In Occupied Palestine – 01 August 2023
01 August 2023 {Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG):
https://www.nad.ps/en/
We shall always do our best to verify the accuracy of all items in these IOP newsletters/reports wherever possible [e.g. we often suspect that names of people and places that we see in the PMG sitreps could be typos; also the translation into English seems rather odd ~ but sincewe, sadly, do not speak Arabic, we have no alternative but to copy and paste these names from the PMG sitreps!] – please forgive us for any errors or omissions – Leslie and Marian.
Youngster wounded
during home invasions
Child wounded by Israeli troops
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in 5 towns and villages
4 attacks – 1 killed – 5 wounded
19 raids including home invasions
1 abducted
2 acts of agricultural sabotage
15 taken prisoner
Home invasions: 01:25, Silwad – 19:00, al-Eizariya – 06:00-07:50, Aqbat Jabir refugee camp – evening, Za’tara – evening, Beit Tamar – 02:20, Hebron.
Peace disruption raids: 19:00, Jerusalem – dawn, Anata – 10:10, al-Qibliya – 11:20, Kafr Ni’ma – 17:00, al-Mazra’a – 14:35-17:30, Araba – 18:40, Toura – evening, Ya’bad – evening, Nazlet Zaid – Tulkarem – 22:30, Hajjah – 03:15-05:35, al-Asakra – 05:20, Dura.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Israeli Army attack – 1 killed: Jerusalem – 16:00, Israeli forces shot and killed a man, Muhannad Muhammad Suleiman Al-Mazra’a, at the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim Occupation settlement, after he had opened fire on and wounded five settlers.
Israeli Army attack – a youngster wounded during home invasions: Ramallah – 01:25, raiding Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, invaded a number of homes in Silwad, wounding a 17-year-old youth: Ramzi Fathi Abdel Rahman Hamed.
Israeli Army attack – 3 wounded: Nablus – 22:25-03:00, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, stormed into Nablus accompanied settlers, wounding three residents and causing 35 tear gas casualties.
Israeli Army attack – a child wounded: Hebron – 19:40, the Israeli Army, south of al-Samou’, shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy: Mohammed Farid Shawqi Al-Za’arir.
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 Occupation population-control: Jerusalem – evening, a Jerusalem resident, Azzam Ali Al-Razem, has been forced out and prevented from re-entering the city for a period of 15 days.
Israeli Occupation economic vandalism: Salfit – 08:05, Israeli Occupation forces demolished a warehouse in Deir Ballut.
Israeli Army – abduction: Bethlehem – 11:20, a 16-year-old youth, Nasser Thaer Nasser Asaad, was abducted when he reported, as ordered, for interrogation by Israeli Intelligence.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Hebron – Israeli forces uprooted grapevines as well as 40 olive trees on land in the Khallet Abu Sakour area of Tarqumiya.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Hebron – the Israeli Army uprooted dozens of almond and citrus trees in the village of Soba, and laid waste to privately-owned farmland.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 22:25, Israelis, from the Beit El Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles on the nearbyroad to the al-Jalazoun refugee camp.
Occupation settler stoning and other vandalism: Nablus – evening, Israeli settlers invaded the southern outskirts of Burin village and stoned the home of a villager, Umm Ayman Soufan, smashing windows in the house as well as a vehicle parked in front of it. The settlers also seized and removed a fence surrounding the villager’s land.
Occupation settler land-grab: Hebron – Israelis, from the Karmei Tzur Occupation settlement, set up camp on nearby land in the Khirbet al-Qat area, after having assaulted the landowners.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets: Jerusalem – 19:00, raiding and patrolling Israeli Occupation forces fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli forces raided Anata, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Ramallah – 10:10, the Israeli Army raided the village of al-Qibliya and invaded a bakery.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 11:20, Israeli troops raided the village of Kafr Ni’ma, taking prisoner three people.
Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Ramallah – 17:00, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled al-Mazra’a.
Raid: Jenin – 14:35-17:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Araba.
Raid: Jenin – 18:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Toura.
Raids – stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jenin – evening, Israeli forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled Ya’bad, as well as the village of Nazlet Zaid.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – the Israeli Army raided the al-Shuweika suburb of the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 22:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Hajjah.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 03:15-05:35, the Israeli military raided the village of al-Asakra, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 05:20, Israeli soldiers raided Dura, taking prisoner one person.
Restrictions of movement (19): morning, Dotan checkpoint – 08:00, Einav checkpoint – 10:30, eastern entrance to Qalqiliya – 10:30, under Azun Bridge – 12:30, entrance to the village of Izbit al-Tabib – 14:00, Huwara – 01:30, Surra village road junction; one taken prisoner – 19:45-21:15, western entrance to Deir Istiya – 15:55, southern entrance to Jericho – entrance to Dar Abu Raya closed with concrete blocks – 08:50, northern entrance to Tuqu’ – 18:30-20:10, southern entrance to Bethlehem – 20:30-21:15, northern entrance to Tuqu’ – 00:55-02:05, western entrance to Beit Fajjar – Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing closed – al-Mantar-Karni crossing closed – al-Shujaiyeh crossing (Nahal Oz) closed – Sufa crossing closed – al-Awda Port closed.
Numbers relating to other people reportedly taken prisoner:
Jerusalem 1, Tubas 1, Nablus 1, Hebron 2.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
Hello Leslie and Palestine. We do care but are overwhelmed by all the sh…e going on here and elsewhere. But I am going to try and regularly put up at least a word to note that I care though the quality of mercy is strained and diluted. Seeing there is such a yawning void in most of our heads. There must be concern shown to indicate NZ awareness of such bad things as are happening in Palestine launched by Israel, which are rooted in WW2 and earlier times in gross behaviour to Jews.
This is, I have realised, an example of how we have lost the meaning of the major lesson we should have learned from the Jewish Holocaust. Though it wasn’t the only cruel mass onslaught in history, it marked a zenith because of its industrial callousness and mass that has never been equalled for sustained cruelty. In biblical times there was Sparctacus and crucifixions lining the road for miles.
The rebel slaves of the Third Servile War: Between 73 and 71 BCE, a band of slaves, eventually numbering about 120,000, under the (at least partial) leadership of Spartacus were in open revolt against the Roman republic. The rebellion was eventually crushed and, while Spartacus himself most likely died in the final battle of the revolt, approximately 6,000 of his followers were crucified along the 200-km Appian Way between Capua and Rome as a warning to any other would-be rebels.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/spartacus/
Cruel deaths in pre-Christian times – https://www.worldhistory.org/crucifixion/
How far we have come? And why we must examine our world view, personal and societal.
In WW2 there were two nuclear bombs dropped by the USA, deadly for just a few minutes, and with a poisonous aftermath. There has also been in the 20th century a rain of small bombs, cluster bombs, butterfly bombs that would blow up on contact and land mines despoiling fertile land needed for crops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Bomb
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/10/timeline-use-of-controversial-cluster-bombs-in-past-conflicts
Princess Diana and her brave campaign (that was conjectured led to her death):
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/03/monarchy.freedomofinformation
Yes Minister extract (the writers were very savvy on the politicians and policies they wrote about) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhLFOK4BWak
But for sustained viciousness, the German Nazis gathering and disposing of Jews over years using little force compared to previous wars, mainly coercion, chemicals, starvation, and discipline of armed forces, with rewards, safety, good pay or conditions was at once the zenith of viciousness and the nadir of our hope for a better humanity. It happened in a settled and advanced country, with universities and advanced disciplines, philosophers, scientists, creative people from the humanities, and where the Protestant version of religion was dramatically born. But if people in general aren’t individually awaken in their own heads to what constitutes good and evil and led to a desire for restraint in own behaviour for their own self-respect above respect for authority or the loudest mouth, there is a default morality that can arise of respectability and societal fashion that spreads its attractive covering over sins which can grow in that situation to become too ugly. (Put TDB Caption 28/7 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/07/28/political-caption-competition-2032/ in your mind to represent this reprehensible misalignment of our genes in pictorial form.)
What is the virtue of mercy?
Mercy is the virtue of forgiveness. It is the decision to stop hating and to renounce vengeance. It is about your choice, not other’s choice. Mercy does not nullify the evil, and it does not give up the fight against evil; it is your refusal to be drawn into evil, to add to the hate, or to continue the violence.7 Mei 2023
Virtues/Mercy – Wikiversity wikiversity.org
https://en.wikiversity.org › wiki › Virtues › Mercy
The ways of humans are strange and convoluted. But it seems it is our destiny to find a perceptive personal way to express our humanity and part is finding mercy, both for ourselves and showing it to others. Finally this ritual in the Philippines: The Filipino Catholic Church has repeatedly voiced disapproval of crucifixions and self-flagellation, while the government has noted that it cannot deter devotees. The Department of Health recommends that participants in the rites should have tetanus shots and that the nails used should be sterilized…Despite this, the practice persists in the Philippines, where some Catholics are voluntarily, non-lethally crucified for a limited time on Good Friday to imitate the sufferings of Christ. Pre-sterilised nails are driven through the palm of the hand between the bones, while there is a footrest to which the feet are nailed.
Trying to find goodness in ourselves and society by law is asinine, is a mistaken effort only leading to excesses by the non-compliant. Can we be bright enough to acknowledge and bring in laws that restrain and explain to the perpetrators the different ways of perception for their unsatisfactory ways? It would be merciful to all of us in the short run and on till the end of our time, which might be longer then than otherwise. In the world NZ/AO is apparently regarded as a useful petri dish to try out devious means of satisfying the elemental desires of those who know no parameters. Let us go forth with our torch like Olympians with the good oil!
https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
W.H.Auden
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism’s face
And the international wrong.
I saw Manitas de Plata when overseas in 70’s. Thought you might like these.
Here flamenco guitarist Manitas in 1967.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eex1aqbfP08
Manitas de Plata – Por el camino de Ronda 8.06m
Like? 32m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDc49DG5mc
Manitas de Plata the greatest flamenco guitarist in the world here, in full concert during year 1986. With Bambo, Manéro, Nanasso
1967 Family scrapbook? 4.01m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXAffJs_fU