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 Dec, 2020
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated by tear gas fired by Israeli forces during clashes that broke out in the town of Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
- Palestinians voiced concerns over the establishment of a new Israeli colonial settlements at the site of a newly-dismantled military camp in Hebron’s Old City.
- Israeli forces seized 8 vaccum trucks belonging to Palestinians in the town of Izzariyeh, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.
- Israeli military bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house in Sur Baher town, southeast of Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces destroyed large amounts of vegetable crops belonging to Palestinian farmers near al-Fawwar refugee camp to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his own house in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabber, under the pretext of unlicensed building.
- Israeli forces demolished an agricultural shed in Zif village, southeast of Hebron city.
2 Dec, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces seized a tractor while it was working on reclaiming farming land in Masafer Yatta area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- The Israeli occupation forces detained at least 18 Palestinians in late night and early morning raids across the occupied territories that included assault of civilians and ransacking of homes.
- The Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem called on the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately stop their malicious intrusions against Muslim cemeteries in the occupied holy city.
3 Dec, 2020
- Several Palestinian protestors were injured from Israeli military gunfire as Israeli settlers stormed Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- Dozens of Palestinian nonviolent protesters were injured by rubber-coated rounds while others suffocated from teargas, after Israeli occupation forces attacked them while demonstrating against the colonial Israeli settlements near the town of Salfit, in the center of the occupied West Bank.
- Israel’s 13-year closure of the Gaza Strip along with neglect by the Hamas authorities significantly encumber the day-to-day life of tens of thousands of Palestinians with disabilities.
4 Dec, 2020
- An Israeli settler attempted on burning downthe Gethsemane Church in the Mount of Olives area in occupied East Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an anti-settlement protest in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah.
- Dozens of Palestinian nonviolent protesters were injured when Israeli occupation forces attacked two nonviolent protests against the colonial Israeli settlements, which took place in the town of Salfit and the village of Kafr Qaddum in the occupied West Bank.
- The Ministry of Health announced that a Palestinian child who was shot and critically injured by Israeli occupation forces during clashes earlier today in the village of al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah, had succumbed to his wounds.
5 Dec, 2020
- Hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of 13-year-old Ali Abu Alayya, who was killed by Israeli soldiers yesterday, in his al-Mughayyer hometown, northeast of Ramallah.
6 Dec, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces prevented Palestinian farmers from working in their own lands in the village of Atouf, in the northern Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank.
- Two Palestinian minor detainees, aged 17, was released after spending a three-year sentence in Israeli jails.
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds to the east of Yatta town, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank.
- Israeli army forces set up several caravans in al-Farsiya area in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli settlers cut down around 42 fully-grown olive trees and demolished retaining walls belonging to a local Palestinian in the village of Yasuif, east of Salfit in the central West Bank.
- A number of Palestinians were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, and others suffocated by tear gas during clashes that broke out with Israeli forces in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
7 Dec, 2020
- Three Palestinians were injured after Israeli settlers assaulted olive harvesters in the groves of Huwara town, south of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers torched an olive grove belonging to Deir Ballut town, west of Salfit,
- The Israeli occupation forces detained 42 Palestinian residents of Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem since the start of this month, the latest were five young men detained after storming their homes.
- Following a successful legal action demanding a halt on Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem during the COVID-19 crisis, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent another urgent letter on 5 October to the commander of the Israeli military’s Civil Administration demanding he immediately halts the demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank as residents contend with another spike in the COVID-19 pandemic.
8 Dec, 2020
- Israeli soldiers shot and injured four Palestinians during a raid of Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, three of them reported in critical condition and were immediately admitted to surgery at Ramallah hospital.
- Israeli soldiers shot and injured four Palestinians during a raid this morning of Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, three of them reported in critical condition and were immediately admitted to surgery at Ramallah hospital.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished two structures in a village near Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, and ordered the removal of tents in the Jordan Valley.
- A minor, brothers were among 12 Palestinians Israel has detained in raids in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli settlers uprooted a number of saplings planted in Deir Istiya and Hares towns, west of the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
- Israeli settlers infringed on private Palestinian land in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and when the landowners attempted to stop them, a quarrel broke out and one of the settlers pulled his private gun in the face of the Palestinian landowners.
9 Dec, 2020
- Israeli forces infiltrated Gaza’s border, southeast of Gaza city, and razed farmlands.
- A number of Palestinians suffered from suffocation during an Israeli raid to Sebastia town, north of the West Bank city of Nablus.
- Dozens of Palestinians were injured from Israeli military gunfire as Israeli forces raided Jaba‘ town, to the south of Jenin city.
- The Israeli occupation authorities notified Palestinians in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank of their intention to demolish several structures, including homes, water wells, and metal rooms.
- Syrian residents of the occupied Golan Heights observed today a general strike in protest against Israel’s installation of wind turbines on agricultural lands owned by the local residents.
- Israel tears down two inhabited houses, shack south of Hebron.
10 Dec, 2020
- A Palestinian activist from occupied East Jerusalem received an Israeli demolition order against his home in Silwan neighborhood.
- Dozens of Israeli settlers escorted by army broke into the site of an abandoned Israeli settlement south of the city of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, provoking clashes with local Palestinian protesters from neighboring villages.
11 Dec, 2020
- Israeli settlers set up a mobile home on Palestinian land in al-Baq‘a village, east of Hebron city.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an anti-settlement protest in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, causing a number of protestors to suffocate.
- Israeli forces denied Palestinians access to their lands threatened with confiscation, west of Salfit city.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an olive-sapling-planting event in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus city, causing a number of injuries.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated from teargas as Israeli occupation forces attacked the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, which takes place every Friday in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the north of the occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian man with hearing disability died of wounds he had sustained last August when Israeli occupation forces fired live gunshots at him at Qalandia checkpoint, north of occupied Jerusalem.
12 Dec, 2020
- At least one Palestinian protester was injured and many others suffocated from teargas, as Israeli occupation forces attacked a protest against Israeli settlements in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the north of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli settlers living in occupied West Bank settlements attacked a Palestinian journalist in Tel al-Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron’s city, in the southern occupied West Bank.
13 Dec, 2020
- Israeli settlers set fire to large tracts of olive fields, burning hundreds of fully grown trees belonging to a local Palestinian family in Khallet Ad-Dabi‘ area to the east of Yatta town in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
- A group of rampaging Israeli settlers attacked homes of Palestinian citizens near the town of Sa’ir, to the northeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
- Two Palestinians were shot and injured during an Israeli military raid into the Shuwekeh neighborhood to the north of the West Bank district of Tulkarem..
14 Dec, 2020
- Israeli occupation authorities notified a Palestinian of removing his residential tent in al-Farisiya village, east of Tubas city, in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli settlers started the groundwork for the construction of a settler-only road on Palestinian-owned land to the southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers cut wodden electric poles using chainsaw in Jalud town, south of Nablus city.
- The Israeli navy attacked Palestinian fishermen while sailing off northern Gaza shore forcing the fishermen to return to the port.
- As Palestinians attend to their annual olive harvest season in the occupied territories, Israeli settlers vandalized hundreds of olive trees in the south of the West Bank.
- The Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 2166 housing units in its illegal settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territories.
15 Dec, 2020
- Israeli forces razed a large tract of Palestinian land and uprooted trees to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli bulldozers razed agricultural land belonging to two Palestinian families in the Farsh al-Hawa area in Hebron, the southern occupied West Bank.
16 Dec, 2020
- Palestinian villagers fended off an Israeli settler attack against Kisan village, located to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli settlers set up once again a mobile home on the lands of al-Baq‘a village, east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli forces seized two tractors from the villagers of Az-Zubeidat, north of Jericho city.
- Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the archaeological site of Sebastia, north of Nablus city.
17 Dec, 2020
- Israeli forces detained eight Palestinians, including a woman and a university student, from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Dozens of Palestinian students and teachers suffocated from teargas fired by the Israeli military inside their school in Anin village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
18 Dec, 2020
- Israeli settlers broke into several Palestinian houses and assaulted their owners in Masafer Yatta village cluster, south of Hebron city.
- Israeli settlers destroyed water pipelines and trees in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus city.
- Israeli forces denied Palestinians access to their lands threatened with confiscation, west of Salfit city.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles travelling along the Jenin-Nablus Road, close to Silat Ad-Dahr town, south of Jenin city.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated in the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly anti-settlements protest in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum.
- A Palestinian youth was shot and injured in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet fired by Israeli forces during clashes that broke out in the village of Kufr Malik, east of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
19 Dec, 2020
- The Israeli army prevented Palestinians from planting olive trees in their lands in Jaloud village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, under the pretext it was “state land”.
- Dozens of hardcore, armed Israeli settlers accompanied by the occupation army attacked homes of Palestinian citizens after raiding the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida in the city of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated by tear gas fired by Israeli occupation forces during clashes that erupted in Kafr Qaddoum village, east of the West Bank district of Qalqilia.
- Israeli occupation forces detained two Palestinians and injured a third one during two separate incidents in the northern West Bank district of Jenin.
20 Dec, 2020
- Two Palestinian men sustained injuries during two separate attacks by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
- Illegal Israeli settlers uprooted a number of olive saplings belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Hares, near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
- Illegal Israeli settlers today attacked and physically assaulted Palestinian farmers in the village of Susya, east of the town of Yatta in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces briefly detained Major-General Bilal Natsheh, Secretary-General of the National People’s Congress for Jerusalem – a security body affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), after stopping his car at a checkpoint near the village of Al-Jib, north of occupied Jerusalem.
21 Dec, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces shot and injured five Palestinians and detained another in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli military bulldozers demolished two Palestinian-owned houses to the northwest of al-Samou town, south of southern West Bank city of Hebron, displacing 20 people.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least nine Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Israeli settlers attacked with stones Palestinian vehicles traveling on a road south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- In their bid to prevent Palestinian movement, Israeli occupation forces set up two metal gates on a road near Ein al-Sakout village in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli forces raided three commercial shops in the town of Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem to the north of the occupied city, and confiscated dozens of boxes of tobacco labeled as products of the Palestinian Authority.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian-registered vehicles driving on Nablus-Tulkarem road with stones, causing injuries to at least three people.
- Several Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles traveling near Dutan Israeli military checkpoint to the southwest of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.
- Israeli police opened fire on a Palestinian youth near Bab al-Hatta Gate, inside the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City. His fate and identity remain unknown until the moment.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in two separate incidents in the West Bank districts of Bethlehem and Nablus.
22 Dec, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities threatened to demolish the family house of an alleged Palestinian attacker in Qabatiya town, south of Jenin..
- Israeli forces ordered a halt on the construction of a water well east of Ad-Dhahiriya town, southwest of Hebron city.
- Israeli forces demolished a number of Palestinian structures in several areas to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem.
- Israeli settlers set up a caravan on the lands of Umm Ar-Rihan village, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- A female Israeli settler attempted running over three Palestinian children to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
23 Dec, 2020
- Israeli forces morning sealed off the archeological site of Sebastia, north of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, in preparation for a settler intrusion into the site.
- Israeli settlers, some of them armed, Tuesday night escalated their attacks on Palestinian vehicles across the West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces injured five Palestinians as the former attacked dozens of activists protesting in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank.
24 Dec, 2020
- Israeli settlers dozens of olive trees in the locality of At-Tuwani, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Four Palestinians, including two women, were detained by the Israeli occupation army today during an ongoing raid of the village of Tura al-Gharbiya, to the west of Jenin city in the occupied West Bank.
25 Dec, 2020
- Dozens of Israeli settlers protected by army last night attacked Palestinian vehicles driving at the main Nablus-Ramallah road, just near the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya.
- 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 a nonviolent event in the village of Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah, against Israel’s plan to build a new settlement outpost in the area.
- Israeli occupation forces attacked hundreds of Palestinian protesters taking part in a nonviolent event in the village of Beit Dajan, to the east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, against the Israeli colonial settlement construction.
- At least two Palestinians were injured when Israeli occupation forces attacked the weekly protest against colonial Israeli settlements, which took place in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank.
26 Dec, 2020
- A six-year-old baby girl and a youth in his 20s were injured, and a hospital for children, a center for the handicapped, and several homes were damaged in Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.
- In two weeks between the period of December 8 and 21, Israeli occupation forces and settlers killed one Palestinian, injured more than 80 others, detained 154 people, demolished or seized 21 Palestinian-owned structures, bulldozed dozens of dunums of agricultural land, and uprooted hundreds of trees and saplings in various parts of the occupied West Bank.
- Several Palestinians suffocated during clashes with Israeli forces at the entrance to the town of Ja’aba, south of Jenin, the northern occupied West Bank.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated in the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly anti-settlements protest in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum.
27 Dec, 2020
- Hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked homes of Palestinian citizens and terrorized them in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem.
- Despite freezing weather, hundreds of Israelis demonstrated for the 27thweek outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem demanding him to step down over long-running corruption charges.
- A pregnant woman and a paramedic were injured early as Israeli occupation forces raided the courtyards of the Palestine Medical Complex in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
- Israeli authorities notified of its intentions to demolish four houses and greenhouse belonging to Palestinian residents in the village of Ta’anak to the west of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.
28 Dec, 2020
- Israeli navy and forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen and farmers on the borderline areas to the east of Gaza City, causing panic but no injuries.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished two Palestinian-owned car-repair shops in al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli occupation forces detained 13 Palestinians, including at least four minors, from various parts of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition orders against two service rooms in the area of Hammamat al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley.
29 Dec, 2020
- Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at Palestinians near the apartheid barrier in Bartaa town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, injuring one person.
- Israeli settlers have been active in fencing a large tract of Palestinian land in the northern Jordan Valley in a bid to eventually steal it and claim ownership.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished Palestinian-owned structures east of the town of Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank, and clashed with local residents who confronted the demolitions.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian-owned residential room and uprooted a decades-old tree north of the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
- Israeli occupation forces uprooted 350 olive trees and demolished three residential structures in Nweimeh village.
- Israeli forces issued a notice of demolition against a greenhouse to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- Israeli forces ordered a halt on the construction of a house in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.
30 Dec, 2020
- Israeli settlers assaulted and injured a Palestinian man, severely beating him, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
- Two Palestinian workers were injured by Israeli army gunfire near the apartheid wall in the Yabad area, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
31 Dec, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities turned over the body of slain Palestinian Maher Zaatra after being withheld for almost 10 months.
- HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual and seven other human rights organizations petitioned Israel’s High Court demanding that incarcerated Palestinians defined as “security” prisoners and detainees be allowed to maintain telephone contact with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Israeli occupation forces detained 16 Palestinians, including four minors, from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Israeli occupation forces ordered the takeover of a Palestinian-owned land plot in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank.
By: Khaled Reda, Ebtahel Mohamed