Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse, and attacks on civilians, turning the West Bank into isolated blocks of land. Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in Hebron under Israeli military protection.
The Israeli settlement expansion works continued on Palestinian lands and properties. Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip enters its 15th year under closure, exacerbating the humanitarian hardships across the territory.
Army shooting and violation of right to bodily integrity:
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child and wounded 4 civilians in excessive use of force in the West Bank: on 14 October 2021, Israeli forces killed 16-year-old Amjad Usama Jalal Abu-Sultan from southeastern Bethlehem and detained his body. Soldiers also arrested another child that accompanied Abu-Sultan; it was alleged that the children were throwing Molotov cocktails at settlers’ vehicles west of Bethlehem. No eyewitnesses were available to refute or confirm the occupation’s narrative. However, given the nature of the crime site near a military checkpoint, the situation could have been handled using less force in accordance with proportionality and necessity shooting standards. PCHR also documented 2 Palestinians sustaining wounds in the army assault on Kufur Qaddoum weekly protest, and 2 others during a raid in occupied East Jerusalem.
In the Gaza Strip, 1 incident of the Israeli Navy shooting at fishing boats was documented in the Gaza Sea, and another incident of the army shooting on agricultural lands in eastern Gaza.
Army incursions and arrests of Palestinian civilians:
Israeli forces carried out 104 incursions into the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Those incursions included raids of civilian houses and shootings, enticing fear among civilians, and attacking many of them. During this week’s incursions, 100 Palestinians were arrested, including 26 children and 3 journalists (1 female). Israeli forces also confiscated a vehicle and sums of money during raids to civilian homes in the West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces arrested 2 Palestinians, including 1 child, while attempting to cross border area in eastern Rafah.
Demolitions:
PCHR documented 11 incidents
- • Occupied East Jerusalem: 30 commercial establishments bulldozed and 2 Palestinians forced to self-demolish their properties: a house in al-Tur neighborhood, and part of another in Wadi al-Joz; car wash demolished, and foundations of a retaining wall n Silwan.
• Ramallah: 10 residential tents bulldozed, as well as, 2 tents used for sheep, and other facilities in al-Mughair.
• Bethlehem: 3 houses received demolition notices in Al Maniya; house foundations and agricultural land razed in Khlail al-Loz.
• Hebron: 2 under-construction homes demolished in Ska and Farsh al-Hawa.
• Tubas: 1.6km long street bulldozed
• Jenin: paved street connecting Yabad and Moryha villages bulldozed.
Settler-attacks:
- • Occupied East Jerusalem: Palestinian civilian assaulted and his vehicle damaged with rocks.
• Ramallah: 335 olive trees cut and destroyed
Israeli closure policy and restrictions on freedom of movement:
The Israeli occupation authorities continued to ban the entry of dozens of goods, including construction materials, in collective punishment measures against the Gaza Strip as the Israeli closure imposed on the territory entered its 15th year, without an end in sight that would fulfil Palestinians’ right to enjoy their economic, social, and cultural rights.
Meanwhile, occupation authorities continued to divide the West Bank into separate cantons with key roads blocked by the Israeli occupation since the 2000 Second Intifada -still closed to this date- and with temporary and permanent checkpoints, where civilian movement is restricted, and they are subject to arrest, especially at al-Karama border crossing, alongside the Palestinian-Jordanian border.
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