Friday, October 22, 2010

PCHR weekly report 14/10 - 20/10/2010: 1 child worker & 1 farmer injured by IOF fire, 5 incursions

extracts from PCHR weekly report 14/10 - 20/10/2010:

IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers an farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip. - Two Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded.  

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted 5 limited incursions into Palestinian communities, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed.  

 
During the reporting period, a Palestinian child was wounded when Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at them while collecting raw construction materials. 

On 20 October 2010, a Palestinian farmer was wounded by Israeli gunfire in Khan Yunis during an Israeli incursion. 

Thursday, 14 October 2010



 At approximately 08:00, Israeli soldiers stations on observation towers near Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from Erez industrial zone. As a result, Yahia Mahmoud al-Za'anin, 16, from Beit Hanoun, was wounded by a bullet to the right leg, when he was 400 meters away from the crossing. 


Sunday, 17 October 2010


 At approximately 21:00, IOF moved nearly 350 meters into al-Snati area in 'Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land and opened fire indiscriminately. They withdrew from the area 3 hours later and no casualties were reported. 

Monday, 18 October 2010  


At approximately 08:00, IOF moved nearly 300 meters into 'Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land and withdrew 3 hours later. 


Tuesday, 19 October 2010 


At approximately 14:30, IOF moved nearly 30 meters into the east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya. They leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed. 

At approximately 20:00, IOF moved nearly 350 meters into al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed. Armed clashed erupted between IOF and members of the Palestinian resistance, but no casualties were reported.  

Wednesday, 20 October 2010


 


At approximately 07:00, IOF moved nearly 300 meters into al-Fukhari area in the southeast of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed, and opened fire indiscriminately. As a result of the Israeli gunfire, Hussein Salman Abu Raida, 65, was wounded by a bullet to the neck, while he was cropping olives, nearly 1,000 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.