JERUSALEM, February 11, 2017 (WAFA) - On at least 52 occasions between January 24 and February 6, Israeli forces opened warning or direct fire at Palestinians present in, or approaching the Israeli-imposed Access Restricted Areas (ARA) on land and sea in Gaza, a United Nations organization said on Friday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories said in its bi-weekly Protection of Civilians report that while no injuries were reported, the work of farmers and fishermen was repeatedly disrupted.

It said Israeli forces entered inside Gaza and carried out leveling and excavation activities near the perimeter fence, and, on another occasion, arrested two fishermen and requisitioned their boat.

In the West Bank, the OCHA report said the Israeli authorities demolished 19 Palestinian-owned structures in East Jerusalem and Area C on the grounds of lack of building permits, displacing 67 people, including 38 children, and affecting the livelihoods of 36 others.

Also citing the lack of the necessary permits, the Israeli authorities sized eight construction-related machines and 12 meters of pipes in four Area C communities, including a vehicle used in the implementation of a project funded by the occupied Palestinian territories Humanitarian Fund.

Also in Area C, in Kharas village, near Hebron, the Israeli authorities uprooted approximately 500 Palestinian-owned olive trees, stating that they were planted in areas designated as "state land." Another 26 Palestinian trees were damaged near Bruqin village in Salfit during the construction of a new water network to serve the Barkan settlement area.

On 24 January, an Israeli settler organization took over a storage room in the Old City of Jerusalem following an Israeli High Court ruling on 20 December 2016, affecting two families of eight people, including two children.

M.K.