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<h1 class="reader-title">In 2 weeks, Israel killed a Palestinian
man, injured 63, detained 115 people in 128 raids, and
demolished 26 structures – UN<br>
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<p>Jerusalem/PNN/</p>
<p>In the last two weeks of March, the Israeli occupation
forces killed one Palestinian man, injured 63 others,
demolished 26 Palestinian-owned structure displacing 34
people, and detained 115 people, including five
children, in 128 search-and-arrest raids, according to
the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian
territory.</p>
<p>It said in its biweekly Protection of Civilians report
covering the period between 16 and 29 March that on 19
March Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 45-year-old
Palestinian man during a weekly protest in Beit Dajan
village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus,
bringing to three the number of Palestinians killed by
Israeli forces in the West Bank since the beginning of
the year.</p>
<p>In addition, Israeli soldiers injured 63 Palestinians
across the West Bank, 43 of them in the Kufr Aqab
neighborhood of East Jerusalem and 10 in Beit Dajan
village, in confrontations during army raids of these
and other areas of the occupied territories. Most of the
injuries were for teargas inhalation, 16 hit by rubber
bullets, and seven were physically assaulted, or hit by
a tear gas canister.</p>
<p>Israeli forces carried out 128 search-and-arrest
operations and arrested 115 Palestinians, including five
children, across the West Bank during the two-week
reporting period, said OCHA. The Ramallah governorate
recorded the highest number of operations (27), followed
by Tulkarm (21) and Hebron (18). In one operation in
Beit Kahil (Hebron), 21 Palestinians were arrested.</p>
<p>Citing the lack of building permits, the Israeli
occupation authorities demolished or seized 26
Palestinian-owned structures in Area C of the occupied
West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing 34 people, of
whom 15 were children, and otherwise affecting about 40
others.</p>
<p>Twenty-two structures were targeted on 17 March in four
communities in Area C, including eight tents seized in
Khirbet Tana near Nablus, displacing 18 people; and 11
uninhabited houses demolished in al-Nuweima al-Fauqa
Bedouin community near Jericho, affecting 21 people.
Four of the structures were demolished in East
Jerusalem, including three by their owners after being
pressured to do so by the Israeli municipality of West
Jerusalem to avoid paying hefty fines and demolition
costs if the municipality carries out the demolition,
displacing 12 people.</p>
<p>The entry of Palestinians to the Israeli-army
controlled closed area of H2 in Hebron city in the south
of the West Bank, where they live, was delayed for long
periods due to the re-introduction of heavy restrictions
by Israeli forces at the checkpoint leading to Tel
Rumeida neighborhood. In this context, forces have
required Palestinian residents to pass through metal
detectors, which has not been a requirement for several
years, said OCHA.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israeli settlers injured two Palestinians
and damaged a few hundreds of Palestinian-owned trees in
the two-week reporting period. Both Palestinians were
physically assaulted, one near Susiya community in the
Hebron district, and the other while working his land
near al-Khader town in Bethlehem.</p>
<p>Residents in the villages of Jalud, Khirbet Sarra and
Tell in Nablus, and Ras Karkar and Deir Nidham in
Ramallah, reported that about 300 trees and saplings had
been vandalized. In Beit Iksa near Jerusalem and Kafr
al-Dik in Salfit, settlers vandalized a house, three
agricultural structures and three vehicles. In al-Baq’a
area in Hebron, settlers started bulldozing
privately-owned Palestinian land. Settlers blocked off a
spring near Tubas, preventing Palestinian herders from
accessing it. Settlers also erected tents on land
belonging to residents of Tuqu’ and Kisan villages near
Bethlehem; in Kisan, they eventually removed the tents,
and in Tuqu’ the Israeli authorities ordered them to
remove them by 4 April.</p>
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