DAILY SITUATION REPORT
08:00, 12th August 2020 -08:00, 13th August 2020
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DAILY SITUATION REPORT
08:00, 12th August 2020 -08:00, 13th August 2020
1. At 08:00 on 12.08.2020 and again at 05:00 on 13.08.2020, Israeli forces raided Al-Eisawiya village, clashed with several residents then detained 6 residents.
2. At 10:00, Israeli forces raided Al-Eizariya town.
1. At 22:00, Israeli forces positioned in front of one the main entrances into Al-Aqsa mosque detained Ahmad Al-Dalal {a Security Guard}{a resident of the old city of Jerusalem}.
2. Israeli force detained 6 residents: Tayseer Yusef Muheisen, Nasim Amjad Muheisen, Youssef Ali Al-Kiswani, Ismail Yusef Muhaisen, Mahmoud Muhammad Ubaid, and Iyas Hussein Obaid in Al-Eisawiya village.
1. At 20:00, Israeli forces positioned in Abu Dis town fired rubber coated steel bullets, stun and tear gas canisters towards several residents for alleged stoning.
2. At 20:20, Israeli forces fired rubber coated steel bullets, stun and tear gas canisters towards several residents for alleged stoning during their raid into Al-Eisawiya village.
On 12.08.2020, Israeli authorities forced Ibrahim Jum'a to personally demolish his 180-square-meter house (under construction), after he was notified earlier, in order to avoid paying heavy fines in the event that the occupation authorities carry out the demolition, under the pretext of lack of permission.
At 08:30,groups of extremist settlers, under the protection of the occupation police, stormed the courtyards Al-Aqsa Mosque, and made provocative tours of its courtyards and facilities.
1. At 03:15, Israeli forces raided Kafr Ni'ma village and detained 2 residents.
2. At 03:45, Israeli forces raided Deir Qaddis village and detained a resident.
3. At 04:55, Israeli forces raided Beit Rima town and detained a resident.
4. At 05:00, Israeli forces raided Deir Ghassana town and detained a resident.
5. At 05:15, Israeli forces raided Abu Shikhaydum village and detained 2 residents.
6. At 05:30, Israeli forces raided Kobar town and detained a resident.
7. At dawn on 13.08.2020, Israeli forces raided Khirbithat Bani Harrith village and detained a Palestinian Security Force Officer.
1. The two detainees in the village of Kafr Na'ama are: Na`im Muhammad Ramadan and Ra`id Abbas Muhammad Nassar.
2. The person detained in the village of Deir Qaddis is: Hamdi Zaid Jamil Abu Zaid.
3. The person detained in the town of Beit Rima is: Nasser Abd al-Latif al-Barghouti.
4. The detainee in Deir Ghassana town is: Salah Bassam Al-Barghouti.
5. The two detainees in the village of Abu Shkheidem are: Murad Yusef Qandah and Ahmed Abdel-Hafez.
6. The detainee in the town of Kober is: Ahmed Abdel-Hafez.
7. The detainee in the village of Kharbatha Bani Harith is: The policeman - Ahmed Rebhi Habas Abu Hussein.
1. At dawn on 12.08.2020, Israeli forces raided Fuq'a village and detained a resident.
2. At 05:30, Israeli forces raided Jenin city and detained a resident.
1. Israeli forces detained Mohammad Naziha Foad Massad in Faqu'a village.
2. Israeli forces detained Salah Ahmad Sittati in Jenin city.
At 03:10, Israeli forces raided Tubas city and detained a resident.
Israeli forces raided Nasser Abdallah Daraghma in Tubas city.
On 12.08.2020, a group of settlers in the areas of Al-Mazukah and Al-Sweida, which are located in the northern Jordan Valley, fenced off large areas of the citizens' agricultural lands, in an attempt to seize them.
At 07:45 on 12.08.2020,Israeli forces tightened their procedures at the “Enav” checkpoint, and impeded the movement of traffic.
At 19:00, Israeli forces set up a flying checkpoint beneath Jabarat bridge in south Tulkarem city to search cars and verify citizens ’identities.
At 20:20, Israeli forces detained Ahmad Marwan Tawfiq Foqaha {a resident of Anata town} as he was reporting to Israeli Intellegnce for questioning based on a prior summon.
At 07:45, the occupation forces, present at the gate of the Segregation Wall near the village of Far'un, shot at 2 civilians while they were trying to enter to work inside the Green Line, which led to their injuries - foot wounds, and they were subsequently admitted to the government hospital in Tulkarm for treatment.
The two wounded as a result of shooting by the occupation forces at the gate of the apartheid wall near the village of Far'un, and they are: Husam Imad Musa Dabbas - residents of Tulkarm, and Amer Abdullah Ahmad Sarhan - residents of Tulkarm camp.
1. At 10:15, Israeli forces set up a checkpoint near "Kadumim" settlement junction to search cars and verify citizens ’identities.
2. At 10:20,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at Al-Nabi Eliyas village junction to search vehicles and verify citizens identities.
3. At 12:35,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Kafr Laqqif village to search vehicles and verify citizens identities.
4. At 20:55,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint in the area between Azzun town and Kafr Thulth town to search cars and verify citizens ’identities.
5. At 20:55,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint in the area between Azzun town and Izbit Al-Tabib village to search cars and verify citizens ’identities.
On 12.08.2020,A group of settlers from the "Havat Gilad" settlement outpost on the lands of Jit village set fire to the citizens' lands planted with olive trees in the village of Jeet.
At 02:20, Israeli forces raided Rujieb village and detained a resident.
1. At 16:20, Israeli forces positioned at Huwara checkpoint detained Muhanad Kan'an {a resident of Burin village}.
2. Israeli forces detained Obadat Mohammad Khalid Rujieb in Rujieb village.
1. At 10:00, a group of settlers came along the bypass road that passes by the settlement of "Yitzhar", and threw stones at the civilians' vehicles passing by.
2. At 00:30, a group of settlers stormed the village of Asira al-Qibliya, and set fire to a bulldozer owned by the two citizens: Ali Al-Issa and Muhammad Hamdan, writing slogans in Hebrew (racist anti-Arab), and attacked the house of the citizen: Abdul Basit Ahmed, located on the outskirts of The village, and in effect, the occupation forces intervened and fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at the citizens while they were trying to confront the settlers.
At 00:30, the occupation forces fired stun and tear gas canisters in the village of Asira al-Qibliyah at the citizens, while they were trying to confront a group of settlers, who set fire to a bulldozer and attacked a house on the outskirts of the village.
1. At 10:00,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the North entrance of Salfit city to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
2. At 15:20,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Deir Ballut town to search cars and verify citizens ’identities.
3. At 20:10,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Kafr Al-Deek town to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
1. At 23:55, Israeli forces raided Deir Istiya town then stormed a home.
2. At 02:50, Israeli forces raided Kafr Al-Deek town and detained 3 residents.
1. At 02:25, Israeli forces positioned at Za'tara junction military checkpoint detained Raed Anas Hithnawi {a resident of Jenin city}.
2. Israeli forces detained 3 residents: Zahi Ibrahim Al Deek, Majd Fayez Damra, and Hussam Mazen Hosni Ali Al-Ahmad in Kafr Al-Dik town.
At 17:15, Israeli forces levelled a plot of land {under the threat of confiscation} in Thaher Sabah in Bidiya town.
At 10:40, the occupying forces in the areas of Khallet Ghanayem and Qunya, located on the eastern side of the village of Iskaka, bulldozed an area of citizens' lands that were confiscated by the occupation forces earlier, with the aim of expanding the "Novi Nehemia" settlement outpost on the lands of the villages of Yasuf and Iskaka.
At dawn on 13/08/2020, a group of settlers stormed the village of Iskaka, damaging the tires of 3 vehicles owned by Reda Atiani, Mahmoud Mahfouz, and Mustafa Ahmed.
At 19:00,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint near the North entrance of Jericho city to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
1. At 08:35, Israeli forces set up a checkpoint in the area between Kissan and Al-Rashayda villages to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
2. At 11:30,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Jinata town to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
3. At 11:40,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint near the Al-Nashash Junction (the southern entrance to the city of Bethlehem) to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
4. At 12:25,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint in Aqbat Hasna area {located along the main road leading to the west villages of Bethlehem district} then searched vehicles and checked the identities of citizens.
5. At 20:45,Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the west entrance of Teqou' town to search cars and check the identities of citizens
At 04:10, Israeli forces raided Bethlehem city and detained 2 residents.
Israeli forces detained 2 residents: Mohammed Obaid Allah Al-Nawoura, and Badr Saeed Al-Nawoura in Bethlehem city.
On 12.08.2020, Israeli forces demolished the village of Al-Nu`man, east of Beit Sahour, a (Barka) used to raise sheep, owned by Yusef Al-Darawi, under the pretext of not being licensed.
At 11:20, Israeli forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance of Ithna town to search cars and check the identities of citizens.
At dawn on 12.08.2020, Israeli forces raided Beit Ummar town and detained a resident.
Israeli forces detained Ameer Yusef Khudier Awad in Beit Ummar town.
• Since 19:00 on 26. 08. 2014 The permanent and comprehensive ceasefire came into effect on the initiative and sponsorship of the Arab Republic of Egypt, after reaching understandings to open the crossings and introduce humanitarian and relief assistance and reconstruction supplies, and to expand the area of fishing for 6 miles with an increase of up to 12 miles with At the end of this year, the area of the "buffer security" area will be reduced from 300 m to 100 m, freedom of movement and the prevention of assassinations, and the remaining issues, including the airport and the port, will be negotiated within a month of the ceasefire.
•Since the Morning of 28. 06. 2019 The occupying forces allowed the expansion of the fishing distance from the oasis area northwest of the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza and even to the port of Gaza by 6 nautical miles, and from the port of Gaza to the south of Rafah beach to 15 nautical miles.
• At 20:00 on 12. 08.2020 The Occupation Forces announced that they had reduced the fishing area, from 15 nautical miles - to 8 nautical miles, off the shores of the Gaza governorates.
• The occupation forces violated the ceasefire by storming our areas in the North Gaza Governorate, and by firing fire and 3 artillery shells from their positions on the Green Line in the Central Governorate, and by the warships firing at fishermen's boats at sea in the North Gaza Governorate, and by air strikes with missiles from warplanes (in 4 consecutive airstrikes) in the northern Gaza, Gaza, and Rafah governorates.
* Beit Hanoun Crossing - "Erez" on 12. 08. 2020 is closed (excluding the passage of emergency humanitarian cases).
On the morning of 12.08.2020, several vehicles, bulldozers and a cover of reconnaissance aircraft stormed our areas at a depth of about 50 meters north of the town of Beit Lahia, and carried out digging and bulldozing work.
At 22:00 on 12.08.2020, Israeli gunboats fired at the fishermen's boats while chasing them at sea off the Al-Sudania beach, west of the town of Beit Lahia.
At dawn on 13.08.2020 Israeli warplanes bombed two missiles, targeting agricultural land east of the town of Beit Hanoun.
* Al-Mantar-Karni crossing: closed since 02. 03. 2011 once and for all by unilateral Israeli decision.
* Shujaiya Crossing - "Nahal Oz" fuel crossing: closed since 04. 01. 2010 by unilateral Israeli decision.
At dawn on 13.08.2020 Israeli warplanes bombed 3 missiles (in two successive raids), targeting a site of a Palestinian armed group northwest of Gaza City, causing material damage to a school belonging to the Palestinian Refugee Relief Agency (UNRWA)and 20 neighboring homes.
1.At Noon on 12/08/2020, the occupying forces fired from their positions on the Green Line, towards a number of citizens while they were flying incendiary kites and balloons in the sky of the border fence east of Al-Bureij camp.
2. At dawn on 13. 08. 2020, the occupation forces fired 3 artillery shells from their positions on the Green Line, towards a site belonging to one of the armed Palestinian groups in the east of Deir Al-Balah, causing material damage to a number of houses near the site.
*Yasser Arafat International Airport: Closed.
*Sofa Crossing: closed.
* Kerem Shalom Crossing - Kerem Shalom: 12. 08. 2020 is partially open (for the introduction of foodstuffs and goods, limited quantities of fuel, building materials for the private sector and internationally funded projects).
* Al-Awda port - Rafah: on 12. 08. 2020 is closed.
At dawn on 13.08.2020, Israeli warplanes bombed two missiles, targeting a site of a Palestinian armed group east of Rafah.