In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 17 January 2025 until 08:00, 18 January 2025
[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: 23 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to at least 46,899. Another 83 have been wounded, bringing that total to 110,725. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 99 and, that of those injured, is now more than 236.
Killing for killing’s sake in Gaza
By Seymour Hersh | 19 January 2025
Gaza has become a killing field—that is the view of a well-informed Israeli veteran who was an enthusiastic supporter of the initial Israeli response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. What began as a retaliatory war by the internationally revered Israel Defence Forces against a disciplined Hamas guerrilla force turned into the systematic starvation of a society whose civilian survivors—men, women, and children—are the victims of an Israeli military whose combat units are often led by the second generation of Israeli settlers. These officers, increasingly prominent as the war in Gaza goes on, are religious zealot majors and lieutenant colonels who believe it is their calling to shoot and kill any Palestinian who moves, whether combatant or civilian.
There are more than 120 Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including fifteen in East Jerusalem. There are also more than two hundred illegal outposts that are supplied with weapons by the increasingly radical Israeli government while not officially sanctioned by that government. Violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has grown steadily, including Israeli Air Force bombing missions.
The IDF recruiting pattern explains the growing violence against Palestinian men, women, and children in the war. I was told that 40 to 45 percent of today’s higher officers in the IDF come from settler families in the West Bank who combine “deep religiosity with Netanyahu’s political fervour.’’ The Israeli veteran told me of watching in horror, with colleagues, as Israeli bombings and earth-moving machinery were continuing to, as he put it, “level” north Gaza and turn it into a dead zone. He said that there “have been more and more reports of colonels and even generals issuing orders to kill every Palestinian you see and destroy every building still standing. Israel’s war in Gaza has become fanatical.
He was referring to a devastating article published in December by Haaretz, the liberal Israeli daily that is under increasing attack by the Netanyahu administration. The article focused on the Netzarim Corridor, once a narrow partially paved road separating north and south Gaza that has since the 10/7 attack been expanded by the IDF into a two-and-a-half-mile wide safe zone that runs the entire four-mile width of the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of nearby buildings, including a hospital, were bulldozed to clear space for the IDF. The zone is commanded by more than a few officers who, Haaretz reported, routinely order IDF soldiers to execute Gazans, including those who come with children in tow, seeking food and safety. Read whole article:
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Since midnight on 07 October 2023, Occupation forces have been imposing a complete closure around the whole of the West Bank, preventing people (including even permit– holders) from entering both Jerusalem City as well as Israel, otherwise than for especially–negotiated exceptions. Permanent military checkpoints impose severe travel restrictions within the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli Army attack: Jenin – 17:00, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed and patrolled the village of Arbouna.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Nablus – 21:10, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Sebastia, wounding a resident: Izz al-Din Ahmed al-Shaer.
Home invasion: Jerusalem – 13:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Anata and invaded a home.
Home invasion: Tubas – 22:30, Israeli forces raided the village of al-Far’a and searched a house.
Israeli Army – abduction of youngster – 3 adults taken prisoner: Jerusalem – 12:00, Israeli Occupation forces abducted a 17-year-old youth, Ibrahim Bilal Taha, in the Shuafat Refugee Campand took prisoner three other residents.
Israeli Army – stun grenades fired: Jerusalem – 00:30, Israeli forces fired stun grenades at people, in the village of al-Issawiya.
Israeli Army – beatings-up and hospitalisation: Ramallah – 19:20, the Israeli Army beat-up two people, Ali Muhammad Abu Naim and Rabi’ Abu Naim, in the Khalayel area, south of al-Mughayir village, hospitalising them with severe fractures and bruising.
Israeli Army – population–control: Ramallah – entrance to Ein Yabrud village leading to Route 60, closed.
Israeli Army – population–control: Tulkarem – main entrance to the town of Beit Lid, closed – western and southern entrances to the village of Shufa, closed.
Israeli Army – population–control – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Qalqiliya – 13:00, Israeli troops fired rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades at people protesting against restrictions of entry and exit to the village of Kafr Qaddum.
Israeli Army – population–control: Qalqiliya – 01:20, entrance to the village of Nabi Elias, closed for a time.
Israeli Army – population–control: Bethlehem – entrance to the town of Beit Fajjar, closed – western entrance to the town of Tuqu, closed – entrance to the town of Janata, closed – Qabr Hilweh junction, east of the city of Beit Sahour, closed.
Israeli Army – population–control: Hebron – the Israeli military continued with the closure of Farsh al-Hawa, entrance – the entrance to the Fahs area, south of Hebron, the Qalqas roundabout,south of Hebron, the southern entrance to Sa’ir, the eastern entrance to Dura as well as the entrances to Idhna, al-Dhahiriya and the al-Fawar refugee camp.
Israeli Army – population–control: Hebron – 20:15, Israeli soldiers closed, for a time, the main entrance to Beit Kahil.
Occupation settler arson and violence: Ramallah – Israeli Occupation settlers terrorised farmers working their land, north of Shuqba village, and set fire to a farm vehicle.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – Israeli settlers, in Turmusaya, stoned a vehicle with a person inside, shattering the windows.
Occupation settler land-grab: Tubas – 08:45, Occupation settlers seized an area of land, in the Khirbet Humsa district of the North Jordan Valley, and carried out excavation work for the setting–up of a settlement outpost there.
Occupation settler arson – agricultural sabotage: Tulkarem – 14:00, Israeli settlers invaded Kafr Aboush agricultural land and set fire to a bulldozer.
Occupation settler land-grab – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 09:10, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded and bulldozed land, in the village of Naqoura, and laid the foundations for theestablishment of a new settlement outpost and park in the area.
Occupation settler land-grab – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 12:10, Occupation settlers placed a mobile home on land, north of the town of Qusra, and closed the road leading to local agriculture.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Salfit – 11:40, Israeli settlers felled around 100 olive trees, on Yasuf village land.
Occupation settler invasion: Jericho – dawn, Israeli Occupation settlers raided and occupied the grounds of the Arab Al-Malihat community‘s Al-Ka’abneh Elementary School, in the al-Ma’arjat area, north–west of the city.
Occupation settler plunder – pastoral sabotage: Jericho – evening, Israeli settlers, invading Arab al-Maliha community land, plundered the area of 53–head of sheep.
Occupation settler violence: Jericho – 21:00, Occupation settlers beat-up a man, Khader Afana, along the al-Ma’arjat Road.
Occupation settler violence: Hebron – an Israeli Occupation settlement shepherd assaulted a person, while releasing his sheep on land planted with olive trees in the al-Masafer area, east of Yatta.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – 01:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided al-Eizariya, taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Ramallah – 12:40, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Beit Lilo.
Raid: Ramallah – 14:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Silwad.
Raid – on refugee camp: Ramallah – 23:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the Jalazoun refugee camp.
Raid: Ramallah – 00:50, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Kharbatha al-Misbah.
Raid: Ramallah – 03:00, Israeli soldiers again raided and patrolled the town of Silwad.
Raids: Jenin – 16:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the villages of Taybeh, Rumana, Zububa, Anin and Ti’inik.
Raids: Jenin – 17:00, Israeli forces raided the villages of Jalameh, Arranah, Deir Ghazaleh and Faqua.
Raid: Jenin – 22:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Ya’bad.
Raids: Tulkarem – 16:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the villages of Kafr Abbush, Kafr Zibad and Kafr Jamal.
Raid: Tulkarem – 18:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the city.
Raids: Tulkarem – 21:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the villages of Izbit Shufa and Farun.
Raid: Tulkarem – 07:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of Quffin.
Raids: Qalqiliya – 10:45, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the villages of Baqa al-Hatab, Kafr Laqif and Hajja.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 12:10, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Beit Amin.
Raid – surveillance: Qalqiliya – 14:20, Israeli troops raided the village of Beit Amin, as well as the Council‘s Headquarters to search surveillance–camera recordings.
Raid – surveillance: Qalqiliya – 16:10, the Israeli military raided the village of Izbit Salman and examined a number of shop surveillance-camera recordings.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 16:15, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Jayus.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 16:15, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the city.
Raids: Nablus – 11:10, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Aqraba as well as the village of Osirin.
Raid – population–control: Nablus – 12:30, the Israeli Army raided the town of Beita, firing stun grenades at people protesting against land-seizure for Occupation settlement projects.
Raids: Nablus – 13:25, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the villages of Jalloud and Qaryut.
Raid: Nablus – 19:05, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Awarta.
Raids: Nablus – 21:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Beit Furik, as well as the village of Beit Dajan.
Raid: Nablus – 06:35, Israeli Occupation forces again raided and patrolled the village of Qaryut.
Raids: Salfit – 00:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the towns of Bruqin and Kafr al-Dik.
Raid: Bethlehem – 10:35, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of al-Khadr.
Raids: Bethlehem – 13:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Beit Fajjar, as well as the villages of Umm Salmuna and Abu Nujaym.
Raid – 1 take prisoner: Bethlehem – 14:10, the Israeli military raided the town of Tuqu, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Bethlehem – 15:55, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Janata.
Raid: Hebron – 10:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of Bani Naim.
Raid: Hebron – 10:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Sa’ir.
Raid: Hebron – 16:45, the Israeli Army raided the town of Dura.
Raid: Hebron – 17:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – abduction: Hebron – 00:30, the Israeli military raided the town of Idhna and abducted a 16-year-old youth, Moataz Ahmed Khalil Al-Batran, as well as taking prisoner three other residents.
Raid: Hebron – 01:50, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Yatta.
Raid: Hebron – 05:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of Dura.