While Occupation and blockade are business as usual for Israel, there should be no business with Israel

In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property

48 hours to 8am 4 April 2009

Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG). 

Israeli Navy wounds fisherman – damages boats

Israeli soldiers beat up 14- and 16-year-old boys

10-year-old child & woman beaten by Occupation settlers

Israeli soldiers abduct 16-year-old 

Protester shot & wounded by Israeli Army

Two children beaten & injured by club-wielding Israeli troops

Israeli troops abduct 17-year-old boy

Home invasion & vandalism – mentally handicapped man captured

Occupation settler gunmen invade village

16 attacks – 56 raids – 2 dead –  3 curfews – 9 beatings – 25 injuries

19 taken prisoner – 39 detained – 97 restrictions of movement

Friday & Saturday

Palestinian attacks: none

Israeli attack: Nablus – 23:15, the Israeli Army shot its way indiscriminately round the village of Zawata.

Israeli attack: Bethlehem – 01:00, Israeli troops near the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque (Rachel's Tomb) opened intensive fire on the Ayda refugee camp.

Israeli attack – injury – economic sabotage: Northern Gaza – a fisherman was wounded when the Israeli Navy opened intensive fire on Palestinian fishing boats at sea off As Sudaniya.

Israeli attack – economic sabotage: Rafah – Israeli gunboats opened intensive fire on Palestinian fishing boats at sea off the city.

Israeli attack – economic sabotage – damage: Rafah – morning, three fishing boats were damaged when the Israeli Navy opened intensive fire on them at sea off Al Muwasi.

Curfew home invasions – injuries – abduction: Hebron – 12:40, the Israeli Army raided the town of Beit Ummar and the village of Khirbet Safa and imposed a curfew, after an unidentified offender had attacked three Occupation settlers with an axe, killing one of them and injuring another. Israeli troops searched a number of houses and in the village of Safa, detained and interrogated people at the village school. In addition, Israeli troops abducted 16-year-old Fadi Hani Aadi and occupied two houses, injuring two people, including a journalist.

Beating: Tulkarem – 12:50, Majdi Ahmed Daghmash was admitted to hospital with severe injuries following a beating by Israeli troops at the Jubara Occupation checkpoint.

Beating – injury: Tulkarem – 18:15, 18:15, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Shufa and beat up 14-year-old, Mohammed Abdul Rahim ad Duroubi, leaving him with severe injuries, and interrogated and photographed him.

Beatings – injuries: Bethlehem – 20:15, four people were admitted to hospital following beatings by Occupation troops manning a flying checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Beit Fajjar.

Home invasion – hostage taking: Salfit – 10:10, Occupation troops raided the town of Bidya, searched a house and took hostage a resident, Shahed Saleh Kan'an, in order to force his father to surrender himself to Israeli forces.

House demolition orders: Jerusalem – the Israeli Army raided the village of Al Eisawiya and distributed house demolition orders as punishment for them having been built without Israel's permission.

Occupation settler violence – home invasion: Jerusalem – 02:00, Occupation settlers seized control of the home of an Old City resident, Nasser Jaber. The Israeli Army detained people who were trying to defend the house.

Occupation settler armed violence: Ramallah – 14:25, armed Zionist militants invaded the village of At Tayba and threatened residents at gunpoint.

Occupation settler violence – beatings – injuries: Nablus – 20:30, a ten-year-old Palestinian, a woman and another person were admitted to Nablus Public Hospital after beatings by Occupation settlers.

Occupation settler violence – injury: Salfit – 19:40, near the Za'tara junction checkpoint, 17-year-old Rawan Mis'ef Salem was injured when an Israeli militant threw stones at a bus taking schoolgirls on a school trip.

Occupation settler violence: Bethlehem – 14:45, Israeli Occupation settlers closed the main road to the city near the junction with the settlement of Kfar 'Etzion.

Occupation settler violence – property violations: Hebron – 12:55, Zionist militants, under the protection of the Israeli Army, broke into four shops and took possession of them in pursuance of a 1994 Israeli military Occupation order.

Saturday

Palestinian attack: none

Israeli attack – incursion – deaths: Northern Gaza – dawn, Israeli armoured vehicles, supported by helicopter gunships and other air support, encountered armed resistance when they made an incursion into Palestinian territory east of Jabalya. Enemy forces opened intensive fire on people and property, killing two Resistance fighters, Mohammed Hamaydeh and Jamil Faqeeh.

Israeli attack – injuries: Ramallah – 14:00, the Israeli Army wounded two journalists and other people were overcome by Israeli tear gas during an assault by Occupation forces on an anti-annexation Wall demonstration in the village of Bil'in.

Israeli attack – injuries: Ramallah – 14:00, Israeli Occupation forces shot and wounded one protester and injured five more in an assault on an international anti-annexation Wall protest in the town of Ni'lin. A number of other people were overcome by Israeli tear gas.

Israeli attack: Qalqilya – 18:15, the Israeli Army shot its way indiscriminately round the city. The Israeli violence went on for over four hours.

Israeli attack – injuries: Bethlehem – 13:45, two children were among the injured when Israeli soldiers, armed with clubs, attacked protesters at an international anti-annexation Wall demonstration in the village of Al Ma’sara. A number people were overcome by Israeli tear gas. 

Curfew – home invasion: Hebron – 11:00, the Israeli Army raided the village of Khirbet Safa, imposed a curfew and searched a house.

Beating – injury: Tulkarem – 18:30, the Israeli Army raided the district of Dahiyat Suweika, detaining and beating up 16-year-old Mus'ab Mustafa Naji. One person was taken prisoner.

Abduction: Nablus – 21:40, the Israeli Army abducted 17-year-old Uday Mahir Hamzeh Faraj near the Occupation settlement of Bracha.

Home invasion – vandalism – violation: Hebron – 23:10, the Israeli Army raided the village of Khirbet Safa, invaded and vandalised the contents of a house, delivered an eviction order and took prisoner a mentally handicapped man and another person.

Home invasion and occupation: 14:15, in a reprisal against the people of the town of Jayus for holding an anti-annexation Wall demonstration, the Israeli Army made a four-hour incursion into the town and occupied the roof of a house.

THE ZIONIST MIND

• Israel is blocking the entry of paper into Gaza, causing UNWRA to complain that education in the stricken territory is being severely hampered.
• Young lives and limbs in Gaza continue to be endangered because Israel is refusing to allow in equipment to deal with the vast amount of unexploded ordnance, including white phosphorus munitions left behind in Gaza by the Israeli military.

Recent news updates:

War crimes in Gaza. The Guardian has compiled detailed evidence of alleged war crimes committed by Israel during the 23-day offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this year, involving the use of Palestinian children as human shields and the targeting of medics and hospitals.