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<h1 class="reader-title">PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human
Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26
July – 01 August 2018)<br>
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<p><em>Israeli forces continued to use force against
peaceful Palestinian protestors in the Gaza Strip. 3
Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, were
killed in the southern Gaza Strip. 138 Palestinian
civilians, including 28 children, 2 women, a
journalist, and 6 paramedics, were wounded; 22 of them
sustained serious wounds. Fifty-one Palestinian
civilians, including 4 children, were wounded in the
West Bank; 40 of them were wounded in Al-Aqsa Mosque
yards.</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 18<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 3
Palestinian civilians, including 2 children. Moreover,
the Israeli forces wounded 138 others, including 28
children, 2 women, a journalist, and 6 paramedics.
Twenty-two of those wounded sustained serious wounds. In
the West Bank, the Israeli forces wounded 51 civilians,
including 4 children; 40 of them were wounded in al-Aqsa
Mosque yards in occupied Jerusalem.</p>
<ul>
<li>In the Gaza Strip, on 27 July 2018, Israeli forces
killed 3 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children,
while participating in the Return and Breaking Siege
March. Majdi al-Satari (12) and Mo’min al-Hams (17)
were killed while participating in the demonstrations
organized in Rafah, while Ghazi Abu Mustafa (43) was
killed while participating the a demonstrations
organized in Khan Yunis.</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 wounded 138
Palestinian civilians, including 28 children, 2 women,
a journalist, and 6 paramedics. Twenty-two 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>59</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>16</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Gaza City</strong></td>
<td>22</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Central Gaza Strip</strong></td>
<td>17</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Khan Younis</strong></td>
<td>10</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Rafah</strong></td>
<td>30</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total</strong></td>
<td>138</td>
<td>28</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>22</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>As part of targeting the border areas, on 26 July 2018,
Israeli forces stationed along the border fence between
the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Dir al-Balah in the
centre of the Gaza Strip, opened fire at agricultural
lands. On 27 July 2018, an Israeli artillery fired a
sell at an empty land, east of Jabalia, north of the
Gaza Strip, and no injuries were reported.</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 7 shooting incidents at the fishermen,
including 6 in the northern Gaza Strip and 1 in the
centre of the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>In the West Bank, Israeli forces wounded 51 civilians,
including 4 children; 40 of them were wounded in al-Aqsa
Mosque yards in occupied Jerusalem.</p>
<p><strong><u>Incursions:</u></strong></p>
<p>During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted
at least 79 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 52 Palestinians,
including 4 children, in the West Bank. Meanwhile, 38
other civilians, including 12 children, were arrested in
Jerusalem and its suburbs. Among those arrested were 5
journalists; 4 of them work at al-Quds Satellite Channel
while the last one works as a Director of Hawa Nablus
Radio and a reporter at Quds News Agency.</p>
<p>In the Gaza Strip, on 30 July 2018, Israeli forces
moved into Return encampments, east of Abu Safiyia Hill,
northeast of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and
levelled lands, which are previously levelled.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces continued their Measures to
Create a Jewish Majority in occupied East Jerusalem</u></strong></p>
<p>Following the Friday prayer, on 27 July 2018, Israeli
forces raided al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East
Jerusalem’s Old City, and turned it into a military
barrack after surrounding it, closing it for 4 hours,
forcibly evicting its yards, attacking Palestinian
worshipers, firing rubber bullets and sound bombs at
them, and beating and pushing them. As a result, around
40 worshipers sustained sound bombs and rubber bullets
shrapnel wounds. Moreover, about 22 worshipers,
including 7 children, were arrested after getting out of
the mosque and some of them were arrested from al-Qibali
Mosque.</p>
<p>As part of demolishing houses and civilian facilities,
on 31 July 2018, Israeli forces notified the owners of 7
houses in al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, to
demolish their houses, under the pretext of
non-licensing. Khadir al-‘Araj, Head of al-Walaja
Village Council, said that Jerusalem Municipality staff
distributed 7 notices to the owners of these inhabited
houses.</p>
<p>As part of settlement activities in occupied Jerusalem,
on 01 August 2018, the Israeli authorities opened a new
settlement project in Silwan village, south of occupied
East Jerusalem’s Old City, to serve Israeli settlers,
under the name of ” Jewish Yemeni Heritage Center”. It
should be noted that the Israel authorities opened the
settlement project in Abu Nab property, which is built
on an area of 700 square meter and seized in 2015.</p>
<p><strong><u>Settlement activities and attacks by
settlers against Palestinian civilians and property</u></strong></p>
<p>As part of demolishing crimes, on 29 July 2018, Israeli
forces demolished a barrack built of tin plates in
al-Shareef area in Kherbit Tuba, east of Yatta, south of
Hebron. The 150-square-meter barrack belonging to Tawfiq
‘Awad was used for breeding livestock. The barrack was
demolished under the pretext of non-licensing in area
classified as Area C.</p>
<p>On 01 August 2018, Israeli forces demolished unused
graves built of concrete in the Western Ahrash area in
al-‘Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron.</p>
<p>As part of settlement activities and attacks by
settlers against Palestinian civilians and property, on
27 July 2018, a group of Israeli settlers from “Yish
Kodesh” outpost established in eastern side of Jaloud
village, southeast of Nablus, attacked Palestinian
civilians’ houses in al-Khila al-Wasta area, east of the
village. The Israeli settlers set fire to an
under-construction house and attacked another house
after destroying its main door and damaging its
contents.</p>
<p>On 28 July 2018, three Israeli settlers attacked Samir
Mutlaq Ibrahime Ghanem (39) and his wife, Lina, with
pepper gas and contaminated water while returning home
in Tal al-Ramida neighborhood in Hebron. The Israeli
forcrs did not intervene to stop them. Samir and his
wife were taken to Hebron Governmental Hospital for
treatment.</p>
<p>On 30 July 2018, a group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Adi
Ad</em>” outpost established on al-Magheer village’s
lands, northeast of Ramallah, moved into the outskirts
of the village from the northwest side. The Israeli
settlers burned tires of 8 Palestinian vehicles and
wrote racist slogans on the walls of the houses calling
for revenge and killing the Palestinian civilians. The
Israeli settlers later withdrew.</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 18<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>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 16:00 on Friday 27 July 2018,
hundreds of civilians swarmed to the Return
encampments established by the Supreme National
Authority for the Great March of Return and Breaking
Siege, east of Khuza’ah village, east of Khan Younis.
The numbers of participants increased at approximately
16:30, as the participants 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, including women and children,
approached the border fence between the Gaza Strip and
Israel and set fire. A number of them attempted to
throw stones at Israeli forces. The Israeli snipers
stationed behind sand barriers and hills, more of
which were established this week, along the border
fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, deliberately
and selectively opened fire at participants of the
peaceful demonstrations that included hundreds of
civilians. On this week, the shooting was more than
firing tear gas canisters, which were limitedly used
in the last 2 hours of the demonstration by the
military vehicles and drones. The shooting, which
continued until approximately 20:00, resulted in the
killing of Ghazi Mohammed Mustafa Abu Mustafa (43),
from Khan Younis, after being hit with a live bullet
that penetrated the right side of the head and exited
the left ear at approximately 16:30, as he was sitting
under an olive tree, which is about 150 meters away
from the border fence. Ghazi’s death was announced
after half an hour of his transfer to Gaza European
Hospital. It should be noted that Ghazi was wounded to
the left leg by Israeli forces on 08 June 2018, and he
walks on crutches since his injury. Moreover, 10
others, including a child and a woman were hit with
live bullets and its shrapnel throughout their bodies.
The wounded civilians were taken to the field hospital
and then transferred to Nasser, Gaza European and
Algerian Hospitals. Dozens further suffered tear gas
inhalation and received medical treatment on the spot
or at the field hospital. Some of them were
transferred to hospitals due to suffering severe tear
gas inhalation and seizures.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 16:00 on Friday, 27 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 18<sup>th</sup> consecutive
Friday titled “Our Martyrs Children.” 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, 22 civilians, including 3 children, were
wounded. Nineteen of them were hit with live bullets
and its shrapnel and 3 were hit with tear gas
canisters.</li>
</ul>
<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. Dozens of them approached
the border fence, set fire to tires and threw stones
at Israeli soldiers stationed behind sand barriers
along the border fence. The Israeli forces fired live
bullets and tear gas canisters at the participants.
The clashes continued until approximately 20:00 on the
same day. As a result, 15 civilians, including 3
children, were wounded. Thirteen of them were hit with
live bullets and 2 others were hit with tear gas
canisters. The wounded civilians were taken via
ambulances belonging to Palestine Red Crescent Society
(PRCS) to al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Doctors
classified 3 civilians’ injuries as serious and they
were then transferred to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
City. The injuries of the other wounded civilians were
classified between minor and moderate.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 16:30, 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
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, 59 civilians, including 12 children, a
woman, 6 paramedics and a journalist, were wounded.
Forty eight of them were hit with live bullets and its
shrapnel while 11 were hit with tear gas canisters.
The wounded civilians were transferred via ambulances
belonging to PRCS, Medical Services and the Ministry
of Health to the Indonesian and al-Awda Hospitals.
Doctors classified the injury of 16 civilians as
serious. The wounded journalist identified as Samer
Sa’adallah Abdul ‘Ati al-Za’anin (26), a freelance
journalist, was hit with a tear gas canister to the
right thigh. As for the paramedics, they were
identified as follows:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Fares ‘Awad ‘Atiyah ‘Afanah (37), Director of the
Emergency Medical Services, was hit with a live bullet
to the right leg;</li>
<li>Hani Mahmoud Husein Wadi (32), a paramedic at PRCS,
was hit with live bullet to the head and back;</li>
<li>Ramez Mesbah Mohammed Abu Dayer (27), a paramedic at
the Palestinian Civil Defense, was hit with a live
bullet to the head ad back;</li>
<li>Maisa’a ‘Aref Salman al-‘Aar (20), a paramedic at
the Palestinian Ministry of Health, was hit with a
live bullet shrapnel to the right hand;</li>
<li>Alin Yahiya Rashad ‘Ashour (22), a volunteer
paramedic at the Ministry of Health, was hit with a
live bullet to the left leg; and</li>
<li>Ahmed Abdul Bari al-‘Abed Abu Foul (34), a volunteer
paramedic at PRCS, was hit with a tear gas canister to
the neck.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 17:00, hundreds of Palestinian
swarmed to the Return encampment established by the
Supreme National Authority for the Great March of
Return, east of al-Shawkah village, east of Rafah in
the southern Gaza Strip. A number of young men
approached the border fence, flew kites, set fire to
tires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed
behind the border fence. The soldiers fired live
bullets and tear gas canisters at the protestors. The
clashes continued until approximately 20:30. As a
result, Majdi Ramzi Kamal al-Satri (12) was killed
after being hit with a live bullet that entered the
front and exited the back of the head. Majdi died in
the ambulance that transferred him from the field
hospital in the Return encampment to Gaza European
Hospital in Khan Younis. Moreover, 30 civilians,
including 6 children, were wounded. Twenty nine of
them were hit with live bullets and its shrapnel and
one civilian was hit with a tear gas canister. Those
wounded civilians were taken to the field hospital and
then transferred to Abu Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital in
Rafah and Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis.
Doctors classified the injuries of 3 civilians as
serious. At approximately 05:00 on Saturday, 28 July
2018, medical sources at Gaza European Hospital
announced the death of Mo’men Fathi Yusuf al-Hams
(17), succumbing to his wounds. Mo’men was hit with a
live bullet that entered the left shoulder and exited
the chest. Mo’men underwent a Surgery that continued
for 5 hours and then stayed at the ICU until his death
was announced.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 16:00 on Sunday, 30 July 2018,
dozens of Palestinian children and young men gathered
near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and
Israel, east of al-Buraij in the central Gaza Strip,
to participate in the Return encampment. They threw
stones at Israeli soldiers stationed behind sand
barriers along the b order fence. the soldiers fired
live bullets and tear gas canisters at them. As a
result, 2 children were hit with live bullets to the
lower limbs. They were transferred via a PRCS
ambulance to al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Doctors classified their injuries as moderate.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>West Bank:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 13:40 on Friday, 27 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. The protestors chanted national slogans
demanding end of occupation, condemning the decisions
to demolish Khan al-Ahmer Bedouin Community 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 participated in the demonstration.
Israeli soldiers suppressed the demonstration and
fired live and rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear
gas canisters at them. As a result, 5 civilians,
including a 3 children age between 12 and 13, was hit
with a live bullet shrapnel to the left hand.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 16:40 on Saturday, 28 July 2018, a
group of Palestinian organized a peaceful
demonstration from the center of Kufor Qadoum village,
northeast of Qalqiliyah and headed to the eastern
entrance, which has been closed for 15 years. Israeli
forces opened fire at the protestors. As a result, a
40-year-old civilian was hit with a rubber bullet to
the right hand.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>House Demolitions and Notices:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 07:00 on Tuesday, 31 July 2018,
Israeli forces notified the owners of 7 houses in
al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, to demolish
their houses, under the pretext of non-licensing.
Khadir al-‘Araj, Head of al-Walaja Village Council,
said that an Israeli military force accompanied with
the Jerusalem Municipality staff moved into ‘Ein
al-Jwaiza neighborhood in al-Walaja village. The
municipality staff distributed 7 notices to the owners
of these inhabited houses. The notices included
summonses for the houses’ owners forcing them to
self-demolish their houses, or they will be forced to
pay the demolition costs. Al-‘Araj pointed out that
the neighborhood, which is adjacent to al-Malha
village that its residents were evicted, is clearly
targeted in order to be fully annexed to the Jerusalem
Municipality boundaries. It should be noted that the
Jerusalem Municipality, during the past 30 years,
attempted to annex the neighborhood. The Israeli
authorities are also seeking to deport the
neighborhood residents in favor of expanding the
Israeli settlement as a prelude to add 330 settlement
units in “Har Gilo” settlement established on the
village lands. The Israeli forces also demolished
al-Nour Mosque in the same neighborhood 20 years ago
and destroyed the paved street that connects the
neighborhood with the rest of the village.
Additionally, they demolished over 30 houses and there
are about forty cases in the Israeli Courts due to
issuing demolition notices against those houses.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong><u>Opening New Settlement Project in Silwan:</u></strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On Wednesday evening, 1 August 2018, Israeli forces
moved into Silwan village, south of occupied East
Jerusalem’s Old City, and turned it into a military
barrack. This happened in coinciding with opening a
new settlement project in the village to serve the
settlers, under the name of ” Jewish Yemeni Heritage
Center”. According to eyewitnesses, a large force of
Israeli soldiers moved into the neighborhoods and
stationed at its entrances. They then deployed in Batn
al-Hawa, al-Wosta, al-Bostan, and ‘Ein al-Lawza
neighborhoods and closed some streets and roads to
facilitate the access of participants to the opening
ceremony of the settlement project. The eyewitnesses
also said that before the beginning of the ceremony,
the Israeli forces, arrested Zuhair al-Rajabi, Head of
Batn al-Hawa Committee, and Jawad seyam, Head of the
Wadi Helweh Information Center, while they were in the
neighborhood. After that, the Israeli forces evicted
the streets, forced the residents to enter their
houses, and kept the press crews and some of foreign
and Israeli activists away from the area. Meanwhile,
they prevented Silwan village’s residents from heading
to the neighborhood and many residents were prevented
from reaching their homes. Ze’ev Elkin, Jerusalem
Affairs and Heritage Israeli Minister, Miri Regev,
Israeli Minister of culture, Rabbi of Jerusalem, and
representatives of the settlement associations
participated in the opening Ceremony of the Cultural
Center. It should be noted that the Israel authorities
opened the settlement project in Abu Nab property,
which is built on an area of 700 square meter and
seized in 2015.</li>
</ul>
<p>Last year, a synagogue was built in the same property,
in which Israeli authorities claim that the property was
a synagogue for the Jews of Yemen in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century.</p>
<p><strong><u>Settlement activities and attacks by
settlers against Palestinian civilians and property</u></strong></p>
<p><strong><u> Israeli forces’ attacks</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 9:00 on Sunday, 29 July 2018,
Israeli Border Guard officers, accompanied with a
vehicle of the Israeli Civil Administration and a
bulldozer moved into al-Sharif area in Khirbet Tuba,
east of Yatta, south of Hebron. The Israeli forces
deployed in the area while the bulldozer demolished a
150-square-meter barrack built of tin plates and used
for breeding livestock. The barrack belongs to Tawfiq
Isma’il ‘Elyan Awad. The barrack was built in 2016 and
demolished under the pretext of non-licensing in areas
classified as Area C. Tawfiq was notified to stop
construction on 23 April 2017.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 8:00 on Wednesday, 1 August 2018,
Israeli forces backed by 2 military vehicles and
accompanied with a vehicle of the Israeli Civil
Administration and a bulldozer moved into the western
al-Ahrash area in al-Aroub refugee camp, north of
Hebron. The bulldozer demolished a number of unused
graves built of concrete under the pretext of
non-licensing in an area classified as security area
by the Israeli forces. It should be noted that the
Israeli forces previously notified to hold
construction in these graves.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u> Israeli settlers’ attacks</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 22:00 on Monday, 26 July 2018, a
group of Israeli settlers, under the Israeli forces’
protection, moved into al-Nabi Yunis neighborhood,
north of Halhool village, north of Hebron. The Israeli
soldiers deployed in the vicinity of al-Nabi Yunis Old
Mosque while the Israeli settlers performed their
Talmudic prayers in the area. Meanwhile, a number of
Palestinian youngsters gathered and threw stones at
the Israeli soldiers, who fired sound bombs and tear
gas canisters at them. As a result, many stone
throwers suffered tear gas inhalation and were then
treated on the spot.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 12:45 on Friday, 27 July 2018, a
group of Israeli settlers from “<em>Yish Kodesh</em>”
outpost established in eastern side of Jaloud village,
southeast of Nablus, attacked Palestinian civilians’
houses in al-Khila al-Wasta area, east of the village,
200 meters away from the abovementioned outpost. The
Israeli settlers set fire to an under-construction
house belonging to a civilian, from Kafur Qasem
village in Israel. The 100- square-meter
under-construction house was burnt. The Israeli
settlers attacked another 60- square-meter house
belonging to Tawfiq al-Showiki after destroying its
main door and damaging its contents.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 22:30 on Saturday, 28 July 2018,
three Israeli settlers attacked Samir Mutlaq Ibrahime
Ghanem (39) and his wife, Lina, with pepper gas and
contaminated water while returning home in Tal
al-Ramida neighborhood. The attack happened near the
military checkpoint at the entrance to the
neighborhood (checkpoint 56) but Israeli soldiers did
not intervene to stop it. Samir along with his wife
were admitted to Hebron Governmental Hospital for
treatment. Samir Ghanem said to PCHR’s fieldworker
that: “<em>We were returning home after a visit to my
wife’s family house in al-Namra area and my nephew,
Tariq (14), was with us. When we arrived at the
Container checkpoint in Tal al-Ramida neighborhood
at approximately 22:30, there were three settlers
between 15 and 18 years old, sitting 3 meters away
from the checkpoint. My nephew was holding a
shopping cart and the settlers began to curse and
threaten us. I took Tariq away and moved one meter
forward. The settlers sprayed us with a contaminated
water and a pepper gas that hit our heads and
clothes. My wife fell on the ground and I started
shouting. The settlers approached us and
pepper-sprayed us. I was shouting, but the soldiers,
who stationed 3 meters away, didn’t move and
continued to watch what was happening through
cameras covering the area. Moments later, a red car
arrived, and a settler, in thirties, stepped out of
the car and tried to attack us, but I tried to
defend myself. The three settlers pepper-sprayed us
again. Two soldiers arrived as I was raising my
hands up and one of them pointed his rifle at my
face and asked me to let my hands down. I called my
relatives in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, a number
of civilians gathered and a number of soldiers,
including an officer, arrived as well. The officer
approached the settlers, spoke to them</em><em>and
moved away after two minutes. We talked to the
soldiers who denied knowing what was happening. An
ambulance of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
arrived and took us to Hebron governmental hospital
for treatment</em>.”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On Monday morning, 30 July 2018, a group of Israeli
settlers from “<em>Adi Ad</em>” outpost established on
al-Magheer village’s lands, northeast of Ramallah,
moved into the outskirts of the village from the
northwest side. The Israeli settlers burned tires of 8
Palestinian vehicles and wrote racist slogans on the
walls of the houses calling for revenge and killing
the Palestinian civilians. The Israeli settlers later
withdrew.</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="https://pchrgaza.org/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener"><em>Fully detailed document available
at the official website for the Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights (PCHR).</em></a></p>
<p><em><strong>Search IMEMC: <a
href="http://imemc.org/?s=pchr" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">“PCHR”</a></strong></em></p>
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