Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OT

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

No. 02 /2004

08- 14 January 2004

* 3 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli occupying forces
* 1 of the victims was killed in an extra-judicial assassination

* Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
* Houses were raided and a number of Palestinians were arrested
* Continued use of Palestinian civilians as human shields in Israeli military operations

* 9 houses in Rafah refugee camp were destroyed
* Construction of the “separation wall” in the West Bank has continued and more areas of Palestinian land were seized
* Indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian residential areas continued; a Palestinian civilian was killed and a number of others were injured
* A Palestinian house in Hebron was destroyed by Israeli forces as part of the continuing campaign of retaliation against the families of Palestinians accused of involvement in attacks against Israeli targets
* In violation of the right to freedom of religion, Israeli occupying forces prevented 386 pilgrims from the Gaza Strip from traveling to Saudi Arabia to attend the Hajj
* Israeli occupying forces have continued to impose a total siege on the OPTs; a number of Palestinian civilians were arrested at military checkpoints and border crossings and a curfew was imposed on a number of Palestinian communities in the West Bank