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This is a list of individual incidents and statistical breakdowns of incidents of violence, including property damage and expropriation involving a violation of rights, taking place between Israel and Palestinians in 2015 as part of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but exclusive of particular events that fall within the parameters of any full outbreak of war hostilities. Housing demolitions are regarded by Israel as justified as a deterrent response to acts of terrorism or on the grounds that the houses in question in East Jerusalem, and the occupied West Bank were built without permits from the Israeli Military Authority governing the West Bank. The practice is condemned as discriminatory, a form of collective punishment, sometimes as a war crime in violation of international law, by the United Nations, many human rights organizations and scholars such as Meron Benvenisti.

January

• 1 January.
  • Israeli forces at a checkpoint opened fire on, and critically wounded, a Palestinian youth as he was about to cross the road near the Burin intersection south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. "An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was unfamiliar with the incident".

• 3 January
  • Jamal Numan, a fisherman from al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, was critically wounded when an Israeli warship machine-gunned his fishing boat off Rafah. The vessel was destroyed. Israeli sources claimed it was close to the Egyptian border and engaged in smuggling. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that soldiers "called on suspects to halt and fired warning shots into the air", and "opened fire at the vessels after they "failed to comply". Poverty among Gaza's fishermen has increased 40% since 2008, when Israel placed strict limits to the waters where they may fish.
  • Three Palestinian shepherds, Falah Youssef Bani Jaber, Ahmad Bani Jaber, and Judeh Bani Jaber of Yanun suffered wounds, respectively to hands and stomach when they were attacked by settlers and then fired on by Israeli forces near the Israeli outpost of Gidonim, an extension of the Itamar settlement. They Palestinians claimed they were seeking restitution of their stolen herds. Israeli sources claim they had fired in the air to quell a riot, and that the herds were later found, and had not been stolen.
• 4 January
  • Haytham Ziad Hijazi al-Rajabi (18) of Hebron was shot, according to Palestinian reports, in the foot during clashes with Israeli forces at the Jabal Juhur neighborhood by a security guard from the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba.
• 6 January
  • a Palestinian teenager Noor Muhammad Hamid Zaaqiq (19) was shot in the left foot, reportedly after returning from work at a gas station and was in front of his home, during an Israeli dawn raid to arrest and detain 6 people in the village of Beit Ummar.
• 8 January.
  • A 21 year old ultra-orthodox yeshiva student was stabbed in the upper body by an assailant, using a screwdriver, while walking on Sultan Suleiman Street near the Damascus Gate. The assault is believed to be motivated by nationalist feelings, initial reports speaking of an Arab fleeing the scene. Police later arrested a 15 year old Palestinian from East Jerusalem on suspicion of having caused the injury.

• 9 January.
  • Settlers reportedly chopped down a grove of 45 olive trees belonging to Jibril and Khaled Muhammad Abu Arram at Shaab al-Butm, near Yatta, south of Hebron early in the morning.
  • Later that day, on Friday night, a follow-up attack, reportedly by settlers from Susiya, chopped down a further 300 trees belonging to the Shatat, Dawood, and Halabi families.
• 10 January.
  • 2 Palestinian youths from the village of Burin, Abbas Jamal Asous (18), shot with a live bullet in the thigh, and Muhammad Yasser Najjar (14), shot in the leg, were injured during clashes with Israeli forces.
  • A Palestinian youth, Ibrahim Issa Suleiman al-Tubassi (15), was shot in the thigh in the village of ar-Rihiya, south of Hebron, by a 'public security officer' for the Israeli settlement ofBeit Hagai. Two days later, Israeli police arrested a Beit Hagai settler on suspicion of shooting the youth.
  • A molotov cocktail was thrown at a car belonging to a Jewish settler guard at Silwan, East Jerusalem. The car was totally burnt. In several raids, Israeli police detained 7 local Palestinian youths, among them minors, on suspicion of involvement in the torching.
  • That Saturday night, a Palestinian girl, Rua Hazim Sawalha (12), was injured when the car she was travelling in was struck by rocks thrown near the Israeli settlement of Beit El, reportedly by settlers throwing stones at cars bearing white Palestinian number plates.
• 11 January.
  • According to Palestinian sources, settlers from Tapuach cut down 170 ancient olive trees, called "Roman" for their age and size, in private Palestinian groves at Kfar Yusuf/Yasuf contiguous to the settlement.
• 14 January.
  • Israel forces arrested one Palestinian man and shot dead another, 30 years old, near the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank. Contrary to earlier reports they were terrorists, police said the two were suspected of trying to steal a car in the parking lot of the Rami Levy supermarket inside Gush Etzion. The dead man was shot while attempting to flee on foot.
• 15 January
  • Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian youth, Ahmad Jarbou (23), a worker in the Jenin hospital, during a raid, resulting in the arrest of 4 other youths, on Jenin refugee camp.
• 16 January
  • A 24-year-old Palestinian was shot in the foot by an Israel Border unit near the northeastern border of the Gaza Strip.

See also

• Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
• Israeli Settlement
• List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2014
• House demolition in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• List of Israeli price tag attacks

References

1. 'Israeli settler violence in the West Bank,' OCHA November 2011.'Violence by Israeli settlers . . . includes physical assaults, harassment, takeover of and damage to private property, obstructed access to grazing and agricultural land, and attacks on livestock and agricultural land, among others.'
2. Malin Pahlmblad, 'Israeli settler violence in Palestine,' European Parliament Directorate-General for External Policies, December 2012, p.14:'Settler violence against Palestinians takes many forms, including physical violence, destruction or vandalism of property (such as burning or uprooting trees and arson attacks on mosques), killing and stealing animals, and bathing in water wells used by Palestinians for drinking.'
3. Brian Frederking, The United Nations and US Foreign Policy: Collective Security Since the Cold War, Routledge 2007 p.157:'Most definitions say that terrorism is an intentional act of violence against persons and/or property, and it is intended to intimidate a population or influence government policy. . The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has greatly complicated this dispute. While those on one side interpret Palestinian acts of violence (particularly those suicide bombers that kill Israeli civilians) as clear acts of terrorism, those on the other side interpret Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation as a legitimate act of national struggle. Conversely, while one side interprets Israeli policies in the occupied territories as state terrorism, the other side considers Israel to be acting in self-defense. Each side wants a definition of terrorism that implicates only the other side.'
4. Report of the Human Rights Council: Twelfth Session (14 September - 2 October 2009) Thirteenth Session (1 - 26 March 2010) Fourteenth Session (31 May - 18 June 2010) Thirteenth Special Session (27 and 28 January 2010), United Nations Publications, 2010 p.97:'Expressing its Grave concern at '(a) the continuing Israeli settlement and related activities, in violation of international law, including . . the expropriation of land, the demolition of houses, the confiscation and destruction of property . . which change the physical character and demographic composition of the occupied territories, including east Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan, and constitute a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War,’
5. Meron Benvenisti, Haaretz 2002 cited Cheryl Rubenberg, The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003 p.136:'The destruction of a home is a barbaric act, and taking such a course of action, no matter what the excuse, is an act of terror that comes under the category of a war crime. . It would be hard to overstate the symbolic value of a house to an individual for whom the culture of wandering and of becoming rooted to the land is so deeply ingrained in tradition, for an individual whose national mythos is based on the tragedy of being uprooted from a stolen homeland.'
6. 'Israel's Policy of Demolishing Palestinian Homes Must End: A Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Israeli Committee against House Demotion,' ICAHD March 2012:'Since 1967 Israel has demolished more than 28,000 Palestinian homes, businesses, livestock facilities and other structures vital to Palestinian life and livelihood in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The motivation for demolishing these homes is purely political, and racially informed: to either drive the Palestinians out of the country altogether (the “quiet transfer”) or to confine the four million residents of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza to small, crowded, impoverished and disconnected enclaves . .Allocating land for military training is not confined to unpopulated areas but can occur in the heart of Palestinian residential communities. In the remaining 30% of the land, intended construction is conditional on complementarity with a plan endorsed by the Israeli Civil Administration, of which less than 1% satisfies this requirement. Thus Palestinians are faced with the choice of building irregularly or leaving their communities. This policy is violently enforced with the demolition of homes and other infrastructure such as schools and health clinics being a regular occurrence.'
7. 'As safe as houses? Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes,' Amnesty International, June 2010:'Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem and the rest of the west bank face such tight restrictions on what they can build that their right to adequate housing is being violated. the Israeli authorities condemn as “illegal” homes and other structures built without the permits that they control and rarely allow to Palestinian residents, and then order their destruction. Demolition crews, accompanied by security officials, may arrive at any time, giving families little notice or opportunity to remove their possessions. Under Israeli military law applied to Palestinians in most of the west bank, evicted families are not rehoused or compensated. So, those evicted would face homelessness and destitution were it not for relatives, friends and charities. Palestinians in East Jerusalem fare little better under the Israeli civil authorities. .Violations of the right to adequate housing experienced by Palestinians in the oPt are both a symptom of the wider human rights violations to which Palestinians are subject and a barrier to their achievement of other human rights.. .As the occupying power, the actions of Israel in the oPt are also bound by the fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in time of War to which Israel is a signatory. Article 53 prohibits destruction of property that is not justified by military necessity.'
8. Anthony H. Cordesman, Arab-Israeli Military Forces in an Era of Asymmetric Wars,Center for Strategic and International Studies 2006 pp.71-72.
9. Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War , University of California Press p.426 n.65:'Palestinian homes are often destroyed under the pretext of not having the proper building permits. The same requirement does not apply to homes of Jewish settlers, however. According to a statement by the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, 'With three unusual exceptions, in the past 30 years NO Jewish house non the West Bank has ever been threatened with demolition. . Israeli settlers are citizens of Israel and are subject only to Israeli law. None of the planning guidelines, procedures for obtaining building permits from the civilian administration or house demolition penalties applies to them. The first 21 Jewish settlements on the West Bank were done so without plans or permits and, indeed, against the stated policies and wishes of the Israeli government.'
10. 'Human Rights Watch calls on Israel to stop demolition of terrorist homes,' Haaretz 22 November 2014.
11. 'Israeli soldiers critically injure Palestinian in shooting near Nablus,' Ma'an News Agency 2 January 2015.
12. 'Palestinian fisherman critically injured in Israeli naval attack,' Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2015.
13. ’ Israeli forces shoot 3 Palestinian shepherds near Nablus,’ Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2015.
14. ’ 3 Palestinians said injured during clashes with settlers,’ The Times of Israel 3 January 2015.
15. ‘Israeli security guard shoots, injures Hebron teen,’ Ma'an News Agency 4 January 2015.
16. 'Israeli troops raid West Bank, shoot teenager,' Ma'an News Agency 6 January 2015.
17. Lazar Berman, 'Police arrest East Jerusalem youth for Thursday stabbing,'The Times of Israel 9 January 2015.
18. 'Report: Israeli stabbed near Jerusalem Old City,' Ma'an News Agency 8 January 2015
19. 'Jewish man stabbed near Jerusalem’s Old City,' The Times of Israel 8 January 2015.
20. 'Israeli settlers chop down 45 olive trees south of Hebron,' Ma'an News Agency 9 January 2015
21. 'Israeli settlers chop down 300 olive trees south of Hebron,' Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2015
22. 'Israeli forces shoot 2 Palestinian youths with live fire in Burin,' Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2015.
23. 'Settler shoots Palestinian in village south of Hebron,' Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2015
24. 'Settler arrested on suspicion of shooting Hebron teen ,' Ma'an News Agency 12 January 2015.
25. 'Israeli forces detain 7 Palestinian youths in Silwan ,' Ma'an News Agency 11 January 2015
26. '12-year-old injured after settlers hurl rocks at Palestinian car,' Ma'an News Agency 11 January 2015
27. '3rd attack in 3 days: Settlers chop down 170 olive trees near Nablus ,' Ma'an News Agency 11 January 2015
28. 'Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian at Gush Etzion,' Ma'an News Agency 14 January 2015
29. 'Police kill Palestinian man during alleged car theft,' The Times of Israel14 January 2015.
30. 'Israeli troops injure youth in Jenin raid,' Ma'an News Agency 15 January 2015
31. 'Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian in Gaza,' Ma'an News Agency 16 January 2015

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