ISRAEL: Protection of Civilians Weekly Report

ReliefWeb

29 April, 2011

Military activities affecting civilians

During the two‐week reporting period, Israeli forces injured 46 Palestinians, including 14 children, in the West Bank, almost twice as many as those injured in the previous two‐week period (20).  The total number of Palestinian injuries since the beginning of 2011 (378) is roughly 34 percent below the parallel figure in 2010.

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GAZA: Israel kills 9 in Gaza in deadliest day in months

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA, March 22 (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes and shelling killed nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical officials said, in the deadliest day of conflict in the enclave in months.

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GAZA: IDF fires on militants on Gaza border, wounding 11

By Haaretz Service and DPA

02/23/2011

Eleven Palestinians were injured Wednesday when Israeli Defense Forces fired at a group of militants on the border with Gaza, Palestinian news agencies reported.

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GAZA: Prices soar in Gaza as Rafah, tunnels close

Rising food and fuel prices in Gaza come as a direct result of political instability in Egypt, and exemplify just one of the many additional hardships endured by civilian populations in regions in turmoil:

GAZA, 7 February 2011 (IRIN) – More than a week of political unrest in Egypt has heightened the threat of a humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Gaza. Egyptian soldiers fled their posts on the northern border on 30 January, forcing the Rafah crossing – a critical valve for the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza – to close.

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GAZA/EGYPT: Egyptian regime change hope for Gaza

RAMALLAH, 7 February 2011 (IRIN) – Possible regime change in Egypt, sparked by mass popular protests against President Hosni Mubarak since 25 January, could usher in a new leadership not as committed to maintaining the Gaza blockade, observers say.

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