A/HRC/43/67 by OHCHR, a female head of household reported being exposed to gender-based violence while seeking alternative accommodation following the demolition of her home. In other cases, women reported an adverse impact on their private life, including having to be veiled at all times after moving into the homes of extended families. 45. OHCHR monitored the case of a family of six, including four children, who, following the demolition of their house in Beit Hanina, Al Ashqarieh neighbourhood, were forced to relocate to Shu’fat refugee camp, on the West Bank side of the wall, within the Municipality of Jerusalem. On 24 September 2019, citing the lack of a building permit, Israeli authorities demolished the house, reportedly without prior notice and at a time where the whole family was not present and could not therefore retrieve belongings prior to the demolition. After their home was destroyed, the family, given the financial constraints they faced and the high cost of renting a house in East Jerusalem, moved with the father’s parents to Shu’fat refugee camp, an area that is severely underserviced and plagued by a high criminality rate. Since being displaced, the father has not been able to maintain his work attendance due to the need to accompany his children through the checkpoint to and from their school in Shu’fat. 2. H2 area of Hebron 46. Since 1994,after an Israeli settler opened fire in the Ibrahimi Mosque (Tomb of the Patriarchs), killing 29 Palestinians and injuring 125 others, Israeli authorities have imposed a range of restrictions and discriminatory measures on Palestinians in Hebron, particularly the H2 area, where 35,000 Palestinians live. 44 As at December 2019, there were five settlement compounds and approximately 700 settlers in H2. Israeli authorities have cited the need to prevent security incidents to justify extensive restrictions, which only apply to Palestinians and not to settlers living in the area. Israeli security forces are heavily present (estimated at 6,000 soldiers) to enforce restrictions and provide for the security of settlers. 47. The settlements and related Israeli policies have had a serious negative impact on the human rights of Palestinians, including their personal security, freedom of movement, access to livelihood, education, health and justice services, as well as their right to family life. These conditions have created a distinctively coercive environment, which has caused many Palestinians to leave (see A/71/355). Surveys conducted in the so-called “restricted areas” of H2, adjacent to settlements, and partially or totally closed to Palestinian vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, found that more than 1,000 housing units – between one third and 41 per cent of Palestinian homes45 – in these areas had been vacated since 2000. 48. Palestinians who remain in H2 face very difficult and insecure living conditions. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 30 Palestinians (including two girls and six boys) were killed by Israeli security forces between October 2015 and October 2019 in H2,46 including one man during the period under review (A/74/357, para. 64). Most Palestinians were killed by Israeli security forces in the context of attacks or alleged attacks. OHCHR documented many of these cases and identified situations of unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, in some cases possibly amounting to extrajudicial executions (A/71/355, paras. 36–43; A/71/364, paras. 8–9; A/72/565, para. 9). The sense of insecurity caused by the presence of Israeli security forces and security operations, including frequent house raids, harassment and arbitrary arrests, constituted a core element of the coercive environment in H2 (A/HRC/34/39, para. 52; A/71/355 paras. 25–50), which particularly affected children’s safety and education (A/74/357, paras. 64-68). Between 1 44 45 46 10 In 1997, under the Protocol concerning redeployment in Hebron, the city was divided into H2 (20 per cent of the city), placed under full Israeli control, and largely coinciding with the Old City, while the remaining H1 was placed under Palestinian control. See A/71/355, para. 26. See B’Tselem, Ghost Town: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron, May 2007, p.14. A survey conducted in 2015 by the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee found that out of 3,369 housing units surveyed in the area, almost a third (1,079 housing units) were empty; see Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, The Humanitarian Situation in the H2 Area of Hebron City: Findings of Needs Assessment, April 2019, p. 16. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a male Israeli settler was also killed in the same period.