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April 16th, 2016 
Awake Goy Days of Palestine, New York -Israeli occupation authorities’ use of “excessive force” against Palestinians “mounts to violation of human rights,” US Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2015 said.
The report, which was published on Thursday, highlighted numerous Israeli violation and rights abuses against Palestinians, including the arbitrary arrest and torture, as well as restrictions on freedom of movement and speech.
But most significant was the report’s focus on Israeli “excessive use of force,” which follows months of similar accusations by local and international NGOs, as well as senior UN officials and foreign leaders, including, earlier this year, a group of prominent US congressmen.
The US report said that through the final months of 2015, after the intifada started in the occupied Palestinian territory in October, Israeli occupation forces killed 127 Palestinians, of whom 77 were allegedly attacking Israelis.
“In a number of these incidents, there were reports of human rights abuses related to actions by Israeli authorities,” the report said.
The report added: “NGOs published multiple reports alleging that Israeli security forces committed unlawful killings.”
Eyewitnesses
It pointed in particular to a report by Amnesty International (AI) late in October that documented at least four incidents of Palestinians, who were shot dead when they posed no imminent threat to life.
These included the 18-year-old Hadeel al-Hashlamon, who was shot dead at am illegal Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil in September.
“Pictures of the standoff that led to her death and accounts by eyewitnesses that AI interviewed showed that she at no time posed a sufficient threat to the soldiers to justify their use of deliberate lethal force,” the report said.
It also mentioned the case of Abdullah Shalaldah, 28, who was shot dead when the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Ahli Hospital in Al-Khalil in order to kidnap his sick cousin.
“While the IDF released a statement that Abdullah Shalaldah tried to attack them, witnesses reported to AI that he was unarmed, was standing some distance away, and had not attempted to attack them,” the report said.
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