In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 22 July until 08:00, 23 July 2024
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Gaza Strip
Attacks: There are no safe places for the militarily-dominated population in Gaza, who find themselves subjected to airstrikes and other missile attacks on buildings, homes and many essentialfacilities, as well as constant gunfire and invasions by Israeli forces. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the entire Gaza shoreline.
Victims: 84 more people killed in Gaza now brings the total number of deaths, since 7 October, to at least 39,090. With another 329 wounded, that figure has risen to more than 90,147. The daily average of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 135 and, of those injured, the daily average is over 312.
Israel’s continued denial of the reality of the occupation will be its ruin
Haaretz lead editorial on 21 July 2024:
https://jfjfp.com/israels-
The opinion issued Friday by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which stated that the Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate international law and that Israel must end its occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as soon as possible, revealed nothing to Israelis that they did not already know.
The opinion shatters the lie that the occupation is only temporary and intended only for security purposes. This is the lie that Israelis told themselves during decades of occupation while they seized more and more Palestinian land, dispossessed Palestinians of their land and built settlements on it, all under the patronage of successive Israeli governments, through the agency of the settlers and with the backing of the Israel Defense Forces and the judiciary. The opinion bursts this bubble of lies and views various acts of the Israeli government as annexation of the territory.
Yet there is not even a sliver of hope that after 57 years this opinion will spur the State of Israel to wise up and comply with the demands to evacuate the settlements, and to end the occupation and the military control over the Palestinians and compensate them as well. This is mere wishful thinking, which can be deduced from the disturbing reactions in Israel to the opinion. All of them, from those of the prime minister and his cabinet colleagues all the way to the Knesset opposition of Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, can be situated along on the spectrum of religious Zionism.
After all, what difference is there between the far right’s calls of “sovereignty now“, Benjamin Netanyahu’s babble about the impossibility of denying “the legal right of Israelis to live in their own communities in our ancestral home”, Gantz’s nonsense about the “judicialisation of a political-diplomatic conflict” and the outrageous moralist preaching of Lapid, who declared the opinion “detached, one-sided and tainted by antisemitism and lacking an understanding of the reality on the ground”?
But it should not be inferred from this that the opinion will not have political and economic consequences that may cause Israel – as a result of the costs it will be forced to pay – to rethink its course regarding the occupation and settlement enterprise. It isn’t only about sanctions on violent settlers or on organisations affiliated with settlements.
The most important point in the opinion, from a practical perspective, is the obligation it places on international organisations and United Nations member states not to recognise as legal or help to maintain the situation arising from Israel’s unlawful presence in the territories. Member states are in effect obliged, in the wake of the opinion, to conduct a preliminary review of any interaction with Israel, whether in the territories or in Israel proper, to ascertain that it does not contribute to Israel’s presence in the territories.
Israel’s working assumption – that the world will continue to ignore the occupation – has been shattered in recent months. If Israel continues to ignore what the world tells it, it may wake up to a reality in which it is boycotted and ostracised like apartheid-era South Africa.
West Bank
Israeli Army attack: Ramallah – 01:20, Israeli Occupation settlers opened fire indiscriminately, near the park in the village of al-Tira.
Israeli Army attack – 1 shot and wounded: Jenin – 08:30, Israeli forces on the Annexation Wall, near the village of Faqua, shot, wounded and hospitalised one person: Mahmoud Ajaj Mahmoud Abu Al-Khair.
Israeli Army attack – airstrike – 5 killed – 3 wounded – destruction: Tulkarem – 22:20, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, storming Tulkarem as well as the Nour Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps, raided and bulldozed motor vehicles, as well as a number of shops, including an agricultural materials store, wounding three people: Uday Jamal Ahmad Anbas, Yazan Mahmoud Abdo and Fares Muhammad Jumah Salem. During the storming, a drone-launched airstrike in the the Tulkarem refugee camp killed five residents: Ashraf Eid Zahir Nafi’, Muhammad Ibrahim Awad, Muhammad Badi’ Radwan Salama, Iman Abdullah Salem and Bayan Jumaa Salem.
Israeli Army attack – 1 shot and wounded: Qalqiliya – 15:35, Israeli troops on the Annexation Wall adjacent to Hablat town, shot, wounded and hospitalised one person: Moataz Abdel Halim Al-Jadaa.
Israeli Army attack: Qalqiliya – 17:00, the Israeli Army opened indiscriminate fire, near Azzun.
Israeli Army attack – 2 killed: Hebron – 03:05, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition during the storming of Sa’ir, killed two residents: Jihad Muhammad Hussein Shalalda and Ramez Muhammad Al-Halaika.
Home invasion and demolition: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli Occupation forces demolished a house, in the town of Anata.
Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – 20:00, the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Khaled Omar Al-Haroub, to destroy two floors of his home in Beit Hanina – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.
Home invasion: Qalqiliya – 18:30-midnight, the Israeli Army raided Azun and searched a house.
Home invasions and demolition: Bethlehem – 09:55, Israeli forces demolished two houses, near the entrance to the village of al-Walaja.
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 – agricultural and pastoral sabotage: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli Occupation forces, in the town of Anata, demolished a wedding hall, two livestock shelters and more property owned by six other residents.
Israeli Army road closure – population–control: Ramallah – 01:30, Israeli forces closed, for a time, the main bypass road alongside the Beit El Occupation settlement.
Israeli Army agricultural and pastoral sabotage: Bethlehem – Occupation forces bulldozed farmland, near the entrance to the village of Battir, and uprooted dozens of olive as well as almond trees.
Occupation settler stoning: Jerusalem – 12:00, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles on the road to al-Za’im.
Occupation settler stoning: Salfit – 11:45, an Israeli, from the Kfar Tapuah settlement, stoned passing vehicles at the nearby road junction.
Occupation settler stoning: Salfit – 23:30, Israeli settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the Za’tara road junction checkpoint.
Occupation settler violence and agricultural sabotage: Bethlehem – Israelis, from the Alon Shvut Occupation settlement, invaded Jouret al-Shama’a village farmland, assaulting a man and his two sons while cutting down and destroying the family’s grapevines.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – 09:00, the Israeli Army raided Anata, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Ramallah – 09:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Atara.
Raid: Ramallah – 14:50, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Shabtin.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 18:00, Israeli soldiers raided Silwad, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Ramallah – evening, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Sinjil.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli forces raided al-Eizariya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – dawn, the Israeli Army raided Biddu, taking prisoner one person.
Raids: Jenin – 09:10-12:05, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Ya’bad and Araba.
Raid: Jenin – evening, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Jalboun.
Raids: Jenin – 23:00–00:10, Israeli soldiers raided Araba and the village of Fahma.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 23:00–00:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided Kafr Rai, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Tubas – 12:05, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Atuf.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 04:10, the Israeli Army raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Nablus – 09:10-12:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Asira al-Shimaliya.
Raids: Nablus – 11:20, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Qabalan as well as the village of Yatma.
Raids: Nablus – 18:25–19:50, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the villages of Salem as well as Deir al-Hatab.
Raids: Nablus – 19:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Qusra and Qabalan.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 03:25–04:50, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Burqa, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – destruction: Salfit – 21:35–03:30, the Israeli Army, accompanied by settlers, raided Kifl Haris and destroyed three water-supply facilities.
Raid – population–control: Hebron – 11:20, Israeli troops raided Beit Awa and ordered a halt to the construction of two houses and a livestock shelter.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 06:25, the Israeli military raided the village of Deir Samit, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 06:25, Israeli soldiers raided Beit Ula, taking prisoner one person.
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