[News] Israeli violations of international humanitarian law - 9 Palestinians killed during last week alone

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  Nine Palestinians killed during last week alone

*October 4, 2018*

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) based in Gaza in its 
weekly report said I/sraeli violations of international law and 
international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting 
period //(27 September – 03 October 2018//). /

*Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against unarmed 
civilians and peaceful protesters in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.*

  * /9 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were killed; 7 of
    them, including 2 children, were killed on Friday./
  * /307 civilians, including 47 children, 5 women, 4 journalists and a
    paramedic, were wounded./
  * /22 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children and 4 journalists,
    were wounded in the West Bank/
  * *Israeli forces continued to open fire at the border areas in the
    Gaza Strip.*
  * A Palestinian elderly was killed in eastern Maghazi refugee camp.
  * *Israeli forces conducted 62 incursions into Palestinian communities
    in the West Bank, and 3 limited incursions into occupied Jerusalem**.*
  * /67 civilians, including 18 children, were arrested in the West Bank./
  * /24 of them, including 6 children, were arrested in Jerusalem./

  * *Israeli authorities continued to create a Jewish majority in
    occupied East Jerusalem.*
  * /Hundreds of settlers raided al-Aqsa Mosque and attacked the
    Palestinian civilians and their property./

  * *Israeli forces continued their settlement activities in the West Bank.*
  * /A barrack built of tin plates was confiscated in Masafer Yata,
    south of Hebron./

  * *5 Shooting incidents were reported against the Palestinian fishing
    boats in the Gaza Sea, but no casualties were reported.*

  * *Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to
    impose the**illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 11^th
    ** consecutive year.*
  * /Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank
    and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of
    Palestinian civilians./
  * /4 civilians, including a child, were arrested at the military
    checkpoints in the West Bank./

***_Shooting:_*

Israeli forces continued to use lethal force against Palestinian 
civilians, who participated in peaceful demonstrations organized within 
the activities of the “Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege” in 
the Gaza Strip, which witnessed for the 27^th  week in a row peaceful 
demonstrations along the eastern and northern Gaza Strip border area. 
During the reporting period, the Israeli forces killed 8 Palestinian 
civilians, including 3 children, and wounded 307 civilians, including 47 
children, 5 women, 4 journalists, and a paramedic.  Meanwhile, a 
Palestinian elderly was killed in the central Gaza Strip after Israeli 
forces opened fire from the eastern borders at the area to the west of 
the border fence with Israel.  In the West Bank, 22 Palestinian 
civilians, including 3 children and 4 journalists, were wounded; one of 
those wounded is in serious condition.

In the Gaza Strip, on 28 September 2018, which coincided the 27^th 
  Friday of the Return and Breaking the Siege protests, in new use of 
lethal force, Israeli forces killed 7 Palestinian civilians, including 2 
children.  Three of them were killed in eastern Malakah intersection in 
eastern al-Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City and were identified 
as Eyad al-Sha’er (18); Mohammed Shakhsah (24), both from al-Shija’iyah; 
and Mohammed Haniyah (33) from al-Sheikh Redwan neighborhood.  In the 
central Gaza Strip, Mohammed al-Home (14) and Mohammed al-‘Awawdah (25), 
both from al-Bureij, were killed in addition to Naser Musabeh (12) from 
‘Abasan al-Kabirah and Mohammed Anshasi (18) from Khan Younis refugee 
camp.  Three of those killed were hit with bullets in the heads, 2 were 
hit with bullets to the chest, 1 in the back and another in the abdomen.

On 03 October 2018, Israeli forces stationed inside the watchtowers at 
Beit Hanoun “Erez” Crossing, northwest of Beit Hanoun in the northern 
Gaza Strip, killed Ahmed Abu Jabal (15) from Beit Lahia after being hit 
with a tear gas canister that penetrated his head front, causing a 
fracture to the skull and parts of his head got out.  The child in 
question was with dozens of other civilians on the asphalt road leading 
to the vehicles gate at the crossing when the Israeli forces opened fire 
and heavily fired tear gas canisters at them.

As part of the ongoing shooting from the eastern borders with Israel at 
civilians’ houses and property, Ibrahim al-‘Arouqi (74) from al-Maghazi 
refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip was killed on 01 October 2018 
after being hit with a bullet to the back when he was 2000 meters away 
in the vicinity of the area he lived in, west of the border fence.  the 
Ministry of Health declared in a statement that: “Following the 
competent authorities’ procedures, it was confirmed that the 
above-mentioned was wounded in an area near the borders as the competent 
authorities initiated an investigation to confirm he was wounded by the 
Israeli forces’ fire.”

As part of targeting Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Sea, the Israeli 
forces continued to escalate their attacks against the Palestinian 
fishermen, pointing out to the ongoing Israeli policy of targeting their 
livelihoods.  During the reporting period, the Israeli forces opened 
fire 5 times at the fishermen; 2 incidents in the north-western Beit 
Lahia and 3 others in the Western Soudaniyah area, west of Jabalia in 
the northern Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, the Israeli forces during the reporting period wounded 
22 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children and 4 journalists; one of 
those wounded sustained serious wounds.

*_Incursions:_*

During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 62 
military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 9 
similar ones into Jerusalem and its suburbs. During those incursions, 
Israeli forces arrested at least 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, 
in the West Bank.  Meanwhile, 24 other civilians, including 6 children, 
were arrested in Jerusalem and its suburbs.

In the Gaza Strip, on 27 September 2018, Israeli forces moved 100 meters 
into the southern coastal border fence off Zikim Military Base, 
northwest of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.  On the same day, 
the Israeli forces moved 70 meters into eastern Fokhari village, east of 
Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

On 02 October 2018, Israeli forces moved 100 meters into al-Shawkah 
village in eastern Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip.  The vehicles 
placed barbed wires, west of the main border fence between the Gaza 
Strip and Israel.

*_Israeli Forces continued to create a Jewish Majority in occupied East 
Jerusalem:_*

As part of Israeli settlers’ attacks against the Palestinian civilians 
and their property, on 27 September 2018, 1135 settlers raided al-Aqsa 
Mosque via al-Magharbah Gate on the Fourth Day of Sukkot “a Jewish 
holiday.”  Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli police attacked 
Palestinian worshippers in al-Selseleh Gate area by beating and pushing 
them in addition to arresting a young man and taking him away.

On 30 September 2018, groups of Israeli settlers attacked shops in 
al-Musrarah neighbourhood and beat the owners under the protection of 
the Israeli forces, wounding 3 civilians. Eyewitnesses said that the 
settlers attacked the Palestinian vehicles parked in the neighbourhood 
and damaged them.

*_Israeli Forces continued their settlement activities, and the settlers 
continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property_*

As part of house and civil object demolitions, on 02 October 2018, the 
Israeli forces confiscated a barrack from al-Halawah area within the 
area Masafer Yata, south of Hebron.  The barrack is 40 square meters and 
belongs to Ahmed Abu ‘Aram.

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