List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, July–December 2016

July

1 July

• A pregnant Palestinian woman, Sara al-Hajuj Atrayera (27),^[1] was shot dead when she allegedly pulled a knife and tried to stab an Israeli soldier at the Hasam Tzalbanit checkpost near the Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Palestinian eyewitnesses report that the incident occurred when she was ordered into a room for a physical inspection, was pepper-sprayed, at which she ran away and was shot dead. She came originally from the same village Bani Na'im as Mohammed Taraireh, who killed an Israeli settler the day before, and of Majd al-Khadour, also shot dead some days earlier for an apparent car-ramming attack in Hebron.^[2][3] According to an investigation by the Israeli NGO B'Tselem based on the testimony of bystanders and video footage, a scuffle ensued during the inspection in a room, perhaps because a knife was found in her possession. Two Israeli officers, a man and a woman, left the room coughing from pepper-spray, which was also later found on the face of the deceased. The woman officer had a pepper-spray in her hand. A third officer left the room, and several others gathered at the door, after which 4 shots were heard being fired. They add that this was, in their view, another of dozens of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, who could otherwise have been detained without lethal measures, in the past 3 months.^[4]
• In a drive-by shooting in the West Bank, a Palestinian gunman shot dead Rabbi Michael Mark (48), head of a yeshiva at the Israeli settlement of Otniel, and critically wounding his wife Chava (40). Two of their 10 children travelling with them, Pedayah (15) and Tehila (13), suffered light to moderate injuries. The attack took place on route 60 between Otniel and the settlement of Beit Hagai.^[5][6] A passing Palestinian couple, Ali Abu Shroukh of ad-Dhahiriya and his wife, both doctors, who were driving to the Al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers,^[7] stopped to intervene. A young Palestinian couple were already trying to help. The 2 medicos dragged the children and wife from the flipped-over vehicles and applied first aid. At the father's funeral, his children silenced mourners crying for revenge.^[8][9] In response, Transport Minister Israel Katz said the situation was one of 'all-out war'; Israel sealed off Hebron and its surrounding areas in a military closure in a measure that affects 700,000 Palestinians. Movement by the local population was subject to restrictions except for "humanitarian cases".^[1]
• Muhammad Mustafa Habash (63) from the Nablus area village of Asira al-Shamaliya died of excessive tear-gas inhalation fired by Israeli forces during clashes with Palestinians crossing the Qalandiya checkpoint to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He was one of a group of 40 who suffered from excessive tear-gas at the site.^[10]
• An Israeli policeman lightly injured from a stone thrown at him during riots in Kalandia. Israeli forces dispersed the protesters using crowd control weapons.^[11]
• Stones were hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail in Shuafat area, causing no injuries but damage to the train. Two Palestinian suspects were caught by the police and brought to investigation.^[12]
• Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets toward the Israeli city of Sderot. One rocket exploded in a community center for children which as empty at the time, piercing the roof of the building and causing damage inside. Windows of surrounding buildings were also damaged. There were no direct injuries from the rocket but two civilians were treated for shock. The second rocket hit an open field in the boundaries of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. A Palestinian organization affiliated with ISIL, named Anqaf Bayt al Maqdis issued a statement claiming responsibility for the shooting. The Israeli air force struck what it called four "terror infrastructures" belonging to Hamas. An IDF spokesman said the IDF considers Hamas responsible for all that happens in the Gaza Strip.^[13][14][15]

4 July

• Israeli forces demolished the houses of the Assaf and Abu Habsa families in Kalandia refugee camp in punishment for an attack by two of their members, Anaan Hamad (20) and Issa Asaf (19). The two had carried out an attack in Jaffa Gate last December, killing two Israelis. The forces used hammers instead of explosives due to the density of the camp. During the demolition which lasted for four hours, Palestinians rioted, throwing stones and also shooting at the soldiers, who responded with live fire. Four Palestinians were wounded, with light to moderate injuries, during the clashes. UNWRA spokesman Chris Gunness called the acts a breach of international law^[16] regarding collective punishment.^[17]
• Riots took place in Dura, West Bank after Israeli forces entered the village of Bani Naim and arrested four Palestinians, including two brothers of Mohammed Taraireh, the Palestinian teenager who killed a 13-year-old girl in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba last week. A vehicle was also confiscated. During the raid the soldiers found and confiscated an M16 rifle, two pipe bombs and bottle of flammable paint.^[17]

5–11 July Overview

50 Palestinians, of whom 14 were children, suffered injuries in clashes, mostly during 98 search and arrest operations by Israeli troops throughout the West Bank, leading to the arrest of 95 Palestinians. Gazans were fired on at least 7 times in incidents involving land and sea operations, and on 4 occasions Israel conducted bulldozing operations to level ground inside the Gaza Strip. One Palestinian was killed, and 3 reports of Israeli vehicles being stoned by Palestinians were registered.^[18]

5 July

• An IDF combat soldier from the Givati brigade shot and critically wounded a Palestinian girl, Jamileh Daoud Hasan Jaber (17) from al-Zawiya, Salfit, after she tried to stab him and another officer, while they were on duty at a bus stop, the Gitai interchange, near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. A video of the incident is available,^[19][20][21] Israeli commentator Gideon Levy said the video shows her slowly taking 'hesitant steps' with a kitchen knife in her hand towards 2 armed soldiers, and asked General Gadi Eisenkot publicly whether the IDF supposed 'to make the death wish of every suicidal Palestinian girl come true?'^[22]
• An Israeli woman (30) was lightly injured in her face after her vehicle was caught in stone throwing north to Kiryat Arba on Highway 60.^[23]

6 July

• Three soldiers were lightly injured when a car driven by a Palestinian hit their vehicle, causing it to flip over. The incident occurred near the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Neve Daniel. The Palestinian driver is in critical condition. Investigations have been undertaken to ascertain whether it was a deliberate attack or an accident.^[24][25]
• Israeli media reported that shots were fired at an Israeli settler's vehicle near the Zaatara checkpoint near Nablus in the West Bank. No injuries were reported.^[26]
• An Israeli settler was reportedly injured by rock-throwing in the vicinity of the settlement of Beit El.^[26]
• A Palestinian teenager from East Jerusalem was arrested for firebombing Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. No one was injured in the attack.^[27]
• A stone was hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail causing damage but no injuries.^[28]
• At least ten Palestinians were injured, some by live fire, in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the village of Dura after the soldiers attempted to arrest suspects in Hebron area. The IDF said troops used live fire from Ruger sniper rifles and crowd-control weapons to disperse the Palestinians who attacked the soldiers with stones, firebombs and burning tires.^[29]

9 July

• Eitan Finkel of Netivot, was shot while driving home from the settlement of Metzad. The incident took place outside Tekoa. He suffered a wound to the shin. His wife and 6 children were in the car at the time. Israeli forces sealed off 2 Palestinian villages Sa'ir and Al-Arroub to search for a suspect. Clashes broke out and 8 people were arrested.^[30][31][32] Locals in Sa'ir reported that four Palestinians were wounded with rubber-coated steel bullets shot by Israeli soldiers and dozens more suffered from severe tear gas inhalation.^[33]
• A Palestinian man named Bassam Mahmoud Tabish was reportedly shot by Israeli soldiers while being arrested for no clear reason. The Israeli army did not confirm the incident.^[33]

11 July

• Israeli forces shot 2 Palestinian youths with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes that arose as they raided the al-Shuyukh area of the blockaded village of Sa'ir.^[34]
• It was reported that 10 dunams (2.5 acres) of land sin the Um Suwwana area under olive-tree cultivation and belonging to the al-Sawaada family of al-Ramadin had been torched by Israeli forces some weeks earlier.^[35]
• An improvised explosive device was thrown at the compound of Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, causing damage to a parking vehicle.^[36] In early July five Palestinian teens aged 16 and 17 of al-Aida refugee camp who admitted they were responsible for seven incident where they have thrown a total of 15 explosive devices on the compound during the month of Ramadan causing severe damage.^[37]

12–18 July overview

44 Palestinians, including 13 children, were injured in clashes with Israeli troops over this period, 42 of which incidents occurred in the West Bank. A further 2 were shot in the Gaza Strip in the ARA or restricted area to which Gazans are denied access, one reportedly while out hunting birds. Twenty-three Palestinian properties were razed for lack of Israeli building permits, leaving 43 people, 25 of them children displaced. Nine attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property were registered, including the burning of 150 olive trees in Bethlehem, the uprooting of 5 dunums of sorghum near the village of Huwwara, and the theft of over 50 sacks of hay and wheat grain in Qusra, attributed to settler actions. Six Palestinian vehicles were damaged by settler stone throwing; two Israelis were injured by Palestinians^[38]

13 July

• Anwar al-Salaymeh (22/24) from Shuafat was shot dead and Fares Khader al-Rishq (20) was critically wounded when an Israeli Border policeman, feeling he was in danger, opened fire on their car, during a raid at 3:30 a.m. on the town of Al-Ram, to examine a blacksmith's business used as a weapons' manufacturing plant. According to Israeli spokesmen, the firing occurred when a vehicle headed in direction of troops was observed as accelerating. A third youth in the vehicle, Muhammad Nassar (20) was arrested. He was not wounded. Palestinian sources say the 3 youths may not have been aware a raid was being conducted inside the town.^{[39][40][41][42]} According to a Palestinian lawyer, a preliminary scan suggested al-Salaymeha had been shot in the back three times. An autopsy, with a Palestinian physician present, is to be undertaken to determine the exact cause of death.^[43]
• Israel conducted two airstrike raids on sites east of El Bureij Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, causing explosions. Israeli sources said the reason for what were called 'controlled detonations' could not be given.^[44]

14 July

• Yihya Hijazi was lightly wounded when he was shot during a police arrest in Shuafat refugee camp. According to Israel reports border guards endeavoured to arrest a man suspected of "terrorist activities" at a checkpoint. Local residents tried to hinder the arrest and Hijazi is said to have approached the soldiers, reportedly holding a knife before he was shot. A Fatah spokesman claimed Hijazi had tried to wrest a knife from the suspect.^[45][46]
• 11 Palestinians were wounded during clashes between Israeli forces and stone and bottle-throwing protestors after an Israeli undercover squad and soldiers entered al-Mazraa al-Gharbiyeh, on the northern outskirts of Ramallah and arrested Tareq Rabie, an Islamic activist at Birzeit University. Nine were hit with live fire, eight in the limbs and one severely with a stomach wound. A military closure was then imposed on the village and the surrounding area. Israeli sources state that Molotov cocktails were thrown, while Palestinians report that they were empty bottles.^[47]
• According to Palestinian sources, a group of Palestinian vehicles were hit by a barrage of rocks thrown by settlers as they came back from a wedding, on the Wadi Qana road between Qalqilya and Salfit. A Salfit Company bus was damaged, and the windscreen of a driver from the village of Biddya was smashed. Palestinians convicted of stoning vehicles can receive sentences of up to 20 years, which Palestinians say is not applied to similar cases involving settler perpetrators.^[48]

18 July

• The home in Qabatiya of Bilal Ahmed Abu Zeid, a Palestinian arrested on suspicion of providing arms used to kill an Israeli police officer and injure 2 others on 3 February, was demolished during a predawn raid. Five Palestinian youths were injured by live fire when clashes erupted at the scene. Abd al-Rahman Suleiman (20), was critically wounded by a shot to the chest; Rami Zakarneh (28) received a shoulder wound; Anwar Kamil ( 17) was shot in the leg, while Jawad Kamil (16) was hit in the waist The identity of the 5th man wounded is unknown.^[49]
• Israeli soldiers fired on a Palestinian truck when it collided with an Israeli car near Hebron. The driver, Hisham Mahmoud Abu Ayyash of Beit Ummar was wounded and arrested. Palestinian sources stated that it seems to have been a traffic accident.^[50][51]
• 2 Israeli soldiers suffered light wounds from a screwdriver when they were attacked by a Palestinian, Mustafa Baradiya (51), a mathematics teacher from Surif, outside the al-Arrub refugee camp. The Palestinian was in turn shot in the abdomen. Both soldiers, one with a wound to the hand and the other to the neck, and the civilian attacker received first aid from a passing Red Crescent Society ambulance. It later emerged that the assailant's brother, Ibrahim Baradiya (50), had been shot dead at the same site after trying to attack a soldier with an axe on April 14. Bardaya died of his injuries later than evening.^[52][53]
• Yahya Hijazi (24) was shot 9 times in the leg by Israeli troops in the Shuafat Refugee Camp. According to his mother, he was passing by and noticing a family quarrel, intervened and disarmed a man who was wielding a knife. She claims he raised his hand to signal to the troops he had no intention of using the knife, and thereupon was shot, and his other leg fractured in a subsequent beating. He was detained, but after interrogation, not placed under arrest.^[54]
• Hamza Mahmoud Rabaee (12) suffered a foot fracture and bruising in a hit-and-run accident involving, according to Palestinian claims, a car driven by an Israeli settler.^[55]

19-25 July Overview

74 Palestinians, of whom 18 were children, were injured in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank. Farmers and fishermen from the Gaza Strip were fired on at least 10 times. On 4 separate occasions Israeli demolition teams razed 7 Palestinian structures in east Jerusalem. Armed settlers shot at Palestinians farming their land near the village of al-Khader and the Israeli settlement of El’azar, near Bethlehem.^[56]

19 July

• A Gazan fisherman was wounded when the boat he was fishing from was subject to Israeli fire off the northwestern coast of the Gaza Strip.^[57]
• 7 structures in Silwan, East Jerusalem, were razed to the ground by Israeli forces. Arafat Abu al-Hamam had 4 of his buildings destroyed, a single-room home and 3 stores, built in 2008 without Israeli permits. A car-wash and garage owned by the Abu Tayih families were also demolished.^[58]
• A nearly completed home, owned by Sharhabil Alqam was also bulldozed in the Beit Hanina neighbourhood of East Jerusalem The residence was intended for him his wife and 7 children. The owner had failed to file a request for a permit.^[58]
• A Palestinian demolished his own home in the Ein al-Louz area of Silwan to avoid paying for the costs of an impending demolition ordered by the Israeli authorities.^[58]
• Muhyi a-Din a-Tabakhi (10) of al-Ram succumbed to his wounds after being critically wounded in the chest by a black sponge bullet during clashes with Israeli Border Police, who fired at a group of stone-throwing youths, demonstrating against the construction of a Separation Barrier. A Palestinian bystander who tried to assist the boy was also shot in turn, and was wounded in his hand.^[59][60]
• Settlers were accused by Palestinians of setting fire to the home of Muhammad Dawabsha in Duma. An initial Israeli investigation claimed that the building was set alight following inter-clan tensions in the village.^[61][62]

20 July

• A Gazan farmer was shot by a rubber-coated steel bullet while reportedly working land east of Deir al-Balah and close to the Israeli border.^[63]
• Two tin shacks owned by Abu Sneina and built close to the Atarot settlement in north Jerusalem, holding 4 storage containers and office space were demolished. The bulldozing also destroyed a 3 vehicles and a diesel tank. The land is considered public land by Israel.^[64]

21 July

• An Israeli settler's vehicle was struck with live bullets on Thursday night near Beit Sahour in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, according to Israeli sources. In response Israel blocked the entrances to the townships of Beit Sahour, Jannatah, Za'atara, al-Khas and Marah Rabah in southeastern Bethlehem.^[65][66]

22 July

• Two Palestinian youths were injured in clashes with Israeli troops during the weekly protest march at Kafr Qaddum. One was shot in the thigh with a rubber-coated steel bullets, the other was struck in the head by a tear-gas canister. The marching area was also dowsed with skunk liquid, whose putrid smell lingers for some weeks.^[67]

23 July

• Samir Jabir and his cousins were surveying some of their property, to which they claim they have Ottoman period title, when they were threatened and came under fire by Israelis from a settlement called Fathers’ Road, near Bethlehem, between Neve Daniel and Elazar. When they refused to budge, the shots were fired just over their heads. The incident was filmed and posted on YouTube. According to a UN report settlers had injured Palestinians or damaged their properties on 9 occasions in the week between July 12 and 18.^[68]

24 July

• A Palestinian youth received a serious head wound from live fire during clashes with Israeli troops making a pre-dawn raid on the village of Silwad near Ramallah.^[69]

25 July

• Israeli forces demolished 12 Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Qalandiya for lacking building permits and because of their proximity to the Separation Barrier. Seven Palestinians werfe reportedly injured by either rubber-coated steel bullets, tear-gas inhalation, or physical assault as clashes broke out when locals tried to defend the homes.^[70]
• According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, 9 youths were injured by Israeli rubber-coated steel bullets, in clashes in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, that erupted in the wake of a solidarity march by Palestinians for aprisoner engaged in a 43-day hunger strike.^[26]
• An Israeli Borderr policeman broke and confiscated a family bike ridden by Anwar Burqan (8) after she trespassed on a stretch of road in central Hebron reserved for Jewish settlers. It was the one source of play for several children of a local pauper family. The policeman concerned was suspended after B'Tselem placed a video of the event on its website on 2 August.^[71]

26 July-1 August Overview

One Palestinian was killed, and a woman wounded, from alleged stabbing attacks at checkpoints, bringing the number of Palestinians killed in such incidents in 2016 to 60, and the number of Israelis 11; 67 Palestinians, of whom 14 were children, were injured in clashes with Israeli troops. On 7 occasions farmers and fishermen from the Gaza Strip were fired on. Israel razed 20 Palestinian structures in East Jerusalem, displacing 17 people, and impacting on a further 221. Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at Israeli cars in the West Bank on six occasions, while settlers injured one Palestinian driver by throwing bottles at his vehicle.^[72]

26 July

• 4 structures, including a home being built by Salah Abd al-Nabi Mahmoud; Haitham Mustafa's car repair shop and 2 walls, were demolished in a predawn raid by Israeli forces on the East Jerusalem village of Isawiya. The reason given was that they lacked Israeli permits.^[73]
• A young Palestinian woman, Raghad Nasrallah Shuani (18), from the village of Kafr Aqab, was shot in the legs when, ignoring calls to stop, she ran towards soldiers manning the checkpoint in Qalandiya. She sustained a light wound. Later, a knife was found in her bag. It may be a case of attempted Suicide by cop.^[74][75]
• 3 Palestinian youths were injured by live fire when Israeli forces raided the al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah district.^[76]

27 July

• Muhammad Faqih of the village of Dura, considered the perpetrator of the drive-by murder of Rabbi Michael Mark on July 1, was killed when the house he was hiding in, in the village of Surif, was struck by several anti-tank missiles reportedly after he returned fire. Five residents of the town were also injured by Israeli live fire as clashes erupted with Israeli troops. What remained of the house, owned by Muhammad Ali al-Heeh, was subsequently demolished by bulldozers.-^[77]
• At least one young Palestinian hurled rocks at a bus on Highway 55, in the northern West Bank. No one was injured but the bus was damaged. The stone thrower and another Palestinian suspected of involvement were arrested and placed under the charge of the Shin Bet.^[78]

29 July

• Two Gazans suffered moderate wounds to their feet from Israeli live fire during confrontations near the Separation Barrier in the Gaza Strip.^[79]

30 July

• Fawzi Abu Daqqah (21) was injured and hospitalized after been struck by a rubber-coated steel bullet in clashes that broke out during an Israeli raid on Jenin.^[80]

31 July

• Rami Muhammad Zaim Awartani (31) was shot dead by Israeli forces at the Huwara checkpoint in the West Bank when he charged them, with a knife in his hand. Four Palestinians had been arrested at the same checkpoint the night before for being in possession of knives.^[81]

August

2–8 August overview

• On 14 separate occasions 42 Palestinian structures, 12 of which had been erected from humanitarian funding, were demolished by Israeli authorities for lacking building permits. Thirty were displaced, and a further 1,200 affected, 1,000 by the confiscating of water pipes serving 5 herding communities in the Jordan Valley. Sixty-five Palestinians, of whom 15 were children suffered injuries in clashes with Israeli troops. Farmers and fisherman were fired at with warning shots on 6 occasions in the area of the Gaza Strip. Two Israeli cars were stoned in Hizma and Halhul.^[82]

2 August

• A Palestinian resident of the village of Dura, who was released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange was arrested after he was involved in stone and molotov throwing at Israeli forces. He admitted that he was involved in such activity and that he broke his commitment not to participate in violent activity against Israeis after his release from jail.^[83]

3 August

• The house of Izz al-Din Abu Nijma, was demolished in Beit Hanina, the 6th time in a decade during which he has sought an Israeli building permit.^[84]

4 August

• Israel gunboats fired on Palestinian fishing vessels off the coast of Gaza, damaging beyond the repair the motor of one boat owned by Muhammad Saif Abu Riyaleh^[85]
• Locals from the Palestinian village of Rammun near the Israeli settlement of Rimonim in the West Bank reported that a group of eight masked men, suspected of being "Price tag policy" activists, attacked a herd of sheep/goats, and their shepherd, an 11-year-old Beduin girl from the al-Tayba community, stabbing eleven goats, killing from seven to eleven of them. The suspected Tag Mehir activists then set fire to a thorn field. Israeli police confirmed the suspicion that the incident was a suspected "Price Tag policy" act.^[82][86][87]
• Israeli forces demolished two houses belonging to the families of two cousins of the Muhamra family who perpetrated the shooting attack in Sarona which killed four Israeli civilians in June. Six children and 7 adults were left homeless as a result.^[82] Khalid Muhamra's home in Yatta was filled with explosives and was blown up, and at Muhammad Muhamra's home, an excavator was used to destroy the second floor, in accordance with the court's ruling.^[88][89]
• 2 mobile homes, offices and kitchens together with a bathroom, a barracks dwelling, and 3 water tanks all owned by Ali Suliman Mlehat were razed in the al-Moarajat area outside Jericho. Another residential structure belonging to Muhammad Ali Mlehat was also destroyed. This raised the number of Palestinian structures demolished by Israeli forces since the start of 2016 to 684 Palestinian structures.^[90]

5 August

• 2 agricultural structures, reportedly built in 1954 and owned by Nasser Qabajeh in the Farsh al-Hawa sector west of Hebron. In addition a farm unit and its bathroom, recently built, were demolished.^[91]
• 6 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were reportedly shot with live fire. One, 25, was said to have been critically wounded, while another sustained moderate wounds.^[92]

7 August

• Several villagers in Beita and Burin were shot by rubber bullets during Israeli raids on the townships.^[93]
• Abd al-Fattah Buayrat (17) was shot and arrested together with a companion while according to Palestinian reports they were walking between the village of Silwad and the settlement of Ofra.^[94]

8 August

• Abdullah Jamal was forced to demolish the 400-square-meter barn west of the village of Sebastia which he constructed without a permit in an area of the West Bank Israel had designated as a zone of archaeological importance. The structure was used for his cattle business.^[95][96]

9–15 August overview

92 Palestinians, of whom 15 were children, were injured in clashes throughout the week. 32% from Israeli fire, live and otherwise, the rest mainly from tear gas inhalation.115 Palestinians were detained in Israeli West Bank search-and-arrest operations in the West Bank. 2 stabbing attempts were made, and one girl was arrested for carrying a knife. Israeli forces opened fire 15 times on Gazans in the restricted area, without injury.12Area C structures, some donated for people displaced by previous demolitions, were razed by Israeli forces, leaving 22 people, of whom 9 were children, displaced, while a further 120 were affected. Settlers and Palestinians clashed at the villages of Asira al Qibliya and Qusra, in the district of Nablus. 290 Palestinian olive trees in the villages of Iskaka and Khallet an Nahla, the destruction motivated by charges the land was Israeli state land.^[97]

9 August

• A total of 8 Palestinian structures were demolished throughout the day, rendering 22 people homeless and impacting on another 88.^[82]
• A Palestinian girl was detained when she either rushed the Israeli Abu Rish checkpoint checkpoint waving a knife, or took out a knife from her bag and threatened the soldiers stationed there during a security check, near the Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. She was pepper-sprayed and arrested. No soldier was injured.^[98][99]
• Palestinian media reported that seven Palestinians were injured during clashes in Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem from Israeli forces who had arrested a PFLP-affiliated activist. Ma'an News Agency reported that the Palestinians were injured from live fire. IDF sources reported that the clashes erupted as soldiers en route to leaving the camp area, fired in order to prevent an escalation, using Ruger 10/22 rounds against the protestors reportedly hurling stones and pipe bombs in the troops' direction. The IDF did not confirm there were injuries among the Palestinians^{[100][101][102]}
• 2 established businesses, Nael Rizq Aqil's al-Qalaa restaurant and Tayser Aqils's booth selling anquities, were bulldozed by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Sebastia,^[95]
• 5 residential structures, home to 27 Palestinians, 18 of whom minor, and belonging to the al-Hathalin whose construction was funded by the EU in Umm al-Kheir were bulldozed by Israeli forces. An Israeli spokesmen said 4 were demolished, for lack of Israeli permits.^[95]
• A residential structure in Fasayil, Jericho district, was also demolished for lack of an Israeli permit.^[95]
• Unidentified people threw Molotov cocktails at a shed, damaging it, in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.^[103]

10 August

• Moussa Muhammad Salman, an 85-year-old man from the village of Talfit in the district of Nablus, died after being run over by a motorbike, reportedly driven by an Israeli settler. In incident, which took place while, astride a donkey, he was herding his flock of sheep, occurred near Khirbet al-Marajim, west of Duma. He donkey was also killed.^[104]
• 4 Palestinian youths were wounded by Israeli live fire in al-Amari Refugee Camp. Clashes erupted during an Israeli raid, with Palestinians throwing rocks and burning tires, and Israeli troops firing to disperse what they called a riot.^[105]
• Settler bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli forces, and reportedly from the Israeli outpost illegal Israeli outpost of Nefih Hanania and the settlement of Rachelim razed approximately 500 olive trees extending over 8.6 acres in the al-Bayyada area of the West Bank village of Iskaka.^[106]

11 August

• 2 Palestinians were shot in the feet with Israeli live fire during clashes when the latter raided the Aida Refugee Camp and met with groups throwing Molotov cocktails.^[107]
• A Palestinian attacked with a screwdriver an Israeli youth outside the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, near At-Tur in East Jerusalem, lightly wounding him in the neck and back. The assailant then fled.^[108] A Palestinian, Ahmad Naim(19) of At Tur, was arrested on the 17th of August on suspicion of involvement in the incident.^[109]

13 August

• In a raid on a Palestinian charitable organization (zakat) in Bethlehem, Israeli forces confiscated 6 computers and files, containing the data bank for the poor and the orphans in the district. The office's doors were left smashed.^[110]
• A Palestinian (23) was shot in the leg by Israeli live fire after participating in a protest near the Bureij Refugee Camp and the border fence with Israel. An Israeli spokesman stated that warning shots had not been obeyed.^[111]

14 August

• Amal Jamal Qabha (15), exited a car at an Israeli checkpoint near the Israeli settlement of Shaqed in the Jenin governorate of the West Bank, and attacked an Israeli border guardswoman, who received light injuries. The girl was arrested.^[112]

15 August

• Israeli forces demolished the family home of Muhammad Nasser Tarayrah (17) in Bani Naim. Tarayrah had stabbed to death a Jewish teenager, Hallel Ariel (13), at her home in the settlement of Kiryat Arba.^[113]
• 5 Gazan fisherman engaged in finishing off Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip had their boat confiscated by Israeli naval forces.^[114]
• An Israeli soldier threw a sound bomb at a group of youths sitting outside of a house in Ramallah, after a passing military jeep stopped close to them. The incident was caught on video. No injuries were reported. 3 soldiers were later disciplined for the incident.^[115]

16–22 August overview

88 Palestinians of whom 14 were children were shot and wounded in the West Bank, 52,32 by live fire, were injured in one incident that took place at Fawwar Refugee Camp. One youth was killed. 4 Palestinians, one 17 years old, were shot with live fire in the Gaza Strip, while work was interrupted in the ARA restricted zones by Israeli warning shots fired on several occasions. 28 Palestinian structures were demolished and 55 Palestinians displaced, and a further 800 affected in Area C and East Jerusalem. Water pipelines serving 41 Bedouin families were cut off in the area of Jerusalem. Israeli authorities also confiscated a water tank, a digger, an electricity generator and a welding machine from several villages, and razed 330 olive and grape vines, asserting the plantations were on Israeli state land in the West Bank. Palestinian stone-throwing damaged properties near Husan, Hizma, and Shuafat, injuring one settler.^[116]

16 August

• During an Israeli raid on the al-Fawwar Refugee Camp, 3 Palestinian youths were wounded by live fire, while 32 were reportedly wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets during a search-and-arrest operation covering 150-200 homes. 28 homes were damaged, while 2 guns, stun grenades, and military equipment were found.^{[97][117][118]} One of three, Muhammad Abu Hashhash (19) later died, and it was revealed he had been shot in the back with live fire, above the heart. The Palestinians complained that the ambulance taking him to hospital was delayed by Israeli troops for 1 hour, making him the 218th Palestinian casualty since the uprising of October 2015.^[119] An investigation by the Israeli Human Rights NGO, B'Tselem concluded that Hashhash had thrown stones earlier that day, and then gone home, and that he was shot dead by an Israeli sniper positioned in the al-Hamuz family home 30 meters away, as Hashhash stepped outside of his house. Israeli regulations allow the use of the ammunition that killed him only in situations of mortal danger to the soldier. Of the other two, Muhammad al-'Amsi (22), according to B'Tselem, was shot 4 times, in the hand and both legs by live fire while listening to the radio on his cell phone as he stood on the roof of his home, some 80 meters away.^[117][120]
• Israel bulldozers destroyed approximately 50 olive trees in the Palestinian village of Shufa in the Tulkarem district. Dry-stone walls were also razed. One olive grove belonged to Abed Hamid, who stated the trees had been planted 15–20 years earlier, and that his appeal against the slated confiscation of his land was still pending. An Israel military spokesman replied that the trees were planted on Israeli state land, and had been planted without a permit.^[121]
• Muhammad Ali Ubeidat's single room 40 sq.metre structure, built for residency without Israeli permits, but used as a horse stall in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighbourhood, East Jerusalem, was demolished by Israeli forces.^[122]
• Zakarya Moussa's car dealership in the village of 'Anata, together with 2 cars, was demolished by escorted bulldozers from the Beit El settlement.^[122]
• As a result of Israeli demolitions of 8 homes belonging to the Shalalda extended family at Jurat al-Kheil outside the village of Sa'ir, Hebron district, 50 Palestinians were left homeless. Israeli sources say that they had recent stopwork orders 2 years ago. The Palestinians state that they have repeatedly tried to obtain permissions but were denied their applications.^[122][123]
• 20 Palestinians of the Zreina family were displaced after Israeli forces demolished 2 houses and a room in the Beir Ouna area of Beit Jala near Bethlehem.^[122]

17 August

• Israel bulldozers razed a one-room structure owned by Tariq Dirawi in Khirbet al-Marajim in the West Bank.^[124]
• Israel forces levelled an agricultural structure in the village of Qusra owned by Samir Hasan Several retaining walls in the area were also demolished.^[124]

18 August

• Stones were hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail in Beit Hanina neighborhood in East Jerusalem. No one was injured but damage was done to the light rail.^[125]

19 August

• 3 Palestinian protesters were injured by rubber-coatred steel bullets at Kafr Qaddum and Bilin. According to a Palestinian spokesman, the village's water grid was also targeted, and put out of action for several hours. It is the seventh time the water supply has been singled out, he added.^[126]
• The Palestinian Prisoner Society alleged electric shocks had been applied to a detainee, Ahmad Yusry Maswada (16) of Hebron. Several other detainees complained of physical abuse during interrogations.^[127]

21 August

• Mahmud Ali Walwayl (24) suffered live fire shrapnel injuries to his chest and arms in clashes with Israeli forces in the al-Fara Refugee Camp in Tubas district.^[128]
• A rocket fired from Gaza landed between houses in the Israeli city of Sderot, No damage or injuries were reported. Responsibility was claimed by both the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and some Salafi Islamic militant groups.^[129][130]
• In retaliation for the rocket, the Israeli air force launched a missile against a Hamas base in Beit Hanoun, and a tank fired at what Israeli sources describe as terrorist infrastructure, including an unused water reservoir. Israeli sources claim one Palestinian was injured by shrapnel. Palestinian and UN sources stated 4 were injured, two civilians, and one boy.^[129][131]<ref name=OCHA 1622816 /
• An Israeli spokesman, commenting on several follow-up missile attacks launched in the evening, said the rocket damaged Israel's sovereignty.^[132] Palestinian reports stated that a further 2 Gazans were injured in the later strikes.^[133]

22 August

• Israel made 50 air strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip over 2 hours from late Sunday evening through to early Monday, reportedly in line with a new approach following Avigdor Liberman's assumption of the post of Defense Minister. The old policy responded to one rocket with one strike. Spokesmen said there was 'no intention to escalate the situation further'.^{[130][134][135]}
• In predawn raids Israeli forces entered several blacksmithing and lathe-operating locales in Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Hebron and al-Dawha and confiscated machinery, on the basis of a report that one such business in the area produced weapons. During clashes one youth at al-Azza refugee camp and Doha, one local youth sustained a live fire wound in his leg. Overall a further 5 youths were wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets. Some of the raids took place in Area A, which is exclusively under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and technically off–limits to Israeli forces.^[136]

23 August–5 September overview

66 Palestinians suffered injuries in clashes, mostly during some of the 186 search-and-arrest raids conducted by Israeli forces for the period, which led to the arrest of 239 West Bank Palestinians. 5 Israeli soldiers were hurt by stone-throwing. Israeli troops opened fire on at least 18 occasions in the restricted zones of the Gaza Strip, wounding a herder and a fisherman. Some 28 Palestinian structures were subject to demolition or confiscation for lack of Israeli permits in Area C of the West Bank, or the Jerusalem area. 58 people were thereby displaced. 300 olive trees in Palestinian groves were extirpated in Jayyous and Ras Atiya. Settlers attacked a Palestinian in East Jerusalem and unleashed dogs that attacked a Palestinian near Deir Istiya. Orchards were damaged when sewage from the settlement of Betar Illit was reported discharged on the farmlands of Husan village. 4 Israeli vehicles were damaged from stone throwing, and 2 Israelis injured.^[137]

24 August

• Sari Muhammad Abu Ghurab ( 24) from Qabatiya was shot dead by Israeli forces pursuing a car from which stones had reportedly been thrown, near the settlement of Ariel. According to Israeli reports, Abu Ghurab left the car, tried to stab a soldier in the neck, and was killed in response. The soldier suffered light injuries.^[138]
• Two homes belonging to Shuiab al-Hathalin, and the home of Suleiman al-Hathalin were demolished at the village of Umm al-Kheir. The former, a disabled elderly person, was subsequently put under arrest. A structure built as a cultural centre was also demolished.^[139]
• During several search-and-arrest raids throughout the West Bank, leading also to the detention of minors, as clashes erupted with Israeli troops in the Jenin Refugee Camp, Khalil al-Saadi (25) was shot in the loins with live ammunition and also wounded by two bullets to his leg.^[140]
• A 20-year-old Palestinian from Gaza was shot in the foot at the Eretz border crossing.^[141]
• Moshe Yanon Orin of the outpost of Givat Aroussi is suspected to have shot at a Palestinian taxi with 5 occupants near the settlement of Yitzhar, using an air-gun. The rear window of the vehicle was shattered but no one was injured.^[142]

25 August

• Abd al-Aziz Saadallah, a Gazan fisherman was wounded by Israeli naval fire and subsequently arrested. An Israeli spokesman said they opened fire at vessels after warning shots failed to stop the fishermen from deviating into an area Israel designates as off–limits. The source also stated that shots had been fired from the shore at Israeli naval forces.^[143]

26 August

• A Palestinian man, Iyad Hamad (38), was shot dead when he ran towards an Israeli guard post near Silwad and the Israeli settlement of Ofra. Initial reports stated he was an armed assailant, and had shot at soldiers from inside his car who shot him before he could get out. Witnesses at the scene, according to Ma'an News Agency said he was shot while inside the car. It emerged that Hamad, a father of three, was mentally ill and unarmed. Israeli forces had been alerted that someone intending to make a terror attack had gone missing from his home. They also said he had got lost going home after buying candy for his children, panicked at the sight of soldiers, attempted to run away and was shot in the back.^[144] Hamad is the 220th Palestinian killed since the uptick in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that began in September 2015.^[145]
• 2 Palestinian youths in the al-Duheisha refugee camp were shot with live fire in the legs during clashes with Israeli forces, identified by the IDF as Israeli border police raiding the camp to arrest a suspect. 30 youths have received leg wounds since the beginning of 2016. Palestinian reports relate the injuries to alleged threats made by a Captain Nidal during interrogations of detained suspects, reportedly saying that he would disable all of the youths in the camp^[146][147]

27 August

• An Israeli border guard was hit by a stone hurled at him during riots in Qatanna and suffered from a severe injury to his eye.^[148]

29 August

• Stones were hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail in Beit Hanina neighborhood in East Jerusalem. No one was injured but damage was done to the light rail.^[149]

30 August

• Three Palestinian houses were demolished for lack of Israeli permits. Two owned by Iyad Nairoukh in Silwan still being built, and a third belonging to Wasim Atiyeh in Sur Baher, were involved. Wasim Atiyeh and his family, 5 persons, were left homeless.^[150]

31 August

• According to Palestinians reports 6 youths were assaulted by Israeli police in the Bab al-Hitta area of the Old City of Jerusalem, while a further 5 Palestinian footballers were allegedly hit with rifle butts near Herod’s Gate.^[151]
• Machinery for paving roads in the Wad al-Rakhim area of Susya was confiscated by the Israeli authorities, after, according to a village spokesman, they had strayed into an off–limits area. Israeli sources said the roads led to habitation deemed to be illegal.^[152]
• A soldier in an Israeli unit protecting a convoy of 16 buses to the tomb of Joseph near the Balata refugee camp was moderately wounded.^[153]
• 14 Palestinians, including 3 children, were left homeless after Israeli forces dismantled 3 caravans, toilets and shelters for livestock in the Badiw a-Mu'arrajat area near Jericho. The provisional infrastructure had been donated by foreign aid agencies, after families had their dwellings destroyed earlier in the month, on 4 August.^[154]
• 28 Palestinians, of whom 19 minors, were left homeless in the M'azi Jaba' area northeast of Jerusalem, after Israeli authorities bulldozed their 4 homes, together with 3 pens for their livestock.^[155]

September

1 September

• An Israeli was moderately-wounded by gunfire when guarding Jewish worshippers who were performing religious rituals at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. The army reported that the shots came from the nearby Balata refugee camp. The clashes erupted when sixteen buses carrying Jewish worshippers, escorted by forces of the IDF, Israeli Police, COGAT and Israeli Border Police arrived at the shrine and met with Palestinian rioters who hurled rocks, molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires at the visitors and soldiers.^{[156][157][158]}
• A Palestinian woman (21) from al-Eizariya was arrested after allegedly trying to stab Israeli guards at the Qalandiya checkpoint^[159]

2 September

• Nidal Shtayyah, a Palerstinian photojournalist was wounded when struck in the back of the head by an Israeli tear-gas canister during clashes at a protest in Kafr Qaddum^[160]

3 September

• Israeli sources stated that border positions were fired at from areas neasr Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip^[161]

4 September

• Israeli artillery struck two Hamas sites in the norhterm Gaza Strip in retaliation.^[161]

5 September

• According to initial Israeli reports a terrorist, Mustafa Nimr (27) reportedly driving in the direction of Israeli soldiers at speed and not slowing down in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, was shot dead, for appearing to be trying to run down Israeli soldiers who were raiding the camp. His brother-in- law, 'Ali Tayser Nimir (25) who was driving the vehicle also shot and with moderate wounds in the incident was arrested.^[162] Palestinian sources stated that Mustafa Nimr had been visiting his elder brother, and was bringing home food supplies and to buy Eid clothes, subsequently found in the back seat. Local eyewitnesses said the car was driving at normal speed, and crashed into a nearby car after being sprayed with gunfire.^[163] Israeli intelligence sources later admitted the shooting had been a mistake, and retracted the claim he was a terrorist. The wounded man was kept in detention on a charge of driving without a license, for driving under the influence of alcohol and for 'reckless endangerment with a vehicle'.^[164] One journalist counted 30 bullet holes in the vehicle. It was further claimed that two cars were racing at the time of the incident, and that the driver of the vehicle in question did not know a raid was being conducted. In a video released later 2 shots can be heard being fired after the wounded driver, Ali Nimr, emerged from the vehicle. Mustafa Nimr lived with his Jewish girlfriend in Ramat Gan. A woman in the vehicle, variously reported as his girlfriend or his sister's husband,^[165] who was with Mustafa in the back seat, was not injured in the shooting.^[166] In a follow up, Ali Nimr was also charged with causing the death of his brother-in-law by negligent driving.^[167] An Israeli court turned down the police allegation Ali's driving made him culpable of manslaughter.^[168]
• Abd Shaqir of al-Zawiya had his claim to 12.3 acres of land confiscated in the past by Israeli authorities recognized by the Israeli Supreme Court after a 12-year legal battle. In 2004, 78.3 acres had been confiscated from the village to construct the West Bank Separation Barrier.^[169]
• Abd al-Ghani Bahlaq (21) and Nimr Abu Ghazala (20) were both shot in the legs during clashes with Israeli forces in Sebastia.^[170]

6 September-19 September overview

Over 4 days, from 16 to 19 September, 7 lone wolf attacks and alleged attacks were carried out. 6 of the suspected assailants were shot dead, 3 were injured while 5 Israeli security personnel and 3 settlers were injured. 2 Palestinians were shot dead and 98 Palestinians, of whom 37 children, were injured from live and rubber bullets or tear gas inhalation in clashes with Israeli troops. Gazans were fired on 29 times for entering the Restricted Access Zone in or along the Gaza Strip. 183 Palestinians were detained by Israeli search-and-arrest raids in the West Bank. Israeli authorities demolished or had the owners forcibly demolish 15 Palestinian-owned structures in Area C and East Jerusalem on the grounds that they lacked Israeli building permits, resulting in 23 people, among them 12 children, being displaced.2 Israeli vehicles were damaged, and their 4 occupants injured, from 6 Palestinian stone-throwing incidents. Settlers reportedly burnt 45 olive trees in the West Bank villages of Jinsafut and Burin, while uncultivated village land in the latter hamlet was bulldozed by settlers under armed IDSF guard.^[171]

6 September

• Several militant sites, including a watchtower, and training areas in the Gaza Strip were shelled with Israeli artillery fire. The home of the al-Shanti family in Beit Lahiya was damaged collaterally. Israeli sourcesd say the action was in response to gunfire at border defenses overnight.^[172]

7 September

• Israeli forces razed over 40 dunums of agricultural lands in Beit Ula, uprooting some 800 olive trees. The properties affected are those of Bassam Hamdan al-Adam, Suliman Mahmoud al-Adam, Ali Mohammad al-Adam and Mahmoud Khaled al-Adam. In addition two private wells were despoiled. The action came in the wake of a military order declaring the land state property. The owners say they were not notified.^[173]

8 September

• An elderly Palestinian (65) from the village of Al-Khader was run over by a settler car. The man suffered bruising and bone fractures. Palestinians claim the incident was deliberate.^[174]
• Palestinian sources claim Israeli forces shot a Palestinian youth (18) in the city of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.^[175]
• A Palestinian youth was wounded in the back and hand by Israeli live fire at Jalazone refugee camp. Palestinian sources say the incident occurred as students were leaving their school in the camp.^[176]

9 September

• A Palestinian youth, Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Dabbagh (18), was shot dead, according to Palestinian reports by Israeli forces, during protests near the Bureij Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. He was shot in the head, and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Al-Aqsa hospital. Israel denied any involvement in the incident.^[177]
• A Palestinian of Gaza was wounded by Israeli live fire during protests close to Nahal Oz east of Shuja'iyya.^[177]

10 September

• Lama Marwan Mousa (6) died after her neck was broken when she was run over by a settler's vehicle in the village of Al-Khader. Both initial Palestinian reports and a later Israeli report said the incident was an accident. Local Palestinians said she was standing on a footpath outside her home when a fast vehicle hit her. The Israeli reports states she was crossing the road when the incident took place.^[178]

12 September

• 2 women IDF soldiers navigating by means of the WAZE GPS device strayed into a Palestinian town of Tulkarem. On approaching the village they had been told to keep walking towards it, whereas a plain clothes Palestinian policeman advised them to go back. Proceeding into the village, they were reportedly slightly injured when rocks were thrown at their vehicle. Local Palestinian police picked them up, and handed them over to the Israeli authorities.^[179][180]
• Ahmad Ziad Abu Daoud (17) and Iyad Naim Abu Daoud (19) were left in a critical condition from injuries when an Israeli military bus reportedly hit them in the al-Fahs area south of Hebron.^[181]
• During clashes with Palestinian protestors at Qusra, south of Nablus, Israeli soldiers injured 4 Palestinians. One man (35) was critically wounded by 2 live fire bullets, while another received a head wound from a rubber-coated steel bullet.^[182]
• An Israeli border policewoman was injured from stones hurled at her by Palestinians near Tekoa, Gush Etzion.^[183]

13 September

• An Israeli woman was lightly injured in a rock attack on her vehicle on route 60 near Beitar Illit.

14 September

• A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed on agricultural terrain, near the border or in the Eshkol area of southern Israel.^[184]

15 September

• Israel launched some airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in reprisal. The zones targeted were agricultural lands northwest of Beit Lahiya and the Al-Yarmouk site near Shuja'iyya, suspected militant training grounds. al-Shayma north of Beit Lahiya was also shelled.
• Muhammad Ahmad Abed al-Fattah al-Sarrahin (30) of Beit Ula was shot and later succumbed to his wounds, while fleeing Israeli troops who came to arrest him in military raid on his house. The IDF and Border Police said they managed to apprehend one suspect and shot the other suspect (al-Sarrahin) who tried to flee. The Israeli army launched an investigation.^[185][186]

16 September

• A Jordanian man called Said Hayil Amr (28), from al-Mughayyir was shot dead outside the Damascus Gate, in one version, while running towards Israeli Border guards with a knife in each hand yelling 'God is Great'. According to an eyewitness cited by Haaretz, al-Amr yelled "Allahu Akbar" after he was stopped and asked to lift up his shirt, after which he was shot by a nearby officer. The Israeli spokesman Micky Rosenfeld stated that 3 knives were found on his person, and that he intended using them to attack people.^[187] No one, other than the Jordanian, was hurt. The attack was caught on film.^[188][189]
• Moussa Muhammad Khaddour (18) was shot dead by Israeli troops close to the settlement of Kiryat Arba after he drove his pickup truck into an Israeli bus stop in a car-ramming attempt. His fiancée Raghad Abdullah Abdullah Khaddour (18) was with him in the vehicle and was critically injured from shot wounds to her stomach. Three Israeli teenagers who fled from the bus-stop were later treated for shock. An Israeli spokesman said a knife had been found on the passenger seat. Both the suspected assailants were from the village of Bani Naim. Raghad had left a letter to her family before the attack, saying she is joining her fiancée in the attack "in order to clear her name". Her sister Majd Khaddour, made a similar attack at the same site on June 24, injuring two Israelis and was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. In another letter they both reportedly left for the families, they said they want to perpetrate the attack in order to avenge the death of a family member. According to the family, the couple wanted to marry, but didn't receive the blessing from their families, and because Raghad was pregnant, they decided to commit suicide.^{[190][191][192][193][194]} Khaddour was later released and transferred to a Palestinian hospital after Israeli police established there was no evidence linking her to the attack.^[195]
• An Israeli bus driver was lightly injured from flying glass when rocks and paint bottles were thrown at the bus in Highway 1 as he drove it from Jerusalem to the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.^[196]
• 2 Palestinians were shot, respectively in the hand and leg, in the Gaza Strip from Israeli border fire as a demonstration took place east Al-Bureij refugee camp. Israeli sources identified them as 'instigators' of a riot.^[197]
• An Israeli soldier suffered a slight facial wound in a stabbing attack at the Gilbert checkpoint in Hebron. The assailant, Muhammad Thalji Kayid Thalji al-Rajabi (15) was shot dead, after he pulled a knife on being asked for, and showing, his identification papers. The incident occurred near Tel Rumeida.^{[198][199][200]}
• Israeli troops shot 2 Palestinian youths during clashes at al-Jalazun refugee camp near the settlement of Beit El.^[201]

17 September

• Hatem Abdel-Hafiz al-Shaloudi (25) of Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron was shot dead after he stabbed an Israeli soldier near the neighborhood, lightly injuring him. Al-Shaloudi was caught on film, approaching a group of Israeli soldiers in the Tamar checkpoint who asked him to show them his identification card. He gave one of the soldiers a piece of paper, then pulled a knife from his pocket and assaulted the soldier with it, then rushing toward another soldier who apprehended him. Al-Shaloudi continued to try to stab the soldier who had seized him, leading the soldiers to shoot and kill him.^[202][203] His family claim he was shot in cold blood while on his way to the factory where he was employed.^[204]
• A teen from Isawiya (15) was arrested after he was caught hurling rocks at vehicles next to Ma'ale Adumim settlement. He managed to hit one bus, causing damage to its front window. No one was injured.^[205]

18 September

• An Israeli IDF reservist officer (30) was stabbed near his armpit, near the settlement of Efrat in Gush Etzion and was evacuated in moderate condition. His stabber was Baha a-Din Muhammad Khalil Odeh (20) originally of Artas, but resident in Wadi Rahhal, was shot in the head and was evacuated in moderate condition. According to IDF, the assailant was identified by an electronic fence some 440 meters from the settlement some four hours earlier and a force was sent to track him but failed. He allegedly hid behind bushes before he jumped out and attacked the officer with 2 knives.^{[206][207][208]}

19 September

• At around 07:30, Ayman al-Kurd (20) from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud stabbed 2 Israeli police officers stationed on Salah al-Din street, near Jerusalem's Old Quarter. One, a policewoman (38), was wounded in the neck, and transferred to hospital in a critical condition; the other policeman (47) was stabbed several times in the back, and was evacuated in a serious condition. The assailant was in turn shot and evacuated in a serious condition. All Palestinian owned shops on the street were ordered to be shut until further notice.^{[209][210][211]}
• Muhannad Jameel al-Rajby (21) and Ameer Jamal al-Rajby (17) from Hebron were shot dead after allegedly attempting to stab Israeli troops near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, The two were said to have been called on to halt while walking towards a checkpoint. They continued, while waving knives and were shot. One died instantly, the other later in hospital from several gunshot wounds. It was later stated that one soldier suffered an abrasion to his hand during the altercation.^[212][213]
• When Israeli forces set up a military checkpoint in Hebron's Wadi al-Harya neighborhood, using a house to establisha military station on the roof, and seized several cars to make a roadblock, clashes with local youth took place in which a Palestinian woman was injured when a tear gas canister was shot and hit her in the chest.^[214]
• An Israeli bus driver was lightly wounded in a stone throwing attack on a bus traveling in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood of Jerusalem.^[215]
• A Gazan fisherman, Ahmad Zayid (30), was shot in the stomach by Israeli live fire while fishing off the coast of Beit Lahiya.^[216]

20 September

• Israeli forces razed Palestinian agricultural facilities and a warehouse in Sur Baher and Beit Hanina^[217]
• Two Israeli soldiers were lighty hurt by a molotov cocktail during clashes, following an Israeli arrest raid in Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem. One soldier sustained second-degree burns while the other suffered from smoke inhalation.^[218]
• Salim Mahmoud Tarayra (16) of Bani Naim, reportedly stepped out of a bus, with a knife in his hand, when the vehicle stopped at the Wadi al-Joz junction checkpoint. Israeli reports say he attempted an attack with the weapon. He was shot dead. No Israeli soldier was injured.^[219]
• A Palestinian man in Hebron was photographed while being beaten and kicked by several Israeli soldiers. Israeli sources stated the man resisted being arrested.^[220]

21 September

• A Palestinian teenager, Bara'a Ramadan Eweisa(Owaisi) (12/13), was shot in the leg after she approached the Israeli checkpoint of Eliyahu in Qalqiliya near the settlement of Alfei Menashe, and refused to stop when ordered to halt. Initial Israeli reports spoke of a thwarted terrorist attack, and security personnel thought a bag she had might have explosive material, and that she had put her hand into her shirt. No explosives or weapons were found among her effects, and on interrogation she is reported to have said she came to die. The girl denied ever having said this, stating instead that she wanted to see where or how her aunt, killed at the same checkpoint several month before, had died. An Israeli court subsequently ordered her release after it judged that she did not intend stabbing anyone and had no knife in her possession.^{[221][222][223][224]}

22 September

• In predawn clashes with Israeli troops escorting 700 Israelis in 14 buses to visit Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, a local Palestinian youth was shot by a rubber-coated steel bullet in the leg.^[225]
• 2 IDF soldiers engaged in escorting the Jewish visitors to Joseph's Tomb were caught on camera setting fire to a Palestinian lumberyard and storehouse in Nablus, causing damages amounting to an estimated $39,000).^[226]

23 September

• A Palestinian boy, Usama Murad Jamil Marie Zeidat (15), was shot after reportedly sneaking up towards soldiers stationed at the Elias junction near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, and producing a knife. The boy sustained moderate to critical wounds from being shot in the stomach. No Israelis were injured.^[227][228]
• Three Palestinians were reportedly shot with live fire in the Gaza Strip, 2 east of Gaza City and the third east of el-Bureij Refuigee Camp. Israeli sources spoke of stopping an attempt to infiltrate Israel.^[229]

27 September

• Palestinians hurled rocks at the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Shuafat neighborhood. No one was injured but the windshield of the lead car was damaged.^[230]
• Two Israelis were lightly injured from a molotov cocktail thrown at their car near Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya in the West Bank. The car was damaged.^[231]
• 4 cisterns providing well water for sheep and crop irrigation in the Jurat al-Kheil area east of the Palestinian village of Sa'ir. Israeli authorities said the structures lacked Israeli permits.^[232]
• Two houses, each with 2 residential units owed by the Abu al-Hawa brothers were demolished At-Tur, East Jertusalem for lack of Israeli permits, leaving 16 homeless.^[233]
• A restaurant run by Imad Burqan for 2 decades in Beit Safafa in East Jerusalem was demolished for lack of an Israeli permit.^[233]

28 September

• One Israeli settler, in a car of three, was injured when a Molotov cocktail hit their vehicle as it drove by the Palestinian village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya. The car was damaged.^[234]
• Imad Jaber was forced to destroy his own home, housing his family of 6 and.built a decade earlier, in Beit Hanina (Eastr Jerusalem) to avoid paying Israeli fines. Rami Allon, father of 7 children, also of Beit Hanina, was forced to demolish his home, following an Israeli court order.^[235]

29 September

• Muhammad Hussein Khweis (20) was hospitalized after suffering severe head injuries when he was hit in the back of the head by an Israeli sound bomb during clashes in At-Tur, East Jerusalem.^[236]

30 September

• Six Palestinians were injured during clashes and northern and central Gaza Strip; five were hit by live fire near the Nahal Oz border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip and another one was injured near Bureij in the central Gaza Strip. The rioters entered the Israeli army buffer zone on the border and some also damaged the security fence on the border.^[237]
• An Israeli soldier (24) was moderately wounded in the upper body when a Palestinian assailant stabbed him at the Qalandiya checkpoint. The assailant, Naseem Abu Meizar (28) a Jerusalem resident from Kafr Aqab, was shot dead by the soldier and other troops. In the hour after the attack some 200 Palestinians were rioting in the area.^[238][239]

October

4 October

• The family of Umm Tamer Zyada was harassed as they harvested olives from their gardens in Tel Rumeida. The incident was caught on video,^[240]

5 October

• Palestinian militants from the salafist Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis group, said to be affiliated to Islamic State, in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket on the Israeli city of Sderot which hit a road in the city. No one was injured but three people: a 15-year-old girl, a 60-year-old man and another person were treated for shock. The road was slightly damaged.^[241][242]
• In retaliation for the rocket attack, Israeli tanks fired a shell at the a Hamas site in Beit Hanoun and at the al-Qassam Brigades's al-Qadisiya training ground in Khan Yunis. An airstrike struck the al-Wahah headquarters of Gaza's naval police in Beit Lahiya. A third strike hit an agricultural field in the northern Gaza Strip. The Jabal al-Rayis east of Gaza City was shelled by Israeli artillery. Further Palestinian reports state that al-Tuffah and Shuja'iyya neighborhoods of Gaza City, together with the al-Sourani Mountain area, received fire.^[241][243]*^[244]
• 7.4 acres of an olive grove in Wad al-Raqaqi near Beit Ula owned by the al-Sarahin were bulldozed by the Israeli army.^[245]
• A 12-year-old prunus orchard extending over 1.5 acres wsas bulldozed by Israeli forces in Tawas.^[245]

6 October

• A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck open land in the Eshkol Regional Council area of Israel. Israel responded by shelling a site reportedly used by militants in the central Gaza Strip^[246]

7 October

• Two Palestinian were wound by live fire from Israeli forces near El Bureij Refugee Camp while protesting.^[247]
• According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society 52 persons were either hit by rubber-coated steel bullets or suffered tear gas intoxication during clashes outside sa at Al Quds University in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem,^[248]

9 October

• A molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli vehicle near Tuqu'. A woman who was in the vehicle was treated for shock.^[249]
• Israeli forces destroyed 9 structures residences, agricultural structures, solar panels, and water pipes in the al-Ras al-Ahmar area district of Tubas, in the Jordan Valley sector of the West Bank.^[250]
• In the 2016 Jerusalem shooting, an Israeli woman, former Knesset employee Levanah Malichi (60) and Policeman First Sgt. Yosef Kirme (29) were shot and killed by a Palestinian, Misbah Abu Sbeih (39), from Silwan, East Jerusalem. The assailant, who was set to begin a four-month prison sentence for attacking a policemen, started his shooting rampage, equipped with an M16 assault-rifle^[251] According to a Palestinian report, Sbeih was due to turn himself in to Israeli police at 10 am on Sunday. He informed the Palestinian News Service Ma'an of his intention to do so the day earlier. He had been accused of assaulting an Israeli policeman outside the Al-Aqsa mosque in 2013, and believed the case had been closed. He spent a year in prison for writing what were deemed incitement posts on his Facebook page and on his release found the assault case had been reopened, resulting in a further 4 months sentence.^[252] His assault, in which 2 Israelis were killed, and five people were wounded, began at Ammunition Hill in East Jerusalem, where he opened fire at civilians and hit Malich who was severely injured and later succumbed to her wounds. Another woman (50) was hit in the upper body and remained in critical condition. Then he drove south and proceeded an intersection, where he again opened fire at civilians, hitting a Palestinian man from Hebron (68)^[253] in his upper body and another man (30) in his limbs then he drove into Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where he stopped his vehicle and fired at two policemen who pursued him on motorbikes: first Sgt. Yosef Kirme died of wounds sustained during the chase, and the other policemen who was moderately wounded. The assailant was then shot while inside his vehicle and later succumbed to his wounds.^{[252][254][255][256]} According to Magen David Adom two women (23 and 42) were lightly wounded when the assailant's vehicle collided with theirs and three other suffered from shock, bringing the total number of casualties to eleven, including the deceased victims and assailant.^[257] The West Bank pastry shop business run by Sbeih's family was closed two days later by Israelil police, claiming that it was a "center for incitement" that "encouraged terrorism" by making videos.^[258]
• Seven Palestinian youth were wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets and two Israeli soldiers (A male officer and a female soldier) were wounded from stones hurled during clashes that erupted after Israeli troops raided the house of Abu Sbeih, the perpetrator of the earlier shooting rampage, in the town of Al-Ram next to Jerusalem.^[259][260] Clashes also erupted in Bab a-Zahara and Shuafat inside Jerusalem.^[261]
• An Israeli bus passenger was lightly injured when his bus was hit by rocks hurled south of Hebron.^[262]
• Majdi Muhammad, a Palestinian photographer employed by the Associated Press was shot and lightly wounded in his back from a rubber bullet fired an Israeli soldier during clashes in al-Ram. He said that one of the soldiers ordered him to leave while cursing him, and while Muhammad turned around the soldier fired a rubber bullet at part of his back, not covered by his protective vest.^[263]

10 October

• The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that two Palestinian workers were shot by Israeli forces in their lower body in the region of Wadi Abu al-Hummus south of Bethlehem. The circumstances were not clear. The IDF did not confirm the incident.^[264]
• Settlers from the Eli settlement attacked, reportedly with hatchets, Sahir Mousa and his family while they harvested olives on their property outside Qaryut. They were forced to desist, and their car was damaged. Israeli police were looking into the report.^[265]
• The IDF mapped the house of the shooter from yersterday's attack before demolition. During the operation, Palestinian protestors threw an improvised explosive device at the soldiers, and one sustained light injuries from the shrapnel.^[266]

11 October

• A stone was hurled at a bus near the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem, causing damage to its windshield.^[267]
• Three Palestinians were shot by Israeli forces and injured near the 'Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem after throwing molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.. The incident took place near the Rachel's Tomb, where soldiers were deployed. One of the Palestinians was shot in his shoulder and the rest were shot in their legs.^[268]
• 4 Palestinians were injured by Israeli live fire when soldiers targeted their lower bodies during clashes, in the second day of disturbances following the Abu Sbeih drive-by shooting rampage in East Jerusalem.^[269]

12 October

• On the fourth day of rioting, dozens of Palestinian rioters were injured by live fire and rubber coated steel bullets shot by Israeli forces during clashes in al-Ram near Jerusalem, after a resident of the town killed an Israeli woman and policemen and a drive-by shooting on 9 October. According to Wafa, Israeli vehicles entered the village, provocing riots by Palestinians who threw rocks at Israeli vehicles.^[270]
• Ali Atef Shuyukhi (20) was shot, critically injured and died soon after while during night clashes with Israeli forces in Silwan, East Jerusalem.. Conflicting Palestinian reports say he was shot in the stomach or chest. Another Palestinian was struck by a rubber-coated steel bullet in the eye. Shuyukhi had served a 15-month sentence for rock-throwing and participating in riots. Hamas' spokesman said he was a member of the organization and that he was buried within two hours over fears the Israeli forces might take his body.^{[271][272][273]}
• Palestinian riots also occurred in the neighborhoods of Isawiya and Jabel Mukaber, where rioters hurled rocks and molotov cocktails. In Isawiya the rioters blocked the entrance to the neighborhood with burning trash canisters. The Israeli army closed the entrance to the neighborhood after the rioters hurled rocks at the road leading to Ma'ale Adumim.^[271]
• Palestinians fired at an Israeli Army vehicle near the village of Na'alin. The soldiers responded with fire and the shooters fled. Suspects were arrested in the following day.^[271]

13 October

• Throughout the day, there were three incidents of stone throwing at the Jerusalem Light Rail at the axis of Shuafat. No one was injured, but damage was done to the rails.^[274]
• Palestinian residents of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem hurled rocks at an Israeli police car, damaging its windshield.^[275]
• Palestinian sources allege that Israeli fire was responsible for the death of Abdullah Nasser Atwa Abu Mdeif (10), who died after being shot in the back in the al-Qarrara area east of Khan Younis. An Israeli spokesman stated he had died from collateral damage when guns were fired at a local wedding.^[276]

14 October

• 2 Bedouin residential shacks near Jericho belonging to Ali Suliman al-Mleihat and Muhammad Ali al-Mleihat were confiscated by Israeli forces.^[277]
• A Palestinian from Gaza was shot by live fire during clashes near the border with Israel^[278]
• An Israeli soldier was lightly injured from shrapnel as a result of firing by Palestinians during violent riots in Qabatiya.^[279]

15 October

• An Israeli soldier was stabbed by a Palestinian and lightly wounded near the settlement of Har Adar.^[280][281]
• Fares Ziad al-Bayed (16) was shot in the head by Israeli live fire and sustained critical injuries at the al-Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah. Another 20 youths were wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets, 3 receiving head wounds. The incidents occurred during clashes, with exchanges of stone throwing, motolov cocktails and tear gas that arose after a march to commemorate the killing of Ahmad Sharaka (13) a year earlier.^[282]

16 October

• Israel settlers at the Israeli oupost of Havat Gilad reportedly harassed Palestinian olive harvesters from the villages of Jit and Farata in the Qalqiliya district, and Sarra in the Nablus district.^[283]
• Ahmad Hamamdeh (18) and Amjad Kemail (21 were shot during an Israeli raid that led to clashes with residents of the village of Qabatiya in the Jenin district whe^[284]
• As part of rioting in Silwan following the attack by a resident who killed two Israelis, Palestinians hurled several molotov cocktails at Jewish houses, causing damage to them.^[285]

17 October

• An Israeli bus driver was lightly injured in his face from flying glass caused by stone throwing near Beitar Illit.^[281]

18 October

• Two Israeli people were lightly injured when stones were thrown at their vehicle in A-Tur neighborhood in East Jerusalem.^[286] A 19-year-old teen from the neighborhood was arrested on suspicion.^[287]
• An Israeli person was lightly injured by a stone thrown at him near the Lion's Gate in East Jerusalem.^[286]
• Two 14-year-old Palesitnians teen were caught by Israeli police while hurling rocks at security forces in Wadi Joz^[287]

19 October

• Rahiq Shaji Birawi (23) of Asira ash-Shamaliya was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the Za'atar checkpoint/Tapuah Junction after she reportedly approached the soldiers and ignored their directives to stop. According to initial Israeli reports she pulled out a knife causing the soldiers to shoot at her after reportedly firing warning shots into the air. An internal investigation was opened up when it emerged that after one soldier had shot her in the legs, a further 4 soldiers also fired at her. The incident was partially caught on video. It appears she was shot some 30 times.^{[288][289][290][291]}

20 October

• Khalid Bahr Ahmad Bahr (15) was shot and killed while throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in Beit Ummar. Israeli reports say warning shots were fired before the incident, in which an Israeli soldier was lightly injured, and were ignored. The teen was then shot dead with a bullet in the chest.^{[292][293][294]} The IDF opened a probe into the incident, which concluded no Israeli soldier was in danger when the boy was shot dead.^[289][295]
• A Palestinian from Silwan hit two Israelis with his motorbike. It was originally treated as a traffic accident. After a search in his apartment uncovered a knife, he was later charged with deliberately ramming them.^[296]

21 October

• A Gazan man (50) was shot in the foot by Israeli live fire during a confrontation with Israeli border guards near the El Bureij Refugee Camp and the buffer zone.^[297]

22 October

• Stones were hurled at the Jerusalem Light Rail in the axis of Shuafat, causing damage to train.^[298]
• Palestinian agricultural structures were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers engaged in clearing Palestinian land in the eastern sector of the village of Deir al-Hatab.^[299]

23 October

• One of 3 Palestinians was shot in the leg when they approached the fence of Beit El settlement.^[300]

24 October

• In response to a projectile said to have been fired towards Israel but which fell within the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces shelled a Hamas military post by the name of "Palestinian resistance," east of Beit Hanoun.^[301]

25 October

• A 13-year-old Palestinian from Isawiya was caught hurling stones at vehicles in the road between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.^[302]
• Muhammad Daoud (61) was seriously injured and his wife Naela Hassan Ali Daoud, (58) moderately so when the couple's horse-drawn cart was hit reportedly by a settler's vehicle, near the village of al-Nabi Elyas and the Israeli settlement of Alfei Menashem It is unknown whether it was an accident or deliberate.^[303] The husband later died of his wounds.^[304]

26 October

• An Israeli soldier suffered a slight facial wound from stones hurled at him in Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem.^[305]
• Three homes, one owned by Nasser al-Rajabi, a second by Ahmad Abd al-Razaq Siyam and a third by Thaer Ismael Siyam, were demolished by Israeli forces in the al-Ashqariya area of Beit Hanina north of Jerusalem for lack of Israeli permits.^[306]
• 4 apartments in Silwan housing an extended family of Issa Jaffreh, were demolished leaving 36 people displaced. The house was built 17 years ago. Municipal authorities say the land is destined for a public park for the community.^[306]
• Ali Baradiyya, Muhammad Ibrahim Ghanim, Omar Baradiyya, Muhammad al-Qadi, and Ahmad al-Qadi, all of Surif were injured when an Israeli military vehicle crashed into their car west of Hebron. One of the injured claimed the ramming was deliberate.^[307]

27 October

• Palestinian sources state 12 Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets or tear gas inhalation during clashes with Israeli forces at the Shuafat Refugee camp^[308]

28 October

• An Israeli military outpost near the settlement of Yitzhar was defaced with graffiti of swastikas and "death to the Jews". In response the Israeli army barred Palestinian farmers from the area, who were supposed to harvest olives.^[309]
• Palestinian man who hurled rocks at vehicles next to the Israeli settlement of Tekoa. The man fled the scene and his condition is unknown.^[310]
• Israel forces evicted Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives on their agricultural lands in the village of Qusin, west of Nablus, while arresting one of the group Radwan Mutlaq Abu Laila (45)^[311]
• Two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were reportedly injured in clashes with Israeli troops near the Nahal Oz border crossing, and a third was reportedly hurt east of the al-Bureij refugee camp^[312]

29 October

• Ahmad Ayman Hamid (21) was shot by Israeli soldiers after allegedly attempting to ram Israeli soldiers next to the settlement of Ofra. The soldiers opened fire at the car, leading him to leave his vehicle holding a cleaver and then to be shot again. He was severely injured and evacuated to a hospital in Jerusalem. Locals told Ma'an News Agency that Hamid was "left to bleed" before he was evacuated, and that his family house was raided in the predawn by Israeli soldiers who interrogated his family members.^[313] The incident occurred between Ein Yabrud and Ofra^[314] The attack occurred in a checkpoint set by the Kfir Brigade after a day earlier, an unknown assailant opened fire at the settlement of Ofra, not causing casualties or damage. The IDF and the Shin Bet were investigating if there is a connection between the attacks.^[315]
• 18 olive trees in a grove belonging to the Fanun family in the Wadi al-Hariq area of Nahhalin were cut down, according to Palestinian sources, by settlers. From thjer Gush Etzion Bloc-The grove is close to the Bat Ayin settlement^[316]
• An Israeli woman came under fire while driving near a junction leading to her home in the Israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur.^[317]

30 October

• Three Israeli border guards were lightly injured while conducting a security mission near the Gush Etzion settlement block in an apparent ramming attack in Beit Ummar. The assailant was shot and killed by other troops in the area. He was identified as Khalid Ahmad Elayyan Ikhlayyil (23) ofr Beit Ummar.^{[318][319][320]}

31 October

• Three Israeli soldiers were injured: one moderately; two lightly, after a Mohammad Turkamen (25), a Palestinian police officer from Qabatiya, opened fire at them at a checkpoint next to the Israeli settlement of Beit El. Turkamen was shot and killed by troops in the area. Palestinian authorities were investigating whether the attack came as revenge for anger or frustration after Palestinian security agents searched his house earlier that week, suspecting he may be concealing weapons and ammunition that he did not need for his police work.^[321][322]

November

November 1

• Officials working for the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority destroyed 6 Palestinian gravesites in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery off the eastern wall of Jerusalemn's Old Quarter. According to the director of Al Aqsa mosque, documents show the graves were the property of the al-Husseini and al-Ansari families. The Israeli authorities claim that they have confiscated the property to turn it into a park.^[323]

2 November

• Israel forces bulldozed the 2 storey home of Thalji Suleiman, built recently without an Israeli permit, which the family had, without success, tried to obtain, in the East Jerusalem village of Beit Hanina^[324]

3 November

• Maen Nasser al-Din Abu Qaraa (23) from Al-Zaitounah was shot and killed after reportedly attempting to stab Israeli soldiers at a bus stop next to the Israeli settlement of Ofra.^[325][326]
• An Israeli soldier was lightly injured in his knee after he was shot by an unknown assailant at a checkpoint near the city of Tulkarem^[327]
• Jaber Barakat Abu Fekheideh of al-Janiya was said to have been critically wounded and 2 other Palestinians were also injured after settlers threw rocks at him and his brothers as they were harvesting olives on their land in the al-Batha area near the Israeli settlement of Talmon.^[328]

5 November

• Four Palestinian farmers of the Abu Fahida family were injured after being reportedly attacked by masked Israeli settlers. The incident took place during olive harvest near the Palestinian village of Al-Janiya west of Ramallah, near the Israeli settlement of Talmon. One of the victims was treated in serious condition with head wounds. The victims told that a group of settlers (twenty according to their relative) attacked them while harvesting olives, using stones and clubs.^[329]

7 November

• A 15-year-old Palestinian teenager was arrested by Israeli police after he hurled rocks at police officers and border guards in Jerusalem.^[330]
• 30 Deir Sharaf Palestinian families claim that, on finally being allowed by the IDF to access their olive groves, they found 400 olive trees had been picked clean, and charge that Israeli settlers had taken the harvest. The zone is near the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron.^[331]

8 November

• A pipe bomb was thrown at the Rachel's Tomb compound near Bethlehem. One man was treated for shock.^[332]
• Israeli authorities bulldozed a 3 story Palestinian building in Wadi Joz for lack of a permit. They also bulldozed a house in Issawiya.^[333]
• Palestinian sources claim Adam Bassam Salim (22) of Azzun was assaulted by Israeli forces.^[334]

9 November

• Muhammad Amr (32) from Tulkarem was critically wounded in an incident where, according to Israeli sources, he attempted to attack Israeli soldiers with a screwdriver at the checkpoint outside the village of Huwwara in the West Bank.^[335]
• Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian car wash business in Beit Hanina for lack of a permit. The business owned by Abd al-Rauf and Abdullah Maraqa had been active for 4 years. Financial losses for equipment destroyed during demolition are calculated at $52,438.^[336]
• Mahmoud al-Hadra's home at al-Tur in East Jerusalem was demolished by Israeli bulldozers for lack of an Israeli permit.^[336]

10 November

• A Palestinian demonstrator was shot in his leg by Israeli soldiers after hurling a molotov cocktail at them during clashes near Birzeit of Palestinian students, marking the 12th anniversary for the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The protestor was then treated and taken into custody.^[337]
• 2 Palestinian structures in Qualqilya were bulldozed by Israeli forces: an agricultural shed owned by Abdulbaset Khayzaran and Hilme Aba's agricultural shed and water tank.^[338]
• 4 Palestinian youths were injured by Israeli forces Israeli forces firing rubber-coated steel bullets in Beituniya while clashes erupted near Israel's Ofer detention centre.^[339]

13 November

• An Israeli bus driver was lightly injured from flying glass caused by rocks thrown at him on Highway 60 near the settlement of Ofra.^[340]
• Muhammad Khalil Abd al-Latif Jaabis was forced by an Israeli court order to demolish 2 apartments in his family's home in Jabel Mukaber, leaving 12 members homeless.^[341]

14 November

• An explosive device was detonated near an IDF patrol next to the Palestinian town of al-Khader. No one was injured.^[342]
• An Israeli bus was damaged by rocks hurled near Pisgat Ze'ev in East Jerusalem.^[343]
• Al-Najjar was forced to destroy his fruit-and-vegetable store in Beit Hanina, operative for 9 years, for contravening Israeli regulations. 4 households depended on its income.^[344]
• Nidal Ghaith demolished his construction and sanitary materials shop in Beit Hanina to avoid paying Israeli demolition fees. It had been in operation for three years and 5 households depended on its income.^[344]

15 November

• Israel bulldozers razed a horse stable and agricultural tools shack owned by Alaa Shweiki in the al-Thuri area of Silwan^[345]
• Two 13-year-old Palestinian teenagers were arrested after hurling rocks at a vehicle with tourists in Silwan, East Jerusalem. The two admitted they hurled rocks.^[346]

17 November

• A molotov was hurled into a Jewish home's balcony in Ma'ale ha-Zeitim neighborhood of East Jerusalem. No one was injured, but damage was done to the balcony.^[347]

18 November

• Muhammad Abu Saada (26) of Nuserat Refugee Camp was killed by Israeli soldiers during clashes near Bureij. The incident occurred during a Palestinian protest in the IDF buffer zone, when Palestinians tried to breach the Gaza-Israel barrier. Another three Palestinians were injured. Saada became the 25th protester to be killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since protests began in October 2015.^[348][349]
• A Palestinian was shot through the mouth by a rubber-coated steel bullet during clashes with Israeli troops at the West Bank village of Tuqu'.^[350]

19 November

• Palestinians claim that during a dawn raid on al-Quds University in Abu Dis Israeli troops damaged books at a fair organized for needy students and damaged several computers. It was the 8th time the University had been raided since 2014.^[351]

20 November

• An army bus was hit by rocks near the Geva Binyamin settlement in the West Bank, lightly injuring three soldiers. Another Israeli bus was damaged in a similar incident near Beit Ummar.^[352]

21 November

• Mahmoud Salah was shot in the foot as he crossed from the West Bank into the Jerusalem area, apparently in search of work. The incident occurred west of Bethlehem in the Wadi Abu al-Hummus zone.^[353]

22 November

• Jihad Muhammad Said Khalil (48) from the village of Beit Wazan was shot dead at the Qalandiya checkpoint. Israeli reports said he approached the checkpoint wielding a knife, that a guard noticed when Khalil was asked for his identification papers that he had his hand in his pocket, and then pulled out the knife and tried to stab him; that Khalil was shot after a fist fight with an Israeli guard.^[354]
• The house of Mahmoud al-Hadra in At-Tur was bulldozed by Israeli forces for lack of a permit.^[355]
• A restaurant run by Moussa Naim Fatafta in Silwan was sealed off by Israeli authorities for lack of a permit, leaving 4 families without an income.^[355]

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