Saturday, November 6, 2010

PCHR weekly report 28/10 - 3/11/2010: 3 Palestinian workers and 1 mentally disabled injured, 1 incursion

extracts from PCHR weekly report 28/10 - 3/11/2010:

 IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
- 3  Palestinian workers and a mentally disabled civilian  were wounded

During the reporting period, IOF fired at Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. As a result, 3 workers were wounded. 

On 02 November 2010, Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Khan Yunis wounded a mentally disabled Palestinian civilian near the border.

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted one limited incursion into al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed.  

Friday, 29 October  2010
At approximately 09:45, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the north of the Bedouin village in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials in Erez industrial zone. As a result, Mohammed Kamal 'Olaiwa, 20, was wounded by a bullet to the left leg, when he was about 450 meters away from the border.

Sunday, 31 October 2010  


t approximately 08:15, Israeli soldiers stationed on a hill at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northwest of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Nazmi Salim Tanboura, 50, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the thighs, when he was nearly 500 meters away from the border. 

Monday, 01 November 2010  


At approximately 08:45, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from the evacuated Israeli settlements of "Elli Sinai" and "Dogit." The workers fled from the area and no casualties were reported. 

Tuesday, 02 November 2010 


At approximately 11:00, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast of Gaza Valley village in the central Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian civilians who were collecting plastics, iron and aluminum from a garbage plant, nearly 300 meters away from the border. As a result, Hussam 'Abdul Hafez al-Khaldi, 34, was wounded by a bullet to the right shoulder.




At approximately 16:00, Palestinian ambulances were able to evacuate Mahmoud Mohammed Shirrir, 34, from 'Abassan village, east of Khan Yunis, to the European Gaza Hospital, as he was wounded by a bullet to the left ankle. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of 'Abassan village fired at Shirrir, who is mentally disabled, when he was a few meters away from the border.

Wednesday, 03 November 2010  


At approximately 19:30, IOF moved nearly 200 meters into the east of al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. They leveled areas of Palestinian land. During the incursion, an Israeli tank fired a shell at a space area, but no casualties were reported.