Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 December 2017- 03 January 2018)

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, January 4, 2018

Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

Israeli forces escalated the excessive use of force in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)

Two Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

89 Palestinian civilians, including 12 children, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

53 of them were hit with live bullets, 23 were hit with rubber-coated metal bullets, and 13 were hit with tear gas canisters.

Nine civilians, including 7 children and a woman, were arrested in a protest in the West Bank.

Israeli forces conducted 69 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one was conducted in the southern Gaza Strip.

79 civilians, including 10 children and a woman, were arrested.

20 of them, including a child and a woman, were arrested in Jerusalem.

Israeli authorities continue to create a Jewish Majority in occupied East Jerusalem.

A store was closed in addition to confiscating its contents in Silwan village.

Israeli warplanes launched 2 airstrikes at 2 military sites for armed groups, but no casualties were reported.

3 shooting incidents targeting the Palestinian fishing boats occurred in the Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.

4 shooting incidents targeting the Palestinian fishing boats occurred in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 11th

Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.

5 Palestinian civilians were arrested at the checkpoints in the West Bank…

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