16 April 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.
Palestinian fishing boats hijacked –
crew taken prisoner
Settler motorist injures and
hospitalises 8-year-old child
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in 2 UN refugee camps
and 7 towns and villages
1 attack – 1 Israeli ceasefire violation
21 raids including home invasions
3 injured – 1 abducted
3 acts of
agricultural/economic sabotage
26 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 04:45, Beit Rima – 02:30, Surif – 03:40-04:40, Dura – 11:30, Yatta.
Peace disruption raids: 04:45, Deir Ghassaneh – 04:45, Nabi Saleh – dawn, al-Bireh – 08:05, al-Jalama – 17:45, Izbit Shufa – 04:00, Tulkarem – 15:30, Azzun – 08:00, Tel Surra – 16:10, Tel Surra – 10:00, Sebastia – 00:25-04:40, Asira al-Shimaliya – 09:40, al-Ubeidya – 16:05, Bethlehem – 01:35, al-Khadr – 02:50-04:30, al-Aroub UN refugee camp – 21:45, Kifl Haris – 05:30, al-Fawar UN refugee camp.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – economic sabotage: Rafah – 21:20, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah, hijacking two vessels and taking prisoner four of the crew.
Home invasion and abduction: Ramallah – 04:45, raiding Israeli Occupation forces, in Beit Rima, abducted a 17-year-old youth.
Home invasions: Hebron – 02:30, Israeli forces raided Surif and invaded two homes.
Home invasions – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 03:40-04:40, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided Dura and invaded two homes.
Israeli Army violence and agricultural sabotage: Bethlehem – 17:10, Israeli Occupation forces fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at shepherds grazing the flocks, near the village of Kisan.
Israeli Army violence: Hebron – 20:20, Israeli soldiers, in the Old City, assaulted a man: Mohammed Aref Jaber.
Occupation settler motorist injures and hospitalises 8-year-old child: Jerusalem – 23:10, an Israeli Occupation settler, driving a motorvehicle in East Jerusalem, ran over and hospitalised an eight-year-old child: Mohammed Yunis Ibrahim al-Jahalin.
Occupation settler plunder and molestation: Nablus – 14:10, Israeli settlers stole a number of sheep and molested three people: Alaa Thabet, Ribhi Alawneh and Shadi Sawalha.
Occupation settler land-grab – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 10:50, Israeli Occupation settlers seized and laid waste to farmland in the Wadi Khursa area, near Beit Awa.
Occupation settler theft and home-invasion: Hebron – 11:30, Israeli settlers stole a tent-dwelling from one person, Ali Hamamda, in the Ma’in area, east of Yatta.
Raid: Ramallah – 04:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Deir Ghassaneh as well as the village of Nabi Saleh.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli forces raided and patrolled al-Bireh, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Jenin – 08:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled al-Jalama.
Raid: Tulkarem – 17:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Izbit Shufa.
Raid: 1 taken prisoner Tulkarem – 04:00, the Israeli military raided the Irtah suburb, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 15:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Azzun.
Raid: Nablus – 08:00 and 16:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Tel Surra.
Raid: Nablus – 10:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Sebastia.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 00:25-04:40, the Israeli Army raided Asira al-Shimaliya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Bethlehem – 09:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled al-Ubeidya.
Raid: Bethlehem – 16:05, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Bethlehem.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 01:35, Israeli soldiers raided al-Khadr, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – UN refugee camp: Hebron – 02:50-04:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the al-Aroub UN refugee camp.
Raid – injuries – destruction – water crime: Salfit – 21:45, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, accompanied Occupation settlers in a raid on Kifl Haris. One person, Maha Abu Yaqoub, was injured by a flying tear gas canister and another, Fahmy Abu Hammad, was assaulted by soldiers. The settlers smashed the windows of several homes and destroyed a main water-supply line. One other person was taken prisoner.
Raid – UN refuge camp – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 05:30, the Israeli Army raided the al-Fawar UN refugee camp, taking prisoner three people.
Restrictions of movement (18): 00:45, eastern entrance to al-Eizariya – 16:45, entrance to the village of al-Nabi Saleh – 19:40-21:30, near Atara Bridge – 23:55, entrance to Rantis village – 18:05, Hawara – 20:00, Surra village road junction; one taken prisoner – 23:00, al-Muraba’a area road junction – evening, near the village of Deir Sharaf – midnight-01:00, western entrance to Deir Istiya – 12:30, tightened procedures at the al-Hamra checkpoint – 22:00, southern entrance to Jericho – 21:45-01:30, entrance to al-Samou’ – 22:40, northern entrance to the al-Dhahiriya – 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 10, Jenin 1, Nablus 1.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
YAWN!