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


related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during 2016.

January

1 January

1 February

1 March

2 April

2 May

2 June

1 July

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.

5 July

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

13 July

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.

19 July

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 affecting 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.

26 July

2–8 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.

9 August

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.

16 August

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.

24 August

1 September

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.

6 September

4 October

November 1

1 December

Mahdi Dweikat of Balata Refugee Camp was shot in the foot by Israeli forces escorting Israelis to Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. The youth was said to have thrown a fire bomb. The area falls within the territorial jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority.

Overview 27 December 2016 -9 January 2017

86 Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank and East Jerusalem were destroyed or confiscated for lack of Israeli permits. 160 Palestinians, including 91 children, were displaced, a further 370 were affected. 34 Palestinians, including 8 children were injured during clashes with Israeli troops throughout the West Bank. In 161 search and/or arrest operations 212 Palestinians were arrested.9 incidents involving the throwing of stones or Molotov cocktails at Israeli vehicles were reported. No one was injurfed, but some settler vehicles were damaged.