DAILY SITUATION REPORT
08:00,30th December 2020 -08:00, 31st December 2020
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DAILY SITUATION REPORT
08:00,30th December 2020 -08:00, 31st December 2020
At 19:30, the Israeli occupation forces positioned in the city of Jerusalem detained the citizen: Anwar Sami Obeid - a resident of Al-Issawiya village.
On 12/30/2020, the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem issued a decision to deport the citizen: Issam Najib (one of the guards of Al-Aqsa Mosque) - a resident of Jerusalem, for a period of 7 days from Al-Aqsa Mosque, as a condition for his release after they detained him earlier.
At 15:10, the Israeli occupying forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to Aboud town, and detained a child.
1. At 04:20,the Israeli occupation forces raided Ramallah city and the town of Beitunia, where clashes took place with citizens as they stormed a number of houses and as a result wounded a citizen then detained a university student in Ramallah city, and withdrew at 06:10.
2. At 05:25, the Israeli occupation forces raided Kober town and detained a citizen.
1. The detainee at a flying checkpoint located at the entrance to the town of Aboud is: Ahmed Omar Zahran, 16 years old, resident of Deir Abu Mishal village.
2. The detainee in Ramallah city is: Ziad Qaddumi (university student).
3. The detainee in the town of Kober is: Omar Abdel-Rahim Al-Barghouti.
1. At 04:20, the occupying forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards the citizens, under the pretext that they had been thrown with stones as they stormed and searched of a number of homes during their raid into the city of Ramallah and the town of Beitunia and as a result wounded a citizen in the town of Beitunia.
The wounded civilian during clashes with the occupation forces in the town of Beitunia is: Shams Kalab.
On the evening of 12/30/2020, a group of settlers came near the village of Beitin, and threw stones at the citizens' vehicles passing by, causing material damage to a vehicle belonging to the citizen: Nasr Nofal.
1. At 08:35, the Israeli occupation forces in charge of guarding the separation wall near the town of Barta'a Al-Sharqiya, located behind the separation wall, fired towards a citizen, while he was trying to enter to work inside the Green Line, wounding him - with injuries to the feet.
2. At 10:00, the Israeli occupation forces fired near the village of Imriha junction, towards a citizen, while he was trying to enter to work inside the Green Line, wounding him - in the thigh.
1. The wounded person who was shot by the Israeli occupation forces near the town of Barta'a Al-Sharqiya is: Ahmed Walid Ahmed Zaid - a resident of Zebda village.
2. The wounded person who was shot by the Israeli occupation forces near the village of Al-mriha junction: Iyad Hamza Saba'na - a resident of Qabatiya town
At 08:25, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at Tayasir checkpoint, and blocked traffic until 09:20.
1. At 11:15, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at "Ainaf" checkpoint, and obstructed traffic until 16:15.
2. At 17:35, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at Shoufah checkpoint and obstructed traffic.
At 02:55, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Anabta and Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, detained 3 citizens, and withdrew at 07:15.
The 3 detainees in Anabta town and Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm are: Ahmed Tariq Al-Nimri - a resident of Anabta town, Uday Samer Jaber Zendiq - a resident of Nour Shams camp, and Saeed Izzat Jaber Zendiq - a resident of Nour Shams camp.
1. At 14:15, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint between the villages of Beit Amin and Azzun Atma, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 14:25, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Ezbet El-Tabib, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
1. At 01:30, the Israeli occupation forces raided Qalqilya, detained a citizen, and withdrew at 06:55.
2. At 03:45, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Kafr Thulth, detained a citizen, and withdrew at 06:55.
1. The detainee in Qalqilya is: Fouad Na`im Ahmad Arman.
2. The detainee in Kafr Thulth is: Omar Ayman Amin Shawahna.
At 20:00, a group of settlers came near the entrance to the settlement of "Kedumim," and threw stones at Palestinian civilians' vehicles passing on the main road of Qalqilya - Nablus.
1. At 11:20 and again at 23:55, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at Huwara checkpoint, and obstructed traffic.
2. At 14:20, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at Beit Furik checkpoint, and obstructed traffic.
1. At 09:50 and again at 17:30, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint in the Al-Murabaa area near the entrance to the village of Tal to search cars and check citizens' identities.
2. At 17:15, the Israeli occupation forces set up a roadblock at the entrance to Madama village, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
3. At 17:50, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint near the "Shafi Shimron" settlement junction, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
At 16:10, the Israeli occupation forces positioned at the Huwara checkpoint detained 2 civilians Majdi Mahmoud Abu Gelda and Samed Amjad Abu Al-Sebaa - (both of them are residents of Jenin camp).
At 21:25, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city of Salfit, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
1. At 09:00, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Kafr El-Deek, stormed a residential building owned by a citizen, Muhammad Khader, and took its engineering measurements, in preparation for its demolition, and withdrew at 11:30.
2. At 10:00, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Kafeel Haris, and detained a citizen.
The detainee in the town of Kafeel Haris is: Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Mahmoud al-Asaad.
At 08:50, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the southern entrance to Jericho, to search cars and verify citizens' identities until 09:50.
On 12/30/2020, a group of settlers,under the protection of the occupation forces, stormed the Arab Rashaida area, north of Jericho, and attacked a citizen, wounding him - with wounds and bruises.
The wounded man, as a result of being beaten by a group of settlers, in the Arab Rashaida area, north of Jericho, is: Ammar Abu Kharbish.
At 21:45, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint near the Al-Nashash area junction (the southern entrance to Bethlehem), to search cars and check citizens' identities until 22:40.
1. At 02:40, the Israeli occupation forces raided Bethlehem, detained a citizen, and withdrew at 06:00.
2. At 04:45,the Israeli occupation forces raided Dheisha camp in Bethlehem district,detained 3 citizens, and severely beat 4 civilians (including a female citizen), and withdrew at 06:00.
1. The detainee in Bethlehem is: Ahmed Rebhi Al-Harimi.
2. The 3 detainees in Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem are: Ibrahim Munir Arafa, Haider Izzat Abu Dayya, and Ahmad Tawfiq Tayeh.
At 04:45, the Israeli occupation forces severely beat 4 citizens (including a female citizen): Ruqayya Suleiman Abdullah Abu Dayya, Mufti Maarouf Abd al-Hamid al-Masri, Anas Azat Muhammad Abu Dayya, and Ahmad Izzat Abu Dayya and as a result left them hospitalized with contusion in Beit Jlla during their raid into Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem.
At 10:15, the Israeli occupation forces swept an area of about 70 dunums of the citizens' agricultural lands in the Saf al-Khamaysa, Wadi al-Watwat and Mishmash areas, west of the village of al-Jab'a, which led to the uprooting of about 300 olive trees and the demolition of a well to collect water owned by the citizens: Abd al-Rahim Ali Abd Allah Al-Tous, Izzat Abdullah Abu Latifa, Hilal Muhammad Masha'leh, and Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Panel.
1. At 08:10, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to Idna town, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 15:10, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Hebron, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
At dawn 12/31/2020, the Israeli occupation forces raided Hebron city then stormed and searched a home.
At 16:45, the Israeli occupation forces positioned at the entrance to Al-Arroub camp detained 4 children: Aram Bassam girls 15 years old, Abdullah Hussein Tafesh {15 years old}, Ayoub Daoud Bnnat {16 years old}, and Youssef Dawoud Bnnat{15 years old}{ all residents of Al-Aroub camp}.
At 21:20, a group of settlers came near the Junction of the village of Ziv, and threw stones at civilians' vehicles traveling in the area.
• 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, by firing from their positions on the Green Line in the North Gaza Governorate, and by firing at the fishermen's boats while chasing them at sea in the Gaza governorate.
* Beit Hanoun Crossing - "Erez": on 12/30/2020, is closed (except for the passage of emergency humanitarian cases).
At 14:15 on 12/30/2020, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire from their positions on the Green Line, towards agricultural lands east of the town of Beit Hanoun.
* Al-Muntar-Karni crossing: closed since 02/03/2011, permanently and by a unilateral Israeli decision.
* Shejaiya Crossing - “Nahal Oz” for fuel: closed since 04. 01. 2010, by unilateral Israeli decision.
At 08:00 on 12/30/2020, Israeli gunboats fired at the fishermen's boats while chasing them at sea off the beach in Gaza City.
* Yasser Arafat International Airport: closed.
* Sofa Crossing: closed.
* Kerem Shalom Crossing - “Kerem Shalom”: On 12/30/2020 is partially open (for the entry of foodstuffs, goods and building materials, and limited quantities of fuel).
* Al-Awda- Rafah crossing: on 12/30/2020, is closed