West Bank, February 13, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - 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, by Israeli shelling, 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.

Source: KUNA