Israel killed 3 Palestinians, wounded 10 others in one week

12 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2010 الساعة . 07:59 ص   بتوقيت القدس

UN office for the coordination of human rights (OCHA) said in a weekly report issued on Saturday that three Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and 10 others were wounded in different areas of the occupied Palestinian territories during Israeli military attacks.

The report covered different violations committed by Israel during one week, including the demolition of Palestinian real estate and attacks carried out by settlers. It confirmed that 150 olive trees were torched and one water well was demolished by settlers.

The report pointed to the continued Israeli restrictions imposed on the movement of goods and individuals in the besieged Gaza Strip and the power outages that result from the entry of insufficient fuel shipments for Gaza power plant.

OCHA also pointed to the Israeli decision to exile Palestinian lawmaker Mohamed Abu Tir from his native city of Jerusalem to the West Bank after detaining him for five months in jail.

In another incident, Palestinian local sources reported that a 19-year-old Palestinian young man called Abdullah Du'ais suffered serious wounds after he was severely beaten by a group of Israeli troops in the 1948 occupied lands.

The sources added that Israeli soldiers kidnapped Du'ais on Friday outside his workplace and then brutally attacked him using batons and police dogs before taking him to an unknown destination and throwing him in a deplorable state near a checkpoint in the village of Ni'lin.

Du'ais was taken to a medical center to receive treatment after Palestinian citizens found him near the checkpoint.