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In 2010, 107 Palestinians were killed, including 10 children, 4 women and 9 Turkish
nationals whom the Israeli occupation military forces killed while they were on
board a flotilla sailing to Gaza to express their solidarity with its citizens. Other
Palestinian civilians fell due to the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression on
Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, including extrajudicial executions.
Besides those who sustained light and psychological injuries, 1145 Palestinians were
wounded. The Israeli occupation forces carried out 586 attacks against Palestinian
property and the total number of reported Israeli occupation violations amounted
to 79052.
Recent Israeli Measures
a. Intensifying the occupation policy of the judaization of Jerusalem and expulsion of its
Palestinian residents, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) adopted a draft law depriving
Palestinian residents of Jerusalem from living inside the green line from their
residence rights, accusing them of espionage and so depriving them of their right to
live in Jerusalem on charges of involvement in resistance activities or affiliation with
Palestinian organizations described by Israel as “terrorist” organizations. The Israeli
occupation forces use such allegations to justify expulsion of Palestinian residents
from Jerusalem. ICHR views this decision as an attempt to legitimize the policy of a
form of ethnic cleansing exercised by the Israeli occupation authorities against the
Palestinian residents of the city. They noticeably started implementation of such a
policy in the mid 1990s and intensified it over the last three years under the pretext
that these residents live outside the artificial border of Jerusalem municipality. The
Israeli Knesset had endorsed this draft law after the occupation authorities’ decision
to deport Jerusalemite MP Muhammad Abu Teir from his native city. It is worth
mentioning that similar measures were taken previously against other Jerusalemite
MPs, including engineer Khalid Abu Arafeh, former Minister of Jerusalem.
b. Among the most recent Israeli measures during the first months of 2010 was the
entry into effect of two military orders on April 13, 2010, in a bid to further
entrench its occupation deeper into Palestine. These two orders could categorize
the population of the West Bank as “infiltrators”. Military order number (1650)
preventing infiltration and the military order number (1649) relating to security
measures were issued in October 2009. It imposes on “infiltrators” from Jordan,
Syria, Egypt and Lebanon, the punishment of imprisonment or expulsion. Such
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Information extracted from a report released by the National and International Relations Department of
the PLO, 2010.