In Occupied Palestine – 17 September 2023
17 September 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 Navy opens fire on and
pursues Palestinian fishing boats
Israeli Army positions open fire
on Gaza farmland
Israeli Army positions open fire
on protesters in Gaza
Home invasion and destruction
Night peace disruption and/or
home invasions in 2 villages
7 attacks –
7 Israeli ceasefire violations
7 raids
including home invasions
7 wounded – 3 injured
3 beaten up – 4 taken prisoner
2 acts of
agricultural/economic sabotage
Home invasions: Jerusalem – morning, Furush Beit Dajan – 00:55-02:20, Tuqu’.
Peace disruption raids: 13:00-15:10, Kafr Thulth – 20:50-23:00, Saniriya – 13:25, Awarta – evening, Beit Furik.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – 4 wounded: Northern Gaza – 16:30, an Israeli Army position, behind the Green Line, opened fire towards protesters in Jabalia, wounding four people, three of whom are news reporters.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack on protesters: Gaza – evening, Israeli forces, positioned behind the Green Line, opened fire on protesters in Gaza.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack on protesters: Central Gaza – evening, an Israeli Army position, behind the Green Line, opened fire towards protesters near the al-Bureij refugee camp.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack on protesters: Khan Yunis – evening, Israeli forces, positioned behind the Green Line, opened fire on protesters to the east of Khuza’a.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack – agricultural sabotage: Khan Yunis – dawn, an Israeli Army position, behind the Green Line, opened fire towards al-Qarara farmland.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Army attack on protesters – 2 wounded: Rafah – evening, Israeli forces, positioned behind the Green Line, opened fire on demonstrators, wounding two people.
Ceasefire violation – Israeli Navy attack – 1 wounded – economic sabotage: Rafah – 20:00, the Israeli Navy opened fire on, and pursued, Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah, wounding one crew member: Mazen Jamil Harb.
Home invasions – 2 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – raiding Israeli Occupation forces invaded homes in Jerusalem, taking prisoner two residents: Mohammed Munther Akkawi and Daniel Abu Nasra.
Home invasion and destruction: Nablus – morning, Israeli forces demolished a house in the village of Furush Beit Dajan, as well asanother under construction.
Home invasion: Bethlehem – 00:55-02:20, the Israeli Army invaded Tuqu’ and searched a home.
Israeli Army – beatings : Jerusalem – morning, Israeli Occupation forces severely beat up three people, near the Bab al-Silsilah entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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 Army assault with rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters: Jerusalem – 22:30, the Israeli Army fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards people, near the Shuafat checkpoint.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters – population-control: Nablus – evening, Israeli troops, in Huwara, fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters while forcing the closure of shops.
Israeli Army assault with stun grenades and tear gas canisters in support of raiding settlers: Nablus – evening, the Israeli military fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people in Qusra, to support settlers stoning their homes.
Occupation settler stoning and Israeli Army complicity: Nablus – evening, Israelis, from the Esh Kodesh Occupation settlement outpost, stoned homes on the south-eastern side of Qusra, with support from the Israeli Army firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters at people trying to defend their homes.
Occupation settler land-grab: Hebron – evening, Israelis, from the Karmiel Occupation settlement, seized an area of nearby land and fenced it off.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 13:00-15:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Kafr Thulth.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 20:50-23:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Saniriya.
Raid: Nablus – 13:25, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Awarta.
Raid: Nablus – evening, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Beit Furik.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets fired: Nablus – evening, Israeli soldiers, firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled Beit Furik.
Restrictions of movement (27): 16:10, tightened measures at al-Za’ayem checkpoint – 22:00, tightened procedures at Jaba checkpoint – 11:15, near Atara Bridge – 12:00, entrance to village of Ein Yabroud – 16:15, entrance to Beit Ur al-Tahta – 18:05, entrance to village of Nabi Saleh – 18:05, Deir Nizam – 18:05, Deir Abu Mashal – 18:05, Wadi al-Delb road – 16:55, 2 entrances to Araba – 07:55, tightened Einav checkpoint – 21:15, between Azzun and Kafr Thulth – 22:00, near entrance to village of Izbit al-Tabib – 12:55, Sarra village road junction – 19:35, tightened measures at Huwara checkpoint – 22:30, entrance to village of Burin – 22:40, tightened measures at Beit Furik checkpoint – 07:10, tightened measures at Hamra checkpoint – 19:20, southern entrance to Jericho – 10:40, northern entrance to Tuqu’ – 11:50, entrance to Janata – 09:45-12:30, Jabal al-Rahma district – 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, Nablus 1.
[NB: Times indicated in Bold Type contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children]
Something seen on Scoop. Sounds interesting so I’m putting it up here.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2309/S00033/tel-avivs-losing-brands-israeli-coup-and-the-death-of-false-democracy.htm
To maintain the charade, Israel’s task was fairly straightforward: maintaining a facade of democracy at home – even if this democracy is racially-oriented and exclusionist – and providing enough ‘stability’ to allow foreign companies to trust that their investments in Israel are safe.
Actual, verifiable truth in these kinds of situations is hardly relevant. All that matters are slogans and cliches – and enough people in power who are willing to repeat those slogans, and even believe in the cliches.
Over the years, Israel thus emerged as the “only democracy in the Middle East” and an “oasis of freedom and stability” that is protected by “the most moral army in the world”, and so on.
But this pseudo-reality can only exist in relative terms; for Israel to be elevated, the Arabs had to be tarnished and demeaned, despite the fact that it was Israel that illegally occupied Arab land and waged repeated wars on Palestinians and other Arab nations.
The perfect illustration, until recently, of the successful Israel model is a statement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on September 13, 2012, almost precisely 11 years ago.
Toasting top military commanders at the Israeli Army General Staff Forum on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, Netanyahu summed up Israel’s sense of triumphalism in a few words.
“We live in a volatile and stormy region. Its explosions and storms are increasing. The strength of the IDF has helped ensure that we remain an island of stability amidst the storms,” Netanyahu said.
Two facts may have escaped Netanyahu, back then. One, that much of the “explosions and storms” in the modern history of the Middle East were outcomes of Israel’s own doing – military invasions, occupation and other destabilizing factors.
And, two, in the words of Heraclitus: “the only constant in life is change”.