Ahlul Bayt News Agency - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) documented Israeli violations in Occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank since the beginning of 2015.
So far in 2015, a total of 417 structures have been demolished by the Israeli authorities in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing a total of 495 Palestinians including 277 children, OCHA revealed.
In a statement, OCHA warned of the escalation of Israeli demolition operations of Palestinian houses and its impact on the humanitarian and security situations in the Palestinian occupied territories.
OCHA’s report reviewed the Israeli violations in Palestinian occupied territories during 18-24 August 2015.
The Israeli authorities demolished 42 Palestinian-owned structures in Area C and East Jerusalem for lack of Israeli-issued building permits, displacing a total of 54 people, including 33 children, and otherwise affecting some 100 others. This is the largest wave of demolitions in a single week in six months, it documented.
It is stated in the report that 88 per cent of the targeted structures (37) were located in four communities in the Jordan Valley (Ad Deir, Khirbet Samra, Fasayil al Wusta, and Jericho city); two structures were located in areas designated by the Israeli authorities as a closed military zone for training, or “firing zone”, in Tubas; and three structures in the Jerusalem governorate in the area of Wadi al Joz (East Jerusalem) and Bir Nabala.
During the week, 54 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, were injured across the West Bank in multiple clashes with Israeli forces, it revealed.
The report stated that during confrontations, Israeli forces fired teargas canisters, live ammunition, rubber bullets, skunk spray, and sound grenades at Palestinians engaged mainly in stone throwing, and, in some cases, hurling Molotov cocktails.
It recorded that Israeli forces arrested 98 Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territories, including three in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip arrests include two Palestinian merchants arrested as they arrived at the Erez Crossing, after they had received a permit to travel into the West Bank, and one other Palestinian arrested near the fence surrounding Gaza, after crossing into Israel without Israeli authorization.
Five Israeli settler attacks resulting in injury to Palestinians or property damage were recorded, including the stoning and injury of a six-year-old girl and vandalism to a souvenir shop, both near Al Ibrahimi Mosque in the Israeli-controlled H2 area of Hebron city; the physical assault of a shepherd who was grazing his sheep in Dura (Hebron) and a Palestinian man standing on the road at the junction of Yatma village (Nablus); and the setting of cultivated land on fire in Burin (Nablus), the report stated.
In the Gaza Strip, the report revealed that Israeli forces opened fire towards civilians in the Access Restricted Areas (ARA) on land and at sea, on at least four occasions. No casualties were reported. On one occasion, Israeli forces entered and leveled land inside Gaza forcing farmers to flee the area.
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