In Occupied Palestine – 05 August 2023

05 August 2023 {Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG):

https://www.nad.ps/en/violations-reports/daily-report NB:The period covered by this newsletter is taken from the PMG’s 24-hour sitrep ending 8am the day after the above date.}

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.

Joint settler and Israeli Army

violence – agricultural sabotage

Israeli Army position opens fire

on shepherds in Gaza

12-year-old child abducted

Night peace disruption and/or

home invasions in refugee camp

and 10 towns and villages

3 attacks – 2 wounded

1 Israeli Gaza ceasefire violation

16 raids including home invasions

6 acts of

agricultural/pastoral sabotage

8 taken prisoner

Home invasions: 02:30-05:30, Rumana – 11:30-15:20, Yatta – dawn, Beit Awa.

Peace disruption raids: 19:40-21:50, al-Ram – 14:40-17:45, Shufa village – 18:30-22:40, Tulkarem – 20:45-22:40, Azzun – 02:50-05:50, Hablat – 13:05, Deir al-Hatab – 19:00-22:35, Tal village – 22:30, Beita – 22:30, Azmut – 00:45, Salem – 00:45, Deir al-Hatab – 01:45, Ein Beit al-Ma UN refugee camp – 19:40, Ithna. 13

Palestinian missile attacks: none.

Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – pastoral sabotage: Rafah – morning, an Israeli Army position behind the Green Line opened fire towards shepherds, near the Sufa crossing.

Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 20:45, Israeli Occupation forces opened fire on a vehicle, near the entrance to Turmusaya, wounding a resident: Basil Issa Shalabi.

Israeli Army attack – agricultural sabotage: 02:30-05:30, one person was wounded and two others were taken prisoner as IsraeliOccupation forces, firing live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, stormed the village of Rumana, invading and surveying a home, preparing to demolish it.

Home invasions: Hebron – 11:30-15:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided Yatta and searched two homes.

Home invasions: Hebron – dawn, Israeli forces raided Beit Awa and searched a number of homes.

Israeli Army – abduction of child: Jerusalem – 19:00, Israeli Occupation forces, in the Old City, abducted a 12-year-old child: Anas Tariq Wazouz.

Israeli Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 21:30, Israeli forces fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards people in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighbourhood.

Israeli Army assault, supporting raiding settlers – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 21:00, the Israeli Army fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people in the village of al-Tuwani, to support raiding, armed Occupation settlers who were laying waste to crops on village farmland.

Occupation settler stoning: Jerusalem – 21:00, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the entrance to al-Eizariya.

Occupation settler land-grab: Ramallah – 18:45, Israeli settlers set up camp in the village of Beitillu, in order to establish a new settlement outpost.

Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – evening, Israelis, from the Beit El Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles near the al-Mahkama checkpoint.

Occupation settler stoning: Tubas – 18:00, Israeli settlers stoned a home in the North Jordan Valley.

Occupation settler vandalism and pastoral sabotage: Tubas – evening, Occupation settlers partly destroyed a livestock-rearing shelter in the Khallet Makhoul area of the North Jordan Valley.

Occupation settler population-control and pastoral sabotage: Tubas – Israeli settlers forced shepherds to abandon their grazing livestock and keep away from pastoral land in the North Jordan Valley al-Hamah area.

Occupation settler and Israeli Army joint violence and agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 21:00, armed Israelis, from the Hafat Ma’on Occupation settlement outpost near the village of al-Tuwani, attacked al-Tuwani village farmers and destroyed their crops, with Israeli Army support. The Israeli military fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

Raid: Jerusalem – 19:40-21:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Ram.

Raid: Tulkarem – 14:40-17:45, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Shufa village.

Raid: Tulkarem – 18:30-22:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the city.

Raid – stun grenades and tear gas canisters fired: Qalqiliya – 20:45-22:40, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters,raided and patrolled Azzun.

Raid: Qalqiliya – 02:50-05:50, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Hablat.

Raid: Nablus – 13:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Deir al-Hatab.

Raid: Nablus – 19:00-22:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Tal village.

Raid: Nablus – 22:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Beita as well as the village of Azmut.

Raids: Nablus – 00:45, the Israeli Army raided as well as patrolling the villages of Salem and Deir al-Hatab.

Raid – refugee camp: Nablus – 01:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the Ein Beit al-Ma refugee camp.

Raid: Hebron – 19:40, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Ithna.

Restrictions of movement (21): 23:50, entrance to al-Eizariya – 14:00-16:40, near Atara Bridge – 19:55, Ein Ayoub area near village of Ras Karkar – morning, Araba roundabout between Qabatiya and village of Massalia – 18:30-02:05, tightened procedures at the Einav checkpoint – 17:30, northern entrance to Azzun – 10:55, Surra village road junction – 16:00, al-Muraba’a road junction – 16:20, tightened procedures at the Deir Sharaf checkpoint – 01:30, entrance to village of Madama – 19:40, northern entrance to Tuqu’ – 20:20, southern entrance to Bethlehem – 14:15-16:00, entrance to village of Susiya – 17:40, entrance to Beit Awa – 21:00-22:00, entrance to the al-Aroub refugee camp;one person taken prisoner – 23:10, Tarama village road junction – 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 3, Tulkarem 1, Hebron 2.

[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]