In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00 on 9 December until 08:00 on 10 December 2023
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Restrictions of movement: Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza are under relentless and extreme control over all travel and movement.
Gaza Strip
Armed Palestinian Resistance: Palestinian Resistance continued launching dozens of missiles towards the Green Line.
Air strikes: Heavy aerial bombardment on buildings, homes and many facilities.
Victims: Another 297 people in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces, now raising the total to more than 17,997. Another 449 people have been wounded, bringing that number up to more than 49,229. Precise statistics are not available, due to the violence surrounding hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
Attacks: All over Gaza, there are air strikes, heavy gunfire, tank and artillery shelling, as well as missiles fired from Israeli forces and military occupation, especially in Khan Yunis. The Israeli Navycontinues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza.
Between the afternoons of 9 and 10 December, 297 Palestinians were killed, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza. Heavy Israeli bombardments from air, land, and sea across Gaza continued, along with intense ground operations and fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups, especially in the eastern parts of Gaza city. The firing of rockets by Palestinian armed groups to Israel also continued.
On 9 and 10 December, multiple health facilities and personnel were attacked across the Gaza strip (see Health Care section for more details). Personnel attacked included Gaza’s MoH Director General of Pharmacy, alongside two other staff, who were shot and injured while trying to reach the MoH’s warehouses to provide medical supplies to Shifa and Al Ahli Hospitals and other health facilities in northern Gaza and Gaza city. Reportedly, an ambulance rushing to the scene was also hit.
On 9 December, a UN and Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) convoy reached Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza city, where it delivered medical supplies and evacuated 19 critically injured patients. Led by the World Health Organization (WHO), this was the first mission to Gaza city since hostilities resumed on 1 December. The convoy was delayed by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in Wadi Gaza, where extensive screenings of vehicles, staff and patients were undertaken. One of the evacuated patients died during the trip southwards. One of the paramedics was detained for four hours, during which he was interrogated and reportedly beaten and intimidated. One of the ambulances and a UN truck carrying supplies were hit by gunfire as the convoy struggled to reach the hospital through debris-strewn streets. Humanitarian access to the area north of Wadi Gaza (hereafter: the north) remains severely constrained and hundreds of thousands of civilians are in dire need of urgent assistance.
On 9 and 10 December, in the north and Gaza city, Israeli forces reportedly detained hundreds of men and boys staying in public spaces, schools serving as shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) as well as private homes. Reportedly, detainees were stripped to their underwear, handcuffed, and ordered to sit on their knees in open areas, subjected to beatings, harassment, harsh weather, and denial of basic necessities. They were filmed and the images circulated over the media. According to the Israeli military, those suspected of affiliation with Hamas were transferred to Israel for interrogation, while others have been released.
Tens of thousands of IDPs, who have arrived in Rafah (in the south) since 3 December, continued facing extreme overcrowded and dire conditions both inside and outside shelters. They wait for hours in large crowds around aid distribution centres, in desperate need of food, water, shelter, health, and protection. In the absence of an adequate number of latrines, open-air defecation is widespread, increasing concerns of the spread of disease particularly during rains and related flooding.
West Bank
Israeli Army attack – homes bombarded and raided: Tubas – 01:50–06:45, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed Tubas, hitting two homes with aerial bombardment and invading others. Thirteen residents were taken prisoner.
Israeli Army attack – 1 youngster killed and 1 other person beaten up: Qalqiliya – 18:30-20:00, Israeli forces stormed into and patrolled Azzun, killing a 17-year-old youth: Mahmoud Bassem Mahmoud Abu Haniyeh, as well as beating up another person.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 01:05–06:00, the Israeli Army stormed into Nablus as well as the Askar and Balata refugee camps, wounding two people and taking prisoner two others.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Nablus – 21:05, Israeli troops, firing live ammunition, stormed into Asira, wounding a resident: Osama Moatasem Abdel-Jabbar Yassi.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 01:25, the Israeli military stormed into al-Dhahiriya, wounding two people, one of whom was Muhammad Mamdouh Hashem Qaysia. Two other residents were taken prisoner.
Death: Tubas – 12:35, Rami Jamal Al-Jandab, a resident of the al-Far’a refugee camp, has now died of wounds sustained during an Israeli Army attack on the refugee camp on 8 November.
Home invasion: Jerusalem – 20:50, the Israeli Army raided Hizma and searched a house.
Home invasion: Jenin – 20:20-21:55, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Rumana and invaded a house.
Home invasion and surveillance: Bethlehem – 23:15, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Wadi al-Nis, invaded a house and examined the home’s surveillance–camera‘s recordings.
Home invasions: Nablus – 01:40-06:55, Israeli troops raided the village of Burqa and searched four homes.
Home invasion: Hebron – 09:00, Israeli forces raided Dura and searched a home.
Home invasions: Hebron – 15:00, the Israeli Army raided al-Samou and invaded homes.
Home invasions: Hebron – 01:45, Israeli troops raided the village of al-Sahira and searched a number of homes.
Israeli Occupation land–seizures: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation posted land–seizure orders on three areas containing buildings in the Wadi Hilweh area of Silwan, taken for the benefit of a settler cable–car project.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Bethlehem – evening, Israeli forces, in the Umm Rukba area of al-Khadr, fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards pedestrians.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 13:30, the Israeli Army fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards people, in the Fahs district.
Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 23:05, Israeli troops, in the Old City, fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards pedestrians.
Occupation settler violence: Nablus – 10:05, Israeli Occupation settlers, invading farmland south of Kafir Qallil village, attacked olive harvesters and stole their equipment.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 15:35, Israeli settlers invaded Burin and stoned the homes of villagers.
Occupation settler terrorism: Nablus – 21:05, armed Israeli settlers terrorised people near the present at the Einabus village roundabout.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 22:05, Israelis, from the Eli Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles on the main Nablus to Ramallah road.
Occupation settler terrorism: Nablus – 23:15, armed Occupation settlers terrorised people, near the Ibn Sina road junction in Huwara.
Occupation settler terrorism: Bethlehem – 16:35, Israeli settlers terrorised shepherds, near the village of Kisan, forcing them and their flocks off of local pastoral land.
Occupation settler terrorism: Bethlehem – 22:25, Occupation settlers terrorised people, near the northern entrance to Tuqu’.
Occupation settler violence: Bethlehem – 23:45, Israelis, from the Gush Etzion Occupation settlement, stoned the home of a Beit Iksa villager: Ali Abd al-Rahman Abu Suway.
Occupation settler invasion: Hebron – 15:20, Israeli settlers, accompanied by the Israeli military, invaded the Wadi al-Qatfa area in al-Samou, close to people’s homes.
Occupation settler agricultural and pastoral sabotage – terrorism: Hebron – 23:40, armed Israelis, from the Susiya Occupation settlement, raided an area east of Yatta, forcing a farming familyfrom off their land, cutting off the branches from olive trees and grazing sheep over cultivated areas. The settlers also forced a halt
to the olive harvest, and smashed the windows of an agricultural building.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – 07:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided Abu Dis, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner in refugee camp: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli forces raided the Qalandiya refugee camp, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Ramallah – 20:20–22:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Budrus.
Raids: Ramallah – 22:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the villages of Sarda and Abu Qash.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, the Israeli military raided the village of Kafr Ni’ma, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Deir Abu Mash’al, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 2 wounded: Ramallah – dawn, on 09 December, during a raid and home invasions in Ramallah (as earlier reported) two people were wounded: Laith Riyad Farroukh and Yazan Hamayel.
Raid: Jenin – 21:25–22:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Araba.
Raid: Tulkarem – 20:35, Israeli forces raided Beit Lid and invaded a house under construction.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 13:45, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Saniriya.
Raid – 1 child wounded: Qalqiliya – 14:30, Israeli troops, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, stormed into Kafr Thulth, wounding a 12-year-old boy: Ali Alaa Shawahna.
Raid – beatings and vandalism: Qalqiliya – 15:30, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Qaddum, beating up two people and smashing the windows of a motor vehicle.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 15:25, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Kafr Qallil, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Nablus – 18:25, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Burin.
Raid: Nablus – 20:00–02:10, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Beit Furik.
Raid: Nablus – 21:30–02:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Yatma village.
Raid: Salfit – 13:00-15:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Bidya.
Raid: Salfit – 19:25, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled al-Zawiya.
Raid: Salfit – 19:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Kifl Haris.
Raid – population–control: Salfit – 00:20–02:00, Israeli forces raided the village of Haris and removed their Palestinian flag.
Raid: Bethlehem – 19:15-21:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Husan.
Raid – population–control in refugee camp: Bethlehem – 01:05, Israeli troops raided the Aida refugee camp and removed the Palestinian flag from the roof of a refugee centre.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 02:30–04:50, the Israeli military raided al-Ubeidiya, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 03:05, Israeli soldiers raided Tuqu’, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Hebron – midnight, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Halhul.
Raid: Hebron – 02:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the Aqbat Tafuh area in the city.
YAWN!