Israeli Violations in Palestine
The present report is a monthly report which has been prepared by Fatah Movement in Egypt -English Department- to provide an update on Israel’s violations and crimes against the land and people of Palestine, military notifications, settler attacks, racist and inciting statements, and activities aimed at creating and expanding settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Such grave violations of international law illustrate Israeli policies of annexation and colonization the it continues to commit.
1 Jan, 2020
- Hardcore Israeli settlers the night before attacked a house with stones in the village of Huwwara, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
- At least one Palestinian protester was injured by rubber-coated rounds and others sustained suffocation from teargas, as Israeli occupation forces assaulted hundreds of protesters taking part in the weekly nonviolent protest in the village of Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah, against Israel’s plan to build a new settlement outpost in the area.
- Hardcore Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian herders while they were grazing their sheep in the area of Al-Thaala, near the town of Yatta in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
- A Palestinian man was shot and critically injured by Israeli occupation forces today in the village of Al-Tuwanah, to the south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank
- Israeli occupation forces injured 18 Palestinians as the former attacked dozens of activists during the weekly protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank, against the Israeli colonial settlements.
- Illegal colonial Israeli settlers uprooted about 300 olive saplings belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Hares, near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
2 Jan, 2020
- Israeli settlers from different illegal outposts in the south of the occupied West Bank assaulted Palestinian farmers working on their lands in Umm Lakhous hamlet in Masafer Yatta, injuring some and preventing them to be in their lands.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated evening by tear gas during clashes with Israeli army forces in the town of Kufr Qaddoum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank.
- Colonial Israeli settlers last night attacked Palestinian herders in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, said Muataz Bsharat, an official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlements in the area.
- Israeli soldiers raided Deir Nitham village, north of Ramallah, and assaulted its residents after an allegation that an Israeli settler was injured by a rock in the vicinity of the village.
- Haroun Abu Aram, 24, who was shot the day before at point-blank by Israeli occupation forces and critically injured in the village of al-Tuwanah, in Masafer Yatta in the south the occupied West Bank, has become a quadriplegic, according to the Ministry of Health.
3 Jan, 2020
- Israeli soldiers raided Deir Nitham village, north of Ramallah, and assaulted its residents after an allegation that an Israeli settler was injured by a rock in the vicinity of the village.
4 Jan, 2020
- Israeli settlers Sunday evening attacked Palestinian vehicles to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
- Palestinian villagers Sunday evening fended off a settler attack in Wadi Fukin village, to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli settlers razed Palestinian farmlands in Khirbet al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli settlers vandalized Palestinian vehicles and houses in Sarta village, west of the West Bank city of Salfit.
- Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians during confrontations in Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho city
- Israeli forces continued to blockade Deir Nidham village, northwest of Ramallah city, for the second consecutive day.
- Israeli bulldozers demolished a number of Palestinian-owned structures in Anata town, northeast of the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- As part of its collective punishment policy, Israel destroyed a large area of agricultural land in the village of Deir Nitham, northwest of Ramallah, as the army continued to impose a tight blockade on the village.
- Israeli settlers tonight attacked Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and blocked roads.
5 Jan, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces halted work on an agricultural road to the east of Tayasir village, east of Tubas city in the northern Jordan Valley.
- An unidentified Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces’ fire in the Bethlehem area, the southern occupied West Bank.
- Israeli army forces threatened to destroy 13 Commerical sheds belonging to Palestinian residents in the village of ‘Aneen, west of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished evening an agricultural room in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, the southern occupied West Bank.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated evening by tear gas during clashes with Israeli forces in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
- Israeli settlers attacked for the second consecutive day Palestinian vehicles driving near the al-Masrara neighborhood, in central Jerusalem.
6 Jan, 2020
- Israeli settlers uprooted and stole scores of olive saplings in Jalud village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- The Israeli occupation authorities approved a new settlement plan to seize Palestinian land in the eastern Qalqilya governorate for the benefit of settlement construction.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated today evening during clashes with Israeli forces in ‘Asida area in the town of Beit Ummar to the north of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron
- At least four Palestinians suffocated by tear gas, and three others were detained as Israeli police attacked a protest in Kafr Qara, an Arab town inside Israel, held against the failure of the Israeli police to put a stop to the rise in crime among the indigenous Palestinian population in Israel.
- Israel forces today uprooted over a thousand olive saplings and trees in Deir Ballut town, west of the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
7 Jan, 2020
- At least eight Palestinians were arrested and two others injured last night during raids by Israeli occupation forces which targeted the occupied West Bank districts of Bethlehem, Jenin, Hebron, and Qalqilia, according to Palestinian security.
- At least three Palestinians were injured in attack by hardcore Israeli settles in the village of Kafr Malik, to the east of Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation army locked down the entrances to the village of Al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
8 Jan, 2020
- Palestinian officials have condemned the decision of the Israeli occupation authorities to shut down the archaeological Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, for 10 days under the pretext of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- At least five Palestinians were detained by Israeli occupation forces during raids last night in the occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian teenager sustained moderate injuries today after a piece of ordnance left behind the Israeli occupation army exploded in the area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.
- Israeli occupation forces attacked hundreds of Palestinian protesters taking part in the weekly nonviolent anti-settlements protests that have been taking place in the villages of Beit Dajan and Deir Jarir.
- An elderly and a paramedic were injured when Israeli occupation forces assaulted hundreds of protesters taking part in nonviolent popular resistance events in the area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and in the village of Kafr Qaddum.
10 Jan, 2020
- Palestinian villagers and residents of the village of Burqa, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, yesterday fended off an attack by hardcore Israeli settlers which targeted the village.
- Hundreds of Israelis resumed their weekly demonstrations last night against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for the long-serving Israeli leader to resign over corruption charges and mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Hardcore Israeli settlers uprooted and stole scores of olive saplings in the village of Qusra, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
11 Jan, 2020
- Six Palestinian workers attempting to reach their workplaces inside Israel were shot and injured this morning by Israeli army gunfire at a gate in the apartheid barrier separating the West Bank from Israel near the village of Faroun, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, according to local sources and the Ministry of Health.
- Two main entrances to al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah city, remain sealed off by Israeli occupation forces for the fifth consecutive day making movement of residents in and out of the village very difficult.
- Israeli occupation forces detained 22 Palestinians in multiple raids across the occupied territories, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) and security sources.
- Israeli settlers uprooted and stole about 60 olive saplings from a land in the village of Jaloud, to the south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli navy opened fire at Palestinian fishermen in the sea opposite the northern Gaza shore, while soldiers targeted farmers working in their lands to the south of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settlers started working on Palestinian-owned lands in the town of Aqraba, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, in preparation for seizing it.
- Israeli occupation forces seized evening equipment and heavy machinery that was working on rehabilitating a road in the village of Kardala, in the northern Jordan Valley.
- A Palestinian worker was shot in the foot evening by Israeli forces near the separation barrier, in the village of Faroun, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, as he was attempting to cross to reach his workplace inside Israel.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles driving near Surra junction to the west of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, with stones.
12 Jan, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces raided early this morning several Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied territories and detained at least 15 people, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
- Israeli occupation forces dismantled and seized a Palestinian-owned agriculture structure in Tuqou town, east of the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- The Palestinian Ministry of Culture condemned today a ban by an Israeli court on playing the film “Jenin Jenin” by the artist Mohammad Bakri and the heavy fine imposed on him.
- Armed Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family in Hebron’s town of Beit Ummar and uprooted dozens of their fully-grown trees.
- The Presidential Committee for Churches’ Affairs that day condemned an attack on a Catholic convent in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces Tuesday night detained a Palestinian allegedly for attempting to stab a soldier at Qalandia military checkpoint, south of Ramallah city.
- Israeli forces Tuesday night detained a Palestinian allegedly for attempting to stab a soldier at Qalandia military checkpoint, south of Ramallah city.
13 Jan, 2020
- Israeli forces Wednesday morning shot and injured a Palestinian man following an alleged attempted stabbing in the Old City of Hebron,
- A Palestinian Tuesday evening sustained injuries when an unexploded Israeli military ordnance went off in As-Samu town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli military vehicles infiltrated Gaza’s border, to the east of Khan Younis city, and razed farmland,
- Israeli troops and settlers brutally assaulted two Palestinians in the small village of Khirbet al-Taweel, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- The Islamic Waqf department in Jerusalem, which is in charge of Muslim holy places, warned that the 3D survey of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound carried out this day by an unidentified group but believed to be Israelis, has with it hidden intentions toward one of Islam’s holiest sites.
14 Jan, 2020
- Israeli settlers continued for the second week in a row their rampage against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank with attacks against their properties and on vehicles with Palestinian license plates driving on West Bank roads with total Israeli army apathy
- Israeli settlers continued for the second week in a row their rampage against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank with attacks against their properties and on vehicles with Palestinian license plates driving on West Bank roads with total Israeli army apathy.
- In an early morning Israeli army raid on two Ramallah-area villages, soldiers rounded up more than 20 Palestinians, according to Palestinian security sources.
- he Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent an urgent letter on 7 January to Israeli health officials demanding that they establish COVID-19 vaccine stations for the residents of two Palestinian areas of Jerusalem for which Israeli authorities hold responsibility.
- A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem self-demolished his house in Beit Hanina neighborhood to avoid paying high costs and fines after he received a demolition order from the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem
- The Palestinian Authority (PA) today issued a strong warning that Palestine’s momentum towards the digital economy is falling behind due to Israel’s control over access to the 4G/5G spectrum.
- Israeli occupation forces notified the family of Mr. Mohammad Mraweh Kabaha, a prisoner in Israeli detention, about their intention to demolish their house in the village of Tura, located southwest of Jenin city in the occupied West Bank
15 Jan, 2020
- Israeli forces quelled an anti-settlement protest in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, injuring a protestor.
- Israeli occupation forces sealed off At-Tuwani locality, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Several Palestinian and international protesters sustained injuries as Israeli occupation forces attacked weekly protests against Israeli colonial settlements in the West Bank districts of Hebron and Qalqilia.
- Israeli occupation forces opened gunfire at a Palestinian man and injured and detained him at the entrance to the village of Qusra, to the south of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.
16 Jan, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces stationed on the southern border with the Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian farmers working in their lands near the border, forcing them to leave the area.
- Israeli settlers attacked residents of two Palestinian hamlets in Masafer Yatta complex in the south of the West Bank.
- At least three Palestinians, including a paramedic, were injured as Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of protesters taking part in a vigil against Israeli settlements, in the village of Kafr Qaddum near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated evening after inhaling tear gas fired at them by Israeli forces during clashes that broke out at the entrance to the towns of J’aba and ‘Anza, south of Jenin.
17 Jan, 2020
- Hardcore Israeli settlers last night attacked with stones Palestinian vehicles driving at the main Nablus-Ramallah road, just near the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya.
- Israeli occupation army bulldozed 11 stalls for Palestinian vendors in the village of Anin, west of the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation army today prevented staff of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) from conducting maintenance works at the archeological Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, according to the director of the mosque.
- An 11-year-old Palestinian girl sustained injuries as a group of hardcore settlers attacked her family’s house in the village of Madama, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
18 Jan, 2020
- Israeli warplanes attacked very early this morning areas in the south of the Gaza Strip causing heavy damage to property but no injuries.
- Hala Mashhour al-Qat, 11, from Madama village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, sat on her bed at the emergency ward in Rafidya Government Hospital with the effects of the shock and the attack she encountered the day before were still very visible on her face.
- The Israeli occupation forces detained this morning at least 15 Palestinians from the occupied territories, some of them from East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
- Israeli forces opened fire evening at a Palestinian vehicle at the entrance to the village of Faqou’a, northeast of Jenin city, in the northern occupied West Bank, with no injuries reported.
19 Jan, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities the day before informed eight Palestinian families in Duma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, that the homes they built in their village are going to be demolished under the pretext of not obtaining a building permit from the Israeli military government.
- Israeli navy attacked Palestinian fishermen sailing off the northern Gaza shore forcing them to return to the pier.
- Israeli occupation forces detained five Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank, including brothers and a minor, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
- Israeli settlers uprooted about 100 olive saplings in an area east of the town of Yatta located near the illegal colonial settlement of Avigal.
- Israeli forces conducted military training in multiple areas in the northern Jordan Valley, causing significant damage to Palestinian land.
20 Jan, 2020
- A Palestinian man was injured last tonight by shrapnel from an artillery shell fired by Israeli occupation forces at a site in the Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian man was injured the night before by shrapnel from an artillery shell fired by Israeli occupation forces at a site in the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli forces extended the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron for another week.
- A baby died in the womb of her seventh-month pregnant mother, due to complications she suffered as a result of inhaling and suffocating from teargas fired by the Israeli occupation army at her home in the village of al-Mughayyer, east of Ramallah.
21 Jan, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities opened water dams and pumped rainwater toward Palestinian farmlands on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.
- Hardcore Israeli settlers tonight attacked with stones and empty bottles Palestinian vehicles in at least three junctions in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. No injuries were reported.
22 Jan, 2020
- A Palestinian child was injured on Thursday evening after Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian car near the entrance of Burqa village, northeast of Ramallah city.
- Israeli settlers on Thursday evening hurled Molotov cocktails toward two Palestinian houses in Burin village, south of Nablus city.
- Israeli army today targeted Palestinian farmers tending to their lands east of Khan Younis city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of Palestinian protesters taking part in the weekly nonviolent anti-settlements protests in the villages of Deir Jarir and Kafr Qaddum in the occupied West Bank.
23 Jan, 2020
- Israeli settlers’ hooliganism in the occupied territories left at least eight Palestinians injured and dozens of Palestinian-owned trees and vehicles damaged in the two-week period between 5 and 18 January, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory.
- Israeli settlers continued with their daily uncontrolled rampage in the occupied West Bank today with the destruction of over 120 olive trees in an area north of Kufr al-Dik village, east of Salfit in the north of the West Bank.
- Israeli soldiers and settlers with dogs attacked Palestinian activists and journalists during an anti-settlement activity in Khirbet al-Tawimin community in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank.
24 Jan, 2020
- Dozens of rampaging Israeli settlers last night blocked a main junction at Bethlehem-Hebron road in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian worker died on Sunday early morning due to a heart attack resulting from the inhalation of toxic teargas fired by Israeli occupation soldiers at him near the village of Far’oun, south of Tulkarm city in the occupied West Bank.
- Colonial Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian herders and chased them off pastures in the area of Msafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces ordered the demolition of Palestinian-owned agricultural structures in the village of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem City in the occupied West Bank.
25 Jan, 2020
- The Israeli military demolished expansions and improvements in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus city.
- The Israeli military prevented maintenance works at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian house under construction and injured dozens in al-Walaja village, northwest of the Bethlehem city.
- Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of olive saplings in the area of al-Baq‘a, east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli forces demolished a horse ranch in Anata town, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem.
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds in Kisan village, to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds in Kisan village, to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli forces issued demolition notices against a residential building and two houses in Asira ash-Shamaliya village, north of the occupied city of Nablus.
- Twelve families in Zanouta village, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, were today informed by the Israeli military government that their dwellings, along with the village clinic and council building, will be demolished.
26 Jan, 2020
- Palestinian farmers in al-Maasara village, south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, confronted Israeli settlers who trespassed on their lands and kicked them out.
- A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israelis near the illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel, near Salfit in the north of the West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least 21 Palestinians, 11 of them from Shufat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
- Israeli bulldozers continued to raze Palestinian-owned lands in the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, in order to expand an illegal Israeli favor of building settlement.
- Upon the instructions of Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem deposited the day before the sum of 2.1 million Israeli shekels (more than $600,000) into the Israeli Jerusalem District Court, to cover the entire rent value of the Jaffa Gate’s Imperial Hotel.
- There were more than 440 Palestinians placed in administrative detention in Israel without charge or trial by the end of 2020, among them three minors and three women, this day said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
27 Jan, 2020
- Israeli forces dawn Wednesday demolished a mosque in the Bedouin community of Azwadeen, east of Yatta city, south of Hebron.
- Israeli forces Wednesday morning dismantled two structures in Khan al-Ahmar village, east of Jerusalem.
- Israeli settlers encroached upon and plowed a large tract of Palestinian farmland, east of Bethlehem district.
- Israeli forces demolished a residential structure and a shack in As-Sawahira Ash-Sharqiya town, southeast of the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces uprooted hundreds of trees in the area of Einun, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas.
28 Jan, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces uprooted dozens of grown olive trees, razed large tracts of Palestinian-owned land, and demolished retaining walls in an area south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least 25 Palestinians, including an 11-year-old minor, after a wide-scale raid and detention operations in several areas in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, according to sources and the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
- A 25-year-old Palestinian man was shot in the leg during clashes with Israeli occupation soldiers near Zeita town, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm.
29 Jan, 2020
- Confrontations erupted Thursday evening when Israeli forces raided Silwad town, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
- Palestinians Thursday evening shut down the Nablus-Qalqiliya Road to Israeli settler movement.
- Israeli forces Friday afternoon cracked down on an anti-road-closure protest in Kafr Qaddum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqiliya.
- Palestinian citizens of the village of Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus city in the north of the West Bank, fended off an attempt by Israeli settlers to break into an archeological site in the village.
30 Jan, 2020
- A sharp rise in the Israeli army and settler attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank prompted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates to call on the United Nations Secretary-General and the Security Council to intervene and provide protection to the vulnerable Palestinian population under Israel’s occupation.
- Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated this day at the main entrance to the Qalansuwa city, in central Israel, to protest against the escalation of violence in Arab communities in Israel and the failure of the Israeli police to put a stop to the rising crime.
31 Jan, 2020
- A Palestinian young man was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces south of the city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources and witnesses.
- At least six Palestinians were detained by Israeli occupation forces during raids last night and this day in the occupied West Bank districts of Jenin, Hebron, and Nablus, according to Palestinian security.
Source: Fatah Movement – Egypt
