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RAMALLAH, Feb 13 (KUNA) -- Twenty Palestinians, including six journalists,
were wounded this week, while dozens were arrested in the West Bank's Sha'fat
refugee camp, said the Ramallah-based UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Palestinian territories in its weekly
report on Saturday.
The report said that Israelis established a new settlement in northern West
Bank, while hundreds of Palestinians were waiting at military barriers to be
allowed through.
It also said that in Gaza, a Palestinian was killed and three female
students were wounded while on their way to school. Several homes were also
destroyed this week.
According to the OCHA, between 35 and 100 Palestinians were arrested this
week - an undetermined number - at a time when Israeli troops executed 101
search operations in the West Bank, where nine Palestinians were wounded.
It also reported nine attacks by settlers, in which a 76-year-old man was
wounded in Qalqilya, while a youth was hit by live bullets during clashes with
settlers close to Nablus.
Moreover, it warned that the expansion of the Israeli military barrier
between the West Bank and Jerusalem would permanently separate East Jerusalem
from the West Bank.
The electricity crisis in Gaza Strip still stands, and energy reserves have
dropped because of shortage in funds allocated for buying fuel from Israel,
the report said. (end)
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