Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied PalestinianTerritory

• 20 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank.
• A number of these civilians were wounded by Israeli settlers during a joint attack with IOF.
• IOF conducted 28 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
• IOF arrested 32 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children.
• IOF halted technical preparations related to a reception site intended for the Pope’s visit.
• IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• IOF imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian Christians during Easter.
• IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 5 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children.
• IOF have continued measures aimed at the changing the demographic majority of east Jerusalem’s population.
• IOF started to establish a new settlement neighborhood in the al-Sawahra area, southeast of Jerusalem.
• Media reports disclosed a plan to connect "Kidar" settlement with "Ma'ale Adomim" settlement and annex 12,000 donums[1] of Palestinian land.
• IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
• IOF resumed the establishment of a settler road to the south of Hebron.
• Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the north and south of the West Bank.