In Occupied Palestine – 24 August 2023

24 August 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.

Home invasion and

forced personal demolition

Israeli police and settlers’

mosque violation

Armed, racist, Occupation settler

population-control

Israeli Army destruction and

population-control

Night peace disruption in 3 villages

9 raids including home invasions

1 beaten up – 1 injured

5 taken prisoner

Pastoral sabotage

Home invasions: Sur Baher village – dawn, Hebron.

Peace disruption raids: 08:10-10:00, Burqa village – 00:45-03:40, Ni’lin – 03:45, Silwad – 14:10, Anin – 14:35, Ya’bad – 02:10, Dura – dawn, Beit Ula.

Palestinian missile attacks: none.

Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Ayman Dabash, to destroy his home in the village of Sur Baher – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.

Home invasions – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – dawn, raiding Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, invaded and searched of a number of homes.

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 destruction and population-control: Jerusalem – Israeli Occupation forces destroyed a car-wash facility in the village of al-Issawiya.

Occupation settler violence – pastoral sabotage: Tubas – Israeli Occupation settlers, in the Khallet Makhoul area, assaulted a shepherd grazing his flock in the North Jordan Valley and forced him out of the area.

Occupation settler beating and hospitalisation: Nablus – 23:15, Israeli settlers beat up and hospitalised a resident, Yaqoub Daoud Shehadeh, in Qusra. He was admitted to the government hospital in Nablus.

Armed, racist, Occupation settler population-control: Hebron – evening, armed Israeli settlers, chanting racist hate slogans, marched through a number of areas, closing the Beit Einoun village road junction as well as the entrances to the al-Fahs area south of Hebron, Dura and the al-Fawar refugee camp.

Restrictions of movement (13): 09:05, near entrance to Ras Karkar village – 16:30, near the entrance to Beit Ur al-Tahta – 12:25-14:30, tightened procedures at the Einav checkpoint – 14:10, eastern entrance to Qalqiliya; 1 taken prisoner – 11:35-12:50, southern entrance to Bethlehem – 09:00-11:10, entrance to Beit Ummar – 20:15-22:10, entrance to the al-Arroub refugee camp – 20:20-22:25, roadblock at Halhul bridge – 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 1, Qalqiliya 1, Nablus 1, Hebron 1.

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