The Palestine Chronology

In the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians protested Israel’s deadly raid in Jenin on 1/26 with demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. Israeli settlers shot and injured 3 Palestinians near Beita. Israeli forces violently dispersed Palestinian protesters in Beita and Beit Dajan, causing 3 tear-gas related injuries in Beita and 10 in Beit Dajan. Israeli forces also violently dispersed a funeral procession in al-Ram, causing tear-gas related injuries. Elsewhere, Israeli forces issued stop-work orders for 2 homes in Birin. East Jerusalem, 1 Palestinian man shot and killed 7 Israeli settlers and wounded 3 others in the Neve Yaakov settlement before being killed by Israeli police. The Palestinian man was named after his grandfather who was killed by an Israeli settler in 1999. Israeli forces subsequently seized the family home of the Palestinian man and arrested 42 Palestinians in relation to the shooting, including many of the man’s relatives. In Haifa, Israeli police arrested 6 protesters who refused to remove their Palestinian flags during a demonstration against Israel’s raid in Jenin. (AJ, ALM, ALM, AP, AX, HA, MDW, MEE, MEE, NYT, REU, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA 1/27; AJ, ALM, HA, HA, REU, REU, WAFA 1/28; HA, NYT 1/29; MDW, PCHR 2/2; UNOCHA 2/3)

U.S. president Joe Biden spoke to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the attack in Neve Yaakov and offered “all appropriate means of support to the Government and People of Israel over the coming days.” (HA 1/27)

In Gaza, a Palestinian man is killed in a tunnel collapse nr. Rafah. In the West Bank, IDF troops shoot and critically injure a Palestinian youth by the separation wall nr. Jenin. The young man will succumb to his injuries late at night. They also conduct house searches and raids in Tulkarm, 1 village and al- ‘Azza r.c. nr. Bethlehem, and 1 village nr. Nablus, arresting 6 Palestinians; patrols in 5 villages nr. Jenin, al-‘Arub r.c. and 1 village nr. Hebron, and 1 village each nr. Ramallah, Qalqilya, and Tulkarm. Overnight, Israeli forces demolish 4 residential structures in the n. Jordan Valley and a home nr. Jenin; conduct a large drill nr. Tubas that leads to fire damage on 3,000–4,000 dunams of farmland. Israeli settlers chop down over 100 almond, grape, and olive trees outside Hebron. Unknown Palestinians throw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli settler’s car nr. Nablus, injuring 1 and causing damage. In East Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinians gather in al-Tur for the funeral of the Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces on 4/24, defying the Israeli attempt to restrict the funeral to 70 mourners. Minor clashes break out with Israeli forces, but there are no serious injuries. (The Israeli authorities withheld the teen’s body until early this morning and they required his family to pay approximately $5,000 to get it back.) Meanwhile, Israeli forces arrest 5 Palestinian women nr. Haram al-Sharif. (WAFA 4/26; JP, MNA, WAFA 4/27; HA, MNA, WAFA 4/28; PCHR 4/29)

The Israeli govt. invites tenders for the construction of 77 residences in Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem—36 in Neve Yaakov and 41 in Pisgat Ze’ev. (AFP, JTA, REU, WAFA 4/27)

UN Secy.-Gen. Ban publishes a summary of a report compiled by an official UN board of inquiry on OPE. The board found that the 7 documented attacks on UN schools during Israel’s assault on Gaza in 7–8/2014 led to 44 Palestinian deaths and 227 injuries. It also found that 3 UN facilities were used by Palestinian groups for weapons storage. (HA, MNA 4/27; EI 4/28)

Iranian FM Zarif meets with U.S. Secy. of State Kerry to continue their negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, on the sidelines of a UN nonproliferation conference in New York. (REU 4/27; AP 4/28)