GAZA, December 23, 2005 (WAFA)- The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said that two Palestinian citizens were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).

In its weekly report issued Friday on Israeli Human Rights Violations in OPT, PCHR revealed that the victims was extra-judicially executed by IOF in the West Bank (WB) Jenin.

PCHR also stated that 30 Palestinian citizens, including 15 children, were wounded by IOF, adding that IOF waged at least 25 air strikes on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip (GS) and a number of roads were destroyed.

It made it clear that 70 Palestinian citizens, including 4 children and a girl, were arrested by IOF.

PCHR also pointed out that IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT, saying that an old man died at a checkpoint in the WB.

For the Apartheid Wall, IOF have continued its construction, and used force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the Wall, causing the injury of three demonstrators and the arrest of four international solidarity activists.

H.M. (20:41 P) (18:41 GMT)