02 February 2023 {Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG):
https://www.nad.ps/en/
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 invasions, destruction
& armed robbery
Israeli settler pepper-sprays
face of 14-year-old boy
Settler vandalism
in Jerusalem church
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in UN refugee camp
and 6 towns and villages
11 raids including home invasions
1 wounded – 1 injured
2 acts of
pastoral/economic sabotage
12 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 04:00–05:50, al-Bireh – 09:00, Douma village – Jericho – 01:10, Hebron.
Peace disruption raids: 17:05, Rumana – 18:25, Jenin – 05:25, Massalia – 03:55-07:05, Aqaba – 02:05-06:30, Burqa – 23:10, Jericho – 02:10, al-Aroub UN refugee camp.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Home invasion and demolition: Ramallah – 04:00–05:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided al-Bireh and searched a home.
Home invasions and destruction – 1 wounded: Nablus – 09:00, Israeli forces, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at protesters, demolished two houses in the village of Douma and wounded a news reporter: Ayman Al-Nubani.
Home invasion and destruction – armed robbery and pastoral sabotage: Jericho – the Israeli Army seized a trailer, a power generator as well as solar panels, while demolishing a home and sheep farm in the Nabi Musa area.
Home invasion and destruction: Hebron – 01:10, Israeli troops raided Hebron and searched a home.
Israeli Occupation land-grab: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation seized around 50 hectares of land between Hizma and the village of Jaba.
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 economic sabotage: Jericho – Israeli forces destroyed 15 economically-essential shops for tourists, near Wadi al-Qilt, owned by refugees in the Aqbat Jabir UN refugee camp.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 21:30, Israeli troops fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people outside the entrance to the al-Aroub UN refugee camp.
Occupation settler violence – attempted arson attack on church: Jerusalem – in an attempted arson attack, an Israeli settler vandalised the interior and contents of the Church of the Imprisonment of Christ. A church security guard was able to prevent the burning down of the building and ejected the settler.
Occupation settler violence – child injured: Nablus – an Israeli settler motorist stopped his car on the main street of Huwara and, while seated in his car, pepper-sprayed the face of a passing 14-year-old boy: Faisal Suleiman Al-Mukhtar.
Raid – Israeli Army armed robbery – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 17:05, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, invaded the village of Rumana and took prisoner one person, while seizing his motor vehicle as well asraiding a café.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 18:25, Israeli forces raided Jenin and took prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 05:25, the Israeli Army raided the village of Massalia, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters – 3 taken prisoner: Tubas – 03:55-07:05, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided Aqaba and took prisoner three people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 02:05-06:30, the Israeli military raided the village of Burqa, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jericho – 23:10, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – UN refugee camp – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:10, Israeli forces raided the al-Aroub UN refugee camp, taking prisoner one person.
Restrictions of movement (0): 09:50, entrance to the village of al-Nabi Saleh – 16:45, Wadi al-Delb road junction – 18:20, entrances to the villages of al-Nabi Saleh and Deir Abu Masha’al – Jenin to Nablus main road – all entrances to Jericho – 17:40, Aqbat Hasna – 21:50, western entrance to Beit Fajjar – 08:35-10:00, entrance to al-Fawar UN refugee camp – 16:15, entrance to Bani Naim – 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:
Ramallah 1, Jericho 1, Hebron 2
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]