In Occupied Palestine - 24 August 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)
24 August 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.
Home invasion and
forced personal demolition
Israeli police and settlers'
mosque violation
Armed, racist, Occupation settler
population-control
Israeli Army destruction and
population-control
Night peace disruption in 3 villages
9 raids including home invasions
1 beaten up – 1 injured
5 taken prisoner
Pastoral sabotage
Home invasions: Sur Baher village - dawn, Hebron.
Peace disruption raids: 08:10-10:00, Burqa village - 00:45-03:40, Ni'lin - 03:45, Silwad - 14:10, Anin - 14:35, Ya'bad - 02:10, Dura - dawn, Beit Ula.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Ayman Dabash, to destroy his home in the village of Sur Baher – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.
Home invasions – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – dawn, raiding Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, invaded and searched of 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 destruction and population-control: Jerusalem – Israeli Occupation forces destroyed a car-wash facility in the village of al-Issawiya.
Occupation settler violence – pastoral sabotage: Tubas – Israeli Occupation settlers, in the Khallet Makhoul area, assaulted a shepherd grazing his flock in the North Jordan Valley and forced him out of the area.
Occupation settler beating and hospitalisation: Nablus – 23:15, Israeli settlers beat up and hospitalised a resident, Yaqoub Daoud Shehadeh, in Qusra. He was admitted to the government hospital in Nablus.
Armed, racist, Occupation settler population-control: Hebron – evening, armed Israeli settlers, chanting racist hate slogans, marched through a number of areas, closing the Beit Einoun village road junction as well as the entrances to the al-Fahs area south of Hebron, Dura and the al-Fawar refugee camp.
Restrictions of movement (13): 09:05, near entrance to Ras Karkar village - 16:30, near the entrance to Beit Ur al-Tahta - 12:25-14:30, tightened procedures at the Einav checkpoint - 14:10, eastern entrance to Qalqiliya; 1 taken prisoner - 11:35-12:50, southern entrance to Bethlehem - 09:00-11:10, entrance to Beit Ummar - 20:15-22:10, entrance to the al-Arroub refugee camp - 20:20-22:25, roadblock at Halhul bridge - 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 1, Qalqiliya 1, Nablus 1, Hebron 1.
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United Nations Consultative status with
ECOSOC, UNESCO and UNCTAD
Special relations with the ILO, FAO, UNICEF, and other organisations and agencies
WILPF Aotearoa Section, PO Box 2054, Wellington 6140
Email to New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs:
22 August 2023
Hon Nanaia Mahuta
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Parliament Buildings
WELLINGTON
Tēnā koe Minister Mahuta,
On behalf of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Aotearoa Section which has been working for peace and social justice since it was established here in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1916, I am writing to urge the government to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state.
Although this, and previous, governments have consistently reaffirmed the 1947 commitment at the United Nations, when New Zealand agreed that ‘independent Arab and Jewish states’ should be created from the partition of Palestine (with Jerusalem to be given a special international status) and reaffirmed the position that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are a violation of international law and imperil the two-state solution, New Zealand is still one of 55 out of 193 UN member states that does not recognise Palestine’s statehood.
It is the view of WILPF Aotearoa that New Zealand should recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. By doing so, it will give meaning to Palestine's status as a non-member observer state at the UN. It will also give effect to Aotearoa New Zealand's vote in favour of the historic UNGA resolution recognising the State of Palestine in December 2012. And it will be a step towards, as the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts it, the ‘recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family [which] is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world’.
Yours sincerely
Megan Hutching
National Co-ordinator
WILPF Aotearoa
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/women-together/womens-international-league-peace-and-freedom
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
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