The Palestine Chronology

In the West Bank, Israeli forces demolished 27 residential and agricultural structures in Khirbet Humsa and forced the bedouin village’s residents to leave the area; the demolitions displaced 70 people. Israeli forces also raided the headquarters of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, seizing computers and other office equipment and ordering the building closed for 6 months. 10 Palestinians were arrested during late-night raids in and around Ramallah, Ni‘lin, Deir Abu Mash‘al, Birzeit, Nablus, Jenin, and Dura; 1 of the arrested was the director of Health Work Committees Shatha Odeh, who also had her car seized. In Gaza, Israeli forces made incursions east of al-Qarara. In Israel, Israeli forces demolished the bedouin community in al-Araqeeb for the 190th time since 2010. (AJ, AP, B’Tselem, HA, MEMO, MEMO, PCHR, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA, WAFA 7/7; MEE, MEE, PCHR, WAFA, WAFA 7/8; WAFA 7/9)

The founder of PFLP-GC Ahmed Jibril died of natural causes in a hospital in Damascus at the age of 83. (AP, HA, REU 7/7; MEMO 7/8 AP, IN 7/9; NYT 7/13)

Isaac Herzog was sworn in as the new president of Israel. (AJ, ALM, AP, HA, REU 7/7; ALM 7/8)