israeli forces demolished a 200-square-meter residential house
belonging to the family of ‘Ali al-Ja’bah in al-Za’im village, east of
occupied East Jerusalem. Moreover, they demolished a room and
surrounding fence belonging to ‘Ali Abu Jom’ah in addition to removing
the foundations of an under-construction house belonging to the family
of Mohammed al-‘Omari.
*_Israeli Forces continued their settlement activities, and the settlers
continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property_*
As part of the Israeli settlers’ attacks against the Palestinians
civilians and their property, PCHR’s fieldworkers in the West Bank
documented 2 attacks carried out by settlers, in Salfit and Nablus. The
settlers wrote hostile slogans against Arabs on the walls and vehicles
in addition to slashing tires of 17 vehicles in Kafr al-Deek village,
west of Salfit.
*_Use of Force against Demonstrations in Protest against the U.S.
President’s Decision to Recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel:_*
Israeli forces continued its excessive use of lethal force against
peaceful demonstration organized by Palestinian civilians in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, and it was named as “The Great March of Return and
Breaking Siege.” The demonstration was in protest against the U.S.
President Donald Trump’s declaration to move the U.S. Embassy to it.
According to PCHR fieldworkers’ observations, the border area witnessed
large participation by Palestinian civilians as the Israeli forces
continued to use upon highest military and political echelons excessive
force against the peaceful demonstrators, though the demonstration were
fully peaceful. The demonstration was as follows during the reporting
period:
*_Gaza Strip:_*
*In the Thirty-third week of the March of Return and Breaking Siege
activities, Israeli forces killed 2 civilians and wounded 152 civilians,
including 22 children, , 11 women and 4 paramedics. Doctors classified 3
civilian’s injuries as serious. The incidents were as follows:*
* *The Central Gaza Strip:* at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, 98
November 2018, Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence
between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of al-Maghazi in the central
Gaza Strip, opened fire at a group of Palestinian young men, who
approached the border fence. As a result, Mohammed ‘Ala’a Mahmoud
Abu Sharbin (20), from Rafah, was killed after he was hit with a
live bullet that penetrated the upper side of chest and exited the
back. Mohammed was transferred via a PRCS ambulance after it
received coordination to a hospital where he arrived dead. The
Israeli shooting and firing tear gas canisters, which continued
until approximately 18:00, resulted in the injury of 21 civilians,
including 6 children and 3 women. Sixteen of them were hit with live
bullets and their shrapnel and 5 were hit with tear gas canisters.
* *The Northern Gaza Strip:* 31 civilians, including 11 children, 2
women, a deaf young man and 3 paramedics, were wounded. Twenty four
of them were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel, 1 was hit
with a rubber bullet and 9 were hit with tear gas canisters. Doctors
classified2 civilians’ injuries as serious. The wounded paramedics
were identified as:
1. Karem Mahmoud Rashed al-Dalow (37), a paramedic at the Palestinian
Civil Defense from al-Remal neighborhood in Gaza City, was hit with
a live bullet shrapnel to the neck;
2. Saleh Faraj Saleh al-Remahi (27), a volunteer paramedic at the
Palestinian Ministry of Health from Jabalia, was hit with a tear gas
canister to the face; and
3. Hutheifah Mahmoud Hasan Abu ‘Aitah (27), from Jabalia, was hit with
a tear gas canister to the back.
* *In Gaza City: 5*5 civilians, including 5 women, were wounded.
Twenty two of them were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel, 33
were hit with rubber bullets.
* *Khan Younis: *Israeli forces’ shooting at demonstrators, which
continued 18:00, resulted in the injury of 43 civilians, including 4
children and a paramedic. Twenty one of them were hit with live
bullets and their shrapnel, 17 were hit with tear gas canisters and
5 were hit with rubber bullets. The wounded paramedic was identified
as Falasteen Khalid Qdaih (21), a volunteer paramedic at Youth
Pioneer of Peace medical Team, was hit with a live bullet to the
left leg.
* *Rafah City: *Israeli forces’ shooting, which continued until 17:00,
resulted in the injury of 2 civilians, including a child, with live
bullets. Medical sources at Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis
declared the death of one of them namely Rami Wa’el Eshaq Qahman
(28), who succumbed to his wounds he sustained after being hit with
a live bullet to the neck.
* At approximately 11 November 2018, a Palestinian civilian was hit
with a live bullet shrapnel to the head during his participation on
the March of Return activities, east of al-Buraij refugee camp in
the central Gaza Strip.
*_West Bank:_*
* Following the Friday prayer on 09 November 2018, dozens of
Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders
gathered on agricultural lands of “al-Resan” Mount area, west of Ras
Karkar village, west of Ramallah in protest against the Israeli
settlers’ attempt to seize and confiscate the land. When the
civilians arrived at the abovementioned area, the Israeli soldiers
fired live and rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at
the protestors. As a result, Feras Samarah (33), a paramedic at
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), was hit with glass shrapnel
of an ambulance where she was present after Israeli forces opened
fire at the ambulance. The Israeli soldiers arrested Fares al-Sayed
Nasser (30) and Mohammed Manthoum Abu ‘Ayash (23) after chasing and
attacking them with their rifles.
* At approximately 13:30 on Friday afternoon, 09November 2018, a group
of Palestinian civilians moved from the center of Kufor Qadoum
village, northeast of Qalqiliyah, into the eastern entrance to the
village, which has been closed for 15 years in favor of the entrance
to /“Kedumim”/ settlement established on the village lands. The
protestors chanted national slogans in the anniversary of the death
of the late President, Yasser Arafat demanding end of occupation,
condemning the Israeli forces’ crimes against Palestinian protestors
along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip within “The Great March
of Return and Breaking the Siege” activities. Minister Walid Assaf,
head of the National Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlements,
participated in the demonstration. The protestors threw stones at
Israeli forces stationed behind sand barriers. The Israeli forces
fired rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them.
They also raided and searched houses belonging to Jamal Saleh
Jom’ah, Zhdi, Ahmed Shtaiwi and Khaldoun Abu Khalid ‘Obaid. The
soldiers then topped the houses’ roofs and used them as watchtowers
to monitor the protestors and fire rubber bullets and sound bombs.
As a result, 4 civilians, were wounded, including child Sari
Abdullah ‘Ali (10) who was hit with a rubber bullet to the right hand.
*_Civilian Succumbed to his Wounds:_*
* At approximately 17:30 on Saturday, 10 November 2018, medical
sources at the Istishari Arab Hospital in al-Raihan Suburb in the
northern Gaza Strip, announced the death of Mohammed Ibrahim
Shraiteh (28), succumbing to wounds he sustained during his
participation in the peaceful demonstration against the Israeli
forces on Friday, 26 October 2018, in al-Mazra’ah eastern village,
northwest of the city. Mohammed was hit with a live bullet to front
side of the forehead, causing a fragmentation to a part of the
brain. Mohammed underwent 4 surgical operations in the
abovementioned and he stayed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in a
deep coma until his death.
*_Settlement activities and attacks by settlers against Palestinian
civilians and property_*
*_Israeli forces’ attack:_*
* At approximately 08:00 on Thursday, 08 November 2018, Israeli forces
accompanied with a military vehicle and a vehicle of the Israeli
Civil Administration moved into Kherbit al-Mofaqarrah, east of
Yatta, south of Hebron. The Israeli Civil Administration officer
handed Ahmed Mahmoud al-Hamamdah (45) a notice to evacuate his
5-dunum land under the pretext of State lands within 45 days. It
should be noted that Kherbit al-Mofaqarrah is a residential compound.
*_Israeli settlers’ attack:_*
* At approximately 03:00 on Friday, 09 November 2018, a group of
Israeli settlers moved into Kafur al-Deek village, west of Salfit,
and then wrote hatred slogans against Arabs on walls and vehicles.
They also punctured the tires of 17 vehicles. PCHR keeps the names
of persons whose vehicles were damaged.
* On Sunday, 11 November 2018, dozens of Israeli settlers with the
Israeli forces’ protection moved into the *Antiquities area*in
Sibistia village, northwest of Nablus. The village’s Council said
that around 150 Israeli settlers accompanied with Israeli forces
moved into the antiquities area in Sibistia village and stayed there
for few hours before leaving. It should be noted that
the Antiquities area in Sibistia village was under the Israeli
incursions several times.
*Recommendations to the International Community*:
1. PCHR calls upon the international community to respect the Security
Council’s Resolution No. 2334 and to ensure that Israel respects it
as well, in particular point 5 which obliges Israel not to deal with
settlements as if they were part of Israel.
2. PCHR calls upon the ICC to continue to investigate the Israeli
crimes committed in the oPt, particularly the settlement crimes and
grave violations in the Gaza Strip.
3. PCHR Calls upon the European Union (EU) and all international bodies
to boycott settlements and ban working and investing in them in
application of their obligations according to international human
rights law and international humanitarian law considering
settlements as a war crime.
4. PCHR calls upon the international community to use all available
means to allow the Palestinian people to enjoy their right to
self-determination through the establishment of the Palestinian
State, which was recognized by the UN General Assembly with a vast
majority, using all international legal mechanisms, including
sanctions to end the occupation of the State of Palestine.
5. PCHR calls upon the international community and United Nations to
take all necessary measures to stop Israeli policies aimed at
creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem and at voiding
Palestine from its original inhabitants through deportations and
house demolitions as a collective punishment, which violates
international humanitarian law, amounting to a crime against humanity.
6. PCHR calls upon the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC to
work hard to hold Israeli war criminals accountable.
7. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva
Conventions to fulfill their obligations under article (1) of the
Convention to ensure respect for the Conventions under all
circumstances, and under articles (146) and (147) to search for and
prosecute those responsible for committing grave breaches of the
Geneva Conventions to ensure justice and remedy for Palestinian
victims, especially in light of the almost complete denial of
justice for them before the Israeli judiciary.
8. PCHR calls for a prompt intervention to compel the Israeli
authorities to lift the closure that obstructs the freedom of
movement of goods and 1.8 million civilians that experience
unprecedented economic, social, political and cultural hardships due
to collective punishment policies and retaliatory action against
civilians.
9. PCHR calls upon the European Union to apply human rights standards
embedded in the EU-Israel Association Agreement and to respect its
obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights when
dealing with Israel.
10. PCHR calls upon the parties to international human rights
instruments, especially the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to pressurize Israel to comply
with its provisions in the oPt and to compel it to incorporate the
human rights situation in the oPt in its reports submitted to the
relevant committees.
11. PCHR calls upon the EU and international human rights bodies to
pressurize the Israeli forces to stop their attacks against
Palestinian fishermen and farmers, mainly in the border area.
/Fully detailed document available at the official website of the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)./
<https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=11600>
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