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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israeli Human Rights Violations in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 03-09 August 2023) -
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits"></div>August 10, 2023<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><img src="cid:ii_ll5d7s1e0" alt="080823_NABLUS_MN_00-19-1024x683.jpg" width="410" height="273"><br><font size="1">People
inspect damage at Palestinian Abdel-Fattah Kharousha’s house that was
blown up by IOF in Askar refugee camp in Nablus, east of the West Bank
on 08 August 2023. Photo by Mohammed Nasser\ apaimages</font><p><span><strong>Violation of right to life and bodily integrity:</strong></span></p><p><span>6
Palestinians were killed, including 2 children; one succumbed to his
pervious injury, and 6 others were injured, while dozens of others
suffocated and sustained bruises in Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and
settler attacks in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Details are
as follows:</span></p><p><span><strong>On 04 August 2023</strong>,
Qusai Jamal Mu’tan (18) was killed in cold blood by settler’s fire,
while two other Palestinians were injured by other settlers’ fire in
Burqa village, east of Ramallah. ( Details available in PCHR’s <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/pchr-strongly-condemns-murder-of-palestinian-boy-by-settlers-fire-in-ramallah/">press release</a>.)</span></p><p><span><strong>On the same day</strong>,
Mahmoud Hussam Abu Sa’an (18) was killed by IOF’s fire after he threw
Molotov Cocktails at them during their incursion into Tulkarm and its
camp.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 06 August 2023</strong>, in a crime
of extra-judicial executions (assassination), IOF killed 3 Palestinians,
including a child, in Jenin. (Details available in PCHR’s <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/in-new-crime-of-extrajudicial-executions-3-palestinians-including-child-assassinated-in-jenin/">press release</a>.)</span></p><p><span><strong>On 07 August 2023</strong>,
medical sources at the Palestine Medical Complex announced the death of
Ramzi Fathi Hamed (17), from Silwad village, east of Ramallah, who
succumbed to an abdominal injury after the security guard of “<em>Ofra</em>”
settlement established on lands confiscated from Silwad and Beitin
villages, east of Ramallah, fired two live bullets at him, as Hamed
threw Molotov Cocktails at the settlement on 01 August 2023.</span></p><p><span>Meanwhile,
those injured were victims of excessive use of force that accompanied
IOF incursions into cities and villages, or suppression of peaceful
protests organized by Palestinian civilians.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 04 August 2023</strong>,
two Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated bullets during IOF’s
suppression of Kafr Qaddum weekly peaceful protest against settlements
in northern Qalqilya.</span></p><p><span><strong>On the same day</strong>,
Minister Moayad Sha’ban, Head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance
Commission (CWRC), and other persons suffocated and sustained bruises
during IOF’s suppression of Deir Istiya weekly peaceful protest in
Salfit.</span></p><p><span><strong>Also</strong>, a Palestinian was
injured with a rubber-coated bullet in his leg during clashes with IOF
following their incursion into Al-Eizariya village, southeast of
occupied East Jerusalem. Before their withdrawal, IOF arrested a
Palestinian.</span></p><p><span><strong>In the Gaza Strip</strong>, at
least 2 IOF shootings were reported on agricultural lands in eastern
Gaza Strip. However, neither material damage nor casualties were
reported.</span></p><p><span><strong>So far in 2023, IOF attacks have
killed 208 Palestinians, including 103 civilians; amongst them 37
children, 6 women and a person with disability, and the rest were
members of the Palestinian armed groups, including 7 children, 9 killed
by settlers, and two died in Israeli prisons. Meanwhile, 1015
Palestinians, including 150 children, 30 women and 16 journalists, were
injured in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.</strong></span></p><p><span><strong>Land razing, demolitions, notices and settlement </strong></span></p><p><span><strong>On 03 August 2023, </strong>IOF
razed a 4-dunum plot of land in al-Dab’a area, east of Battir village
in western Bethlehem, and uprooted at least 70 olive seedlings.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 06 August 2023,</strong>
IOF forced 8 families of 36, including 10 children, to leave al-Qaboun
Compound located between Kafr Malik and al-Mughayyir village, east of
Ramallah, after IOF closed all roads leading to them and prevented
sheep-grazing, while settlers stole their sheep. </span></p><p><span><strong>On the same day</strong>, IOF seized a generator from a cave where ‘Aziz al-Rab’I live in Kherbet Janba, east of Yatta, south of Hebron.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 07 August 2023</strong>,
IOF confiscated 2 vehicles and ceased ad-Dhahiriya Municipality’s
construction works to establish agricultural roads in al-Baha area, east
of ad-Dhahiriya village in southern Hebron, under the pretext of
working in Area “C”.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 08 August 2023</strong>,
IOF handed 14 eviction notices to inhabited houses and
cease-construction notices to other under-construction houses in Sarta
villages, west of Salfit, under the pretext of unlicensed construction
in Area “C”.</span></p><p><span><strong>On the same day</strong>, IOF
uprooted about 20 olive seedlings and levelled agricultural lands to
build a settlement road in Kafr ad-Dik village, west of Salfit.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 09 August 2023</strong>,
IOF handed 8 cease-construction notices to under-construction houses in
Sinjil village, east of Ramallah, under the pretext of unlicensed
construction in Area “C”.</span></p><p><span><strong>Since the beginning
of 2023, IOF have made 136 families homeless, a total of 796 persons,
including 174 women and 352 children. This was the outcome of IOF
demolition of 136 houses; 34 were forcibly self-demolished by their
owners and 14 were demolished on grounds of collective punishment. IOF
also demolished 99 other civilian objects, razed other property, and
delivered dozens of notices of demolition and cease-construction in the
West Bank, including East Jerusalem.</strong></span></p><p><span><em><strong>Demolitions on grounds of collective punishment</strong></em></span></p><p><span>On
08 August 2023, IOF destroyed a residential unit belonging to the
family of ‘Abdul-Fattah Hussein Kharousha in the old ‘Askar refugee
camp, northeast of Nablus as part of IOF’s collective punishment policy
against Palestinian families of those accused of carrying out attacks
against IOF and/or settlers. PCHR’s fieldworker reported that IOF moved
into ‘Askar refugee camp in Nablus and broke into a 4-storey house
belonging to Kharousha family, as they forced 4 families living the
building out, and two other families of their relatives in nearby houses
under fire and teargas canisters. As a result, a Palestinian was
wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh. During the incursion, IOF
implanted explosives on the 3<sup>rd</sup> floor, and remotely detonated
it. As a result, the 120-sqm apartment, which housed a family of 4,
including a woman, was destroyed, while 3 apartments in the same
building and 2 other apartments in a nearby buildings sustained damage.
It is noteworthy that IOF killed ‘Abdul-Fattah Kharousha on 07 March
2023 after he was accused of an attack that killed setters on 26
February 2023.</span></p><p><span><strong>Settler-attacks and retaliatory acts</strong></span></p><p><span><strong>On 05 August 2023</strong>,
settlers from “Ma’ale Adumim” settlement, threw stones at Palestinians
and their vehicles at the entrance to Al-Eizariya village, east of East
Jerusalem. As a result, windows of many vehicles were broken, and
Palestinians, including women and children, panicked.</span></p><p><span><strong>Since
the beginning of the year, settlers have conducted at least 293 attacks
against Palestinian civilians and their property. As a result, 9
Palestinians were killed, and dozens of others were injured; most of
them due to being beaten and thrown with stones. Also, dozens of houses,
vehicles and civilian facilities were set ablaze.</strong></span></p><p><span><strong>Israeli closure, restrictions on freedom of movement, and collective punishment:</strong></span></p><p><span>Israeli occupation maintains its illegal and inhuman 17-year closure on the Gaza Strip. Details available in PCHR’s <a href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/state-of-the-gaza-strip-border-crossings-01-30-june-2023/">monthly-update</a> in the Gaza crossings.</span></p><p><span>In
the West Bank, IOF continues to impose restrictions on the freedom of
movement. On top of its 110 permanent checkpoints, IOF established <strong>134</strong>
temporary military checkpoints in the West Bank, including occupied
East Jerusalem, and arrested Palestinians at those checkpoints.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 06 August 2023</strong>,
IOF closed the northern entrance to Tuqu’ village, south of Bethlehem,
and reopened it later. The closure recurred the following day. </span></p><p><span><strong>On 07 August 2023,</strong> IOF closed Qalandia checkpoint and later reopened it.</span></p><p><span><strong>On 08 August 2023,</strong>
IOF closed the detector gates established at the entrances to villages
of Nabi Saleh, Aboud, and Kharbatha Bani Harith, and reopened them after
about an hour and a half. This comes as part of IOF’s collective
punishment policy allegedly after a settler’s vehicle was exposed to
shotting near the entrance to “Ateret” settlement, which is established
on the lands of Umm Safa village, northwest of Ramallah. The entrances
to Silwad were also closed but reopened later.</span></p><p><span><strong>So far in 2023, IOF have established 3,692 temporary checkpoints and arrested tens of Palestinians at those checkpoints.</strong></span></p></div></div></div>
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