Report on "Israeli" human rights violations in occupied Palestinian territory 10-16 May 2006

Source: pchrgaza.org, 18-5-2005
"Israeli" Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT):
• 6 Palestinians were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
• 5 of the victims were killed by IOF aerial attacks.
• A baby in the womb of his mother was killed by IOF gunfire.
• 36 Palestinians were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• 27 of them, including 2 journalists, were wounded by an IOF aerial attack on a site of the Executive Force in Rafah.
• 3 civilians, including a Swiss solidarity activist, were wounded by the IOF gunfire in Bal`ein village, west of Ramallah.
• IOF conducted 26 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and one incursion into the Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested 41 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children.
• IOF arrested 2 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF demolished a houses in Bethlehem as a form of collective punishment.
• IOF opened fire at a tract of agricultural land in the southern Gaza Strip burning it.
• IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT.
• IOF have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• IOF positioned at various checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 5 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and children.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank.
• IOF plan to construct more than 20,000 housing units in the central West Bank.
• A guard of an "Israeli" settlement in the West Bank fired at a Palestinian taxi driver, wounding him.