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 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities resumed demolition of Palestinian-owned agricultural structures in Khirbet Humsa al-Fouqa in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli settlers vandalized some 15 Palestinian-owned vehicles and broke windows of three houses in Kufl Haris town, north of the northern West Bank city of Salfit.
- The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor this day expressed its grave concern over the Israeli authorities’ arrest of a UN Palestinian employee in Jerusalem, calling for her immediate and unconditional release.
- Israeli settlers grazed their cattle on Palestinian cultivated land to the east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli forces Monday evening shot and injured a Palestinian young man near Barta‘a town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
2 Feb, 2020
- Israeli settlers last night attacked Palestinian vehicles travelling on a road near Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli occupation forces raided after midnight last night Khirbet Humsa al-Fouqa community in the northern occupied Jordan Valley and prevented activists from building shelters for the residents whose tents were demolished the day before and left without a shelter to protect them from the cold desert night weather.
- Israeli occupation forces the night before and this day detained at least 30 Palestinians, including four minors, from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Israeli occupation forces this day gave notices of demolition against three houses and an animal shed in Um al-Amad community, west of Yatta town in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Five Palestinian minors said they were severely beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and interrogators during detention, this day said the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.
3 Feb, 2020
- Israeli military targeted Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the southern and northern besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli forces delivered a notice to demolish a farmer’s hut and retaining walls in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.
- The Israeli army conducted military drills for the third consecutive day in Palestinian farmlands in the area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
- Israeli forces set up an observation point at the main entrance of Deir Nidham village, northwest of Ramallah.
- Israeli forces Wednesday morning dismantled tents and other structures in Khirbet Humsa al-Fouqa community, southeast of Tubas city, in the northern Jordan Valley.
- Israeli occupation authorities demolished a house under construction and walls in the town of Anata, northeast of the occupied city of Jerusalem.
4 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses continued with the demolition of a house sheltering a family with five children of special needs in the south of the West Bank and destroying the area’s electricity grid.
- Palestine called for the application of strong and deterrent sanctions against Israel over the demolition of a northern Jordan Valley community.
- Israeli forces detained 10 Palestinians and injured another across the occupied West Bank, according to local and Palestinian security sources.
- Recordings of surveillance cameras have shown an Israeli settler carrying out an assault two days ago on the Romanian Orthodox Church in the neighborhood of Musrara in occupied Jerusalem.
5 Feb, 2020
- Israeli settlers Friday morning fatally shot a Palestinian near Ras Karkar village, northwest of Ramallah city.
- Israeli forces Friday dawn stormed several houses and detained a Palestinian across the west Bank.
- The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III condemned the attack committed by an Israeli extremist against the Romanian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem about three days ago.
- Palestinians fended off a settler attempt to storm an Ottoman-era site in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus city.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an anti-settlement-construction rally in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus city, injuring a number of participants.
- A Palestinian teenager was shot and injured by live gunshots in his foot and arm as Israeli occupation forces cracked down on Palestinian protesters demonstrating against the Israeli colonial settlements, according to witnesses. The protest took place in the village of Kafr Malek, east of Ramallah.
6 Feb, 2020
- Israeli occupation soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinian farmers and activists who were planting trees in lands in the northern West Bank town of Bidya, west of the city of Salfit, and fired teargas canisters and stun grenades at them to force them to leave the area, according to a Palestinian official.
- Hardcore Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian herders while they were grazing their sheep in the village of Al-Tuwana, near the town of Yatta in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
- Thousands of Palestinian protesters took part in a central rally in the city of Tamra, north of Israeli-occupied historical Palestine, to express their resentment over Israeli police complicity in the ongoing crime wave and collaboration with outlaws.
- Thousands of Palestinian protesters took part in a central rally in the city of Tamra, north of Israeli-occupied historical Palestine, to express their resentment over Israeli police complicity in the ongoing crime wave and collaboration with outlaws.
- At least five Palestinians, including a paramedic, were injured by Israeli occupation forces as the latter attacked dozens of demonstrators taking part in an anti-settlement protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, the occupied West Bank.
7 Feb, 2020
- The Israel occupation’s navy opened fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen as they were sailing off the coast of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, forcing them to return to shore.
- Three Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces last night during a raid of the city of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank.
- Hardcore Israeli settlers uprooted and stole about 30 olive saplings for a Palestinian farmer in the village of Bruqin, near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian worker was injured while trying to cross the Israeli segregation barrier, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, while he was heading to his workplace in Israel.
- A Palestinian worker was injured while trying to cross the Israeli segregation barrier, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, while he was heading to his workplace in Israel.
- Israeli occupation army ordered a halt on the construction of seven houses for Palestinian households in the village of Sarra, to the west of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli settlers evening uprooted around 30 olive trees belonging to Palestinian residents in the town of Kafr ad-Dik, to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit.
8 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli occupation army attacked Palestinian farmers working in their lands in the north and south of the Gaza Strip and forced them to leave the area.
- Israeli settlers attacked the official Palestine TV crew as they were filming from an area near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel, built on seized Salfit land in the north of the West Bank.
- Israeli occupation forces demolished a water well and two caravans in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- Israeli occupation forces returned to the battered Humsa al-BqaiaBedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley to remove the tents provided by humanitarian agencies to form as shelters for the families whose homes were recently demolished by the Israeli army.
- Israeli settlers began illegal construction work on Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Einabus, to the south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli police prevented Palestinian shop owners in the Old City of Jerusalem from opening their shops despite lifting the general lockdown imposed to confront the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
- Israeli settlers afternoon pushed a Palestinian off a wall in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus city.
9 Feb, 2020
- Israeli navy targeted fishermen sailing off Gaza City shore as its armored vehicles infiltrated the northern Gaza border.
- Palestinians rallied in protest of the looming dispossession of four Palestinian families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and the transfer of their homes to Israeli settlers.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least eight Palestinians and injured another across the West Bank.
- Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the Masafer Yatta area to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
- A Palestinian worker was injured today evening after being shot by Israeli gunfire near the town of Barta’a, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
10 Feb, 2020
- Israeli forces carried out large-scale detention raids across the West Bank, detaining 30 Palestinians.
- Israeli forces seized tore down a tent and seized two others in Masafer Yatta and to the east of Yatta village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
- A Palestinian worker sustained injuries from Israeli military gunfire near the town of Barta‘a, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
- Israeli forces blew up the family house of Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, Mohammed Murweh Kabaha, who was allegedly accused by the Israeli occupation of killing an Israeli settler in late December 2020.
- A Palestinian was killed after he was deliberately run over by an Israeli settler at Kafl Haris junction to the northwest of Salfit,
- The Palestinian mayor of Hebron, Taysir Abu Senineh, today received death threats from Israeli settlers.
11 Feb, 2020
- Concern was high in the southern West Bank village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, when Israelis started surveying lands east of the village.
- Israel notified Palestinians in Ein Shibli village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, of its intention to demolish several of their structures under the pretext they were built without a permit.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least 20 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds who were herding their livestock in the area of Susia in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Governor of Jenin, Akram Rjoub, today inspected the Kabaha family house demolished by the Israeli army and described the act as another Israeli crime against the Palestinian people while pledging to help the stricken family recover from this calamity.
12 Feb, 2020
- An Israelisettler rammed his vehicle into a group of Palestinian hikers near Ein al-Beida village, east of Tubas city, killing one and injuring two others.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an olive-planting event to the east of Burin town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his own livestock barn in al-Fureidis village, east of Bethlehem city.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Shufa village, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an anti-settlement rally in Deir Jarir village, east of Ramallah city.
- Israeli settlers assaulted an anti-land-grab rally to the west of Bidyya town, west of Salfit city.
- Two Palestinians were injured from military gunfire as Israeli forces suppressed an anti-settlement rally in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus city.
- At least eight Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces during the weekly protest against Israeli settlement construction, which takes place every Friday in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the north of the West Bank.
- A Palestinian man was seriously injured after he was assaulted and beaten up by colonial Israeli settlers and occupation soldiers in the village of Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
13 Feb, 2020
- A group of Israeli Jewish fanatics trespassed and desecrated a Muslim cemetery located just below Jerusalem’s old city wall.
- The Israeli occupation forces forced a Palestinian resident of Khirbet al-Thaala hamlet in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank to remove a tent he had set up to shelter his family of 13 people.
- At least one Palestinian was injured and many others suffocated from gas inhalation as Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinians taking part in a rally in the village of Kafr Qaddum, northwest of the occupied West Bank.
- Residents of the villages of Qusra and Asira al-Qibliya, in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus, fended off an attack by dozens of hardcore Israeli settlers targeting the outskirts of the two villages.
14 Feb, 2020
- A Palestinian family from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan embarked on demolishing animal barns of its own after it was forced to do so by Israeli municipality to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the municipality carries out the demolition.
- Israeli occupation forces stationed on the border with the Gaza Strip today opened fire at Palestinian farmers working in their lands near the border, forcing them to leave the area.
- Despite Israel’s lifting of its third nationwide lockdown last week, Israeli occupation forces continue to bar some Palestinian shop owners in the old city of Jerusalem from reopening their shops to customers.
- Israel notified Palestinians in the town of Yatma, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, of its intention to demolish their homes.
- A number of Israeli settlers attacked and smashed the windows of a Palestinian bus that got lost while driving in the village of ‘Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus.
15 Feb, 2020
- A number of Israeli military vehicles breached the borders with the Gaza Strip and infiltrated dozens of meters into the east of the town of Jabalya, north of the Gaza Strip.
- The Israeli West Jerusalem municipality forced two families to self-demolish their houses and a third family a structure under the pretext that they were built without a permit.
- A Palestinian youth was injured after Israeli settlers assaulted him in the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli authorities ordered to stop the construction work on three inhabited houses belonging to Palestinians in the town of al-Khader, south of the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.
- A ten-year-old child was injured after an explosive device left behind by the Israeli army exploded in Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.
- Israeli settlers attacked evening a Palestinian family in the village of Iraq Burin to the south of Nablus, injuring a mother and her two children
- The Minister of Health, Mai Alkaila, said that in this day, the Israeli occupation authorities banned the entry of coronavirus vaccines into the besieged Gaza Strip.
16 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem last night rejected an appeal by four Palestinian families living in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem against their eviction from their homes for the benefit of Jewish settlers and upheld the eviction order.
- The Israeli army infiltrated Gaza’s border, east of Gaza city, and razed farmlands.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles near the village of Turmus Ayya, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
- Israeli occupation forces stormed a Palestinian-owned land in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukaber and removed the barbed wire fence surrounding it.
17 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli army Wednesday morning infiltrated Gaza’s eastern frontier, east of Khan Younes city, and razed farmlands.
- A 67-year-old woman died of a heart attack following an Israeli military raid into her house in Abu Njeim village, east of Bethlehem city.
- A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody has contracted the novel coronavirus, the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission said on Wednesday.
18 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli military breached Gaza’s borders east of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, and razed farmlands. At the same time, Israel flooded farmlands east of Gaza City after it emptied basins collecting rainwater.
- At least three Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated rounds fired at them by Israeli occupation forces, during a crackdown on the neighborhood of al-Isawiya in occupied Jerusalem
- Dozens of Palestinians from the village of Al-Jiftlik, north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley region, organized a sit-in to protest the Israeli authorities’ cutting off electricity in the area for the third day in a row.
- Extremist Israeli settlers set on fire a lorry belonging to a Palestinian citizen after they sneaked into the village of Kafr Malik, to the east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli occupation army detained four Palestinian teenagers while they playing with snow in the city of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.
19 Feb, 2020
- Israeli forces flooded large swaths of farmland in the besieged Gaza Strip with rainwater for the second consecutive day, damaging crops.
- A Palestinian was injured from military gunfire as Israeli forces afternoon suppressed an anti-settlement rally in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus city.
- At least one Palestinian was injured as Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of activists holding a weekly protest against colonial Israeli settlement construction in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank.
20 Feb, 2020
- A group of Israeli settlers last night attacked a Palestinian resident of Housan village, west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, and stole his money.
- Israeli occupation soldiers stationed near the borders of the southern Gaza Strip today opened fire at a sewage tanker driving near the borders east of Khan Younis.
- Israeli occupation forces attacked this day evening an elderly Palestinian and detained his son near the village of An-Nuweima, to the north of the West Bank city of Jericho, after attempting to prevent the former from seizing their privately-owned agricultural tractor.
21 Feb, 2020
- An Israeli military gunboat infiltrated the territorial waters of Lebanon off the borderline village of Naqoura.
- Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees belonging to a Palestinian resident in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
- Israeli authorities issued a demolition notice against a two-story apartment building belonging of a Palestinian family near the al-Issawiya neighborhood in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces detained two Palestinian minor brother, ages six and eight, in the town of Hizma.
22 Feb, 2020
- Reinforced Israeli forces raided Humsa al-Bqaia Bedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley apparently to remove the tents recently placed to shelter the dozens of residents displaced in the Israeli demolition of their homes.
- The Israeli occupation authorities demolished a two-story, four-apartment residential building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyya displacing, as a result, four families, including 12 children.
- Israeli occupation forces opened fire at Palestinian farmers to the east of the city of Khan Younis in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip forcing the farmers to leave their lands.
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least 20 Palestinians, including a university lecturer, from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Israeli occupation authorities demolished a house that was still in the construction stage and two agricultural sheds in the south of the occupied West Bank.
- Israeli bulldozers demolished two shops in Sur Baher, a Palestinian neighborhood south of occupied East Jerusalem, without prior notice.
- Fadi Ilayyan, whose two-story family building was demolishedthis morning in Isawiyya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, accused the Israeli authorities of demolishing it for political reasons because he works as a guard at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.
- Israeli occupation forces who raided this morning Humsa al-Bqaia Bedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley removed 12 residential tents recently placed to shelter the dozens of residents displaced in the Israeli demolition of their homes, along with tents for livestock and water tanks.
- Israeli occupation authorities banned a Palestinian youth from entering his hometown in at-Tur in occupied Jerusalem for a period of two weeks.
23 Feb, 2020
- The Israeli occupation authorities leveled a large area of land in the Palestinian town of Abu Dis, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, in an effort to expand an illegal settlement.
24 Feb, 2020
- Israeli navy Wednesday morning attacked Palestinian fishing boats sailing offshore the city of Gaza.
- Israeli settlers stoned Palestinian vehicles on the road connecting the West Bank cities of Nablus and Qalqiliya.
- Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian in Abu Shukheidim village, northwest of Ramallah city.
- Israeli settlers stole sheep from a Palestinian shepherd in the village of Jalud, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian in Abu Shukheidim village, northwest of Ramallah city.
- Israeli settlers stole sheep from a Palestinian shepherd in the village of Jalud, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
- A Palestinian shepherd and his sister were detained by Israeli occupation forces and settlers while herding their sheep in open pastures in the south of the occupied West Bank.
25 Feb, 2020
- Israeli occupation forces detained at least 12 Palestinians, including a police officer, from various parts of the occupied territories.
- Israeli occupation authorities announced their takeover of 193 dunams of Palestinian-owned land belonging to the village of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, in favor of the establishment of a landfill that will serve Israeli settlements.
26 Feb, 2020
- Scores of Israeli settlers stormed ancient Islamic sites in Kifl Haris town, north of the West Bank city of Salfit.
- Israeli police obstructed Palestinian Muslim worshipers’ access to Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
- Israeli forces cracked down on an anti-settlement rally in Deir Jarir village, east of Ramallah city.
- Scores of Palestinians afternoon suffocated as Israeli forces quelled a rally in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
- Israeli troops cracked down on an anti-settlement rally in Kafr Qaddum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqiliya.
- A number of Palestinians were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, including one seriously, as Israeli police attacked a 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.
- Israeli settlers uprooted olive saplings belonging to a Palestinian resident in the village of Kisan to the east of the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.
- Israeli forces shot and critically injured a Palestinian minor with live ammunition as he was present with his friends at a park in the village of Saffa to the West of Ramallah.
- Israeli forces shot and critically injured a Palestinian minor with live ammunition as he was present with his friends at a park in the village of Saffa to the West of Ramallah.
27 Feb, 2020
- Two children were injured early from Israeli navy gunfire while they were at the shore in Rafah city, in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Israeli occupation forces prevented Palestinian farmers from working in their lands in the village of Bidya, west of the northern West Bank city of Salfit, and seized the tractors they were using to plow the land.
28 Feb, 2020
- In reaction to Israel’s announcement on sending surplus vaccines to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Honduras, and Guatemala, Oxfam Acting Country Director in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dina Jibril has described the deal as “shameful”, as millions of Palestinians are left to wait.
By: Ebtehal Mohamed, Khaled Reda
