The Crimes of the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians, their property and establishments escalated.
These forces continued to implement the policies of closure, siege, assassination, shelling of houses, destruction of properties and agricultural lands.
The closure of organizations and the breaking into areas under the control of the PA also continued.
At around 11.
30am this morning the occupation forces broke into the Qizan an-Najar area in the east of Khan Yunis and penetrated more than 1,5kms inside land under the control of the PA.
After around two hours they pulled out.
This morning at around 8,20am the occupation forces assassinated Imad Abu Sanina, 25-years-old, as they fired at him when he was passing through the Um ad-Dawali area in Hebron.
These forces assassinated the day before yesterday, 13.
8.
2001, the civilian Nasr Ismail Jibril Abu Zaida, 22-years-old, from Qalandia, near the village Kufr Aqb in the neighbourhood of Ramalla.
On 11.
8.
2001 the occupation forces situated near al-Muntar Crossing, east of Gaza City, opened machinegun fire against to civilians leading to their deaths.
They are: Maher Muhammad Afana, 27-years-old, from az-Zaitun neighbourhood in Gaza City, killed by a bullet in the chest.
Muhammad Ramadan Raghib as-Saqa, 18-years-old, from ad-Daraj, Neighborhood in Gaza City, killed by bullets in different parts of the body.
In addition to another four civilians who suffered various injuries.
Yesterday, 14.
8.
2001, in the very early morning, in the most dangerous escalation by the occupation forces of the policy of breaking into areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority the city of Jenin witnessed a large-scale incursion perpetrated by these forces with the support of tanks, bulldozers, helicopters and other military apparatus.
The occupation forces sieged the city the evening of the previous day preventing its entry or exit.
At around two in the morning these forces attacked the city after having shot flares into the sky and after they shooting artillery and machineguns into a number of neighbourhoods.
The tanks broke into the center of the town and razed the police headquarters.
In the morning hours these forces pulled out from the area.
Previously this same week Israeli tanks broke into a number of areas under the control of the PNA.
Amongst them the area situated east of Gaza City on 10.
8.
2001 took place the shelling and razing and subsequent complete destruction of the military point number 24 belonging to the National Security Forces in charge of the borders.
On 13.
8.
2001 near the Rafah terrestrial crossing “al-Awda” there was bulldozing which razed the storehouse of the rest area belonging to Aid Ayad Awda an-Nahal in addition to 100 metres of fruit-bearing cactus plants, and razing of the rest room being built for VIP passes.
The area reaches 750m2.
on 12.
8.
2001 bulldozers belonging to the occupation forces destroyed in al-Qarara area a house with two floors belonging to thebrothers Ibrahim and Taher Ibrahim Musa Abadin, where 13 people lived and 8 palm trees were uprooted.
This week witnessed the continuation of the occupation forces policy of shelling residential areas belonging to Palestinian civilians.
These practies which continued almost daily, especially in Hebron, Bait Jala, Bethlehem, Rafah and Khan Yunis.
The shelling of the quarters of Abu Sanina, Harat ash-Shaikh, Tala at-Takruri, Baba az-Zawiya, Dahiyati al-Baladiya and az-Zaitun in Hebron on the night of 12.
8.
2001 resulted in the injury of 19 civilians and the death of Sabirin Abd al-Karim Abu Sanina, 7-years-old, killed by a life bullet in the head when she was in her house.
In the context of the siege and closure imposed by the occupation forces on the Palestinians since the beginning of the Intifada, these forces have again closed Rafah Crossing on 13.
8.
2001 considered the single passage of the Strip thus preventing thousands of travelers, including students, the ill, and visitors, from moving.
The crossing was reopened the last time on 14.
6.
2001 and suffered from serious congestion since then which constituted in enormous suffering for the travelers on both sides of the border.
This grave measures is in the context of a campaign of escalation launched by the occupation forces against the presence of Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Hence Orient House was taken over and tens of local organizations in the area.
AL Mezan Center considers this new escalation extremely dangerous.
And warns of the effect of the continued perpetration of crimes by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians and their property in the auspices of the silence of the international community and demands the following: The immediate implementation of the principles of international law and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention and affording an effective and immediate protection for the Palestinian civilians.
To put an end to the crimes perpetrated by the belligerent Israeli occupation forces, pursuing the perpetrators and who ordered the perpetration, and bringing them before the law.
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