Israeli
authorities and armed forces carried out extrajudicial executions,
tortured Palestinian prisoners and targeted human rights defenders,
Amnesty International’s new annual report says.
2017
“marked the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the
[occupied] Palestinian Territories” (OPT), Amnesty noted, “and
the 10th anniversary of its illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.”
“Israeli
authorities intensified the expansion of settlements and related
infrastructure across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and
carried out a large number of demolitions of Palestinian property,
forcibly evicting more than 660 people” the reeport states.
“Many of these demolitions were in Bedouin and herding
communities that the Israeli authorities planned to forcibly
transfer.”
Meanwhile,
Amnesty also slammed “Israel’s air, land and sea blockade of
the Gaza Strip”, which it says is “collectively punishing
Gaza’s entire population of approximately 2 million inhabitants”.
Addressing
the use of lethal violence, Amnesty International noted that Israeli
forces killed 76 Palestinians and one foreign national in 2017,
adding that “many, including children, were shot and unlawfully
killed while posing no immediate threat to life”.
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