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<h1 class="reader-title">Nine Palestinians killed during last
week alone</h1>
<strong>October 4, 2018</strong><br>
<p>The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) based in Gaza
in its weekly report said I<em>sraeli violations of
international law and international humanitarian law in the
oPt continued during the reporting period </em><em>(27
September – 03 October 2018</em><em>). </em></p>
<p><b>Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against
unarmed civilians and peaceful protesters in the Gaza Strip
and West Bank.</b></p>
<ul>
<li><em>9 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were
killed; 7 of them, including 2 children, were killed on
Friday.</em></li>
<li><em>307 civilians, including 47 children, 5 women, 4
journalists and a paramedic, were wounded.</em></li>
<li><em>22 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children and 4
journalists, were wounded in the West Bank</em></li>
<li><strong>Israeli forces continued to open fire at the
border areas in the Gaza Strip.</strong></li>
<li>A Palestinian elderly was killed in eastern Maghazi
refugee camp.</li>
<li><strong>Israeli forces conducted 62 incursions into
Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 3 limited
incursions into occupied Jerusalem</strong><strong>.</strong></li>
<li><em>67 civilians, including 18 children, were arrested in
the West Bank.</em></li>
<li><em>24 of them, including 6 children, were arrested in
Jerusalem.</em></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Israeli authorities continued to create a Jewish
majority in occupied East Jerusalem.</strong></li>
<li><em>Hundreds of settlers raided al-Aqsa Mosque and
attacked the Palestinian civilians and their property.</em></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Israeli forces continued their settlement
activities in the West Bank.</strong></li>
<li><em>A barrack built of tin plates was confiscated in
Masafer Yata, south of Hebron.</em></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>5 Shooting incidents were reported against the
Palestinian fishing boats in the Gaza Sea, but no
casualties were reported.</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons
and continued to impose the</strong><strong>illegal
closure on the Gaza Strip for the 11<sup>th</sup></strong><strong> consecutive
year.</strong></li>
<li><em>Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in
the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct
the movement of Palestinian civilians.</em></li>
<li><em>4 civilians, including a child, were arrested at the
military checkpoints in the West Bank.</em></li>
</ul>
<p><b> </b><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 27<sup>th</sup> 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.</p>
<p>In the Gaza Strip, on 28 September 2018, which coincided the
27<sup>th</sup> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</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, 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Incursions:</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces continued to create a Jewish
Majority in occupied East Jerusalem:</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces continued their settlement
activities, and the settlers continued their attacks
against Palestinian civilians and their property</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
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