In Occupied Palestine - 16 April 2023
While the Occupation is business as usual for Israel,
there should be no business with Israel
In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
(Compiled by Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign, Auckland, New Zealand)
16 April 2023 {Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG):
https://www.nad.ps/en/violations-reports/daily-report NB:The period covered by this newsletter is taken from the PMG's 24-hour sitrep ending 8am the day after the above date.}
We shall always do our best to verify the accuracy of all items in these IOP newsletters/reports wherever possible [e.g. we often suspect that names of people and places that we see in the PMG sitreps could be typos; also the translation into English seems rather odd ~ but since we, sadly, do not speak Arabic, we have no alternative but to copy and paste these names from the PMG sitreps!] – please forgive us for any errors or omissions – Leslie and Marian.
Palestinian fishing boats hijacked –
crew taken prisoner
Settler motorist injures and
hospitalises 8-year-old child
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in 2 UN refugee camps
and 7 towns and villages
1 attack – 1 Israeli ceasefire violation
21 raids including home invasions
3 injured – 1 abducted
3 acts of
agricultural/economic sabotage
26 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 04:45, Beit Rima - 02:30, Surif - 03:40-04:40, Dura - 11:30, Yatta.
Peace disruption raids: 04:45, Deir Ghassaneh - 04:45, Nabi Saleh - dawn, al-Bireh - 08:05, al-Jalama - 17:45, Izbit Shufa - 04:00, Tulkarem - 15:30, Azzun - 08:00, Tel Surra - 16:10, Tel Surra - 10:00, Sebastia - 00:25-04:40, Asira al-Shimaliya - 09:40, al-Ubeidya - 16:05, Bethlehem - 01:35, al-Khadr - 02:50-04:30, al-Aroub UN refugee camp - 21:45, Kifl Haris - 05:30, al-Fawar UN refugee camp.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – economic sabotage: Rafah – 21:20, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah, hijacking two vessels and taking prisoner four of the crew.
Home invasion and abduction: Ramallah – 04:45, raiding Israeli Occupation forces, in Beit Rima, abducted a 17-year-old youth.
Home invasions: Hebron – 02:30, Israeli forces raided Surif and invaded two homes.
Home invasions – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 03:40-04:40, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided Dura and invaded two homes.
Israeli Army violence and agricultural sabotage: Bethlehem – 17:10, Israeli Occupation forces fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at shepherds grazing the flocks, near the village of Kisan.
Israeli Army violence: Hebron – 20:20, Israeli soldiers, in the Old City, assaulted a man: Mohammed Aref Jaber.
Occupation settler motorist injures and hospitalises 8-year-old child: Jerusalem – 23:10, an Israeli Occupation settler, driving a motor vehicle in East Jerusalem, ran over and hospitalised an eight-year-old child: Mohammed Yunis Ibrahim al-Jahalin.
Occupation settler plunder and molestation: Nablus – 14:10, Israeli settlers stole a number of sheep and molested three people: Alaa Thabet, Ribhi Alawneh and Shadi Sawalha.
Occupation settler land-grab – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 10:50, Israeli Occupation settlers seized and laid waste to farmland in the Wadi Khursa area, near Beit Awa.
Occupation settler theft and home-invasion: Hebron – 11:30, Israeli settlers stole a tent-dwelling from one person, Ali Hamamda, in the Ma'in area, east of Yatta.
Raid: Ramallah – 04:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Deir Ghassaneh as well as the village of Nabi Saleh.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli forces raided and patrolled al-Bireh, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Jenin – 08:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled al-Jalama.
Raid: Tulkarem – 17:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Izbit Shufa.
Raid: 1 taken prisoner Tulkarem – 04:00, the Israeli military raided the Irtah suburb, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 15:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Azzun.
Raid: Nablus – 08:00 and 16:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Tel Surra.
Raid: Nablus – 10:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Sebastia.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 00:25-04:40, the Israeli Army raided Asira al-Shimaliya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Bethlehem – 09:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled al-Ubeidya.
Raid: Bethlehem – 16:05, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Bethlehem.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 01:35, Israeli soldiers raided al-Khadr, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – UN refugee camp: Hebron – 02:50-04:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the al-Aroub UN refugee camp.
Raid – injuries – destruction – water crime: Salfit – 21:45, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, accompanied Occupation settlers in a raid on Kifl Haris. One person, Maha Abu Yaqoub, was injured by a flying tear gas canister and another, Fahmy Abu Hammad, was assaulted by soldiers. The settlers smashed the windows of several homes and destroyed a main water-supply line. One other person was taken prisoner.
Raid – UN refuge camp – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 05:30, the Israeli Army raided the al-Fawar UN refugee camp, taking prisoner three people.
Restrictions of movement (18): 00:45, eastern entrance to al-Eizariya - 16:45, entrance to the village of al-Nabi Saleh - 19:40-21:30, near Atara Bridge - 23:55, entrance to Rantis village - 18:05, Hawara - 20:00, Surra village road junction; one taken prisoner - 23:00, al-Muraba'a area road junction - evening, near the village of Deir Sharaf - midnight-01:00, western entrance to Deir Istiya - 12:30, tightened procedures at the al-Hamra checkpoint - 22:00, southern entrance to Jericho - 21:45-01:30, entrance to al-Samou' - 22:40, northern entrance to the al-Dhahiriya - Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing closed - al-Mantar-Karni crossing closed - al-Shujaiyeh crossing (Nahal Oz) closed - Sufa crossing closed - al-Awda Port closed.
Numbers relating to other people reportedly taken prisoner:
Jerusalem 10, Jenin 1, Nablus 1.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
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