DAILY SITUATION REPORT
08:00,17th January 2021 -08:00, 18th January 2021
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DAILY SITUATION REPORT
08:00,17th January 2021 -08:00, 18th January 2021
1. At 03:30, the Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Eizariya town and detained 2 citizens.
2. At dawn on 18/01/2021, the Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Issawiya village and detained 2 citizens.
3.At dawn on 18/01/2021, the Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Zaim town and detained a citizen.
1. At 11:45, the Israeli occupation forces detained Alaa Munther Najib, in the Old City of Jerusalem.
2. At dawn on 18/01/2021, the Israeli occupation forces detained 2 citizens: Omar Ishaq Abu Sbaitan and Muhammad Abu Sbitan. in Al-Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem
3. The two detainees in Al-Eizariya town are: Ali Ahmad Afana and Muhammad Afana.
4. The two detainees in the village of Al-Issawiya are: Samer Munther Attiyah and Mahmoud Awni Attia.
5. The detainee in the town of Al-Zaim is: Luay Jaber.
At 12:15, the Israeli occupation forces temporarily detained 2 citizens (a citizen and his wife): Muhammad Eid Masharah and his wife Khatam in the Jabal Al-Mukaber neighborhood in Jerusalem and released them at a later time.
On 17. 01. 2021, the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem issued a order to ban Jihad Nasser Qus - a residents of the Old City of Jerusalem, from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for a period of 1 week, as a condition for his release after he was detained earlier.
At 08:30, a group of extremist settlers, under the protection of the Israeli police, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and conducted provocative tours in its courtyards and facilities.
At 17:35, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Nabi Saleh, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
1. At 09:45 and again at 20:05, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Beitunia , and patrolled until 23:10.
2. At 02:05, the Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Mughayer village, and detained a citizen.
3. At 02:50, the Israeli occupation forces raided Bir Zeit and Kober towns, detained 2 citizens in Kober town, and withdrew at 05:45.
1. The detainee in Al Mughayer village is: Luay Abu Alia.
2. The two detainees in the town of Kober are: Othman Sabah Zebar and Husam Ata Zebar.
At 01:50, the Israeli occupation forces raided the villages of Beit Qad and Deir Abu Daif, and patrolled until 02:50.
On 01/17/2021, the Israeli occupation forces demolished 11 commercial shops owned by: brothers - Radhi, Mahmoud, Muhammad Yahya Khadour, and the brothers - Asid, Yazid, and Walid Yusef Issa. And Ismail Khalil Yassin, Asim Dawas Issa, and the two brothers - Hakam and Ashraf Hussein Yassin, and Muhammad Nader Issa in the Dhahr area near the boys school in the village of Anin, near the separation wall.
At 08:45, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Azzun, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
At 17:30, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at Beit Furik checkpoint, and obstructed traffic.
1. At 08:30, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the Beita town roundabout, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 09:45, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint near the "Yitzhar" settlement junction, north of Huwara, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
3. At 11:25, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint near the "Shavi Shamron" settlement junction, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
4. At 18:40, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint in Al-Murabaa area near the entrance to Tal village, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
At 19:20, the Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Madama, and detained a citizen.
Detainee in Madama village: Ameed Muhammad Hasan al-Qat.
1. At 13:50, a group of settlers positioned near the outskirts of Madama village, and threw stones at the citizens' homes, which led to smashing the windows of the house of the citizen: Mashhour Muhammad Qat, and wounding his daughter, 11-year-old, with injuries to the head, and they tried to kidnap her before local residents were able to chase them away and were taken to the government hospital in Nablus for treatment.
2. On 17./01/ 2021, a group of settlers stormed the agricultural lands of the citizens of Asira al-Qibliya village, and uprooted and cut down 40 olive trees, owned by the citizen: Hussam Khalifa.
The child Halal Mashhur Muhammad al-Qat, 11 years old was wounded in the head as a result of a settler attack.
At 08:50, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their procedures at the Zaatarah Junction checkpoint, and obstructed traffic.
1. At 13:00, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the Deir Ballut junction, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 14:00, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Kafeel Haris, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
3. At 14:00, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Kafr El-Deek, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
At 15:35, the Israeli occupation forces swept an area of the citizens' agricultural lands belonging to the village of Marda, and uprooted a number of olive trees owned by the citizen: Ahmed Ibdah.
At 19:00, a group of settlers stormed agricultural lands north of the settlement of "Brokhin", and damaged a agricultural storage room owned by the citizen: Zaher Reed Taha - a residents of the town of Kafr El-Deek.
1. At 09:20,the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the southern entrance to Jericho, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 09:45 and again at 18:50, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jericho to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
1. At 09:40 and again at 19:50, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint near Al-Nashash Junction (the southern entrance to Bethlehem) to search cars and check citizens' identities.
2. At 16:05,the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the southern entrance to the town of Nahalin, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
3. At 16:25, the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint in the Aqabat Hasanah area (on the main road leading to the western villages in the Bethlehem governorate), to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
4. At 18:20,the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the northern entrance to the town of Tuqu ', to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
1. At 16:10,the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Tuqu ', and conducted a patrol.
2. At 04:20, ,the Israeli occupation forces raided Bethlehem city and Deheisheh camp in Bethlehem city,detained a citizen in the camp, and withdrew at 05:55.
The detainee in the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem is: Sami Abdul-Jabbar Al-Hasanat.
1. At 09:20,the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to Al-Arroub camp, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
2. At 09:35,the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint on Wadi Sa`ir road, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
3. At 16:25,the Israeli occupation forces set up a checkpoint at the entrance to Al-Fawwar camp, to search cars and verify citizens' identities.
1. At dawn, 18/01/2021, the Israeli occupation forces raided the village of Deir Samet and detained a citizen.
2. At dawn, 18/01/2021, the Israeli occupation forces raided Hebron city and detained a citizen.
1. The detainee in the village of Deir Samet is: Abd al-Hamid Abd al-Majeed al-Sharawnah.
2. The detainee in Hebron is: Tayseer Abu Subaih.
On 01/17/2021, the Israeli occupation forces prevented the employees of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee from completing the restoration and maintenance works in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron.
• 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 Israeli occupation forces violated the ceasefire by firing from their positions on the Green Line in Khan Yunis governorate, and by launching 6 missiles from warplanes in (two successive airstrikes) in Khan Yunis and Rafah governorates.
• Palestinian armed groups violated the ceasefire by launching 2 projectiles towards the Green Line.
* Beit Hanoun Crossing - "Erez": On 01/17/2021, it is closed (except for the passage of emergency humanitarian cases).
At 03:15 on 18/01/2021, members of Palestinian armed groups launched projectiles towards the Green Line.
* 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.
1. At 08:00 on 17/01/2021, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire from their positions on the Green Line towards agricultural lands east of Abasan town, east of Khan Yunis.
2. At 08:00 on 17/0/ 2021, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire from their positions on the Green Line, towards agricultural lands east of Khuza'a town, east of Khan Yunis.
At 06:20 on 18/01/2021, the Israeli warplanes launched 3 missiles, targeting agricultural land east of Al-Qarara town, northeast of Khan Yunis.
* Yasser Arafat International Airport: closed.
* Sufa Crossing: closed.
* Kerem Shalom Crossing - “Kerem Shalom”: On 01/17/2021, it is partially open (for the entry of foodstuffs, goods, building materials, and limited quantities of fuel).
* Al-Awda- Rafah crossing: on 01/17/2021 is closed.
At 06:15 on 18/01/2021, the Israeli warplanes launched 3 missiles, targeting agricultural land east of Rafah.