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<h1 class="reader-title">PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human
Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12-18
July 2018)<br>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time"><span>July 20, 2018</span></div>
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<p><strong>Israeli forces continued with systematic
crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt),
for the week of 12-18 July, 2018.</strong></p>
<p><em>Israeli forces continued to use excessive force
against Palestinian protestors in the Gaza Strip. Two
Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed,
while a civilian succumbed to his previous wounds.</em><br>
<em>115 Palestinian civilians, including 24 children, 5
women, 4 journalists and 3 paramedics, were wounded;
15 of them sustained serious wounds.</em></p>
<p><strong><u>Shooting:</u></strong></p>
<p>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 16<sup>th</sup> week
in a row peaceful demonstrations along the eastern and
northern Gaza Strip border area. During the reporting
period in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli forces killed 4
Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, while
another civilian succumbed to his wounds. Moreover, the
Israeli forces wounded 115 others, including 26
children, 5 women, 4 journalists and 3 paramedics.
Fifteen of those wounded sustained serious wounds. In
the West Bank, the Israeli forces wounded 10 civilians,
including 4 children and a journalist.</p>
<ul>
<li>In the Gaza Strip, in a new car crime, Israeli
forces killed 2 Palestinian civilians and wounded 23
others, including 2 children in a series of airstrikes
targeting an uninhabited al-Katiba building, which is
located next to a public park in a densely populated
area and government and civil institutions in the
center of Gaza City. PCHR indicates that these
airstrikes came in light official Israeli threats as
the Israeli forces’ spokesperson Avichai Adrei stated
that the Israeli army will conduct more raids in the
Gaza Strip as long as it is needed. He also displayed
photos of the 2014 Israeli Offensive on the Gaza
Strip, pointing out for the possibility of repeating
their scenario. The Israeli forces’ spokesperson send
a message through his page early today to the Gaza
Strip population to “stay away from any building,
infrastructure that serves the terrorist parties, any
person known as terrorist and every area where
terrorist organizations operate. Save your lives and
you were warned.” This indicates an Israeli intention
to escalate the situation, although the majority of
the victims who fall as a result of this offensive are
Palestinian civilians.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>During the reporting period, while using the
excessive force against the peaceful protesters along
the Gaza Strip borders, the Israeli forces killed 2
Palestinian civilians and another one succumbed to
wounds he sustained on 14 May 2018. Moreover, 115
civilians, including 24 children, 5 women, 4
journalists and 3 paramedics. Fifteen of those wounded
sustained serious wounds.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Injuries in the Gaza Strip during this Week</strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2"><strong>Governorate</strong></td>
<td colspan="6">Injuries</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Total</td>
<td>Children</td>
<td>Women</td>
<td>Journalists</td>
<td>Paramedics</td>
<td>Critical Injuries</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Northern Gaza Strip</strong></td>
<td>18</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Gaza City</strong></td>
<td>32</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Central Gaza Strip</strong></td>
<td>27</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Khan Younis</strong></td>
<td>20</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Rafah</strong></td>
<td>18</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total</strong></td>
<td>115</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>15</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>As part of targeting the border areas, during the
reporting period, Israeli forces fired 11 artillery
shells along the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip with
Israel. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were
wounded and 2 residential houses sustained partial
damage.</p>
<p>As part of the airstrikes, further to the
above-mentioned crime resulted in the killing of 2
Palestinian civilians and wounding 23 others, Israeli
warplanes launched 91 airstrikes targeting a group of
Palestinian civilians, training sites belonging to the
Palestinian resistance factions and empty lands. The
Israeli forces claimed that the targeted civilians fired
incendiary balloons. As a result, 4 Palestinian
civilians were wounded.</p>
<p>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, PCHR
documented 6 shooting incidents at the fishermen,
including 2 in the northern Gaza Strip, 2 in the central
Gaza Strip and others in the southern Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>In the West Bank, during the reporting period, the
Israeli forces wounded 10 Palestinian civilians,
including 4 children and a journalist.</p>
<p><strong><u>Incursions:</u></strong></p>
<p>During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted
at least 77 military incursions into Palestinian
communities in the West Bank and 4 similar ones into
Jerusalem and its suburbs. During those incursions,
Israeli forces arrested at least 61 Palestinians,
including a child and a woman in the West Bank.
Meanwhile, 5 other civilians were arrested in Jerusalem
and its suburbs.</p>
<p>In the Gaza Strip, at approximately 07:30 on 17 July
2018, the Israeli forces moved 100 meters into the east
of al-Qarrarah village, east of Khan Yunis, south of the
Gaza Strip. They levelled lands and repaired the border
fence for several hours, before redeploying along the
border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces Continued their Measures to
Create a Jewish Majority in occupied East Jerusalem</u></strong></p>
<p>As part of demolishing houses and civilian facilities,
on 17 July 2018, the Israeli authorities’ bulldozers
demolished a residential house, retaining walls and an
agricultural barrack belonging to Saleh Abu Khudair in
Shu’fat neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem.
The 100-sqaure-meter house was built few months ago to
shelter Salah’s family, which is comprised of 6 members.
It should be noted that the Israeli Municipality
bulldozers demolished his house at the end of last
February and his family became homeless, so he re-built
the house and the Israeli authorities demolished it
again.</p>
<p>On the same day, Israeli forces demolished a retaining
wall belonging to Ziyad ‘Awni in al-Tour village, east
of occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext of
non-licensing.</p>
<p>On 18 July 2018, the Israeli Municipality staff
demolished a residential apartment in al-Tour
neighborhood, east of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old
City. The apartment was located in a 5-strorey
residential building belonging to Abu Sbitan Family.</p>
<p>On the same day, Jamal Hadiyah self-demolished his
house in al-Thawri neighborhood, south of occupied East
Jerusalem, to avoid paying the demolition costs. The
Israeli Court issued a decision to demolish the
90-square-meter house and gave him until 26 July 2018 to
implement the decision or the Israeli Municipality staff
will demolish it and force him to pay the demolition
costs estimated at NIS 100.000.</p>
<p>As part of restrictions imposed on NGOs’ work, on 14
July 2018, Israeli forces raided Hind al-Hussainy
College in al-Shaiekh Jarrah neighborhood, north if
occupied East Jerusalem and prevented holding the fourth
academic conference entitled: “ The Islamic Endowment
(Awqaf) in Jerusalem”. The conference was organized by
the Jerusalem Waqf and Heritage Reservation Society and
the Islamic Supreme Committee – Jerusalem.</p>
<p>On 17 July 2018, the Israeli Execution and Procedures
Department staff raided an elementary school in Shu’fat
neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old
City, and confiscated its contents under the pretext of
accumulating taxes. The school administration said that
the Israeli Execution and Procedures Department staff
raided that school and confiscated devices and tool
estimated at NIS 4.000, under the pretext of
accumulating debts of “Arnona” property tax and not
paying it from 2017.</p>
<p><strong>Settlement activities and attacks by settlers
against Palestinian civilians and property</strong></p>
<p>As part of demolishing civilians property, on 14 July
2018, Israeli forces demolished 3 roofs and an
agricultural room in al-Marajem area, southwest of Duma
village, southeast of Nablus, after a year of notifying
it and a week of issuing the decision to demolish it.</p>
<p>As part of settlers’ attacks against Palestinian
civilians and property, on 13 July 2018, hundreds of
settlers, using dozens of buses, moved into ‘Ortah
village, southeast of Nablus, under the Israeli forces’
protection. The Israeli settler performed their
religious rituals in places that they claim to be
religious shrines located on the village’s outskirts.</p>
<p>On the same day, a group of Israeli settlers sneaked
into the outskirts of ‘Oreef village from the eastern
side. They set fire to 2 Plaestinian vehicles belonging
to Ziyad ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Jameel Shehadah. The 2 vehicles
were parking in the house yard, during which the
settlers sneaked into the house, poured a flammable
material at the vehicles and then set fire to them.
Moreover, they wrote slogans in Arabic (Be aware( and
draw the Star of David below the written slogan. The 2
vehicles caught fire before extinguishing them by the
village residents.</p>
<p>On 16 July 2018, a group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Leshim</em> “
settlement established in the lands of Dir Balout
village, west of Salfit, levelled 82 dunums. The
settlers demolished 100 olive trees in favor of the
abovementioned settlement. The levelled land belong to
Na’iem Rushdi Jabbarah and Idrees Jabbarah ‘Abdullah,
from the village.</p>
<p>On 17 July 2018, a group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Yitzhar</em>“
settlement established in the lands of ‘Asirah
Qabaliyiah village, south of Nablus, attacked the
outskirts of ‘Asirah Qabaliyiah village from the eastern
side, under the Israeli forces’ protection. The Israeli
settlers burned 80 olive trees. The attack resulted in
smashing the windows of 4 vehicles parked in front of
their owners’ houses.</p>
<p><strong><u>Use of Force against Demonstrations in
Protest against the U.S. President’s Decision to
Recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel:</u></strong></p>
<p>Israeli forces continued its excessive use of lethal
force for the 16<sup>th</sup> consecutive Friday
against peaceful demonstration organized by Palestinian
civilians in in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
demonstrations were named as “The Great March of Return
and Breaking the Siege. The demonstrations were also in
protest against the U.S. President Donald Trump’s
declaration to move the U.S. Embassy to it. The
demonstrations were as follows during the reporting
period:</p>
<p><strong><u>Gaza Strip:</u></strong></p>
<p>At approximately 16:00 on Friday 13 July 2018,
thousands of civilians swarmed to the Return encampments
established by the Supreme National Authority for the
Great March of Return and Breaking Siege, east of
Malakah intersection, east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood,
east of Gaza City in the 16<sup>th</sup> consecutive
Friday titled “Loyalty to Khan al-Ahmer Friday”. The
activities included raising flags, chanting national
slogans, setting fire to tires and flying kites. Though
the demonstrations were fully peaceful, Israeli forces
stationed behind the border fence between the Gaza Strip
and Israel deliberately and randomly fired live and
rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at them. As a
result, ‘Othman Rami Jawad Heles (14), from
al-Shuja’iyah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, was hit
with a live bullet that entered the chest and exited the
back, causing his immediate death. Moreover, 32
civilians, including 8 children and a woman, were hit
with live bullets and its shrapnel and tear gas
canisters.</p>
<ul>
<li>Around the same time, hundreds of civilians swarmed
to the Return encampments established by the Supreme
National Authority for the Great March of Return and
Breaking Siege, 400 meters away from the border fence
between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of al-Buraij
in the central Gaza Strip. Hundreds of young men,
children and women approached the border fence, set
fire to tires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli forces stationed behind sand barriers and
military vehicles fired live bullets and tear gas
canisters at the participants. The clashes continued
until approximately 20:00. As a result, 27 civilians,
including 3 women, 4 children, 3 paramedics and a
freelance journalist, who received medical treatment
on the spot, were wounded. Two of paramedics work at
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) while the third
works at the Medical Services. Sixteen of the wounded
civilians were hit with live bullets and its shrapnel
and 11 were directly hit with tear gas canisters. The
wounded civilians were transferred to al-Aqsa Hospital
in Deir al-Balah. Doctors classified the injury of 2
civilians as serious and one of them was transferred
to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The other
civilians’ injuries were classified between minor and
moderate. The Israeli forces targeted the civilians’
gathering in camps. As a result, a number of medical
staffers and dozens of civilians suffered tear gas
inhalation. Some of them received medical treatment on
the spot while others were taken to al-Aqsa Hospital
in Deir al-Balah.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 16:00, hundreds of Palestinians
swarmed to the Return encampments, east of Khuza’ah
village, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza
Strip to participate in the demonstrations organized
by Supreme National Authority for the Great March of
Return and Breaking Siege. The number of protestors
increased at approximately 16:30, as the participants,
including men, elderlies, women and children, gathered
inside and outside the encampment’s yard and raised
flags, chanted national slogans and flew dozens of
kites and balloons as dozens of them approached the
border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel and set
fire. A number of them attempted to throw stones at
Israeli forces and remove the barbed wire fence
established by those forces on the Palestinian lands
30-50 meters away from the main border fence. The
Israeli forces stationed behind hills, sand barriers,
military vehicles and their vicinity sporadically
opened fire and fired tear gas canisters at the
protestors and at the area behind them. An Israeli
drone also fired tear gas canisters amidst the
protestors and near the area where the ambulances were
stationed, 250 meters away from the border fence. The
shooting continued until approximately 20:00. As a
result, 20 civilians, including 2 children, were hit
with live bullets and tear gas canisters. The wounded
civilians were taken to the field hospital and then
transferred to Nasser, Gaza European and Algerian
Hospitals in Khan Younis. Doctors classified the
injury of 3 civilians as serious. At approximately
06:15 on Saturday, 14 July 2018, medical sources at
Nasser Hospital announced the death of Mohammed Nasser
Mohammed Shurab (18), from Khan Younis after being hit
with a live bullet to the chest. At approximately
18:22, dozens of civilians suffered tear gas
inhalation and they received medical treatment on the
spot and at the field hospital while others were
transferred to hospitals due to suffering from
suffocation and seizures.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 17:00, hundreds of Palestinian
swarmed to the Return encampments established by the
Supreme National Authority for the Great March of
Return, east of Abu Safiyah Hill, northeast of Jabalia
in the northern Gaza Strip. The protestors raised
Palestinian flags, chanted national slogans and set
fire to tires. Dozens of them approached the border
fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel and threw
stones at Israeli soldiers stationed behind the border
fence. The Israeli forces deliberately and randomly
fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters
at them. The clashes continued until approximately
21:00 on the same day. As a result, 18 civilians,
including 4 children and 3 photojournalists, were
wounded. Fifteen of them were hit with live bullets
and its shrapnel while 3 of them were hit with tear
gas canisters. The wounded civilians were transferred
via PRCS ambulances, Medical Services, General Union
Committee and the Ministry of Health to the Indonesian
and al-Awda Hospitals. Doctors classified the injury
of 8 civilians as serious. The wounded
photojournalists were identified as:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Abdul Karim Hasan Abdullah Hamdounah (28) from
Jabalia and works at Palestine Live Agency was hit
with live bullet shrapnel to the right thigh.</li>
<li>Nihad Khalil Mohammed Abdul Nabi (25) from Jabalia
and works at Palestine Live Agency was hit with a live
bullet to the left leg.</li>
<li>Anas Jamal Mahmoud al-Sharif (22) from Jabalia and
works at Shamal Online Agency was hit with a tear gas
canister to the left shoulder.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Around the same time, thousands of Palestinian
protestors swarmed to the encampments established by
the Supreme National Authority for the Great March of
Return, 300 meters away from the border fence between
the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of east of al-Shawkah
village, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. A
number of them approached the border fence, flew
kites, set fire to tires and threw stones at Israeli
soldiers stationed behind sand barriers along the
border fence. The soldiers fired live bullets and tear
gas canisters at them. The clashes continued until
approximately 20:00. As a result, 18 civilians,
including 6 children and a woman, were wounded.
Thirteen of them were hit with live bullets and its
shrapnel and 5 others were directly hit with tear gas
canisters. The wounded civilians were taken to the
field hospital in the Return camp and then transferred
to Abu Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah. Doctors
classified the injury of 2 civilians as serious.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 18:00 on Saturday, 14 July 2018,
Israeli forces stationed behind the border fence with
Israel adjacent to the Return encampment, east of
Khuza’ah village, east of Khan Younis, fired live
bullets and tear gas canisters at a group of civilians
who approached the border fence, set fire to tires and
protested in the area in conjunction with a
celebration for Hamas Movement inside the camp, during
which they launched their summer camps. As a result,
many civilians suffered tear gas inhalation and they
received medical treatment on the spot.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Civilian Succumbed to His wounds:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>On Tuesday, 17 July 2018, medical sources announced
the death of Samer Dahoud Mahmoud al-Shubaki (22) from
al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, succumbing to his
previous wounds. Al-Shubaki was wounded on 14 May
2018after being hit with a live bullet to the neck,
causing a Quadriplegia for him by the Israeli forces
during his participation in the March of Return and
Breaking Siege in Malakah area, east of al-Zaytoun
neighborhood, east of Gaza City. It should be noted
that al-Shubaki was receiving medical treatment in an
Israeli hospital due to his serious injury until his
death was announced.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>West Bank:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 13:30 on Friday, 13 July 2018, a
group of Palestinian civilians moved from Kufor
Qaddoum village, northeast of Qalqiliyah, to 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 demanding end of
occupation, condemning the U.S President Donald
Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital
of Israel and 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. Several
representatives of national factions and
representatives of National Action Factions in the
north of the West Bank and a number of foreign and
Israeli activists. Israeli soldiers fired live and
rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at
them. As a result, Nidal Shafiq Taher Eshtiah (49), a
journalist at the Chinese News Agency, was hit with a
rubber bullet to the left leg, though he was wearing a
Press clearly marked uniform.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 17:00 on Saturday, 14 July 2018, a
group of civilians organized a similar demonstration
at the eastern entrance to Kufor Qaddoum village. The
Israeli forces opened fire at the participants. As a
result, a 28-year-old civilian was hit with a rubber
bullet to the left eye.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Efforts to Create A Jewish majority</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Israeli forces escalated their attacks on
Palestinian civilians and their property. They have
also continued their raids on al-Aqsa Mosque and
denied the Palestinians access to it:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><u>Arrests and Incursions:</u></strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 13:00 on Thursday, 12 July 2018,
Israeli forces arrested Islam ‘Abdullah Mohamed ‘Ali
(23) while he was near al-Timthal al-Abiyag area in
al-Shaiekh Jarrah neighborhood, north of occupied East
Jerusalem. The Israeli forces then took him to an
investigation center.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 19:00 on Sunday, 15 July 2018,
Israeli forces moved into Hizmah village, northeast of
occupied East Jerusalem. They raided and searched a
house belonging to Ahmed ‘Adel Abu Shalhoub (24) and
then arrested him.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 21:00 on the same day, around 14
Israeli military vehicles accompanied with a large
number of Israeli soldiers moved into al-Ram village,
north of occupied East Jerusalem. They closed the
village’s main street in the vicinity of al-Shuhada
square. Moreover, they heavily fired tear gas
canisters and sound bombs and then raided dozens of
shops looking for youngsters. During which, dozens of
Palestinian young men gathered in the area and threw
stones and empty bottles at the soldiers, who fired
rubber bullets at them. The Israeli forces later
withdrew and no injuries or arrests were reported
among the Palestinian civilians.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 06:00 on Monday, 16 July 2018,
Israeli forces moved into Karoum Qamar in Silwan
village, south of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City.
They raided and searched a house belonging to a former
prisoner Basil Harbi al-‘Abasi (27) and then arrested
him.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 01:00 on Wednesday, 18 July 2018,
Israeli forces moved into Sho’fat refugee camp, north
of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. They raided and
searched houses, from which they arrested ‘Omar Fawzi
Muhassin (33) and Mahmoud Sa’di al-‘Adween (26).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong><u>House Demolitions and Notices:</u></strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On Monday, 16 July 2018, Israeli forces ordered
Jamal Hadiyah to vacate his house in al-Thawri
neighborhood, south of occupied East Jerusalem, as a
prelude to demolish it. Jamal said that he was forced
to vacate his house after receiving a demolition
notice from the Israeli Municipality last week. He
also said that his family is comprised of 6 members
living in the house 30 years ago. The Israeli
Municipality claimed that the house is not licensed.
He added that the Israeli Municipality notified him 4
years ago, so he hired a lawyer to follow- up the case
and get a license and paid a lot of money, but in
vain. Jamal confirmed that he vacated his house on the
same day in order to self-demolish his house and not
avoid the demolition costs, which is estimated at over
NIS 100.000. On Wednesday, 18 July 2018, Jamal
self-demolished his house to avoid paying the
demolition costs. It should be noted that the Israeli
Municipality forced 3 Palestinians from Jerusalem to
self-demolish their houses in the last June.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 09:00 on Tuesday, 17 July 2018,
Israeli bulldozers demolished a wall surrounding a
plot of land belonging to Ziyad ‘Awni ‘Alqam in
al-Tour village, east of occupied East Jerusale, under
the pretext of non-licensing. Eyewitnesses said that
the Israeli Municipality staff accompanied with
Israeli forces and a bulldozer moved into al-Tour
village and then demolished a facility near
al-Zaytounah military checkpoint. They also demolished
a wall surrounding a plot of land belonging to Ziyad
‘Awni ‘Alqam. The eyewitnesses also said that the
Israeli Municipality staff denied Palestinian
civilians and journalists’ access to area, which was
previously stormed.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>In the same context, on Tuesday, the Israeli
authorities’ bulldozers demolished a house belonging
to Salah Abu Khudair in Shu’fat neighborhood, north of
occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. Salah said that
the Israeli Municipality staff accompanied with
Israeli soldiers and a bulldozer moved into the
neighborhood, completely surrounded his house and then
demolished the house, retaining walls and an
agricultural barrack. He added that the
100-sqaure-meter house was built few months ago to
shelter his family, which is comprised of 6 members.
Salah also said that the Israeli bulldozers demolished
his house at the end of last February and his family
became homeless, so he re-built the house and the
Israeli authorities demolished it again. Salah said
that the soldiers didn’t allow him to vacate the
barrack agricultural content.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On Wednesday, 18 July 2018, Israeli police officers
accompanied with the Israeli Municipality staff from
occupied East Jerusalem moved into al-Tour
neighborhood, east of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old
City. The Israeli forces surrounded a 5-strorey
residential building belonging to Abu Sbitan Family.
The Israeli Municipality staff raided the 5<sup>th</sup> floor
and then demolished a residential apartment with hand
tools.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong><u>Restrictions on NGOs’ work:</u></strong></li>
<li>At approximately 10:30 on Saturday, 14 July 2018,
Israeli forces raided Hind al-Hussainy College in
al-Shaiekh Jarrah neighborhood, north if occupied East
Jerusalem and prevented holding the fourth academic
conference entitled: “ The Islamic Endowment (Awqaf)
in Jerusalem”. The conference was organized by the
Jerusalem Waqf and Heritage Reservation Society and
the Islamic Supreme Committee – Jerusalem. Eyewitness
said to PCHR’s fieldworker that the Israeli police
raided Hind al-Hussainy College, which belongs to
al-Quds University, before opening the fourth academic
conference entitled: “The Islamic Endowment (Awqaf) in
Jerusalem”. He also said that the Israeli forces
prevented participants from entering or exiting the
hall, checked their IDs and then arrested the
Palestinian business man, Muneeb Rashid al-Masri (84).
Muneeb was taken to al-Maskobiyia investigation center
in West Jerusalem for interrogation. The Israeli
forces hanged a paper, in which Gilad Erdan, Minister
of Internal Security, ordered to ban holding the
conference in Jerusalem or in any other places in
Israel, claiming that the conference was funded by the
PA. Gilad Erdan said that he was informed about
holding a conference sponsored by the PA on Saturday
and Sunday in Hind al-Hussainy College in Jerusalem,
without a prior permit. He pointed out that he banned
the holding of the conference.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On Tuesday, 17 July 2018, the Israeli Execution and
Procedures Department staff raided an elementary
school in Shu’fat neighborhood, north of occupied East
Jerusalem’s Old City, and confiscated its contents
under the pretext of accumulating taxes. The school
administration said that the Israeli Execution and
Procedures Department staff raided that school and
confiscated devices and tool estimated at NIS 4.000,
under the pretext of accumulating debts of “Arnona”
property tax and not paying it from 2017. The staff
gave the school administration 2 weeks to pay the
debts estimated at NIS 21.000 or they will confiscated
all the school’s furniture and devices. Sameer
Jebreel, Director of the Education Ministry in
occupied Jerusalem, said that members from “Arnona”
Property Tax Department accompanied with Israeli
police officers raided the school and checked its
contents before confiscating PCs, printers and
cameras. He added that the Israeli Municipality Taxes
Department calls upon the school to pay NIS 21.000 as
a tax on the property, which serves around 230
students from Jerusalem. Jebreel said: “<em>We
received payment notices, but this is illegal, so we
did not respond to them. We offer a free education
to the children and our schools are non-profit
organizations.” </em>Jebreel considered the Israeli
demands as a racial discrimination, especially the
Israeli schools are exempt from paying taxes.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong><u>Settlement activities and attacks by
settlers against Palestinian civilians and
property</u></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u> Israeli forces’ attacks</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 12:30 on Sunday, 14 July 2018,
Israeli forces accompanied with a jeep of the Israeli
Civil Administration, another jeep with an Israeli
registration plate carrying 4 workers and a bulldozer
moved into al-Marajem area, southwest of Duma village,
southeast of Nablus. The workers vacated the contents
of an agricultural room and 3 roofs before demolishing
them completely. It should be noted that the owners of
the agricultural room and roofs were received a
demolition notice a year ago and the decision to
demolish them was issued a week ago. The 3 roofs,
which was built 200 years ago on an area of 56 square
meters, belong to Musalam Ma’rouf Saleem Musalam, from
Talfeet village, southeast of Nablus. The roofs were
used as a dwelling and a store for plantings. The
16-square-meter agricultural room, which was built 2
years ago, belongs to Ameen Saleem Shurabi, from
Jerusalem suburbs.</li>
<li>On Monday, 16 July 2018, Israeli authorities
distributed dozens notices to confiscate a 200-dumun
hill in al-Khadir village, south of Bethlehem. Ahmed
Salah, a Coordinator in Colonization and Wall
Resistance Commission, said that the Israeli forces
distributed dozens notices for the owners of the
targeted lands in Qazandah Mount. The notices
included: “<em>You are required to lift your hand over
the land and restore it to its pre-existing
condition within 45 days. In case you do not do so,
the competent authority will make the eviction and
within 30 days you may submit a written text to the
person responsible for absentee property explaining
your request against the eviction decision and
providing a map showing the total area that you
claimed to have a right on it backed by any
documents. You have the right to object before the
Military Objections Committee of the Ofer Military
Court.” </em>Salah clarified that notices were
thrown in the evening at the targeted land, aiming at
confiscating them and annexing them to nearby
settlement outposts belonging to “<em>Efrat</em>”
settlement. He explained that what was mentioned in
the notifications is fake allegations such as retuning
the land as it was, even though the owners have
documents from their parents and grandparents that
proved their ownership to these lands. He stressed
that the issue is very serious and if the confiscation
is implemented, this will lead to the confiscation of
other large areas of lands in favor of settlement
outposts in a clear reduction of the land owned by the
legitimate owners of al-Khadir village.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong><u>Israeli settlers’ attacks</u></strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 00:30 on Thursday, 13 July 2018,
hundreds of settlers, using dozens of buses, moved
into ‘Ortah village, southeast of Nablus, under the
Israeli forces’ protection. The Israeli settler
performed their religious rituals in places that they
claim to be religious shrines located on the village’s
outskirts. In the morning, the Israeli forces secured
the settlers exit from the village and no further
incidents were reported.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 03:30 on Friday, 13 July 2018, a
group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Yitzhar</em>“
settlement established in ‘Oreef village’s lands,
south of Nablus, sneaked into the outskirts of ‘Oreef
village from the eastern side. They set fire to 2
Plaestinian vehicles belonging to Ziyad ‘Abdul ‘Aziz
Jameel Shehadah. The 2 vehicles were parking in the
house yard, during which the settlers sneaked into the
house, poured a flammable material at the vehicles and
then set fire to them. Moreover, they wrote slogans in
Arabic (Be aware( and draw the Star of David below the
written slogan. The 2 vehicles caught fire before
extinguishing them by the village residents.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 10:00 on Monday, 16 July 2018, a
group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Leshim</em>“
settlement established in the lands of Dir Balout
village, west of Salfit, levelled 82 dunums, which
were called as “Bab al-Marj”. The settlers demolished
100 olive trees in favor of the abovementioned
settlement. The levelled land belong to Na’iem Rushdi
Jabbarah and Idrees Jabbarah ‘Abdullah, from the
village. “<em>Leshim</em> “ settlement is an example
of what the Palestinian countryside is suffer from. On
28 June 2018, a wastewater treatment plant was
established in the western side if the abovementioned
settlement, which resulted in enormous damage to the
agricultural seasons in the village such as squash,
garlic and okra. Most of the village residents rely on
these crops.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 13:00 on Tuesday, 17 July 2018, a
group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Yitzhar</em>“
settlement established in the lands of ‘Asirah
Qabaliyiah village, south of Nablus, attacked the
outskirts of ‘Asirah Qabaliyiah village, under the
Israeli forces’ protection. The Israeli settlers threw
stones at Palestinian civilians’ houses in Bir ‘Asirah
area and set fire to the lands. As a result, 30 olive
trees, which belong to Mohamed Husni Motleq Hamdan,
were burnt; while 50 other olive trees, which belong
to Jaber ‘Awad ‘Abdul Latif Yaseen, were burnt as
well. The attack resulted in smashing the windows of 4
vehicles parked in front of their owners’ houses. Two
of vehicles’ owners were identified as Majdi Ibrahim
Makhlouf and ‘Abed al-Baset Mohamed ‘Abed al-Rahman.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Recommendations to the International Community</strong></p>
<p>PCHR warns of the escalating settlement construction in
the West Bank, the attempts to legitimize settlement
outposts established on Palestinian lands in the West
Bank and the continued summary executions of Palestinian
civilians under the pretext that they pose a security
threat to the Israeli forces. PCHR reminds the
international community that thousands of Palestinian
civilians have been rendered homeless and lived in
caravans under tragic circumstances due to the latest
Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip that has been under
a tight closure for almost 11 years. PCHR welcomes the
UN Security Council’s Resolution No. 2334, which states
that settlements are a blatant violation of the Geneva
Conventions and calls upon Israel to stop them and not
to recognize any demographic change in the oPt since
1967. PCHR hopes this resolution will pave the way for
eliminating the settlement crime and bring to justice
those responsible for it. PCHR further reiterates that
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem, are still under Israeli occupation in spite
of Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan of 2005. PCHR
emphasizes that there is international recognition of
Israel’s obligation to respect international human
rights instruments and international humanitarian law.
Israel is bound to apply international human rights law
and the law of war, sometimes reciprocally and other
times in parallel, in a way that achieves the best
protection for civilians and remedy for the victims.</p>
<ol>
<li>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.</li>
<li>PCHR calls upon the ICC this year to open an
investigation into Israeli crimes committed in the
oPt, particularly the settlement crimes and the 2014
offensive on the Gaza Strip.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>PCHR calls upon the international community to
condemn summary executions carried out by Israeli
forces against Palestinians and to pressurize Israel
to stop them.</li>
<li>PCHR calls upon the States Parties to the Rome
Statute of the ICC to work hard to hold Israeli war
criminals accountable.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>PCHR calls upon the international community to speed
up the reconstruction process necessary because of the
destruction inflicted by the Israeli offensive on
Gaza.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>PCHR calls upon the international community,
especially states that import Israeli weapons and
military services, to meet their moral and legal
responsibility not to allow Israel to use the
offensive in Gaza to test new weapons and not accept
training services based on the field experience in
Gaza in order to avoid turning Palestinian civilians
in Gaza into testing objects for Israeli weapons and
military tactics.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=11099"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Fully detailed
document available at the official webiste for the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).</em></a></p>
<p><em>Search IMEMC: <a href="http://imemc.org/?s=pchr"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">“PCHR”</a></em></p>
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