In this report, the Palestinian human rights organizations, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan and Al-Haq, highlight a number of monitored and documented crimes and violations committed by IOF and Israeli settlers against the Palestinian people and their properties from 1 January to 29 February 2024.

Killings and violation of the right to life and bodily integrity:

According to our field documentation, Israel has employed different methods and weaponry, either by shooting fire in protests or confrontations, military raids and assaults, drone strikes, or by carrying out extrajudicial killings by Israeli special units.

Moreover, during the reporting period, 319 Palestinians were injured, including 21 in critical condition, 67 children and 2 women.

Attacks on medical personnel

Raids and arrests

Demolition and land-razing

Land confiscations and settlement expansion

Meanwhile, a group of settlers razed plots of land and set up 10 light poles on Palestinian lands in Khellet al-Nahlah near Wadi Rahal village to supply electricity to Giv’at Etam settlement, which is established on the lands of Khellet al-Nahlah village in Bethlehem.

Settler violence

IOF attacks in Jerusalem

Restriction on freedom of movement and checkpoints

The IOF closed with sand berms Al-Labban Road (an alternative road for Wadi al-Nar Road if Al-Container checkpoint is closed), as well as Bazaria village entrance in front of Homesh settlement on Nablus-Jenin Road, and established eight iron gates at the entrances of Burin village, ‘Einabus village in Huwara, Jama’in village, Beita village, Al-Liban al-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus, overlooking the main Ramallah-Nablus road, and Majdal village, Qasra village, ‘Aqrabah village, overlooking Za’tarah-Jericho Road, southeast of Nablus, The IOF also declared Wadi Qana in Salfit, a tourist attraction, as a closed military zone.

The IOF also set up an iron gate at ‘Atouf village entrance, southeast of Tubas, east of Tamoun village, which separates Tubas from northern and central Jordan Valley while Tayasir checkpoint separates the Jordan Valley in eastern Tubas and al-Hamrah checkpoint in southern Tubas.

Our organizations emphasize that these crimes and violations would not have continued without Israel’s long-enjoyed impunity and third states failure to hold perpetrators accountable and put and end to these crimes, according to Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions and Articles 146 and 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

As Israel attempts to eliminate the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, our organizations reiterate that addressing the situation in Palestine requires tackling the root causes of the Palestinian struggle, emphasizing that the international community and the United Nations member states hold the primary responsibility for the violence in Palestine through their inaction and complicity in Israel’s systematic and widespread violations. We urge the international community to assume its responsibilities to stop the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. . .