16 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 sincewe, 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.
Attacks, home invasions
and armed robbery
Israeli Army assault
on funeral-gathering
Home invasion and armed robbery
Armed Occupation settler
pastoral land-seizure
3 attacks – 4 wounded
9 raids including home invasions
1 abducted – 15 taken prisoner
2 acts of
agricultural/pastoral sabotage
Home invasions: 13:45, Beit Rima – 10:20-14:00, Nur Shams UN refugee camp – 14:00, Jerusalem, Ras al-Amud neighbourhood – 14:30, Jerusalem, Old City.
Peace disruption raids: dawn, Anata – dawn, Sanur – 12:15, Bethlehem – 12:55, Janata – dawn, Beit Ummar.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Israeli Army attack – 3 wounded in home invasion: Ramallah – 13:45, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed a home in Beit Rima, wounding two youngsters, Abdullah Aref Al-Hajj (aged 13) and Hussein Hassan Kanaan (aged 16). The third person wounded was Saif Munir Al-Deek.
Israeli Army attack: Tulkarem – 10:20-14:00, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided the city.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded – home invasion in UN refugee camp: Tulkarem – 10:20-14:00, the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided the Nur Shams UN refugee camp, wounding one person while conducting a home-invasion. One other person was taken prisoner.
Home invasion and armed robbery: Jerusalem – 14:00, Israeli Occupation forces seized a sum of money and other items of private property, including gold jewellery, while invading a home in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood.
Home invasion and armed robbery: Jerusalem – 14:30, Israeli forces, raiding a home in the Old City, extorted the equivalent of around US$27,800 from a resident’s bank account.
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 – 11:30, Israeli Occupation forces fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards people, on the eastern outskirts of al-Bireh.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Nablus – 11:15, fired near the entrance to Burqa village.
Israeli Army population-control – economic sabotage: Jericho – 12:00, for the fourth day in a row, Israeli forces, in al-Auja, forced all of shops in the High Street to remain closed.
Israeli Army – destruction – pastoral sabotage: Bethlehem – 09:35, the Israeli Army, in the village of al-Walaja, demolished a livestock shelter as well as a sheep farm.
Israeli Army assault on funeral-gathering: Hebron – 17:05, Israeli troops launched stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards a funeral-gathering, near the entrance to the Beit Ummar, causing several tear gas casualties.
Occupation settler pastoral land-seizure: Tubas – 12:30, Israeli Occupation settlers established a sheep farm in a new settlement outpost, on the eastern side of the Ein al-Hilweh area of the North Jordan Valley.
Armed Occupation settler pastoral land-seizure: Jericho – 11:10, three armed settlers invaded pastoral land in the al-Ma’arjat area, west of the city, and grazed their sheep there.
Occupation settler stoning: Jericho – 11:25, Occupation settlers raided the al-Ma’arjat Road and stoned passing vehicles.
Raid: Jenin – dawn, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Sanur.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner – population-control: Bethlehem – 12:15, the Israeli Army raided Bethlehem, taking prisoner one person and ordering another to report for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Raid – 1 abducted, 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 12:55, Israeli troops raided Janata and abducted a 17-year-old youth, Mahmoud Ahmed Abu Srour, as well as taking prisoner two other people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – dawn, the Israeli military raided Beit Ummar, taking prisoner two people.
Restrictions of movement (14): 14:10-16:00, entrance to the village of Ras Karkar closed – 17:00, Wadi al-Delb Road – 10:05, southern entrance to Silat al-Dahr – 14:55, tightened procedures at the Tayasir checkpoint – 12:15, entrance to Wadi Qana Road – 11:40, tightened measures at the Huwara checkpoint – 08:45-12:30, entrance to al-Fawar UN refugee camp – 09:00-12:30, entrance to al-Dhahiriya – 15:55-17:35, near Beit Einoun School – 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, Tulkarem 1, Nablus 4, Salfit 1, Hebron 1
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]