Daily Report November 16 2020

On the 15th of November 2020, the occupation authorities issued tenders to build 1257 new settlement units in the colony of "Givat Hamatos", located south of Jerusalem, within the occupied territories of 1967.

1. On 15.11.2020 The occupation forces in charge of guarding the coveted apartheid wall near the village of Medina fired sound and tear gas canisters at the workers while they were trying to enter to work inside the Green Line, which resulted in a number of them suffocating from inhaling tear gas.
2. At 04:50,during their raid into Bir Zeit and Kober towns, the occupying forces fired stun grenades and tear gas at the citizens, under the pretext that they had been thrown with stones while stormed a number of houses.

At 13:55, the occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the Araba town junction, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.

1. On the evening of 15 11. 2020, the occupation forces confiscated a private vehicle, owned by the citizen: Rashid Khedirat, in the Um al-Jamal area in the northern Jordan Valley.
2. On the evening of 15 11. 2020, the occupation forces confiscated 4 agricultural tractors belonging to the citizens in the Al-Warraq area, east of the Al-Hadidiya area in the northern Jordan Valley: Jamal Muhammad Bani Odeh (3 tractors), and Yusef Hussein Asmar Bisharat (one tractor), during They plow their lands.

On 13 November 2020, the occupation forces arrested at the "Ainaf" checkpoint, citizen: Mustafa Ahmad Mashha - resident of Balata camp in Nablus.

At 15:15, the occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas, near Jaljulia checkpoint, south of Qalqilya, at the citizens, under the pretext that they had been thrown with stones.

Israeli forces positioned at flying checkpoint in the Al Murabaa area near the village of Tal detained Mahmoud Abdel Razzaq Ramadan - residents of Tal village.

At 11:00, the occupation forces swept a plot of land owned by the citizen: "Brukhin" settlement, established on the lands of the towns of Broqin and Kafr El-Deek.

At 11:35, the occupation forces positioned at a military checkpoint detained Abdul-Jabbar Mustafa Basharat - resident of Al-Jiftlik village, while he was on his way to Nablus.

1. At 13:15, the occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Tuqu 'town, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 15:50, the occupation forces set up a checkpoint near the Al-Nashash area junction (the southern entrance to Bethlehem). The checkpoint was established again at 20:05 to search cars and check citizens' identities.
3. At 16:00, the occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the western entrance to Tuqu 'town, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
4. At 16:15, the occupation forces set up a checkpoint in the Aqbat Hasanah area (on the main road leading to the western villages in the Bethlehem governorate), to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
5. At 20:20, the occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the eastern entrance to the village of Marah Rabah, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.

On 15. 11. 2020 a group of settlers attacked a number of farmers from the Al-Shawahin family, in the Al-Tha`la area east of Yatta, and they fired trained (police) dogs at them, preventing them from reaching them to plow and reclaim their lands.

• At 19:00 on 26/08/2014, the permanent and comprehensive ceasefire came into effect with the initiative and patronage of the Arab Republic of Egypt, after reaching understandings to open the crossings, the introduction of humanitarian and relief aid and reconstruction requirements, and expanding the fishing area to a distance of 6 miles with the increase in distance Up to 12 miles by the end of this year, reducing the "security buffer" zone from 300 meters to 100 meters, freedom of movement and preventing assassinations. Other issues, including the airport and the port, will be negotiated within a month of the ceasefire.

• On the morning of June 28, 2019, the occupation forces allowed the expansion of the fishing distance from opposite the Al-Waha area northwest of the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza governorate and up to the Gaza port by a distance of 6 nautical miles, and from opposite the Gaza port to the south of the coast of Rafah to 15 nautical miles.
• On 01/09/2020, the occupation forces re-expanded the fishing distance from the front of the Al-Waha area northwest of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza governorate and up to the Gaza port by a distance of 6 nautical miles, and from opposite the Gaza port to the south of the coast of Rafah to 15 nautical miles. After it imposed on 08/16/2020 a complete closure on the maritime domain in front of the fishermen's boats in front of the Gaza Strip.
• The occupation forces violated the ceasefire, firing from their positions on the Green Line in the Central Governorate.

* Beit Hanoun Crossing - "Erez": on November 15, 2020, is closed (except for the passage of emergency humanitarian cases).

* Al-Muntar-Karni crossing: closed since 02/03/2011, permanently, and by unilateral Israeli decision.
* The Shejaiya Crossing - “Nahal Oz” for fuel: closed since 04. 01. 2010 by an Israeli unilateral decision.

At 06:45 on 11/16/2020, the occupation forces fired from their positions on the Green Line, towards agricultural lands east of Maghazi camp.

* Yasser Arafat International Airport: closed.
* Sofa Crossing: closed.
* Kerem Shalom Crossing - “Kerem Shalom”: 15.11.2020. It is partially open (for the entry of food, goods and building materials, and limited quantities of fuel).
* Al-Awda - Rafah: 15. 11. 2020 closed.