In Occupied Palestine - 18 July 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)
18 July 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.
Israeli Navy opens fire on
Palestinian fishing boats
Israeli Army child abduction
and pastoral sabotage
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in 3 villages
1 attack –
1 Israeli ceasefire violation
13 raids
including home invasions
1 beaten and 1 injured
1 abducted – 15 taken prisoner
6 acts of
agricultural/economic sabotage
Home invasions: 01:30, Rumana - 12:40, Deir Istiya - 23:30, Yatta.
Peace disruption raids: dawn, Biddu - dawn, Ni'lin - 18:40-20:10, Anabta - dawn, Tulkarem - 18:40, Anabta - 15:35, Jayus - 10:10, Askar UN refugee camp - 00:15, Burin - 06:00, al-Khadr - 06:00, al-Duheisha UN refugee camp.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – economic sabotage: Rafah – evening, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah.
Home invasion: Jenin – 01:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Rumana, invading and searching a home.
Home invasion: Salfit – 12:40, Israeli forces raided Deir Istiya and invaded and searched a house.
Home invasions: Hebron – 23:30, the Israeli Army raided Yatta, invading and searching a number of homes.
Israeli police and settlers' mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, settler militants, escorted by Israeli police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Ramallah – 20:30, Israeli forces, fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people, near the entrance to Turmusaya.
Israeli Army armed robbery and agricultural sabotage: Jenin – Israeli Occupation forces, in al-Jalama village, seized an agricultural tractor.
Israeli Army child abduction and pastoral sabotage: Tubas – 10:55, Israeli forces abducted a 15-year-old shepherd, Hussein Yusef Bisharat, while he was grazing his flock in the Khallet Makhoul area of the North Jordan Valley.
Israeli Army armed robbery and agricultural sabotage: Tulkarem – the Israeli Army seized a bulldozer being used to reclaim agricultural land, on the eastern side of Kafr al-Labad.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – 11:05, Israeli troops fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards people in Beit Fajjar.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 12:50, the Israeli military fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people in the Bab al-Zawiya district.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Hebron – Israeli soldiers blocked areas in the village of Birin, and bulldozed land planted with olive and almond trees.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 16:00, Israelis, from the Beit El Occupation settlement, stoned vehicles passing through the al-Mahkama checkpoint.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 00:30, Israelis, from the Shilo Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles on the nearby Ramallah to Nablus main road.
Occupation settler beating and injury: Jenin – 00:15, armed Israelis, from the Homish Occupation settlement, beat up and severely injured a Qabatiya resident: Maher Sati Abu Al-Rub.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 19:45, Israeli settlers stoned vehicles passing through the Huwara checkpoint.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Hebron – armed Israeli settlers grazed sheep in the Fath Sidra area's olive groves, east of Yatta, and destroyed around 80 olive trees.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided Biddu, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli forces raided Ni'lin, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Tulkarem – 18:40-20:10, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Anabta.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – dawn, Israeli troops raided Tulkarem, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Tulkarem – 18:40, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled Anabta.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 15:35, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Jayus.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner in refugee camp: Nablus – 10:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided the Askar UN refugee camp, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Nablus – 00:15, the Israeli Army, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the village of Burin.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – 06:00, Israeli troops, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters raided al-Khadr.
Raid – 4 taken prisoner – rubber-coated bullets in refugee camp: Bethlehem – 06:00, the Israeli military, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters raided the al-Duheisha UN refugee camp, taking prisoner four people.
Restrictions of movement (13): 21:15, eastern entrance to the village of al-Issawiya - 08:30, entrance to Bir Zeit - 19:00, entrance to the village of Deir Ammar - 01:25, Ein al-Hilweh road junction - 17:10, tightened procedures at the Beit Furik checkpoint - 16:30, entrance to Deir Ballut - 17:15, entrance to Kafr al-Dik - 22:00-01:10, entrance to al-Samou' - 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 2, Ramallah 1, Jericho 2, Bethlehem 1.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
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