Life under occupation: numbers

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property

24 hours to 8am 02 January 2012

Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG) http://www.nad-plo.org/dailyreports.php

Israeli Navy opens fire on fishing boats off Rafah

Rafah incursion: Israeli Army opens fire on homes – bulldozes crops

2:40am: home invasions and Israeli Army vandalism

2:30am raid – Israeli soldiers abduct youth

Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 5 towns and villages 4 attacks – 11 raids including home invasions

3 acts of economic sabotage – 7 taken prisoner – 12 detained – 91 restrictions of movement

Home invasions and occupations: 02:40-05:20, Salim.

Peace disruption raids: 23:30, Al Tabeh - midnight, Ramana - 02:30, Azzun - 11:50, Deir Hatab - 11:50, Salim - 12:20, Aqraba - 18:30, Kifl Hares - 13:45, Hebron - 22:15, Hebron - 18:30, Yatta.

Palestinian attack: Northern Gaza – evening, a number of missiles fired towards the Green Line.

Israeli attack – incursion – agricultural sabotage: Rafah – evening, Israeli forces with bulldozers shot their way in to the area , opening fire on homes and farms and bulldozing crops.

Israeli attack – economic sabotage: Rafah – dawn, Israeli gunboats opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the city.

Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Rafah – evening, the Israeli Army opened fire on homes and farms.

Israeli attack: Jerusalem – Israeli troops fired tear gas and stun grenades at people in the Bab Al Amoud neighbourhood.

Raids: Jenin – midnight, Israeli troops firing stun grenades raided Ramana village. Raid – abduction: Qalqilya – 02:30, Israeli soldiers raided Azzun and abducted one 17-year-old youth: Mahmoud Radwan. Home invasions and vandalism: Nablus – 02:40-05:20, the Israeli Army raided Salim village and searched six homes, vandalising the interior of one of them. Two people were taken prisoner.

Occupation settler road incident: Nablus – 15:05, an Israeli settler vehicle overran and killed two sheep owned by a Palestinian villager, Mahmoud Idiyas.

Recent news updates:

Turkey demands lifting of the Gaza blockade. Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made the statement in a meeting with his Gaza counterpart, Ismail Haniyeh, who is visiting Turkey. According to Mr Al-Nunu, Prime Minister Erdogan stressed that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is not a "terrorist" organisation but a movement that was elected by the Palestinian people. The will of the Palestinian people must be respected, he added.

picture: neighbours, Hebron