Today five more Palestinians were killed. His son Ala a, aged 22, and their friend Hussein Msallam, were also injured. Yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces implemented an even tighter siege on the Palestinian Occupied Territories. The lives of Palestinians living under this siege their social, economic and cultural life has been severely obstructed, even halted. Palestinian children have been denied their right to education as the H2 area in Hebron remains under military curfew virtually imprisoning 35,000 Palestinians and denying over 12,000 Palestinian children their right to an education.
Commercial life continues to deteriorate and the movement of goods and produce restricted.
Government Ministries are operating at a diminished capacity. Freedom of movement has been denied to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Al-Haq reiterates its call to all High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to signal to the Israeli Occupation Authorities that it will not tolerate grave breaches of the Convention.