Thursday, August 22, 2024 – The West Bank
Killed
1. Jafar Muna, 25-years-old from Nablus. Killed several days ago while an explosive charge he carried in order to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv exploded, and his name was only publicized today.
2. Imad Tyassir Shareem, 37-years-old from Tulkarm refugee camp.
3. Mu’awia Al Haj Ahmad, 23-years-old from Tulkarm refugee camp.
4. Waseem Al ‘Anbar, 24-years-old from Tulkarm refugee camp.
Tulkarm
Raids and arrests
During the night, Israeli forces raided Marda, Tulkarm, Tulkarm refugee camp, Ramallah, Al Bireh, Nablus, Beit Ummar, Asira ash-Shamaliya, Bizzariya, Azzun, Beit Furik, Tuqu’a. During the day they raided Deir Ballut, Kafr ‘Aqab, Surif, Deir Al Ghusun, Bal’a, Beit Hanina, Asira al-Qibliya, Immatain, Hajja, Al Arroub refugee camp, Issawiya, Anabta, Ramin, Arabbuna, Hebron, Aqraba, Shu’afat refugee camp. 29 Palestinians were arrested, 2 minors and 2 women among them.
South Hebron hills. A settler teaches his young son to shoot a rifle
Clashes and army attacks against Palestinians
1. Tulkarm, Tulkarm refugee camp and Iktaba suburb - night raid lasting 14 hours. First, laying siege on government hospital, while bulldozers destroy houses and infrastructures in town and in the camp.
Confrontations including fire exchange and explosive charges. Siege on a house at Iktaba, shoulder missiles fired at it and destroy it. A fire broke out.
Attack against ambulances and journalists. 3 persons killed, 4 wounded - a 5-year-old child from shrapnel, another man from shrapnel, a person wounded by live fire, one person badly wounded by being run over by military vehicle. Much destruction in the camp. Soldier wounded by explosion of the D9 bulldozer he was driving.
2. Hajja, east of Qalqilya - raid during which a 14-year-old boy was badly beaten.
3. Hebron - raid, one person wounded by live fire.
4. Bal’a, north-east of Tulkarm - raid of house, much damage to its content.
Palestinian attacks against the army
1. Dotan Checkpoint, south-west of Jenin - shots fired.
Demolitions and confiscations
1. Kharbatha al-Misbah, west of Ramallah - 2 residential houses demolished.
2. Asira al-Qibliya and Immatain, south of Nablus - cessation of works on road, 5 trucks carrying asphalt confiscated.
3. Zanuta, south of Hebron - one day after the villagers returned to their locality by force of a court order and discovered that colonists had destroyed and looted their property, soldiers came and confiscated shade tarpaulins erected for villagers whose homes were destroyed.
The soldiers did not stop even when the court order was shown to them, and recommended that the villagers leave.
Colonist attacks
1. Al Auja, north of Jericho - a new colonist outpost.
2. Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem - on July 31st, colonist invaded the lands of a family at Al Makhrur, the army and police secured the colonists and rejected all protest or document-presentation. Instead, an activist vigil takes place there. Today colonists attacked a protest and wounded three activists.
Sources
Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, BBC, Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Genocide in Gaza, Haaretz, HRANA - Human Rights Activists News Agency, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jordan Valley Activists, Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Matan Golan, Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, OCHA Lebanon, OCHA OPT, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Palestinian Health Ministry, Quds News, Reuters, Rosa News, South Hebron Mountain Activists, Ta'ayush, Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), The Washington Post, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, West Bank Notifications, WHO, yNet, Zirat War
