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 May, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces carried out 66 search-and-arrest operations and arrested 43 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank during the period between April 13 and 26, according to the biweekly report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA).
- Israeli police attacked dozens of Christians, including monks, commemorating the Holy Saturday in the alleys leading to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in occupied Jerusalem.
- Two Palestinians were shot and injured and dozens others suffocated in the Israeli army crackdown on the weekly anti-settlements protest in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum.
- Israeli police violently suppressed a demonstration against Israel’s imminent eviction of seven Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
2 May, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces last night assaulted and dispersed dozens of Palestinian nonviolent protesters while holding a sit-in in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied Jerusalem, against an imminent threat of eviction from their homes by the occupation authorities
- A Palestinian woman was shot and injured today by Israeli occupation soldiers at a junction outside the illegal settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.
- The Fatah Movement called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfill their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent plan to displace five hundred Palestinians from their homes, lands and properties in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem.
3 May, 2020
- Israeli navy opened its machine guns on Palestinian fishermen, despite sailing within the unilaterally designated fishing zone offshore the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settlers morning attacked with stones Palestinian houses in the village of Qusra, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- A Palestinian elderly woman, who was shot and critically injured by Israeli soldiers’ fire yesterday, has succumbed to her wounds, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
- The heavy firing of tear gas canisters and stun grenades by Israeli forces caused fire to break out in Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Fa’run, south of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem.
- A Palestinian man was injured at noon after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the town of Far’ata, east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya.
- Israeli forces Monday detained 19 Palestinians from various parts in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem
4 May, 2020
- Israeli settlers Monday night attacked Palestinian vehicles south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers Tuesday overnight attacked Palestinian landowners attempting to defend their land against takeover, east of Hebron, according to a landowner.
- Israeli forces Tuesday overnight detained at least 13 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to security and local sources
- Israeli forces demolished two structures and seized a plot of land in the southern district of Bethlehem.
5 May, 2020
- Israeli settlers Tuesday evening torched Palestinian farmlands and attacked houses in Burin village, south of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers Wednesday overnight erected a several caravans to serve as the nucleus of a new colonial outpost near Beita town, south of Nablus.
- Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained at least 12 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to local and security sources.
- Israeli forces continued to blockade Aqraba town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, for the third consecutive day.
6 May, 2020
- Israeli forces Wednesday evening killed a Palestinian teenager in Odla village, south of Nablus city, according to the Health Ministry.
- The Israeli navy targeted Palestinian fishermen offshore As-Sudaniya, northwest of Gaza city, destroying a boat.
- Palestinian families facing an imminent Israeli threat of eviction in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah told the Supreme Israeli Court that no compromise has been reached with Israeli settlers concerning land and house ownership claims by the latter.
- The Israeli Supreme Court postponed its ruling on the eviction of several Palestinian families from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah until May 10.
7 May, 2020
- Israeli settlers Thursday evening assaulted a Palestinian in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron city.
- Israeli police Friday overnight violently cracked down on Palestinians resisting forceful eviction and dispossession in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
- Israeli forces today killed two Palestinians and injured another near Salem military camp, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, according to security sources.
- Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted a group of journalists at Salem military checkpoint and camp, northwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, and smashed a camera belonging to Palestine TV at the site, according to press sources.
- Israeli occupation authorities handed over this day the body of slain Rehab Mohammad Hroub, a 60-year-old Palestinian woman who was shot dead by the occupation army five days ago.
- At least 53 Palestinians were injured this day’s evening as Israeli occupation police broke into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.
8 May, 2020
- Palestinians in Israel have called for demonstrations in support of Jerusalem as Arab countries and leaders strongly condemned the latest Israeli measures and attacks against Palestinian in the occupied holy city.
- Israeli police rounded up at least one dozen Palestinian youths from various neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem following three weeks of tense nights and confrontations between police and youths at different locations of the occupied holy city.
- At least 25 Palestinians were detained by Israeli occupation forces in the occupied capital Jerusalem in an ongoing detention campaign which started last night.
- Israeli police attacked Palestinians present near Bab Huta, one of the gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, injuring a youth.
- Israeli settlers, backed by army forces, attacked Palestinian homes, farmers, and shepherds in Masafer Yatta area to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
9 May, 2020
- Israeli warplanes last night carried out two strikes that hit targets in the center of the Gaza Strip, resulting in financial damages to property but no casualties.
- At least 90 Palestinians were injured last night as Israeli occupation forces clamped down on thousands of worshipers attending or in their way to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian east of Khan Younes city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.
10 May, 2020
- A large Israeli police force raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s old city and attacked Palestinian worshippers.
- Israeli police injured hundreds of Palestinians as they violently cracked down on worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
- Israeli settlers led by supremacist lawmakers and backed and protected by a large Israeli occupation police force broke into Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, provoked the Palestinian civilian residents and attacked the.
- Nine people were killed, including three children, in an Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip this afternoon.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) joined other UN entities in raising alarm over eight Sheikh Jarrah families, approximately 75 persons in total, residing in the same named neighborhood of East Jerusalem that are at risk of imminent forced eviction, placing them at heightened risk of forcible transfer.
- As Palestinians got ready to start the night prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s old city, Israeli occupation forces raided the plaza of the holy compound and fired grenades at the worshippers causing fire to break out in trees.
- More than 334 Palestinians were injured, including 258 people who required hospitalization, in a day of Israeli assault on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s old city.
- The number of people killed in an Israeli airstrike on the northern Gaza Strip was put at 20, including nine children.
- A Palestinian was killed and dozens of others injured in renewed Israeli airstrikes on Beit Hanoun area in the north of the Gaza Strip, which raised the number of people killed today in Gaza from the Israeli strikes to 21.
11 May, 2020
- A woman was killed this when Israel warplanes attacked a residential building in Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
- Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers at various contact points throughout the West Bank leaving dozens of injures, many shot by live ammunition.
- Two more Palestinians were killed in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which raises the total killed in two days of attacks to 26, including nine children, and the injury of over 100 others.
- A Palestinian who was shot earlier by Israeli soldiers at Zaatra checkpoint, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, has succumbed to his wounds.
12 May, 2020
- Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man identified as Hussein Atiyyeh Titi, 26, during a raid of Fawwar refugee camp, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Rashid Muhammad Abu Arreh, 16, was this morning shot by Israeli occupation soldiers in Tubas and killed, according to medical sources. He is the second casualty of Israeli army raids in the West Bank within few hours.
- As Israeli warplanes continued during the besieged and over-crowded Gaza Strip, knocking down high rises and destroying infrastructure, the casualty toll among residents has reached 35, many of the children and women, and more than 200 wounded.
- The Israeli occupation forces detained around 40 Palestinians in raids in the occupied West Bank, most of them are former detainees.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the Israeli killing on Monday of four Palestine refugee children near Beit Hanoun refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
- Three days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 43 Palestinians dead by noon today local time, including 13 children and three women, while 296 were wounded.
- In a step seen as inflicting as much damage on the Gaza Strip and its people as possible, Israel continued today to bomb and level high rises in Gaza City.
- Israeli settlers attacked the northern West Bank town of Burin, south of Nablus, and demolished part of a house under construction.
- Israeli thugs tonight attacked Palestinian Arabs and their properties in major towns inside Israel, including Jaffa and Lydda.
13 May, 2020
- Some 30 Palestinians were wounded and dozens others suffocated during confrontations with Israeli forces across the West Bank.
- Israeli settlers injured two Palestinians and vandalized Palestinian property in a wave of attacks across the West Bank.
- The Health Ministry confirmed that a number of Palestinians died asphyxiated from poisonous gas emanating from Israeli missiles across the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settlers injured two Palestinians and vandalized Palestinian property in a wave of attacks across the West Bank.
- Two Palestinians were killed and eight others were wounded in fresh Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli forces opened fire towards Palestinians fending off a settler attack, east of Yatta in the southern West Bank, injuring eight.
- Israeli police assaulted and detained at least five Palestinians from the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- Two Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded on in an Israeli airstrike on al-Bureij refugee camp in the central besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles near Yaabad town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
- Rescuers recovered the bodies of an entire family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settlers injured two international when they attacked Palestinian shepherds, east of Yatta in the southern Hebron district.
- Four Palestinians were killed and dozens others wounded in the northern besieged Gaza Strip amid a relentless escalation of the current Israeli onslaught.
14 May, 2020
- At least 115 Palestinians have been killed, including 28 children, and 621 others injured by the ongoing Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip which entered its fifth day.
- Power went off in most areas of the besieged Gaza Strip since last night as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression from the land, sea and air.
- Thousands of Palestinians in the 1948-occupied land demonstrated for the fourth night yesterday in protest of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and in protest of Israel’s attempts to alter the status quo in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
- A Palestinian mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that two of its schools were hit by the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
- Dozens of Palestinians were injured by the Israeli occupation forces across the occupied West Bank, during protests against the Israeli aggression on Gaza and Jerusalem.
- A Palestinian driver was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the village of Silwad, to the northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli warplanes bombed with more ten missiles the fishermen seaports in the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis.
- A Palestinian prosecutor was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces during protests in the village of Beita, to the Nablus in the occupied West Bank, raising the death toll in the occupied West Bank to seven.
- Israeli occupation forces opened gunfire at journalists while covering the ongoing clashes in the neighborhood of Zeef in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Two Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces during clashes with the Israeli occupation army in the villages of Salem and Asira al-Qibliya in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus.
- At least four Palestinian civilians were killed and many others injured in a fresh series of Israeli airstrikes that hit Khan Younis, Jabalia and the center of Gaza City.
- A 7-year-old Palestinian girl was killed from the shrapnel of missiles fired by Israeli warplanes near her family’s home in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian young man was shot dead today during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces near the village of Shwaika, north of Tulkarm city in the occupied West Bank, raising the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank today to 11.
15 May, 2020
- A whole Palestinian family of seven members was mercilessly massacred late last night by Israeli warplanes that hit their home in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
- Palestinian residents fended off early at dawn an Israeli settlers’ attack against the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli army tanks and navy early morning today shelled various locations in the southern and northern Gaza Strip.
- Three more bodies, including two children, from the Abu Hatab family were pulled from the rubble of the deadly Israeli shelling that targeted their home in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza city early morning this day.
- The death toll among Palestinians after six consecutive days of the brutal Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip has risen to 139.
- A Palestinian was killed, and another injured in an Israel airstrike that targeted al Bureij refugee camp, located in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli police continued its wide-scale arrest campaigns against Palestinian Arabs inside Israel, detaining at least 67 people.
- Israel leveled to the ground a high-rise tower that housed international and local news outlets in Gaza city.
- Israeli settlers set fire to vast areas of land belonging to Palestinians in the town of Jaloud to the south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
- Clashes continued as Israeli forces attacked Palestinian protesters in various areas throughout the West Bank.
- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel said that it obtained internal communications between Israeli Jewish extremists revealing organized, coordinated efforts to bring masses of armed individuals to cities with significant Palestinian populations to ‘kill Palestinians’ and ‘break all their bones’.
- An Israeli settler driving his car near the village of Kisan to the east of Bethlehem chased after a Palestinian boy on a motorbike, knocking him off the bike, after which he continued to chase after the boy in an obvious attempt to run him over or abduct him.
- A Palestinian man was killed and shredded to pieces after an Israeli missile hit his vehicle to the north of Gaza city.
- 145 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza since Monday, May 10th, including 41 children, 23 women, and one elderly person, while 1100 people were wounded, including 38 seriously.
16 May, 2020
- A Palestinian youth late Saturday night was shot and left to bleed to death by Israeli forces after opening fire on his car at al-Fawwar triangle to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian youth after midnight was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes that erupted near Israel’s apartheid wall to the west of the town of Zeita to the north of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, according to the ministry of health.
- Israeli warplanes after midnight launched a series of violent and unprecedented airstrikes targeting several locations in Gaza City, killing two people and injuring dozens
- Twenty-seven innocent Palestinian civilians were pulled out from the rubble of the homes levelled to the ground last night by Israeli warplanes in the neighborhood of Al-Rimal in Gaza City, raising the death toll of the barbarian Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since last week to 181.
- A Palestinian young man was injured by gunfire shot at him today by hardcore Israeli settler vandals outside the town of Bani Na’im, to the east of Hebron city in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.
- Dozens of hardcore Israeli settlers pelted stones last night at Palestinian-owned vehicles while driving near the town of Beit Jala, in the southern West Bank province of Bethlehem, according to Palestinian security sources.
- A mob of Israeli settlers shut down the north entrance to the city of Al-Bireh, in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh province in the occupied West Bank, denying entry and exit of Palestinian vehicles.
- A Palestinian man was critically injured today evening after being shot in the chest by Israeli police who opened fire at his car in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.
- Rescue teams have pulled out more bodies of Palestinian civilians from the rubble of a residential building that was totally destroyed last night by Israeli airstrikes in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, taking the death toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip to 188. The sources added that 13 women and eight children were among the victims, in addition to the injury of 50 others.
- Two Palestinian youth were shot and injured with live ammunition fired by Israeli extremists in the al-Ashqariyeh neighborhood near Shufa’at refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem.
- Four Palestinians were killed today as the Israeli airstrikes against the besieged Gaza Strip continued for the seventh consecutive day.
- Israeli warplanes targeted a group of Palestinian civilians to the northeast of Rafah city, in the southern Strip, killing two people and injuring one.
- The airstrikes targeted another group of civilians in the town of Beit Hanoun to the north of the Strip, killing two more people, and injuring many others.
- Four Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, and many others suffocated during clashes that broke out with Israeli forces across various parts of the occupied West Bank.
- Two Palestinians were injured as Israeli extremists, with the backing of Israeli police forces, attacked Palestinian residents in Beit Hanina neighborhood and Shufa’at refugee camp, to the north of occupied Jerusalem.
- The police forces present in the area fired tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets at the Palestinians, injuring two people; one was shot and injured in the abdomen area with a rubber-coated steel bullet and the other was struck in the head with a stun grenade.
17 May, 2020
- The Israeli military Monday continued its relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip as the onslaught entered its eighth day.
- An Israeli drone fired a missile toward two Palestinians walking on a street, east of Deir al-Balah city, in the central strip, wounding them. They were rushed to Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment.
- The Health Ministry reported on Sunday “May 16th” that a total of 188 Palestinians were killed, including 55 children and 33 women, and 1,230 others were wounded in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza.
- The Israeli military continued its relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip as the onslaught entered its eighth day.
- Hundreds of Palestinians overnight suffocated as Israeli forces cracked down on rallies in solidarity with Gaza across the West Bank.
- Dozens of settlers stormed this morning the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Al-Ghazali Square near Bab Al-Asbat, and performed Talmudic rituals.
- Four Palestinians were killed and a number of others were wounded in fresh Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip. The warplanes also pounded several civilian houses in Beit Lahia and Jabalya towns in the northern besieged enclave, killing one and injuring a number of others, mostly children and women.
- The Palestinian Health Ministry said the overall death toll since the latest onslaught began reached 198, including 58 children and 35 women. At least 1,300 people have been wounded.
- The Palestinian people called for a general strike on Tuesday in protest of the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza, forced expulsions from Jerusalem, and settler mob violence.
- Till this day 100 Palestinians were killed, including 59 children and 35 women, and wounded some 1300 others, as well as against the Israeli military occupation, settler mob violence.
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians from the village of al-Zubeidat, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
- Israeli warplanes destroyed the main power lines supplying energy to the people of the Gaza Strip, leaving homes and service establishments without electricity.
- Two Palestinians who were injured in the brutal airstrikes that targeted Deir a-Balah city, in central Gaza, succumbed to their critical wounds.
- More Palestinians wounded in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza were evacuated to Egypt on Monday for treatment, according to a diplomat.
- Clashes broke out today between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bab al-Zawyeh area in central Hebron city, in the southern West Bank.
- a Palestinian civilian was killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that hit a site in Beit Lahiya town, to the north of the besieged Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian child and an elderly man were killed today evening in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building in central Gaza.
- Israeli warplanes targeted with at least one missile a residential building located near al-Rimal clinic in al-Wehda Street, that runs through central Gaza city, killing a child and an elderly and injuring more than a dozen people.
- A Palestinian minor was killed and dozens of others suffocated by tear gas during clashes with Israeli forces in al-Aroub refugee camp to the north of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
- According to medical sources, 212 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza since Monday, including 61 children, 36 women, and 16 elderly people, while 1400 people were wounded, including 400 children, and 270 women, of whom 50 are in critical condition.
18 May, 2020
- Israeli fighter jets attack civilian targets in Gaza, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya.
- The Palestinian people are observing a nationwide general strike to protest Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.
- The Israeli warplanes dawn Tuesday launched dozens of airstrikes targeting civilian buildings and infrastructure across the besieged Gaza Strip as the onslaught entered its ninth day.
- The Palestinian Health Ministry said the overall death toll since the latest onslaught began reached 212, including 61 children, and wounded over 1400 others, mostly children and women.
- Two Palestinians were injured by Israeli military gunfire as Israeli forces backed a settler assault in Burqin village, west of Salfit city.
- Israeli forces Tuesday killed a Palestinian youth near al-Karantina area in the center of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Health Ministry.
- The Ministry of Health Monday denounced a COGAT on the targeting of a hospital in the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya by a Gaza rocket as fake news.
- The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip continues for the ninth consecutive day with attacks from the land, sea and air, causing casualties and destruction to residential buildings, infrastructure, agricultural lands and all the necessities of life in the Strip.
- A number of Palestinians were injured, while others were detained, during clashes that broke out with Israeli forces near Bab al-Amoud, in the occupied city of Jerualem. 16 Palestinians were injured with live bullets, and two others with rubber bullets. They were taken to Palestine’s Medical Complex.
- Israeli police violently quelled Palestinians protesting in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem against Israeli police and settler mobs’ escalated attacks against them.
- A Palestinian youth succumbed to critical wounds he sustained earlier today as Israeli forces violently attacked Palestinians protesting the ongoing Israeli aggression and attacks near Beit El (DCO) Israeli military checkpoint, near the northern entrance of al-Bireh city.
- Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian protesters who rallied throughout the West Bank in condemnation of Israel’s ongoing and escalated aggression in Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, leaving dozens of injures, and others shot by live and rubber-coated steel bullets.
- Israeli settlers erected a new outpost on the lands of the town of Deir Istia, west of Salfit City in the West Bank.
- A number of Palestinian civilians evening were wounded, including some seriously, in the ongoing Israeli artillery shelling and air raids that targeted civilian areas in the eastern Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian succumbed evening to critical live bullet injuries in the chest sustained earlier today during clashes with Israeli forces in the Ramallah area, according to the ministry of health.
- Many Palestinians evening were shot by live and rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens of others injured during continuing clashes throughout the West Bank. At least 13 Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition during violent clashes that broke out in the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah.
- A third Palestinian succumbed evening to critical live bullet injuries to the head sustained earlier today during clashes with Israeli forces in the Ramallah area, according to the ministry of health. In total, 64 injuries, including six seriously, arrived at medical centers in Ramallah today, said the ministry.
- A Palestinian child was seriously injured evening during the clashes that broke out with the occupation forces in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem.
- Several Palestinian civilians were injured tonight during a series of violent Israeli airstrikes that targeted the southern besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli warplanes targeted, with at least 40 missiles, the eastern parts in the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, in the southern Strip, injuring at least seven people. they were transferred to hospitals for medical treatment.
19 May, 2020
- A Palestinian woman was killed and seven others were wounded in the Israeli airstrikes that hit Rafah and Khan Younis cities, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli settler extremists after midnight attacked with live fire a Palestinian home near the entrance to Hizma town, northeast of Jerusalem.
- Israeli police Wednesday overnight detained 58 Palestinian citizens of Israel in a round of detentions as mass protests continue over the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and mass expulsions of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah.
- Israeli forces Wednesday overnight a car repair shop during confrontations near Az-Za’ayyem village, east of Jerusalem, setting it ablaze.
- Israeli forces Wednesday overnight sealed off the entrances to Silwad town, north of Ramallah, and Kafr Ad-Dik town, west of Salfit.
- A Palestinian Wednesday overnight sustained serious wounds from Israeli military gunfire near Jaba’ town, northeast of Jerusalem.
- The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the attack of a clergy by Jewish settlers in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- Over 15 Palestinians Wednesday afternoon sustained wounds in renewed Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip
- A Palestinian was killed and over 10 others were wounded on Wednesday afternoon in relentless Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip
20 May, 2020
- A Palestinian girl was killed and a number of civilians were injured in the ongoing brutal airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
- A recent series of violent Israeli airstrikes carried out across the Gaza Strip on Thursday early morning left at least one Palestinian killed and about 13 others injured.
- Israeli occupation forces last night wounded four Palestinians, including a child, during military raids of the villages of Jaba and Araqa in the northern West Bank province of Jenin.
- Palestinians in the city of Umm al-Fahm in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948 embarked on a one-day general strike in protest of the death of a 17-year-old teenager at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces earlier this week.
- A young Palestinian worker was stabbed and critically wounded late last night by Israeli settler fanatics in the city of Holon, in the center of 1948-occupied Palestine.
- A Palestinian young man, Muntaser Mahmoud Jawabreh, 28, was on Thursday announced dead of wounds sustained two ago by Israeli gunfire during clashes in the village of Tura al-Gharbiya, to the southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
- The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll of the ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far risen to 230, while the number of wounded increased to 1,710.
- A Palestinian civilian died and another one was injured in an Israeli airstrike that hit the northwest of Beit Lahia town in the north of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli artillery bombing on the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, earlier caused a cutoff of power supply in all of the city that is still ongoing until this moment.
- Israeli artillery bombing on the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, earlier caused a cutoff of power supply in all of the city that is still ongoing until this moment.
- At least four Palestinians were injured on Thursday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike that hit an apartment in the neighborhood of Al-Remal in Gaza City.
- A Palestinian family survived imminent death early morning when a huge ordnance thrown down by Israeli fighter jets hit their home in the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli police Thursday afternoon stormed Al-Makassed Hospital in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur.
- Israeli settlers leveled a tract of land belonging to the villagers of Kisan, east of Bethlehem city, to make room for colonial settlement construction.
- Three Palestinians were announced dead and others injured on Thursday evening in a series of Israeli artillery and airstrikes that hit Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli artillery targeted four factories in Gaza’s industrial zone, according to the Palestinian Industrial Estate and Industrial Zone Authority (PIEFZA).
- Israeli forces Thursday afternoon cracked down on a solidarity rally at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, injuring two.
- Israeli forces erected several settler mobile homes near the southern entrance of Hebron city.
21 May, 2020
- Rescuers Friday morning recovered the bodies of nine Palestinians, including a child, who were killed in the 11-day relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
- The Norwegian Refugee Council said that while a ceasefire has been reached in Gaza, action should be taken to lift the Israeli siege on Gaza and end the Israeli occupation.
- Dozens of Palestinians suffocated as Israeli forces Friday afternoon quelled peaceful rallies in the southern West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem.
- At least 15 Palestinians were injured on Friday afternoon when a contingent of the Israeli occupation police raided the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem.
- Several Palestinian protesters were injured by Israeli occupation forces, some of them by live gunshots, during a protest against colonial Israeli settlements in the village of Beita, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the medical sources.
- Israeli occupation forces closed all the entrances to Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, denying entry and exit for the local Palestinian citizens.
- Three Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated rounds and many others sustained suffocation from gas inhalation, as Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of activists protesting in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank, against the Israeli colonial settlements.
- A number of Palestinian civilians sustained injuries in an attack by hardcore Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
22 May, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities continued this morning to detain Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem with nine more young people detained from their homes and in the streets.
- Israeli settlers vandalized a vehicle owned by a charitable group, slashing its tires, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces assaulted dozens of protesters demonstrating at the entrance to the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to demand an end to Israel’s lockdown of the neighborhood.
- Hardcore Israeli settlers set fire to crops belonging to Palestinian farmers in the Bedouin community of Masafer Yatta, to the south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
23 May, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces shut down all the entrances to the village of Deir Nidham in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.
- Lynn Hastings, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator of the occupied Palestinian territory, said that the Israeli aggression on Gaza has exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, generated by nearly 14 years of blockade and recurrent hostilities.
- Israeli forces set up a metal gate on a road leading to seven villages and towns in the occupied West Bank city of Salfit.
- Israeli occupation forces placed concrete blocks on the secondary roads leading to the town of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin, as well as continued to bulldoze Palestinian residents’ agricultural land in the area to pave a road for the exclusive use of illegal Israeli settlers.
24 May, 2020
- A Palestinian injured in the latest Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip succumbed to his wounds, bringing the death toll to 248.
- Israeli police Monday overnight launched a wave of mass arrests against Palestinian citizens of Israel as part of violent crackdown on recent protests against Israel’s brutal settler-colonialism and apartheid regime.
- Dozens of Israeli settlers, escorted by heavily armed Israeli police, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
- Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem.
- Around 155 administrative detention orders were issued against Palestinians, including 84 new orders, since the start of May; the highest percentage in years over a short period of time, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
- A Palestinian minor sustained injuries after being struck with bullet shrapnel fired by an Israeli settler in the village of al-Janiya to the west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
- The rescue crews pulled the bodies of four more Palestinian civilians from under the rubble caused during the eleven days of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
- A Palestinian youth succumbed evening to critical wounds he sustained during the eleven days of the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
25 May, 2020
- Undercover Israeli forces dawn Tuesday killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of al-Bireh.
- Israeli settlers Tuesday morning assaulted Palestinian families and uprooted 35 olive trees in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
- More than 400 Australian scholars and academics have released an open letter in solidarity with Palestine, and called on the Australian government to condemn Israel and its actions.
- The Israeli occupation authorities delivered demolition notices against three industrial facilities in Deir Sharaf village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- More than 500 former Democratic Party staffers have signed an open letter on Monday urging US President Joe Biden to “hold Israel accountable for its actions” in and over Gaza and take “concrete steps” to end Israeli occupation of the Palestine.
- Some 570 Dutch scholar and educators have so far signed an online petition calling on their government to cut all relations with Israel as a means to achieve just peace.
- The Electricity Distribution Company in the Gaza Strip confirmed on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to hinder the maintenance electrical power transmission and distribution lines.
- Israeli authorities handed a number of local councils in the Salfit governorate notices for the seizure of thousands of dunums of agricultural lands belonging to Palestinian residents in the area for the benefit of constructing a water pipeline that serves two illegal settlements in the area.
26 May, 2020
- Israeli forces Wednesday morning stormed the headquarters of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas and fired tear gas bombs inside.
- Israeli settlers Wednesday morning attacked Palestinian shepherds and stormed their houses in Khirbet Zanuta village, southwest of Hebron city.
- Israeli settlers seized an old building to serve as in Arab Ar-Rashayida village, east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli occupation forces on Saturday evening assaulted dozens of Palestinian protesters and solidarity activists as they were demonstrating in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in support of its citizens who are facing an Israeli threat of eviction from their homes.
27 May, 2020
- A Palestinian injured in the latest Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip Thursday overnight succumbed to his wounds, bringing the death toll to 254.
- Israeli settler extremists stole 110 Straw bales belonging to a Palestinian resident in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
- Israeli authorities approved the construction of hundreds of new settlement units to expand the illegal settlement of Mtsad, built on Palestinian land southeast of Bethlehem.
28 May, 2020
- Israeli forces Friday overnight detained at least four Palestinians and assaulted three others in the West Bank, according to security sources.
- Some 20 Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces quelled an anti-settlement-construction rally in Beita town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli forces today ordered a halt on the farmland reclamation and house construction in Khallet al-Eidah area, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian landowners who defended their land against colonial settlement construction in Khirbet Shehadeh, west of the West Bank city of Salfit.
- Illegal Israeli settlers took over three dunums of Palestinian-owned land in the village of Kisan, to the east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to Ahmad Ghazal, the deputy mayor of the village.
- Two Palestinian civilians sustained injuries today in an attack by colonial Israeli settlers in the village of Ni’lin, to the west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian youth was shot dead and ten others injured by Israeli occupation forces during an anti-settlement demonstration in the village of Beita, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health.
29 May, 2020
- Three Palestinian civilians were injured with live bullets today when Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of Palestinian protesters demonstrating in the village of Ni’lin, to the west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, against an Israeli plan to confiscate large swathes of land in the village.
- Israeli occupation forces ordered a Palestinian citizen of Fureidis village, to the east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, to tear down his own house and an animal barn of his own under the pretext of building without Israel’s permission.
- Israeli occupation forces on Saturday evening assaulted dozens of Palestinian protesters and solidarity activists as they were demonstrating in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in support of its citizens who are facing an Israeli threat of eviction from their homes.
- Three Palestinian civilians were injured with live bullets that day when Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of Palestinian protesters demonstrating in the village of Ni’lin, to the west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, against an Israeli plan to confiscate large swathes of land in the village.
30 May, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces ordered the demolition of a health clinic in the village of Birin, near the town of Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
- An Israeli Police vehicle today ran over and injured a Palestinian child for raising a Palestinian flag on his bike in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud.
31 May, 2020
- The Israeli occupation forces dismantled four tents, including two residential, in a village in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank displacing 15 people and 100 sheep, and seized them, according to the Wall and Settlements Resistance Commission.
- The Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition orders against 10 houses in the villages of Ni’lin and Deir Qaddis, to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, despite the fact that the homeowners possess legal building permits.
- Israeli settlers today assaulted an elderly Palestinian man while working in his land near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya.
- Israeli occupation forces uprooted dozens of olive trees from a plot of land in the village of Jayyous, east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, under the pretext that the land is under Israeli jurisdiction.
- The body of a Palestinian civilian was found trapped inside the rubble of buildings shelled during the eleven days of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
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By: Ebtehal Mohamed, Khaled Reda.
