This is a suumary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 19 April 2006, 2mins, english
PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights http://www.pchrgaza.org
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
No. 15/2006 13- 19 Apr. 2006
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) ÷ A Palestinian child killed by IOF in Beit Lahia and a Palestinian activist died from a previous wound.
÷ 41 Palestinians, including 19 children, were wounded by the IOF gunfire.
÷ IOF continued to shell Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip, especially the northern area, putting Palestinian homes at risk.
÷ IOF conducted 35 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, particularly Nablus.
÷ 74 Palestinian civilians, including 11 children, were arrested by IOF.
÷ Wives and mothers of allegedly wanted Palestinians were arrested by IOF and one has remained in custody.
÷ 10 houses were transformed by IOF into military sites.
÷ IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF have closed border crossings of the Gaza Strip; the north of the West Bank has been separated from the south; and IOF arrested 8 Palestinian civilians, including two children, at checkpoints in the West Bank.
÷ IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; IOF have closed outlets on the section of the Wall between Qalandya checkpoint and the Dahiat al-Barid area.
÷ Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the OPT; the settlers violently beat a Palestinian civilian and his child in Hebron.
Summary
Following a bombing in Tel Aviv on 17 April 2006, the Israeli government decided on a series of retaliatory measures against Palestinian civilians, including separating the north and south of the West Bank; denial of access of Palestinian workers to their work places inside Israel; and increasing extra-judicial executions. PCHR reminds the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949 that â