A UN report covering Israeli violations during the period between April 4 and 18 said that one Palestinian died of serious wounds he sustained in a previous incident and 46 others were injured by Israeli gunfire.
According to the report which was issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on April 10 a 17-year-old Jasem Nakhla died of wounds he sustained on March 23 after being shot by Israeli forces near al-Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah.
At the time the Israeli army claimed the opening of fire took place in response to the throwing of firebombs towards Beit El settlement. Another Palestinian child was killed during the same incident and two other Palestinians were injured.
During the reporting period 46 Palestinians 11 of them children were injured by Israeli forces in multiple clashes in the West Bank.
Most of the injuries occurred during the weekly demonstrations in Kafr Qaddum (Qalqiliya) against the prohibition on the residents’ use of the main road connecting the village to Nablus city because it passes through Kedumim settlement. Other clashes were reported over the course of five search and arrest operations and at a funeral of the boy killed in al-Jalazoun refugee camp.
In the Gaza Strip on at least 26 occasions Israeli forces opened warning fire into access restricted areas on land and at sea; while no injuries were reported the work of farmers and fishermen was reportedly disrupted.
On four occasions Israeli forces also carried out leveling and digging operations inside Gaza near the perimeter fence. Additionally six Palestinian civilians were arrested by Israeli forces while attempting to cross illegally into Israel.
In the West Bank the Israeli authorities demolished 20 Palestinian-owned structures on the grounds of lack of building permits which are nearly impossible for Palestinians to acquire.
Twelve of those structures were in east Jerusalem and the remaining eight structures were in two communities in Area C particularly in Rantis (Ramallah) and Furush Beit Dajan (Nablus)
Overall 56 Palestinians were displaced and 33 others affected as a result of those Israeli demolitions.
As for settlers’ assaults on Palestinians during the same period two Palestinians were injured and over 200 trees vandalized in separate incidents.
A 14-year-old Palestinian girl was physically assaulted and injured by settlers while she was on her way to school in the Israeli-controlled H2 area of al-Khalil city.
A Palestinian woman was injured following stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at her vehicle near Salfit. Farmers from Mikhmas village (Jerusalem) reported that 215 of their olive trees had been uprooted attributing the damage to Israeli settlers from the adjacent settlement outpost of Migron.
On various occasions during the reporting period Israeli settlers and other Israeli groups entered various religious sites on the occasion of Passover celebrations triggering altercations and clashes with Palestinians with no injuries reported; the affected sites included the Aqsa Mosque compound in east Jerusalem a shrine in Kifl Haris village (Salfit) and Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus city.
