Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, February 28, 2018
Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian while arresting him without endangering the soldiers’ life.
10 shooting incidents targeting the Palestinian fishing boats off the Gaza Strip Shore were reported.
Israeli naval forces killed a Palestinian fisherman and wounded and arrested 2 others in addition to causing damage to the boat.
Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against the peaceful protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
39 Palestinian civilians were wounded, including 8 children, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Shooting at the border areas in the Gaza Strip was reported without causing any casualties.
Israeli forces conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 2 similar ones into Jerusalem.
47 civilians, including 10 children and a woman, were arrested in the West Bank.
4 of them were arrested in Jerusalem.
2 Palestinians were arrested after attempting to sneak into Israel.
Israeli authorities continued their settlement activities in the West Bank.
Israeli continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians, wounding a civilian after throwing a stone at his head.
Israeli authorities continued to create a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
The Israeli municipality impose the “Arnona” property tax on the church-owned properties in the City.
Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 11th consecutive year.
Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
Israeli forces imposed a general closure on the oPt for Purim…