26 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.
Israeli Army‘s destructive
Gaza incursion
Israeli Navy opens fire on
Palestinian fishing boats
Protesters in Gaza under fire
– 4 wounded
Settler assaults, 31 homes ablaze
–110 wounded
7 attacks – 5 Israeli ceasefire violations
13 raids including home invasions
5 beaten – 1 abducted
1 dead – 117 wounded/injured
3 acts of
agricultural/economic sabotage
Home invasions: 18:00, Bethlehem.
Peace disruption raids: 15:55, Qibya – evening, Ni’lin – 12:25, Araba – 18:20, Laban village – 18:20, Hawara – 18:20, Burin – 18:20, Asira al-Qibliya – 18:20, Za’tara- 18:20, Yatma – dawn, al-Taybeh – dawn, Rumana – 14:40, Jama’in.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army incursion – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – Israeli forces, accompanied by reconnaissance aircraft, invaded an area east of Beit Hanoun, and laid waste to the land.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – economic sabotage: Northern Gaza – morning, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off al-Sudaniya.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Northern Gaza – evening, an Israeli Army position, behind the Green Line, opened fire towards protesters east of Jabalia, wounding one person.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – 3 wounded: Gaza – evening, Israeli forces, positioned behind the Green Line, opened fire onprotesters east of Gaza City, wounding three people.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack: Khan Yunis – evening, an Israeli Army position, behind the Green Line, opened fire towards protesters east of Khan Yunis.
Occupation settler armed attack and beating: Nablus – 14:35, Gangs of armed settlers stormed Hawara, opening fire on and damaging avehicle and beating up one person: Moataz Anis Faris Al-Deek.
Israeli settler attack – villager shot dead: Nablus – 18:20, armed Occupation settlers attacked Za’tara village, shooting dead a resident: Sameh Hamdallah Mahmoud Aqtash.
Home invasions – 1 wounded, 1 abducted: Bethlehem – 18:00, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided Tuqu’ and invaded a number of homes, wounding one person and abducting a 16-year-old youth: Mustafa Amer Ali Sabah.
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 rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 22:00, fired at the Shuafat checkpoint.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 22:30, fired in Abu Dis.
Israeli Army armed robbery – agricultural sabotage: Tubas – Israeli Occupation forces seized one vehicle and two farm tractors from a farming family in Khirbet Humsa al-Tahta, North Jordan Valley.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Qalqiliya – 21:20, fired in Azzun.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Qalqiliya – 21:30, fired in Jinsafut village.
Israeli Army assault – 1 wounded: Nablus – 18:15, at entrance to Beita Jinsafut village: rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters fired. One person, Sanad Abdul Jalil Daoud, was wounded.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Nablus – evening, fired at the Beit Furik checkpoint.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – midnight, fired at the northern entrance to Bethlehem.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 23:40, fired at Halhul Bridge.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – midnight, fired at the Khursa village road junction.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 16:10, Israeli settlers stoned passing vehicles as well as pedestrians, near the eastern entrance to al-Taybeh.
Occupation settler beatings: Ramallah – 18:10, Israeli settlers beat up three people.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 19:50, Israeli settlers, in the village of Jibiya, stoned passing vehicles near the village of Umm Safa’.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 21:25, passing vehicles were stoned, by Israelis inside the Beit El Occupation settlement.
Occupation settler beating – arson and other vandalism: Ramallah – 22:10, Israeli settlers, near the eastern entrance to al-Taybeh, beat up one person, Ibrahim Issa Moqbel, set fire to a vehicle and damaged two trucks.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 22:15, Israeli settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the entrance to Beitin village.
Occupation settler assault on home: Ramallah – 22:25, Israeli settlers stoned a house, near Sinjil.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 22:40, Israeli settlers stoned passing vehicles on the Wadi al-Delb road.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – evening, Israeli settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the village of al-Mugheir.
Occupation settler stoning: Jenin – evening, Israeli settlers stoned, as well as throwing bottles at, passing vehicles near the Dotan checkpoint.
Occupation settler violence – death – arson: Nablus – 18:20, armed Israeli Occupation settlers attacked people and property in Laban village, Hawara, the villages of Burin, Asira al-Qibliya, Za’tara and Yatma as well as in the area of Khan al-Walaka. One person was killed and 31 homes were set on fire as well as 21 vehicles, two car-wash facilities, greenhouses and four livestock shelters. The settlers also destroyed a Civil Defence truck and three ambulances. More than 110 other people were wounded and injured.
Occupation settler stoning – arson: Salfit – 21:00, stone-throwing Israelis, from the Eli Zahav Occupation settlement, attacked vehicles at the nearby roundabout as well as at entrances to Deir Istiya and the village of Yasuf. One vehicle was set ablaze.
Occupation settler physical assaults – pepper-spraying: Jericho – 16:40, Israeli settlers, in Kafr Malik, pepper-sprayed, burned and suffocated four people: Khalil Shoman, Bashir Shoman, Khattab Hamayel and Mohammed Musa Hamayel.
Occupation settler stoning: Hebron – 16:25, Israeli settlers, at the Beit Einoun village roundabout, stoned passing vehicles.
Occupation settler stoning: Hebron – 19:50, Israeli settlers stoned homes in the Old City Jaber neighbourhood.
Occupation settler stoning: Hebron – evening, Israelis, from the Adora and Telem Occupation settlements, stoned passing vehicles on the road to the Tarqumiya crossing. One vehicle was overturned and another also damaged.
Raid: 15:55, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Qibya.
Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters fired: Ramallah – evening, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled Ni’lin.
Raid: Jenin – 12:25, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Araba.
Raids: Jenin – dawn, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the villages of al-Taybeh and Rumana.
Raid: Nablus – 14:40, the Israeli military raided Jama’in.
Restrictions of movement (31): 08:30, Halamish Occupation roundabout – 08:35, entrance to the village of Nabi Saleh – 12:20, Atara Bridge – 22:15, Ein Siniya village roundabout – 15:00-16:30, tightened procedures at the Einav checkpoint – 15:20 and again at 19:30, tightened measures at the Shufa checkpoint – 15:35, eastern entrance to the village of Shufa – 18:00, road connecting Jayus and Azzun – dawn, Beit Furik, Huwara and Awarta checkpoints closed – 10:00, main road, Nablus to Tulkarem – 10:05, Yitzhar Occupation settlement bypass road – 14:00, road leading to the Deir Sharaf village roundabout closed – 14:05, Yitzhar Occupation settlement road closed – 14:30, between Nablus and Asira al-Shamaliya – 14:35, between Jama’in and the village of Orif – 15:55, entrance to Beita closed – evening, al-Muraba’a road junction closed – evening, entrance to al-Labban village closed – 14:05, tightened procedures at the Za’tara road junction – 16:50, entrance to Deir Ballut – 20:40, western entrance to Kafr al-Dik closed – 14:30, entrance to Ithna – 15:10-17:30, Hawara Bridge – 16:25-17:50, entrance to Bani Naim – 21:10, entrance to Dura – 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]
