In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land

08:00, 25 December until 08:00, 26 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.

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.

Victims:

400 people killed in Gaza brings the total number of deaths since 7 October to at least 21,074. With another 382 wounded the total number of wounded has risen to 54,918. Fully accurate statistics are not available due to insecurity menacing hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

Israel-war on Gaza war: List of key events, day 79

Thousands of Palestinians were again forced to flee their homes, this time after the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in the central Gaza Strip. Since a United Nations Security Council resolution was passed on Friday without a clear call for a ceasefire, there has been a surge in aerial bombardments in central Gaza.

Israeli air raids killed more than 400 people in Gaza in the past 48 hours. Gaza’s Government Media Office said more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since 7 October. The death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at nearly 1,140, revised from 1,400.

At least 101 journalists have been killed since 7 October, according to the Government Media Office, which also said more than 50 media offices have been completely or partially destroyed by Israeli attacks. Al Jazeera Arabic’s cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, was among those killed in Israeli strikes.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it continues to operate at its medical point in Jabalia, northern Gaza, despite incessant shelling of the area. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said on X: “As the conflict intensifies and the horror grows, we will continue to do our part. We will not give up.” Pro-Palestinian marches continued in cities across the world, with some of the latest protests in Australia, Germany and Turkey.

Heavy raids by the Israeli Army continued in the Occupied West Bank. A convoy, led by bulldozers, entered Tulkarem in the early hours of Sunday, and raids have also been reported in Bethlehem, the town of Beita just south of Nablus, as well as the towns of Sa’ir and Karma, near Hebron.

Yoav Gallant and Benny Gantz, Israel’s current and former defence ministers, respectively, who, along with Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, make up the Israeli war cabinet, visited northern Gaza and promised that more attacks would be forthcoming, despite international pressure for an immediate ceasefire.

US President, Joe Biden, had a “private” phone conversation with Netanyahu. He told reporters after that he “did not ask for a ceasefire”.

Agnes Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, said the UNSC resolution for humanitarian relief would only result in a “drop in the ocean of suffering” in Gaza. She said the White House “holds the key” for putting an end to the carnage.

West Bank

Merciless population–control

The Israeli Army raided Khirbet al-Kharouba and forced residents to leave the area and abandon their homes, livestock and property.

Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Ramallah – 10:30, Israeli troops stormed into Kafr Ni’ma village, wounding two people: Muhammad Sarhan Musa Nasr and Muhammad Hassan Muhammad Nasr.

Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 15:55, near Silat al-Harithiya, Israeli Occupation forces opened fire on and wounded a man: Hamza Munir Tawfiq Zayoud.

Israeli Army attack: Ramallah – 17:30–23:25, Occupation forces, raiding and patrolling Birzeit, opened fire on a motor vehicle.

Israeli Army attack – homes invaded (1 destroyed) 5 residents taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 23:10, the Israeli Army stormed into the Nour Shams refugee camp and invaded a number of homes. They also used explosives to destroy one house and took prisoner five residents.

Israeli settler attack – farmer forced off his land: Nablus – 11:10, an Israeli settler security guard opened fire towards a farmer, Sabri Qaryut, and forced him off his land in the al-Marj area of ​​Qaryut village.

Home invasions: Jerusalem – 13:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided Jaba’ village and invaded homes.

Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Hashem Sabah, to destroy his home in in the Shuafat neighbourhood – 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 – 1 injured – 3 taken prisoner: Tubas – 02:50, the Israeli Army raided Tammun and invaded a number of homes, injuring one resident and taking prisoner three others.

Home invasions – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades: Tulkarem – 20:30–23:00, Israeli forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the Shweika suburb and invaded a number of homes.

Home invasions – 1 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 21:25–00:50, Israeli troops raided Attil and invaded a number of homes, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – home invasion – armed robbery – 2 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 04:40, the Israeli Army raided the city, taking prisoner two people as well as stealing the equivalent of over $US9000 in cash from the home of a prisoner.

Home invasions – 2 injured: Tulkarem – 21:25–00:50, the Israeli military raided Deir al-Ghousoun and invaded homes, injuring two residents: Omar Khaled Malak and Muhammad Naeem Jarab.

Home invasions: Tulkarem – 23:10, the Israeli military raided the city and invaded homes.

Home invasions and occupation – 3 taken prisoner: Nablus – Since 00:20 on 25 December, Occupation forces have continued to storm into the village of Burqa, declaring it a closed military zone, raiding and searching many homes and occupying one house for use as an investigation centre. Three people have been taken prisoner.

Home invasion: Bethlehem – 18:05-21:30, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Husan and invaded a home.

Home invasions: Hebron – 09:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided the city and searched five 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 armed robbery: Jerusalem – 17:05, Israeli Occupation forces seized a bulldozer, belonging to a Qatana villager: Moataz Tabanja.

Israeli Army assault and injury: Ramallah – 21:40, Israeli forces, setting up a checkpoint between Sinjil and Jabalia, injured and hospitalised a man: Muhammad Noman Anasawy.

Israeli Army armed robbery: Tubas – 15:15, in the North Jordan Valley, the Israeli Army seized a vehicle belonging to a man: Ahmed Hussein Abu Mohsen.

Israeli Army – agricultural sabotage: Salfit – in Deir Ballut, Israeli troops demolished an agricultural facility under construction.

Israeli Army – pastoral sabotage: Hebron – 14:10, the Israeli Army, in the Wadi al-Jawaya area, launched tear gas canisters towards shepherds.

Occupation settler pastoral sabotage: Tubas – 12:45, armed Israeli settlers, in the Khallet Makhoul area of the North Jordan Valley, terrorised shepherds grazing flocks on local pasture.

Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 11:35, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded Jalloud village agricultural land, cutting off the branches from 60 olive trees and destroying water-storage tanks and irrigation facilities.

Occupation settler violence and vandalism: Nablus – 22:25, Israeli settlers, stoning passing vehicles at the Deir Sharaf village roundabout, injured a man: Yassin Amjad Hafez Salahat.

Occupation settler violence and agricultural sabotage: Salfit – Israeli settlers invaded Deir Istiya agricultural land and beat up two people: Hassan Youssef Salman and Saeed Hassan Al-Qadi.

Raid – 2 injured – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 10:30-15:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Ni’ma, injuring two people and taking prisoner two others.

Raid – 4 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 02:25, Israeli forces raided Ramallah as well as al-Bireh, taking prisoner four people.

Raid: Ramallah – 02:25, the Israeli Army raided Beitunya and searched a shop.

Raid – armed robbery – 4 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 03:00, Israeli troops raided Beit Rima, taking prisoner two people and seizing a motor vehicle.

Raid: Ramallah – 06:10, the Israeli military raided the village of Deir Abu Mash’al, taking prisoner one person.

Raid: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided Safa village, taking prisoner one person.

Raid: Tubas – 02:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided Tayasir.

Raid: Jenin – 08:50-18:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Tura.

Raid: Jenin – 12:00-14:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Zububa.

Raid: Jenin – 13:00-14:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the Sabah al-Khair suburb.

Raid: Jenin – 13:55-18:50, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the villages of Araba and Marka.

Raid: Jenin – 14:40, Israeli soldiers raided al-Arqa village.

Raid: Jenin – 20:35–23:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Kefert.

Raid: Jenin – 01:40–06:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Tura village.

Raid: Jenin – 03:00–06:35, Israeli troops raided Faqua, al-Mutulla, al-Mugheir and Deir Abu Daif.

Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jenin – 03:00–06:35, the Israeli military raided Jalboun, taking prisoner two people.

Raid – robbery – pastoral sabotage – 2 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 08:30, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Hajjah, invaded a farm and stole five cows, taking prisoner two farmworkers.

Raid – people–control: Qalqiliya – 20:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Immatin, molesting four people.

Raid: Qalqiliya – 21:40, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Azzun.

Raid: Nablus – 14:50–16:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the city.

Raid: Salfit – 19:25–23:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Kafr al-Dik.

Raid: Salfit – 20:50–01:30, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Iskaka and invaded a shop.

Raid: Salfit – midnight–01:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Kifl Haris.

Raid – armed robbery – 16 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 03:25–07:05, Israeli forces raided al-Khadr, Beit Fajjar, the Aida refugee camp and the village of al-Asakra, taking prisoner 16 people. The troops also seized a motor vehicle belonging to one of those taken prisoner.

Raid – merciless population–control: Hebron – 13:00, the Israeli Army raided Khirbet al-Kharouba and forced residents to abandon their homes, livestock as well as property, and leave the area.

Raid: Hebron – 16:15, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Sa’ir.

Raid: Hebron – 20:40, the Israeli military raided Idhna, taking prisoner two people.

Raid: Hebron – evening, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Halhul.