20 March 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.
Israeli Army
occupies family home
Israeli Occupation
news-media control
Israeli police and settlers’
mosque violation
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in UN refugee camp
and 6 towns and villages
16 raids including home invasions
20 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 04:20, al-Yamoun – evening, Zeita.
Peace disruption raids: dawn, Anata, dawn, Abu Dis – 09:30, Qarawat Bani Zaid – 04:15, al-Bireh – dawn, Silat al-Harithiya – dawn, Ta’anak – 11:20, Hajjah – 11:20, Qat village – 03:20-06:15, Qalqiliya – 00:10-06:55, al-Bithan – 01:40-02:55, Nablus – 11:05-13:15, Irtas – 05:05, Doha – 05:05, al-Duheisha UN refugee camp.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Home invasions – 3 residents taken prisoner: Jenin – 04:20, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided al-Yamoun and invaded a number of homes, taking prisoner three people.
Home invasions and occupation: Tulkarem – evening, Israeli forces occupied, for use as a military post, the second and third floors of a house (home to two families) in Zeita.
Israeli Occupation news-media control: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation closed the office of a company that provides news and production services to the official Palestinian news media and also summoned the staff, journalist Layali Eid, Lana Kamela, Firas Hindawi, Yazan Haddad and Walid Qamar, to report for interrogation.
Israeli police and settlers‘ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, settler militants, escorted by Israeli police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Occupation settler violence: Ramallah – 22:45, Israelis, from the Beit El Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles at the al-Mahkama checkpoint.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided Anata and Abu Dis, taking prisoner three people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 09:30, Israeli forces raided Qarawat Bani Zaid, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 04:15, the Israeli Army raided al-Bireh, taking prisoner one person.
Raids: Jenin – dawn, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Silat al-Harithiya as well as the village of Ta’anak.
Raids: Qalqiliya – 11:20, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the villages of Hajjah and Qat.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 03:20-06:15, Israeli soldiers raided the city.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 00:10-06:55, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of al-Bithan, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Nablus – 01:40-02:55, Israeli forces raided the city, taking prisoner three people.
Raid – rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – 11:05-13:15, Israeli troops, firing rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the village of Irtas.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 05:05, the Israeli Army raided Doha, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 05:05, the Israeli Army raided the al-Duheisha UN refugee camp, taking prisoner oneperson.
Restrictions of movement (19): 16:15, entrance to the village of Nabi Saleh; one person taken prisoner – 19:00, entrance to the village of Burqa – 19:35, entrance to the evacuated Homesh settlement – 10:55, Beit Furik checkpoint – 08:40, entrance to Aqraba – 08:55, al-Muraba’a road junction – 21:20, Surra village road junction – 18:30, Za’tara Junction checkpoint – 16:15, northern entrance to Jericho – 16:15-17:20, southern entrance to Jericho – 15:40, western entrance to Hebron – 17:20, entrance to Dura – 17:20, in Sa’ir – 20:30, near the al-Mahwal roundabout in the Old City of Hebron – 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:
Tulkarem 1, Nablus 1, Salfit 1, Hebron 1.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]