Israeli Violations' Activities in the Opt 22 April 2018

Israeli Violations' Activities in the oPt 22 April 2018

The daily report highlights the violations behind Israeli home demolitions and demolition threats The Violations are based on in the occupied Palestinian territory, the reports provided by field workers confiscation and razing of lands, the uprooting and\or news sources. and destruction of fruit trees, the expansion of The text is not quoted directly settlements and erection of outposts, the brutality from the sources but is edited for of the Israeli Occupation Army, the Israeli settlers clarity. violence against Palestinian civilians and properties, the erection of checkpoints, the The daily report does not construction of the Israeli segregation wall and necessarily reflect ARIJ’s opinion. the issuance of military orders for the various Israeli purposes.

Brutality of the Israeli Occupation Army

• A young man, identified as Abdullah Mohammad Shamali, 20, from al- Barazil neighborhood, in Rafah died from serious wounds he suffered after Israeli soldiers shot him on April 27th. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) shot three young Palestinian men with live fire, east of Khan Younis, and Gaza city, after the army

attacked nonviolent protesters in the two areas. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) shot two Palestinians with live fire east of Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis. the two Palestinians suffered moderate wounds. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) opened fire at protesters in Malka Junction area, east of Gaza City, before shooting and moderately wounding a young man in his leg. Many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, in addition to various cuts and bruises. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• A Palestinian identified as Tha’er Nayef az-Zare’ey, 30, was killed when a siege-busting tunnel collapsed on him near the border in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) invaded ‘Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and detained Yousef Zahran Sweidan, 23, while walking in the downtown area. The IOA were heavily deployed near the main entrance of the town, in addition to Kafr Laqif nearby village, east of Qalqilia, and installed a military roadblock on the main road between ‘Azzoun town and Ezbet at- Tabeeb village, east of Qalqilia. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The IOA confiscated a car that was “carrying a large sum of cash,” in addition to “closing a print-shop, in Ramallah, for printing incitement materials.” (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

Israeli Arrests

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) detained a child, identified as Ezz Mohammad Shamasna, 14, from Jayyous town, northeast of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, only four days after detaining his father, who was taken prisoner after shielding his son with his body to prevent the soldiers from beating him up, when the military broke into the family home. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) nineteen other Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The army claims that many of

the detained Palestinians are “affiliated with Hamas”. Sixteen of the abducted Palestinians have been identified as: Majid Ahmad Masalma, 40, Sinjil – Ramallah. Hussein Mohammad ‘Asfour, 30, Sinjil – Ramallah. Ahmad Abdul-Karim Hamed, 32, Sinjil – Ramallah. Hamed Riyad Hamed, 22, Silwad – Ramallah. Mohammad Yahia Abu Salim, 25, Rantis – Ramallah. Amin Mahmoud Dar Darraj, 20, Kharbatha al- Misbah – Ramallah. Eyad Abdul-Ra’ouf ‘Atiya, Kharbatha al-Misbah – Ramallah. Ala’ Thabet B’eirat, 19, Kafr Malek – Ramallah. Mo’tasem Mohammad Tamimi, 23, Nabi Saleh – Ramallah. Tha’er ‘Amira, 42, Ni’lin – Ramallah. Salim Idrees Hamdan, Doura al-Qare’ – Ramallah. Khaled al-‘Abed, Kobar – Ramallah. Abdul-Hamid Mowaffaq Rimawi, Beit Rima – Ramallah. Ezzeddin Mohammad Shamasna, 14, Jayyous – Qalqilia. Mohammad Ra’ed ‘Amarna, Thaher al-’Abed village – Jenin. Nassim Taiseer Teety, 16, al-‘Arroub refugee camp, Hebron. (IMEMC 22 April 2018) • The Israeli occupation Police stationed at the Damascus gate in occupied Jerusalem detained a Palestinian woman from Gaza as she left the city. The woman was accompanying a patient in one of Jerusalem hospitals. The IOA took her to one of the new observation towers in the city and then transformed her to the police station in the area to check her permit. (WAFA 22 April 2018)

Israeli Settler Violence

• Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed the West Bank town of Sebastia west of Nablus under the protection of Israeli occupation Army (IOA). Dozens of Israeli buses carried the settlers, who stormed the heritage area in the town under heavy protection of Israeli troops. (WAFA 22 April 2018) • Dozens of heavily armed Israeli settlers from the settlements south of Hebron, carried out a provocative tour in the Palestinian agricultural land in the village of Al Tuwani and towards Khirbet al-Mafqara near the settlement of Avigal, shouting provocative slogans against Palestinian residents of the area. (WAFA 22 April 2018)

Home Demolition & Demolition threats

• The Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) have attacked and closed down a print shop in Beit Anan village, northwest of Jerusalem, under the pretext of printing “inciting materials”, The IOA invaded the area at 6:00 AM, where they partially demolished the building, seized printers and computers worth tens of thousands of shekels. The IOA also

served the owner with an order to close the print shop and stop their work, as of today. (IMEMC 22 April 2018)

• The Israeli occupation Army (IOA) and bulldozers demolished a cafe shop near Qalandyia border crossing in occupied East Jerusalem to expand the crossing. (WAFA 22 April 2018)