In Occupied Palestine - 5 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)
05 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.
Joint settler and Israeli Army
violence – agricultural sabotage
Israeli Army position opens fire
on shepherds in Gaza
12-year-old child abducted
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in refugee camp
and 10 towns and villages
3 attacks – 2 wounded
1 Israeli Gaza ceasefire violation
16 raids including home invasions
6 acts of
agricultural/pastoral sabotage
8 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 02:30-05:30, Rumana - 11:30-15:20, Yatta - dawn, Beit Awa.
Peace disruption raids: 19:40-21:50, al-Ram - 14:40-17:45, Shufa village - 18:30-22:40, Tulkarem - 20:45-22:40, Azzun - 02:50-05:50, Hablat - 13:05, Deir al-Hatab - 19:00-22:35, Tal village - 22:30, Beita - 22:30, Azmut - 00:45, Salem - 00:45, Deir al-Hatab - 01:45, Ein Beit al-Ma UN refugee camp - 19:40, Ithna. 13
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – pastoral sabotage: Rafah – morning, an Israeli Army position behind the Green Line opened fire towards shepherds, near the Sufa crossing.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 20:45, Israeli Occupation forces opened fire on a vehicle, near the entrance to Turmusaya, wounding a resident: Basil Issa Shalabi.
Israeli Army attack – agricultural sabotage: 02:30-05:30, one person was wounded and two others were taken prisoner as Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, stormed the village of Rumana, invading and surveying a home, preparing to demolish it.
Home invasions: Hebron – 11:30-15:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided Yatta and searched two homes.
Home invasions: Hebron – dawn, Israeli forces raided Beit Awa and searched a number of homes.
Israeli Army – abduction of child: Jerusalem – 19:00, Israeli Occupation forces, in the Old City, abducted a 12-year-old child: Anas Tariq Wazouz.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 21:30, Israeli forces fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards people in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighbourhood.
Israeli Army assault, supporting raiding settlers – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 21:00, the Israeli Army fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people in the village of al-Tuwani, to support raiding, armed Occupation settlers who were laying waste to crops on village farmland.
Occupation settler stoning: Jerusalem – 21:00, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the entrance to al-Eizariya.
Occupation settler land-grab: Ramallah – 18:45, Israeli settlers set up camp in the village of Beitillu, in order to establish a new settlement outpost.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – evening, Israelis, from the Beit El Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles near the al-Mahkama checkpoint.
Occupation settler stoning: Tubas – 18:00, Israeli settlers stoned a home in the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler vandalism and pastoral sabotage: Tubas – evening, Occupation settlers partly destroyed a livestock-rearing shelter in the Khallet Makhoul area of the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler population-control and pastoral sabotage: Tubas – Israeli settlers forced shepherds to abandon their grazing livestock and keep away from pastoral land in the North Jordan Valley al-Hamah area.
Occupation settler and Israeli Army joint violence and agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 21:00, armed Israelis, from the Hafat Ma'on Occupation settlement outpost near the village of al-Tuwani, attacked al-Tuwani village farmers and destroyed their crops, with Israeli Army support. The Israeli military fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters.
Raid: Jerusalem – 19:40-21:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Ram.
Raid: Tulkarem – 14:40-17:45, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Shufa village.
Raid: Tulkarem – 18:30-22:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters fired: Qalqiliya – 20:45-22:40, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled Azzun.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 02:50-05:50, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Hablat.
Raid: Nablus – 13:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Deir al-Hatab.
Raid: Nablus – 19:00-22:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Tal village.
Raid: Nablus – 22:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Beita as well as the village of Azmut.
Raids: Nablus – 00:45, the Israeli Army raided as well as patrolling the villages of Salem and Deir al-Hatab.
Raid – refugee camp: Nablus – 01:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the Ein Beit al-Ma refugee camp.
Raid: Hebron – 19:40, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Ithna.
Restrictions of movement (21): 23:50, entrance to al-Eizariya - 14:00-16:40, near Atara Bridge - 19:55, Ein Ayoub area near village of Ras Karkar - morning, Araba roundabout between Qabatiya and village of Massalia - 18:30-02:05, tightened procedures at the Einav checkpoint - 17:30, northern entrance to Azzun - 10:55, Surra village road junction - 16:00, al-Muraba'a road junction - 16:20, tightened procedures at the Deir Sharaf checkpoint - 01:30, entrance to village of Madama - 19:40, northern entrance to Tuqu' - 20:20, southern entrance to Bethlehem - 14:15-16:00, entrance to village of Susiya - 17:40, entrance to Beit Awa - 21:00-22:00, entrance to the al-Aroub refugee camp; one person taken prisoner - 23:10, Tarama village road junction - 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 3, Tulkarem 1, Hebron 2.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
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