In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

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

08:00, 23 July until 08:00, 24 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: 55 more people killed in Gaza now brings the total number of deaths, since 7 October, to at least 39,145. With another 110 wounded, that figure has risen to more than 90,257. The daily average of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 135 and, of those injured, the daily average is over 311.

Humanitarian Situation Update

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The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays. The next update will be issued on 26 July.

Key Highlights

• On 19 July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion regarding the legal consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem, concluding, inter alia, that Israel’s continued presence in the OPT is unlawful and must end as rapidly as possible.  

• An Israeli drone strike killed five Palestinians, including two women, in Tulkarm Refugee Camp and Tulkarm city on 22 July. 

• Since 7 October 2023, 22 per cent (124) of Palestinians killed in the West Bank were in Tulkarm governorate, including 115 during Israeli forces’ operations and 39 by airstrikes.  

Latest developments (after 22 July)

• On 23 July, initial reports indicate Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian men and arrested two others in Sa’ir village, north of Hebron city. During the operation, Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces, who fired live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas canisters. 

• According to initial media reports, on 24 July, two Palestinian men were reportedly killed, one in Tubas and another during the punitive demolition of a house in Qalandiya Refugee Camp. Another Palestinian died of wounds sustained during an operation by Israeli forces in Tulkarm city on 23 July.  

• Initial reports indicate that Israeli forces re-entered Tulkarm city and Tulkarm Refugee Camp on the evening of 23 July. This follows an operation that took place on 22 July where five Palestinians were killed. Footage taken at the scene shows that an injured Palestinian was tied to the front of an Israeli army jeep as it drove through the streets. 

Humanitarian Developments (16-22 July) 

• During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in the West Bank, including five during an operation in Tulkarm Refugee Camp. Seventeen Palestinians were injured in conflict-related incidents across the West Bank, and one Israeli soldier was injured by a Palestinian. Three Israeli settlers were mistakenly injured by Israeli forces. On 14 July, a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem rammed and injured four Israeli soldiers at Nir Tzvi junction, in Israel, before being shot and injured by Israeli forces; his family was informed of his death on 16 July. On 19 July, an 18-year-old Palestinian from Arraba town, southwest of Jenin city, succumbed to wounds sustained on 13 January when he was shot by Israeli forces in Ya’bad village, Jenin.  

• Since 7 October 2023, 22 per cent (124) of Palestinians killed in the West Bank have taken place in Tulkarm governorate. These include 115 killed during Israeli forces’ operations in the area and 39 killed as a result of airstrikes. This is over ten times the number of Palestinians killed in Tulkarm between 1 January 2023 and 6 October 2023, during which nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and two by settlers. 

• After midnight on 16 July, Israeli forces shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man, originally from Gaza, during a raid into money exchange shops and stores selling agricultural fertilisers in Al Bireh (Ramallah). The man was reportedly shot and taken by Israeli forces, who handed over his corpse to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) at the Beit El DCO checkpoint two hours later. According to the Israeli military, the man stabbed and injured an Israeli soldier before he was shot, a claim that is disputed by local community sources. 

• On 16 July, Israeli forces shot and injured one Palestinian and physically assaulted another in Balata Refugee Camp (Nablus). According to the Palestinian District Coordination Office (DCO), undercover Israeli forces raided the camp and besieged a house from which one Palestinian was arrested. Reportedly, Israeli forces and Palestinians exchanged fire during the operation. Medical sources reported that they transported both injured people to a nearby hospital. 

• On 16 July, near the Beit El (DCO) checkpoint (Ramallah), according to Israeli media, three Israeli settlers were injured when Israeli forces mistakenly identified them as Palestinian suspects and shot at their vehicle. 

• On 19 July, Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during a search-and-arrest operation in Beit Ummar (Hebron). Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces who shot live bullets, teargas canisters and stun grenades. 

• On 22 July, Israeli forces killed five Palestinians, including at least two women, in drone strikes during an operation in Tulkarm city and Tulkarm Refugee Camp. According to the Palestinian DCO, Israeli forces withheld the bodies of four of the fatalities. The operation lasted about 15 hours, where Israeli forces and Palestinians exchanged fire and Palestinians reportedly detonated explosive devices. Significant damage was reported to multiple road sections in and around the refugee camp and Tulkarm city. The refugee camp and several city neighbourhoods experienced disruptions in water, electricity, and internet services. Medical sources confirmed the injuries of seven Palestinians, three by live ammunition, and four due to missile shrapnel. The Israeli military stated that its forces had targeted Palestinian fighters. 

• Between 7 October 2023 and 22 July 2024, 563 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in addition to two who died of wounds sustained prior to 7 October. These include 548 killed by Israeli forces, ten by Israeli settlers, and seven where it remains unknown whether the perpetrators were Israeli forces or settlers. During the same period, 14 Israelis, including nine members of Israeli forces and five settlers, were killed by Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. In Israel, attacks by Palestinians from the West Bank resulted in the killing of eight Israelis and five Palestinian perpetrators. 

• Between 7 October 2023 and 22 July 2024, OCHA recorded 1,143 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, of which 108 resulted in casualties, 916 resulted in damage to Palestinian property, and 119 resulted in both casualties and property damage. During the reporting period, Israeli settlers perpetrated 29 attacks against Palestinians, resulting in two injuries and damage to property. In addition, two foreign nationals were injured by settlers in the same period. The following are some of the key incidents documented by OCHA during the reporting period:  

  • On 16 July, Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian farmer in the village of Beit Dajan, Nablus. According to the village council and the affected Palestinian, the attack was carried out by two armed settlers who took the Palestinian’s bulldozer at gunpoint while he was working on a piece of land between Area B and Area C. Subsequently, people in army uniforms, believed to be settlers, arrived and blindfolded the Palestinian, and took him away in a civilian vehicle for about an hour, before he was transferred to a military jeep and returned to the village. 

  • On 17 July, people believed to be Israeli settlers hammered metal nails on a road connecting Turmus’ayya and Al Mughayyir village (Ramallah), causing damage to at least one vehicle. Local community sources stated that these nails punctured the tyres of a Palestinian farmer’s vehicle on his way to his agricultural land that had recently been burnt by Israeli settlers. The next day, Israelis believed to be from the Adei Ad and other nearby settlement outposts stole material from a Palestinian factory in Area B of Turmus’ayya (Ramallah). According to video footage, Israeli settlers used a bulldozer and a truck to break into the factory. Notably, the area has been inaccessible to Palestinians due to closures imposed by Israeli forces since 7 October 2023. 

  • On 20 July, Israeli settlers set their dogs on a 15-year-old Palestinian child, stole a vehicle and set it on fire near Ni’lin (Ramallah) governorate. According to local community sources, a group of three armed Israeli settlers and their dogs harassed Palestinians collecting scrap metal in the area. They set their dogs on the Palestinian boy and threatened him with their guns while he was driving a vehicle. The boy fled and abandoned the car, at which point the settlers stole it and set it on fire in a Palestinian olive grove north of Ni’lin. No injuries were reported. 

  • On 20 July, armed Israeli settlers believed to be from Peduel reportedly stole about 25 sheep from a Palestinian shepherd’s herd, as reported by the mayor of Kafr ad Dik, the shepherd, and the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture.  

  • On 21 July, Israeli settlers believed to be from Esh Kodesh settlement attacked a group of Palestinians, Israelis and foreign national activists, injuring two foreign nationals in Qusra (Nablus). Video footage shows one of the Israeli settlers shouting at the activists to leave the area, just moments before another settler arrived and began assaulting them with sticks, stones and metal bars. The injured activists sustained wounds and were evacuated to hospital. 

• Between 16 and 22 July, the Israeli authorities demolished or forced the demolition of 48 Palestinian-owned structures due to the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible to obtain. These include 45 structures in Area C and three in East Jerusalem. As a result, 57 Palestinians, including 29 children, were displaced and about 180 people were otherwise affected, including 88 children. In Al Walaja village (Bethlehem), Israeli authorities demolished five residential structures lacking a budling permit, displacing five families comprising 39 people, including 22 children. In Anata town and adjacent Bedouin communities, Israeli forces demolished 33 structures in one incident, displacing 18 people, including eight children. Eighteen people, including ten children, were displaced in the Wadi al Joz area of East Jerusalem when a three-story building was demolished. Between 1 January and 22 July, 665 structures were demolished and 811 were displaced for lacking Israeli-issued building permits in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, compared with 504 structures demolished and 609 people displaced in the corresponding period in 2023. 

• Between 7 October 2023 and 22 July 2024, Israeli authorities demolished, sealed, confiscated or forced the demolition of 1,247 Palestinian structures across the West Bank, of which 39 per cent (481 structures) were inhabited homes. As a result, 2,836 people, including 1,245 children, were displaced. About half of those displaced (1,433) had their homes destroyed during operations carried out by Israeli forces, particularly in Jenin and Tulkarm cities and the surrounding refugee camps; 43 per cent (1,233 people) were displaced due to the lack of Israeli-issued building permits; and six per cent (170) were displaced by punitive demolitions. 

Other Developments

• On 19 July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion regarding the legal consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem. The Court responded to questions posed by the General Assembly by concluding, inter alia, that Israel’s continued presence in the OPT is unlawful and must end as rapidly as possible; Israel must cease immediately all new settlement activities; and Israel’s legislation and measures to maintain a near-complete separation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between the settler and Palestinian communities constitute a breach of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (art. 3). Moreover, all States and international organizations, such as the UN, are under an obligation not to recognize the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the OPT, and the UN, especially the General Assembly and the Security Council, should consider the precise modalities and further action required to bring to an end as rapidly as possible the unlawful presence of Israel in the OPT. The Secretary-General is promptly transmitting the Advisory Opinion to the General Assembly for it to decide how to proceed in this matter. The ICJ’s Press Release on the decision is available here, and a summary of the decision is available here.  

West Bank

Israeli Army attack – 1 youngster killed – 2 others among the wounded – home invasions: Jerusalem – 00:35, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition while storming the Qalandiya refugee camp, demolished one house and searched a number of others, killing a 17-year-old youth, Ahmed Nidal Aslan, and wounding of six other residents, including two youngsters: Musa Hafez Al-Rajabi (aged 16) and Qusay Samir Eid (aged 17).

Israeli Army attack – 1 person killed – 2 others wounded – home invasions: Tubas – 07:15, Israeli forces, storming Tubas and invading homes also opened fire on the headquarters of Palestinian Customs, killing one person, Al-Askari Abdel Nasser Sarhan, and wounding two others: Ramiz Talib Abu Bakr and Muhammad Anis Bsharat. Two more people were taken prisoner.

Israeli Army attack – 2 women wounded – homes destroyed: Tulkarem – Since the night of July 22, the Israeli Army has continued to storm Tulkarem as well as the Nour Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps. The military raided more homes, destroying with explosives two of them and injuring two women: Rose Jumaa Salem and Anoud Muhammad Obaid. The troops finally departed at 13:40.

Israeli Army attack – 1 youngster wounded: Qalqiliya – 03:50–06:00, the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition while storming Qalqiliya, wounded a 16-year-old youth: Hani Nour al-Din Abdel Latif Jaidi.

Israeli settler attack – arson – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 23:45, armed Israeli Occupation settlers stormed Huwara, opening indiscriminate fire towards people’s homes, setting fire to olive trees and damaging motor vehicles.

Israeli settler attack: Hebron – 19:40, armed Israeli settlers opened indiscriminate fire, in al-Shuyukh.

Death: Tulkarem – 13–year–old Saif Ziyad Ali Amir has now died from wounds sustained during an attack, on 12 July, by Israeli troops on the town of Maythaloun.

Home invasion and demolition: Jerusalem – the Israeli Army demolished a house, in the Jabal Mukaber neighbourhood.

Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – 10:10, the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Khalil Kabaja, to destroy his home in the al-Tur 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 invasion: Jerusalem – 01:15, Israeli forces raided al-Eizariya and searched a home.

Home invasions in refugee camp: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided the Qalandiya refugee camp and searched two houses.

Home invasion and demolition – 1 youngster killed – 6 people wounded: Jerusalem – 00:35, Jerusalem – Israeli forces raided the Qalandiya refugee camp and demolished the family home ofone person, Muhammad Manasra, they had previously killed. They went on to search a number of other houses, killing a 17-year-old youth, Ahmed Nidal Aslan, wounding six other residents and taking prisoner two people.

Home invasions and explosive demolition: Tulkarem – Israeli Occupation forces, raiding the Tulkarem refugee camp, used explosives to destroy homes.

Home invasions: Bethlehem – 22:40–00:25, Israeli forces raided the village of Umm Salmuna and invaded a number of homes.

Home invasions: Bethlehem – 01:00–02:30, the Israeli Army raided the village of al-Rashaida and invaded a number of houses.

Home invasions: Bethlehem – 01:45–05:10, Israeli troops raided Za’tara and invaded a number of homes.

Home invasion and demolition: Hebron – 10:30, Israeli soldiers destroyed a tent-dwelling in the al-Masafer area of Yatta, lived in by a man, Mahmoud Al-Nawajaa, whose house had been demolished by Israeli forces about two months before.

Home invasion and demolition: Hebron – 11:25, Israeli Occupation forces demolished the home of one person, Fadi Muhammad Suleiman Al-Amour, in the village of al-Tuwani.

Israeli Army assault – abduction: Jerusalem – 10:25, Israeli Occupation forces, in the Silwan neighbourhood, abducted a 15-year-old boy: Muntaser Munir Abu Diab.

Israeli Occupation population control: Jerusalem – 16:00, the Israeli Occupation issued an order, preventing a woman, Hanadi Muhammad Al-Halawani, from communicating with eight other people for the next six months and renewed her ban on personal travel until 21 August.

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 pastoral sabotage: Jerusalem – 11:30, Israeli forces demolished a garage, as well as a horse-rearing farm and sheep farm.

Israeli Army population–control: Ramallah – 16:30, the Israeli Army seized a bulldozer being used for the building of agriculture access roads in Beit Liqiya.

Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades: Bethlehem – 05:35, Israeli troops fired rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades towards people in the city.

Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 13:20, the Israeli military closed to traffic the entrance to the Nabi Yunis area on the main Hebron-Bethlehem road.

Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 13:20, Israeli soldiers closed the entrance to the town of Sa’ir.

Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 18:05, Israeli Occupation forces closed the al-Samiya village road junction.

Israeli Army – armed robbery: Hebron – 19:35, the Israeli Army seized a vehicle from one person, Malek Tamiza, while taking him prisoner.

Occupation settler raid: Jerusalem – 19:00, Israeli Occupation settlers raided a shop, in the Old City.

Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 23:40, Israelis, from the Beit El Occupation settlement, stoned vehicles travelling on the nearby bypass road.

Occupation settler arson – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 15:45, Israelis, from the Yitzhar Occupation settlement, set fire to crops on Burin village farmland.

Occupation settler violence: Salfit – 21:10, Israeli settlers, on the road between Bidya and the village of Saniria, beat–up and hospitalised a man: Ahmed Mahmoud Abd Arouri.

Raid: Jerusalem – 23:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Ram.

Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 19:05, Israeli forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided Silwad.

Raid: Ramallah – 21:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Sinjil.

Raid: Ramallah – 21:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Ein Yabroud.

Raid: Ramallah – 22:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Dura al-Qara.

Raid: Ramallah – 22:50–01:40, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya.

Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired : Ramallah – 00:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the city.

Raid: Qalqiliya – 19:35–22:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Jayus.

Raid: Nablus – 22:00–01:20, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Awarta.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 05:45–07:10, Israeli troops raided the village of Salem, taking prisoner one person.

Raid: Salfit – 21:55–23:00, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Salfit.

Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 05:35, the Israeli military raided the city, the Dheisheh refugee camp, al-Khadr as well as the village of Artas, taking prisoner three people.

Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Beit Kahil, taking prisoner three people.

Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 18:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Hebron, taking prisoner three people as well as seizing a motor vehicle.

Raid: Hebron – 21:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Sheikh al-Arroub.

Raid: Hebron – 00:15, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Beit Awa.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 04:30, Israeli troops raided the al-Arroub refugee camp, taking prisoner one person.