In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 31 August until 08:00, 01 September 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: 47 more people killed in Gaza now bring the total number of deaths, since 7 October, to at least 40,738. With another 94 wounded, that figure has now risen to over 94,154. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 123 and, of those injured, more than 286.
For 11 Months, Israel’s Boot Has Mercilessly Pressed Down
on West Bank’s Neck. Of Course There’s Terror
By Gideon Levy | 1 September 2024
Surprise, surprise! Violent Palestinian resistance in the West Bank is raising its head. The human monsters have woken up from their slumber and started exploding. Suicide bombers have returned and the host of Israeli pundits have a learned explanation: It’s the Iranian money. Without it, the West Bank would be calm. With it, people are willing to commit suicide just to get their hands on some. It’s all the Iranian octopus.
How easy it is to attribute everything to Iran. Israelis love doing it. There is a devil and he’s Iranian, and he’s to blame for everything. Maybe there is Iranian money, maybe there isn’t, but the intensified struggle is the most predictable, understandable development, given what has been taking place in the West Bank over the 11 months of the Gaza war. The only surprise is that it didn’t happen sooner.
Over the 11 months of war, Israel has ripped up the West Bank, just as it is now doing to roads in Tul Karm and Jenin; nothing is left of them. This is the hardest period the Palestinians have experienced since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, even harder since it’s taking place in the shadow of another attack, a more barbaric one, in Gaza. In contrast to Defensive Shield, the current assault has no reason or justification. Israel has exploited the war in Gaza to cause turmoil in the West Bank. The response was late in coming, but it has now arrived.
The Israeli assault has two arms this time: the army, Shin Bet and Border Police on one hand, and violent settler militias on the other. The two arms are coordinated; they don’t get in each other’s way. Sometimes they blend into each other, when the stormtroopers from the outposts don uniforms – these are the “emergency response teams,” which grant legitimization to every pogrom. The army takes care not to interfere, neither in small nor large incidents.
In this context, a statement by a senior military source who warned about settler violence over the weekend expressed unbelievable gall. “Jewish terror is causing great damage to security in the West Bank,” said the source, whose forces could and should have stopped Jewish terror a long time ago. There has not been a pogrom in which soldiers weren’t present and did nothing to stop it. Occasionally, they take part in it – and the senior officer dares lament it.
October 7 was not just a day of calamity for us, it was one for the Palestinians as well. There are no more words for describing what Israel has wrought in the Gaza Strip, but it didn’t hold back in the West Bank either, with the encouragement of the Kahanist cabinet members and the silence of the prime minister, other ministers and the public.
In recent weeks I have visited Jenin, Tul Karm, Qalqilyah, Ramallah and Hebron. Nothing resembles the reality of October 6, even though the West Bank played no part in the October 7 attack. On October 8, three million Palestinians there woke up to a new reality, not that the preceding one had been humane or legitimate. With a passion for vengeance and for seizing opportunities, the Israeli boot mercilessly pressed down harder on the West Bank’s neck.
Tens of thousands of acres were expropriated and robbed over these months; there is hardly a hill left in the West Bank without an Israeli flag or outpost that will one day be a city. Roadblocks have also returned in full force. You cannot move from one place to another in the West Bank without encountering them, waiting there, humiliated, for hours. You cannot plan anything in a reality in which at least 150,000 people have lost their livelihood, after work in Israel was completely closed to them. Everyone there has been penalized for October 7. Eleven months without wages leave their mark. What did you expect?
There is now a new kid on the block: the drone. Under the shadow of war, the air force has started firing into the densely populated West Bank. According to UN figures, 630 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the war began, 140 of them in 50 airstrikes. What is permitted in Gaza is now permitted in the West Bank. Soldiers have internalized this fact, and their conduct toward Palestinians has changed accordingly. If we’re not in Gaza, at least let us behave as if we were. Ask any Palestinian what he’s gone through. Despair has never been greater.
And after all that, there’s not going to be terror?
West Bank
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 09:15–16:55, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed Beit Rima, wounding a resident: Ahmed Maysara Al-Shaibi.
Israeli Army – ongoing assault: Jenin – Since midnight on 27 August, Occupation forces continue storming the city as well as the refugee camp.
Israeli Army attack – 5 wounded: Nablus – 19:05–22:05, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, invaded the town of Qusra in support of invading settlers, wounding five residents: Amir Abdul Azim Wadi, Bilal Nael Ibrahim Hassan, Omar Samer Masameer, Zaid Muhammad Aqla and Abdullah Rashid Araf Abu Rida.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Nablus – 23:20, the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition, wounded a resident while storming the city.
Israeli Army demolition with explosives – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 11:25, Israeli forces, in the Wadi al-Hariyya area of the city, used explosives to destroy an agricultural facility.
Israeli Army attack: Hebron – 22:50, Israeli troops opened fire, from a watchtower towards the entrance to al-Arroub refugee camp.
Israeli Army attack: Hebron – 00:50, the Israeli military fired live ammunition, during a raid on the city.
Home invasion and assault: Hebron – 09:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided the city, invaded a house and assaulted a resident: Issam Abu Afifa.
Home invasions refugee camp: Hebron – 03:30, Israeli forces raided the al-Fawar refugee camp and searched a number of homes.
Israeli Army population–control: Jerusalem – midnight, Israeli Occupation forces closed to traffic all entrances to the towns of Hizma and Anata.
Israeli Army population–control: Ramallah – 16:30, Israeli forces closed closed to traffic the entrance to Kafr Malik village.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 10:10, the Israeli Army closed the entrances to Wadi al-Joz and Khallet al-Ward, in the town of Bani Naim.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 16:25, Israeli troops closed the entrance to Umm al-Shaqhan village.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 17:05, the Israeli military closed all side entrances to the town of Bani Naim.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 18:40, Israeli soldiers closed road junctions at the town of Surif, as well as the village of al-Jab’a, and also closed the entrances to the al-Baqaria area in al-Samou as well as the villages of Abda, al-Simiya, Deir Razih and Susiya. The also closed off the Jourat al-Jamal area in the town of Yatta.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – 22:20, Israeli Occupation forces closed the bridge in Halhul.
Occupation settler violence: Tubas – 14:05–16:50, Occupation settlers raided the Wadi al-Faw area of the North Jordan Valley and terrorised shepherds, as well as people in their homes.
Occupation settler stoning: Qalqiliya – 23:20, Israelis, from the Kedumim Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles at the nearby roundabout on the main Qalqiliya to Nablus road.
Occupation settler population–control: Nablus – 11:35, an Israeli settler prevented a bulldozer from being used for work, in the area between the villages of Asira al-Qibliya and Immatin.
Occupation settler violence: Nablus – 16:00, Israelis, from the Ma’ale Ephraim settlement, assaulted and hospitalised a man: Khader Ahmed Turabi.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 16:15, Occupation settlers stoned vehicles, near the town of Aqraba.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 22:40, Israelis, from the Yitzhar Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles at the nearby roundabout, north of Huwara.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 23:15, Israelis, from the Yitzhar Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles on the bypass road opposite the village of Burin, causing damage to a truck.
Occupation settler violence: Hebron – 12:40 Israeli settlers assaulted two people, Anas Muhammad Daghmin and Mahmoud Ahmad Daghmin, in the Wadi Jaheesh area of al-Samou.
Occupation settler raid: Hebron – 15:10- 16:50, Israeli settlers raided the village of Zanuta.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 18:10, Israelis, from the Karmei Tzur Occupation settlement, bulldozed crops in the Khirbet al-Qat area.
Occupation settler stoning: Hebron – 19:00 Israelis, from the Bat Ayin Occupation settlement, invaded the outskirts of Surif and stoned people’s homes.
Occupation settler stoning: Hebron – 22:10 Israelis, from the Karmei Tzur Occupation settlement, stoned a passenger bus and assaulted people.
Raid: Jerusalem – 11:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of Kafr Aqab.
Raids: Ramallah – 09:15–16:55, Israeli forces raided Ni’lin as well as the villages of Qarawat Bani Zeid, Kafr Ein and Deir Abu Mash’al.
Raid: Ramallah – 10:10-11:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Aboud.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 15:30-17:20, Israeli troops raided the village of al-Mughayir, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Ramallah – 19:15, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Silwad.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 04:00, Israeli soldiers raided the town of Burqin, taking prisoner one person.
Raids: Tulkarem – 18:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of Attil as well as the villages of Nazlat Issa and Nazlat Abu al-Nar.
Raid: Tulkarem – 21:00–22:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Jbara.
Raid: Nablus – 11:50–13:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the eastern neighbourhoods of the city.
Raids: Nablus – 12:00–13:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Beit Furik as well as the village of Beit Dajan.
Raids: Nablus – 15:20, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Beita as well as the village of Odala.
Raid: Nablus – 16:55, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Burqa.
Raids – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 22:50–02:45, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled Asira al-Shamaliya as well as the village of Ijnisinya.
Raid – child injured: Nablus – 23:20–01:30, Israeli forces raided the city, injuring a child and taking prisoner one other person.
Raid: Nablus – 23:20, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Madama.
Raid: Jericho – 17:20, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the city.
Raid: Hebron – 17:05, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Beit Ummar.
Raid: Hebron – 21:05–23:50, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Sa’ir.
Raid: Hebron – 22:25, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Khursa.
Raid: Hebron – 23:25–00:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Ash-Shuyukh.
Raid: – 2 taken prisoner Hebron – 00:50, the Israeli Army raided the city, taking prisoner a man and a woman.
Raid: Hebron – 01:20–05:00, Israeli troops raided the town of Beit Awa.
Raid: Hebron – 02:00, the Israeli military raided the town of Yatta, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:10–05:00, Israeli soldiers raided the village of al-Majd, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided Halhul, taking prisoner a woman and a man. The man was taken for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
YAWN!!!!!