In Occupied Palestine - 4 March 2022

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)

04 March 2022 {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 frequently 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.

35 wounded – including 3 children

 Israeli Army opens fire in Qalqiliya and Nablus

 Home invasion and forced personal demolition

Night peace disruption in town and village

 2 attacks

16 raids including home invasions

35 wounded

Economic sabotage

2 taken prisoner – 2 children detained

Home invasions: Beit Hanina - 10:45-17:50, Beit Fajjar.

Peace disruption raids: 16:40-19:40, Beit Duqqu - 17:00, Biddu - 17:00, Beit Surik - 15:40, Faqua - 12:30-15:30, Tulkarem - 12:30-15:30, Izbit Shufa- 12:30-15:30, Farun - midnight, Tulkarem - midnight-02:00, Hablat - 00:40, Kafr Qaddoum - 13:20-15:10, Qaryut - 16:20, Marda - 09:55, Marah Rabah - 13:10-17:30, Bethlehem.

Palestinian missile attacks: none.

Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Qalqiliya – 12:40, Israeli Occupation forces fired live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at protesters, near the closed eastern entrance to Kafr Qaddoum, wounding two people and causing several tear gas casualties.

Israeli Army attack – 6 wounded: Nablus – 12:45, the Israeli Army fired live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at protesters in the Jabal Sabih area of Beita, wounding six people and causing several tear gas casualties.

Economic sabotage: Gaza — the Israeli Navy continues to enforce an arbitrary fishing limit.

Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Raef Raafat Shweiki, to destroy his home in Beit Hanina – 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: Bethlehem – 10:45-17:50, Israeli forces raided Beit Fajjar, as well as the village of Umm Salamuna, invading a number of houses.

Israeli Army – 1 wounded – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Ramallah – 13:25, eastern outskirts of al-Bireh: rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters. One person wounded.

Israeli Army – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Ramallah – 17:10, entrance to the village of al-Nabi Saleh: stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

Israeli Army – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Ramallah – 18:00, entrance to Silwad: stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

Israeli Army – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gascanisters: Qalqiliya – 13:00, Eyal checkpoint: rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters. Tear gas casualties.

Israeli Army – 20 wounded – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Nablus – 12:45, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at protesters in the village of Beit Dajan, wounded 20 people, including two paramedics. There were several tear gas casualties.

Israeli Army – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gascanisters: Bethlehem – 16:45, western entrance to Tekoa: rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

Israeli Army – youngster terrorised: Hebron – 11:30, Israeli occupation forces detained a child, Othman Abdel Hafeez Qafisha (aged 16), in Hebron's Old City.

Israeli Army – child terrorised: Hebron – 19:40-23:20, Israeli troops, near the entrance to the al-Fawar refugee camp, seized a 13-year-old boy, Qasim Abdul Rahman Majed Al-Hamuz, and terrorised him for a time before releasing him.

Israeli Army – 5 wounded, including 3 children – rubber-coated bullets,stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 13:10, the Bab al-Zawiya district: rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters wounded five people, including three children. There were several tear gas casualties. The wounded children are: Mohammed Iyad Al-Jabari (aged 13), Kamal Mohammed Al-Junaidi (aged 15) and Moataz Issa Hassouna (aged15).

Israeli Army – 1 wounded – stun grenades and tear gas canisters:Hebron – 20:00, entrance to al-Aroub refugee camp: stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

Occupation settler violence: Nablus – 13:20, Israeli settlers invaded the Nabe' al-Mayah area in Qaryut village.

Israeli Army violence in support of settlers: Salfit – 19:15, Israeli Occupation forces fired stun grenades and tear gas grenades at people, in support of settlers invading the Dar Al-Darb district in Qarawat Bani Hassan.

Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 16:40-19:40, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the village of Beit Duqqu.

Raids: Jerusalem – 17:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Biddu and Beit Surik.

Raid: Jenin – 15:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Faqua village.

Raids: Tulkarem – 12:30-15:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolledTulkarem as well as the villages of Izbit Shufa and Farun.

Raid: Tulkarem – midnight, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Tulkarem.

Raid: Qalqiliya – midnight-02:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Hablat village.

Raid: Qalqiliya – 00:40, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Kafr Qaddoum.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 13:20-15:10, the Israeli Army raided Qaryut village, taking prisoner one person.

Raid: Salfit – 16:20, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Marda.

Raid: Bethlehem – 09:55, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Marah Rabah.

Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – 13:10-17:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided the area around the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque.

Restrictions of movement (17): 16:45, eastern entrance to al-Mughayer; 1 taken prisoner - 17:40, Ein Samiya area, east of Kafr Malik village - 21:30-23:20, Einav checkpoint - 12:50, northern entrance to Azun - 13:50, between Azun and the village of Izbit al-Tabib - 14:40, tightened procedures at the Shavei Shamron checkpoint - 13:30, Israeli Occupation forces closed the entrance to Bizzariya village - 16:45, entrance to Deir Ballut - 16:00, tightened procedures at the Hamra checkpoint - 16:00, northern entrance to Tekoa - 11:40, entrance to the Farsh al-Hawa area - 13:10, southern entrance to Hebron - Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing closed - al-Mantar-Karni crossing closed - al-Shujaiyeh crossing (Nahal Oz) closed - Sufa crossing closed - al-Awda Port closed.

[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]

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