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<h1 class="reader-title">PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human
Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08 –
13 November 2018)</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">November 15, 2018<br>
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<p><em>New Israeli Military Esclation in the Gaza Strip:
Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of airstrikes,
launching 197 missiles at civilian buildings and
military sites belonging to Palestinian Armed Groups.</em><br>
<em>2 Palestinian civilians were killed and 20 others
were wounded, including 5 children and 4 women. Many
civilian facilities, residential houses, and security
sites were targeted and completely destroyed.</em></p>
<p><strong><u>Shooting:</u></strong></p>
<p>During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 4
Palestinian civilians, including 2 killed during their
participation in the Great March of Return and Breaking
the Siege Protests while the 2 others were killed during
the escalation the Gaza Strip witnessed in the middle of
the week. Moreover, the Israeli forces wounded 172
civilians, including 27 children, 15 women and 4
paramedics. In the West Bank, a person wounded
succumbed to his wounds while Israeli forces wounded 17
Palestinian civilians, including 9 children and a
paramedic.</p>
<p>The Gaza Strip has witnessed a military escalation,
where the Israeli forces have unprecedentedly used
warplanes and artillery shells since the 2014 offensive
on the Gaza Strip. This escalation has started after an
Israeli special undercover unit “Mista’arvim”
infiltrated the day before yesterday, 11 November 2018,
Khan Younis in the Southern Gaza Strip and killed 7
members of the Palestinian armed groups, mainly a
commander in al-Qassam Brigades from Khan Younis,
creating a state of maximum alter among the Palestinian
armed groups and tension among the Palestinian
civilians. This undercover operation was followed by
barrages of rockets launched deep into the Israeli towns
adjacent to the Gaza Strip. Since Monday afternoon, 12
November 2018, and until the reporting period, upon a
decision by the highest Israeli military and political
echelons, the Israeli forces carried out intense
airstrikes against many civilian facilities and
residential houses in addition to sites belonging to the
security services and others to the Palestinian armed
groups, launching at least 40 missiles. The Israeli
artillery shelling also targeted the areas adjacent to
the border fence with Israel. Due to the hostilities, 2
civilians were killed and 20 others were wounded,
including 5 children and 4 women in addition to the
destruction and severe damage in many residential
houses, other civilian facilities and security sites.</p>
<p>As part of using excessive force against the peaceful
protests along the Gaza Strip borders, on 08 November
2018, the Israeli forces killed Mohammed Abu Sharbin
(20) from Rafah City after wounding him with a bullet
that hit his upper chest and exited his back during his
participation in the Great March of Return and Breaking
the Siege protests in eastern al-Maghazi in the central
Gaza Strip. On 09 November 2018, the Israeli forces
killed Rami Qahman (28) while participating in the Great
March of Return and Breaking the Siege protests in
al-Shawkah village, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza
Strip after being wounded with a bullet to the neck.</p>
<p>In the same context, during the reporting period, the
Israeli forces wounded 152 civilians, including 22
children, 11 women, and 4 paramedics. Three of those
wounded sustained serious injuries.</p>
<p><strong>Injuries in the Gaza Strip between 08 and 13
November 2018 in Each City</strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2">City</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<br>
Conditions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Northern Gaza Strip</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gaza City</td>
<td>55</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Central Gaza Strip</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Khan Younis</td>
<td>43</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rafah</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Total</td>
<td>152</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>As part of the Israeli airstrikes, the Israeli forces
fired artillery shells at sites belonging to the
Palestinian armed groups along the border fence between
the Gaza Strip and Israel.</p>
<p>As part of targeting the Palestinian fishermen in the
sea, the Israeli forces continued to escalate their
attacks against the Palestinian fishermen, indicating
the on-going Israeli policy to target their livelihoods.</p>
<p>In the West Bank, medical sources at al-Istishari
Specialist Hospital in al-Rihan Suburb declared the
death of Mohammed Shreiteh (28) from al-Mazra’ah
al-Gharbiyah, northwest of Ramallah, as he succumbed to
wounds he sustained during his participation in the
peaceful protests against settlements on 26 October
2018. The above-mentioned had been wounded with a
bullet to the front side of the head, fragmenting part
of his brain.</p>
<p>in the same context, during the reporting period, the
Israeli forces wounded 17 Palestinian civilians,
including 9 children and a paramedic, in separate
shooting incidents.</p>
<p><strong><u>Incursions:</u></strong></p>
<p>During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted
at least 65 military incursions into Palestinian
communities in the West Bank. During those incursions,
Israeli forces arrested at least 18 Palestinians,
including 4 children.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces continued to create a Jewish
Majority in occupied East Jerusalem:</u></strong></p>
<p>As part of the Israeli house demolitions and notices,
on 08 November 2018, the Israeli forces demolished a
200-square-meter residential house belonging to the
family of ‘Ali al-Ja’bah in al-Za’im village, east of
occupied East Jerusalem. Moreover, they demolished a
room and surrounding fence belonging to ‘Ali Abu Jom’ah
in addition to removing the foundations of an
under-construction house belonging to the family of
Mohammed al-‘Omari.</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 the Israeli settlers’ attacks against the
Palestinians civilians and their property, PCHR’s
fieldworkers in the West Bank documented 2 attacks
carried out by settlers, in Salfit and Nablus. The
settlers wrote hostile slogans against Arabs on the
walls and vehicles in addition to slashing tires of 17
vehicles in Kafr al-Deek village, west of Salfit.</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 against peaceful demonstration organized by
Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
and it was named as “The Great March of Return and
Breaking Siege.” The demonstration was in protest
against the U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration to
move the U.S. Embassy to it. According to PCHR
fieldworkers’ observations, the border area witnessed
large participation by Palestinian civilians as the
Israeli forces continued to use upon highest military
and political echelons excessive force against the
peaceful demonstrators, though the demonstration were
fully peaceful. The demonstration was as follows during
the reporting period:</p>
<p><strong><u>Gaza Strip:</u></strong></p>
<p><strong>In the Thirty-third week of the March of Return
and Breaking Siege activities, Israeli forces killed 2
civilians and wounded 152 civilians, including 22
children, , 11 women and 4 paramedics. Doctors
classified 3 civilian’s injuries as serious. The
incidents were as follows:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>The Central Gaza Strip:</strong> at
approximately 16:30 on Thursday, 98 November 2018,
Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence
between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of al-Maghazi
in the central Gaza Strip, opened fire at a group of
Palestinian young men, who approached the border
fence. As a result, Mohammed ‘Ala’a Mahmoud Abu
Sharbin (20), from Rafah, was killed after he was hit
with a live bullet that penetrated the upper side of
chest and exited the back. Mohammed was transferred
via a PRCS ambulance after it received coordination to
a hospital where he arrived dead. The Israeli shooting
and firing tear gas canisters, which continued until
approximately 18:00, resulted in the injury of 21
civilians, including 6 children and 3 women. Sixteen
of them were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel
and 5 were hit with tear gas canisters.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>The Northern Gaza Strip:</strong> 31
civilians, including 11 children, 2 women, a deaf
young man and 3 paramedics, were wounded. Twenty four
of them were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel,
1 was hit with a rubber bullet and 9 were hit with
tear gas canisters. Doctors classified2 civilians’
injuries as serious. The wounded paramedics were
identified as:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Karem Mahmoud Rashed al-Dalow (37), a paramedic at
the Palestinian Civil Defense from al-Remal
neighborhood in Gaza City, was hit with a live bullet
shrapnel to the neck;</li>
<li>Saleh Faraj Saleh al-Remahi (27), a volunteer
paramedic at the Palestinian Ministry of Health from
Jabalia, was hit with a tear gas canister to the face;
and</li>
<li>Hutheifah Mahmoud Hasan Abu ‘Aitah (27), from
Jabalia, was hit with a tear gas canister to the back.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><strong>In Gaza City: 5</strong>5 civilians,
including 5 women, were wounded. Twenty two of them
were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel, 33 were
hit with rubber bullets.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Khan Younis: </strong>Israeli forces’
shooting at demonstrators, which continued 18:00,
resulted in the injury of 43 civilians, including 4
children and a paramedic. Twenty one of them were hit
with live bullets and their shrapnel, 17 were hit with
tear gas canisters and 5 were hit with rubber bullets.
The wounded paramedic was identified as Falasteen
Khalid Qdaih (21), a volunteer paramedic at Youth
Pioneer of Peace medical Team, was hit with a live
bullet to the left leg.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Rafah City: </strong>Israeli forces’
shooting, which continued until 17:00, resulted in the
injury of 2 civilians, including a child, with live
bullets. Medical sources at Gaza European Hospital in
Khan Younis declared the death of one of them namely
Rami Wa’el Eshaq Qahman (28), who succumbed to his
wounds he sustained after being hit with a live bullet
to the neck.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 11 November 2018, a Palestinian
civilian was hit with a live bullet shrapnel to the
head during his participation on the March of Return
activities, east of al-Buraij refugee camp in the
central Gaza Strip.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>West Bank:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Following the Friday prayer on 09 November 2018,
dozens of Palestinian civilians and international
human rights defenders gathered on agricultural lands
of “al-Resan” Mount area, west of Ras Karkar village,
west of Ramallah in protest against the Israeli
settlers’ attempt to seize and confiscate the land.
When the civilians arrived at the abovementioned area,
the Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber bullets,
sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the protestors.
As a result, Feras Samarah (33), a paramedic at
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), was hit with
glass shrapnel of an ambulance where she was present
after Israeli forces opened fire at the ambulance. The
Israeli soldiers arrested Fares al-Sayed Nasser (30)
and Mohammed Manthoum Abu ‘Ayash (23) after chasing
and attacking them with their rifles.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 13:30 on Friday afternoon,
09November 2018, a group of Palestinian civilians
moved from the center of Kufor Qadoum village,
northeast of Qalqiliyah, into the eastern entrance to
the village, which has been closed for 15 years in
favor of the entrance to <em>“Kedumim”</em> settlement
established on the village lands. The protestors
chanted national slogans in the anniversary of the
death of the late President, Yasser Arafat demanding
end of occupation, condemning the Israeli forces’
crimes against Palestinian protestors along the
eastern border of the Gaza Strip within “The Great
March of Return and Breaking the Siege” activities.
Minister Walid Assaf, head of the National Committee
to Resist the Wall and Settlements, participated in
the demonstration. The protestors threw stones at
Israeli forces stationed behind sand barriers. The
Israeli forces fired rubber bullets, sound bombs and
tear gas canisters at them. They also raided and
searched houses belonging to Jamal Saleh Jom’ah, Zhdi,
Ahmed Shtaiwi and Khaldoun Abu Khalid ‘Obaid. The
soldiers then topped the houses’ roofs and used them
as watchtowers to monitor the protestors and fire
rubber bullets and sound bombs. As a result, 4
civilians, were wounded, including child Sari Abdullah
‘Ali (10) who was hit with a rubber bullet to the
right hand.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Civilian Succumbed to his Wounds:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 17:30 on Saturday, 10 November
2018, medical sources at the Istishari Arab Hospital
in al-Raihan Suburb in the northern Gaza Strip,
announced the death of Mohammed Ibrahim Shraiteh (28),
succumbing to wounds he sustained during his
participation in the peaceful demonstration against
the Israeli forces on Friday, 26 October 2018, in
al-Mazra’ah eastern village, northwest of the city.
Mohammed was hit with a live bullet to front side of
the forehead, causing a fragmentation to a part of the
brain. Mohammed underwent 4 surgical operations in the
abovementioned and he stayed in the Intensive Care
Unit (ICU) in a deep coma until his death.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Settlement activities and attacks by
settlers against Palestinian civilians and property</u></strong></p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli forces’ attack:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 08:00 on Thursday, 08 November
2018, Israeli forces accompanied with a military
vehicle and a vehicle of the Israeli Civil
Administration moved into Kherbit al-Mofaqarrah, east
of Yatta, south of Hebron. The Israeli Civil
Administration officer handed Ahmed Mahmoud
al-Hamamdah (45) a notice to evacuate his 5-dunum land
under the pretext of State lands within 45 days. It
should be noted that Kherbit al-Mofaqarrah is a
residential compound.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Israeli settlers’ attack:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>At approximately 03:00 on Friday, 09 November 2018,
a group of Israeli settlers moved into Kafur al-Deek
village, west of Salfit, and then wrote hatred slogans
against Arabs on walls and vehicles. They also
punctured the tires of 17 vehicles. PCHR keeps the
names of persons whose vehicles were damaged.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>On Sunday, 11 November 2018, dozens of Israeli
settlers with the Israeli forces’ protection moved
into the <strong>Antiquities area</strong>in Sibistia
village, northwest of Nablus. The village’s Council
said that around 150 Israeli settlers accompanied with
Israeli forces moved into the antiquities area in
Sibistia village and stayed there for few hours before
leaving. It should be noted that the Antiquities
area in Sibistia village was under the Israeli
incursions several times.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Recommendations to the International Community</strong>:</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 to continue to investigate
the Israeli crimes committed in the oPt, particularly
the settlement crimes and grave violations in 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 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 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 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/en/?p=11600"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Fully detailed
document available at the official website of the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).</em></a></p>
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