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Israeli Violations Of Truce In July: Report
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In
a raid on Nablus, Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians,
including two Hamas activists
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By
Maha Abdul Hadi, IOL Correspondent
GAZA
CITY, Aug 12 (IslamOnline.net) - Israel has in the last month alone
killed seven Palestinians and carried out 854 violations of the
three-month truce declared by Palestinian resistance factions, a
Palestinian human rights report revealed Tuesday, August 12.
The
seven victims included four children under 18, one man who was
assassinated by Israeli troops and two others, who were killed by
Israeli settlers, according to a report by the Palestinian National
Information Center of the Gaza Information Service.
Israeli
tanks shelled residential districts and houses 299 times while public
and private establishments were bombed 312 times, it said, adding that
eight government, public and private establishments had been partially
or totally damaged.
The
Palestinian report also indicated that a mosque, a church and six
security posts were also destroyed during repeatedly Israeli incursions
into Palestinian territories.
Israeli
soldiers carried out 60 night raids on Palestinian houses during which
at least 47 Palestinians were detained, maintained the Palestinian
group.
It
put at 189 the number of Palestinian houses, which were demolished
during the Israeli violations, adding that 89 plants were razed to the
ground.
The
report further said that Israeli occupation forces erected 46 military
checkpoints and obstructed the Palestinians' freedom of movement for 67
times during the same period.
It
registered 21 Israeli operations of scooping up Palestinian farmlands as
well as two attacks on media correspondents and reporters.
Israeli
bulldozers devastated 3510 donums of land, uprooted 100757 trees,
destroyed 15 greenhouses, three stables and confiscated 4733 donums of
farmland owned by Palestinians for the interest of Jewish settlers,
indicated the report.
Daily
Violations
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An
Israeli bulldozer destroys Palestinian farming storehouses for the
construction of the separation wall
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Following
are few examples of the daily and incessant Israeli breaches of the truce
declared by the major Palestinian resistance groups on June 29.
On
July 3, a leading figure of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was
killed by Israeli forces in an incursion into the West Bank town of Qalqiliya.
On
July 5, one Palestinian was killed
and another injured in a dawn explosion in the Gaza Strip set off by
Israeli forces, shortly after the detention of 12 Palestinians in the
West Bank, mostly activists from Fatah movement.
On
July 14, the Israeli Knesset ratified
a draft legislation claiming the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not
territories occupied by Israel, a step giving Israeli occupation forces
free hand to push into Palestinian-ruled areas.
Also
on the same day, Israeli troops detained three members of Fatah in the
West Bank city of Nablus and three other Palestinians, including two
members of the Islamic Jihad near the West Bank town of Al-Khalil,
claiming they were on its wanted list.
On
July 20, a Palestinian was shot dead in an exchange of fire with the
Israeli occupation troops east of the West Bank town of Jenin.
On
July 25, an Israeli soldier killed a 4-year-old Palestinian boy and
injured his two sisters when he fired
16 bullets at a car they were boarding near the West Bank village of
Bartaa.
On
July 29, with U.S. President George W. Bush at his side, Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel will
continue the construction of its separation wall snaking through the West Bank.
The
600km-long wall is also expected to cut occupied Jerusalem off from the
rest of the West Bank.
It
will eventually swallow some 900 kilometers (540 miles) along the West
Bank and leave even larger swathes of Palestinian territory on the
Israeli side.
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