In Occupied Palestine – 13 June 2023

13 June 2023 {Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG):

https://www.nad.ps/en/violations-reports/daily-report NB:The period covered by this newsletter is taken from the PMG’s 24-hour sitrep ending 8am the day after the above date.}

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 Navy opens fire on

Palestinian fishing boats

Refugee home invasion –

1 killed, 1 child (aged 8) wounded

Israeli military exercises

force families from their homes

Israeli Army land-seizure

for settlement expansion

Night peace disruption and/or

home invasions in UN refugee camp,

1 town and 1 village

4 attacks –

3 Israeli ceasefire violations

5 raids including home invasions

1 killed – 8 wounded – 3 abducted

24 taken prisoner

3 acts of

agricultural/economic sabotage

Home invasions: 13:15-15:40, Balata UN refugee camp.

Peace disruption raids: dawn, Anata – 09:05, al-Mazra’a – 03:20, Jenin – 04:25, Jalboun.

Palestinian missile attacks: none.

Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – economic sabotage: Northern Gaza – 08:30, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off al-Waha, Beit Lahiya, wounding one of the crew: Jaafar Hassan Khader Bakr.

Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – 4 taken prisoner – youngster abducted: Northern Gaza – midnight: Israeli gunboats opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off al-Sudaniya, hijacking a vessel and taking prisoner five crew members, including a 16-year-old youth: Mohammed Omar Al-Habil.

Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – economic sabotage: Gaza – evening, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah.

Israeli Army attack – home invasion in UN refugee camp – 1 killed – child aged 8 wounded: Nablus – 13:15-15:40, Israeli Occupationforces, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters stormed the Balata UN refugee camp and invadeda house, killing one person, Faris Abdel Moneim Mohammed Hashash (aged 19) and wounding seven others (including a child): Essam Al-Salaj, Ihab Ammar Al-Hashash, Mohammed Fawzi Al-Hashash, Ezz Salman Abu Ruwais (aged 8), Raed Ahmed Fouad Sawalmeh, Tha’er Khaled Mohammed Hashash and Abdul Rahman Talal Abdel Haroun.

Home invasions and surveillance: Jenin – 19:00, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided Ya’bad, invading homes and shops and seizing surveillance-camera recordings. Two residents were taken prisoner.

Families forced from their homes by military exercises: Tubas – 18:00, the Israeli Army forced four families to vacate their homes in the Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa area of the North Jordan Valley, from 18:00 until 09:00 the following day, to make way for military exercises.

Home invasions: Bethlehem – dawn, Israeli troops raided Za’tara and searched seven homes.

Home invasions – rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – 19:00, Israeli forces in the Ya’bad district,firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, invaded a number of homes and shops.

Israeli Army abduction: Jerusalem – 07:00, Israeli soldiers, in the Silwan neighbourhood, abducted a 14-year-old boy, Yamen Ahmed Tayeh.

Israeli Army destruction – population-control: Jerusalem – Israeli Occupation forces demolished a car-wash business, near the Shuafat UN refugee camp road junction.

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 land-seizure for settlement expansion – agricultural sabotage: Qalqiliya – Israeli Occupation forces issued an order, for the military to seize seven hectares of olive groves in the Khallet Abu Atmeh area of ​​Azzun Atmeh village, trapped behind Israel’s annexation Wall, in order to establish 192 new settlement housing units for Sha‘arei Tikva Occupation settlement.

Israeli Army destruction – population-control: Jericho – Israeli forces demolished a vehicle parking-lot in the village of Ein al-Dyouk al-Tahta and removed more than 100 parked vehicles.

Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 22:55, Israeli troops fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people, near the entrance to the al-Arroub UN refugee camp.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided Anata, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – abduction: Ramallah – 09:05, Israeli forces raided al-Mazra’a and abducted a 17-year-old youth: Mohammed Adnan Ibrahim Sarah.

Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Jenin – 03:20, the Israeli Army raided Jenin, taking prisoner three people.

Raid: Jenin – 04:25, Israeli troops raided the village of Jalboun.

Restrictions of movement (17): 19:00, Dotan checkpoint closed – 17:00, entrance to Azzun – 17:00, Karnei Shomron settlement road junction – 01:30, tightened procedures at the Huwara checkpoint – 13:50-16:40, northern entrance to Salfit – 23:55, tightened procedures at the al-Hamra checkpoint – 14:15, northern entrance to Jericho – 14:20, western entrance to Jericho – 21:15-22:45, southern entrance to Jericho – 17:15, western entrance to Tuqu’ – 19:40-22:00, roadblock at Halhul Bridge – 19:50-22:00, entrance to south 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:

Jerusalem 5, Jenin 3, Tulkarem 2, Nablus 1, Jericho 2, Bethlehem 1.

[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]