In Occupied Palestine – 17 April 2023
17 April 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.
Israeli Army position opens fire
on Gaza farmland
Refugee woman shot and wounded
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in 7 villages
3 attacks –
1 Israeli ceasefire violation
13 raids including home invasions
1 beaten – 4 wounded – 1 injured
1 abducted – 14 taken prisoner
2 acts of
agricultural/economic sabotage
Home invasions: dawn, al-Bireh – 01:55-04:40, Beit Jallah – 01:55-04:40, Za’tara – 04:35, Beit Ummar.
Peace disruption raids: 18:30, al-Ram – 10:55, Deir Qadis – 06:20-07:35, Umm Safa – 06:20-07:35, Deir al-Sudan – 17:00-19:30, al-Jalama – 22:05-01:15, Jalboun – 22:35-01:40, Zububa – 23:05-02:05, Husan village – 21:10, al-Dhahiriya.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – agricultural sabotage: Khan Yunis – evening, an Israeli Army position, behind the Green Line, opened fire towards agricultural land east of Khuza’a.
Israeli Army attack – home invasions – 2 wounded: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces, in al-Bireh, fired live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters as they stormed into homes, wounding two people: Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Sabha and Nasim Yazid Mahmoud Odeh.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Bethlehem – Israeli forces, operating near the Gush Etzion Occupation settlement, shot and seriously wounded a woman from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Fatima Ismail Abdel Rahman Shaheen, and took her prisoner.
Home invasions: Bethlehem – 01:55-04:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided Beit Jallah and Za’tara, invading and searching a number of homes.
Home invasion – 1 child abducted – 2 adults taken prisoner: Hebron – 04:35, Israeli forces raided Beit Ummar, abducting a 14-year-old boy, Wasim Mohammed Fares Al-Shaqdam, and taking prisoner two other people.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 01:30, fired near Al-Quds University.
Israeli Army population-control – pastoral sabotage: Salfit – 15:00, Israeli troops seized and removed a shepherd, Ali Fawzat Raya, while he was grazing sheep on pastoral land near the Netafim Occupation settlement.
Israeli Army beating and hospitalisation: Jericho – 20:30, Israeli Occupation forces stopped a vehicle at the northern entrance to Jericho checkpoint, beating and hospitalising the driver, Abdul Qadir Masharqa, while he was making his way to work.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 21:20, fired near the entrance to the al-Aroub UN refugee camp.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 22:00, fired by the Abu al-Rish checkpoint.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Hebron – 22:15, fired near the Khaled bin Al-Walid Mosque.
Israeli Army assault – youngster wounded: Hebron – 00:50, Beit Ummar: rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters fired, wounding a 17-year-old youth: Hassan Ayman Qauqas Khalil.
Occupation settler stoning – injury and hospitalisation: Ramallah – 12:20, stone-throwing settlers, on the main road near Turmusaya, injured and hospitalised a pedestrian: Imad Fayez Haj Mohammed.
Occupation settler population-control: Jericho – 17:40, Israeli settlers closed to traffic the road junction in the centre of al-Auja.
Raid – with stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 18:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled al-Ram.
Raid: Ramallah – 10:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Deir Qadis.
Raids: Ramallah – 06:20-07:35, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the villages of Umm Safa and Deir al-Sudan.
Raid – with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jenin – 17:00-19:30, Israeli troops, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled al-Jalama.
Raid: Jenin – 22:05-01:15, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Jalboun village.
Raid – with stun grenades and tear gas canisters : Jenin – 22:35-01:40, Israeli soldiers, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled Zububa.
Raid: Bethlehem – 23:05-02:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Husan village.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 21:10, Husan forces raided al-Dhahiriya, taking prisoner one person.
Restrictions of movement (24): 11:30, tightened procedures at Qalandiya military checkpoint – 16:45, Wadi al-Delb Road closed – 17:50, entrances to the villages of Ras Karkar and Kafr Ni’ma closed – 09:05, tightened procedures at the Tayasir checkpoint – 10:00, eastern entrance to Qalqiliya – 10:30, tightened procedures at the Huwara checkpoint – 01:25, Beit Furik checkpoint closed – 20:35, Surra village road junction: one taken prisoner – 23:00, western entrance to Deir Istiya – 20:30, northern entrance to Jericho – 20:35-22:50, eastern entrance to Jericho – 20:35-22:50, southern entrance to Jericho – 03:30, northern entrance to Jericho – 09:30, northern entrance to Tuqu’ – 12:30-13:50, Aqbat Hasna area – 11:35-13:05, entrance to the village of Carmel – 18:30-19:50, entrance to Bani Naim – 00:45, entrance to the village of al-Tuwani – 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 4, Tubas 1, Salfit 1, Bethlehem 3.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
Saw only one response here and waddyaknow! Thanks for keeping us up to date Bravery/ies. I wondered if Amnesty International is still current and thought that this link about 2022 might be interesting giving their activity.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
The replies to the current Palestine-Israeli reports often appear to be dominated by one single commenter gaby merely putting ‘Yawn.’ I object to this appearing here and I think that it is quite reasonable to place a time-limited, say month, ban on this insulting person. Free speech does not encompass regular repetitive demeaning and disrespectful harassment. It is obsessive and provocative behaviour. This is not just uncivil, it demeans the blog and us. I object and would like my suggestion made above adopted. I hope others feel as bad as I do or more so. It is rude, unreasonable, uninformative and lacking humanity.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
More detail.
Disregard the previous More Detail. I wasn’t sure that I had put the Amnesty International link up, but I had so its a repeat.
But this is the latest from Scoop.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2304/S00045/erasure-vs-sumud-how-the-nakba-came-to-define-the-collective-palestinian-identity.htm
Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion, known as the ‘Catastrophe’, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 500 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants in historic Palestine between late 1947 and mid-1948….
In a speech before the ‘UN World Conference against Racism’ in 2001, Palestinian intellectual, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi aptly described the Palestinian people as “a nation in captivity held hostage to an ongoing Nakba”. Elaborating, Ashrawi described this ‘ongoing Nakba’ as “the most intricate and pervasive expression of persistent colonialism, apartheid, racism and victimization.” This means that we must not think of the Nakba only as an event in time and place.
Though the massive influx of refugees in 1947-48 was a direct outcome of the Zionist ethnic cleansing campaign as devised in ‘Plan Dalet’, that event had officially ushered in a greater Nakba, which continues to this day. ‘Plan Dalet’, or Plan D, was initiated by the Zionist leadership and carried out by the Zionist militias with the aim of emptying Palestine of most of its native inhabitants. They did so successfully, while paving the way for decades of violence and suffering, the brunt of which was borne by the Palestinian people…
– Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out’. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter’ and ‘The Last Earth’. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA)