A/HRC/8/17 page 16 on-site investigations, that the Israeli tank crew fired recklessly or deliberately at the journalist’s team. Human rights organizations also gathered evidence showing that the tank fired a flechette shell, which unleashes hundreds of dart-like projectiles before the shell hits the ground. Human rights groups in Israel and Palestine have long urged the Israeli military to stop using flechette shells in Gaza because they spread over a wide area and are thus more likely to indiscriminately hit civilians.50 On 20 April, the Israeli Army announced that it will be conducting an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the Reuters cameraman. 43. In the West Bank, some 100 Palestinians were reportedly injured due to Israeli security forces firing in connection to widespread demonstrations and protests against Israeli military operations in Gaza. Three Palestinians were killed, including two children, and 13 other civilians injured during protests and incursions in the West Bank. On 16 April, the naked and mutilated body of a 15-year-old male was found in lands under the control of settlers inhabiting Al-Hamra settlement, near Nablus in the northern West Bank. An investigation by the Israeli Police has already been initiated.51 44. One Palestinian was killed and six injured in separate shooting incidents with Israeli settlers. On 31 March 2008, an Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian university student while he was waiting for a taxi on route 60. The victim was attacked by two Israeli settlers waiting at a bus station near the entrance of “Shilu” settlement north of Ramallah City.52 On 9 April, two Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian vehicle near Nablus City, and two women were injured as a result.53 Attacks by Israeli settlers reportedly also took place in March near Qalqilia: settlers allegedly threw stones at Palestinian vehicles carrying civilians.54 On 14 April, at least 40 Israeli settlers from the Gilad settlement, south-west of Nablus, uprooted some 30 almond trees belonging to Palestinians in the village of Til.55 A number of Israeli human rights NGOs as well 50 Human Rights Watch Press Release, 20 April 2008. 51 It was reported that, based on the interviews with many people in the area, that the 15 year old had tried to return home via the Al-Hamra checkpoint, but was refused passage through as being only 15 years old, he had no identification (IDs are only issued to Palestinians aged 16 years and over). It appears that he was then forced to walk around the long way home and there probably “abducted” on 15 April. Reference: http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/04/19/body-palestinianboy-found-mutilated-israeli-settlement/. 52 PCHR Weekly Report No. 14/2008. http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/ English/2008/03-04-2008.htm. Israeli sources claimed that the victim attempted to attack the two settlers using a knife. 53 PCHR Weekly Report No. 15/2008. http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/ English/2008/10-04-2008.htm. 54 55 For instance, on 14 April on the Nablus- Qalqilia Road, bypassing the Qedumim settlement. PCHR Weekly Report No.: 16/2008. http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/ English/2008/17-04-2008.htm.