A report monitoring Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian lands said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 18 citizens including a 20-year-old young woman and assassinated nine others in five targeted killings in the course of the past month of February.

The report, issued by the Palestinian authority for human rights culture (Hadaf), said that the IOF troops tightened its arbitrary measures against Palestinian citizens through repeated closure of crossings and roadblocks on roads linking various West Bank cities and villages at so-called security pretexts.

It noted that the IOF soldiers raided West Bank cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank in 27 incursions, and wounded in its operations 192 citizens including four children less than 15-year-old and a cameraman in Salem village.

The report also pointed to the Israeli continued construction of the separation wall that led to destruction or annexation of West Bank cultivated lands, noting that the Israeli soldiers and settlers' practices contravened all international norms and human rights doctrines.

For its part, the Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas Movement, published a report on its website indicating that the IOF troops violated the one year old truce 17,167 times.

It said that the violations led to the murder of 214 Palestinians and the injury of 1,956 others.

Source: The Palestinian Information Center