Tuesday, November 20, 2018

A Palestinian stabs and injures an Israeli settler outside the Bethlehem-area settlement Gilo. Israeli forces then seal the entrances to nearby Bayt Jala and conduct extensive raids and searches for the alleged attacker. The alleged attacker turns himself in to the Israeli authorities later in the day. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli settlers vandalize a Palestinian playground under construction outside Burqa village near Nablus. Israeli forces raze a small swath of Palestinian land near Jericho and uproot approximately 500 palm trees in the area. IDF troops arrest 8 Palestinians during raids near Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, and Tulkarm; and patrol near Hebron. Along Gaza’s border, Israeli forces conduct a limited incursion to level land near Gaza City. Off Gaza’s coast, Israeli naval forces open fire on Palestinian fishermen near Jabaliya refugee camp, causing no damage or injuries. (MNA, MNA, MNA, MNA, TOI, TOI, WAFA 11/20; MNA, WAFA 11/21; PCHR 11/22)

A Palestinian succumbs to injuries sustained when Israeli forces shot him outside a police station in Jabal Mukabir on 11/14. (MNA, WAFA 11/20)

One day after the U.S.-based home-share company Airbnb announced it would no longer offer listings in Israel’s West Bank settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister Yariv Levin says that the Israeli government intends to “act on several levels” to get the decision reversed. “First, we have turned to the management of the company, demanding that the decision be canceled,” he says. “We will help apartment owners to file claims in the U.S. in order to reach a situation that at least the company will have to compensate them for the damage it causes them.” (HA, TOI 11/21)