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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, the United Nations, and scholars such as Meron Benvenisti and Saree Makdisi. Israel has clashed with the EU's funding and construction of buildings for Palestinian residents in Area C, and ordered the demolition of 400 units saying that under international law, such structures do require Israeli permits.

2015

According to Walla!, from January 2015 until April 26, 172 attacks against the Jerusalem Border Police and SWAT teams were recorded. 148 Molotov cocktails and 15 explosive devices have been thrown at Border Police, 1 shooting incident, 4 stabbing attempts or attacks and 4 "car rampage"attacks (attempted or actualized) have been launched. Many of policemen have been injured in these clashes.

According to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), from January 1 to April 22, at least 8,139 trees and saplings planted by Palestinians were uprooted or vandalized by Israeli settlers.

January

According to Shabak, 124 attacks which it defined as "terrorist" were carried out in January, including: 1 stabbing, 3 small arms shootings, 17 improvised explosive devices and 102 firebombs attacks. 17 Israelis were wounded (7 seriously or moderately).

In January, according to the Arab Group for Development and National Empowerment, an Arab Human Rights association, Israel detained over 400 Palestinians, on average 13 per day, of whom 57 were minors, and 18 women. According to B'Tselem, Israeli forces since late 2014 through to January 2015 have confirmed a shift to resorting more frequently to the use of live 0.22 inch caliber bullet fire from Ruger 10/22 rifles in West Bank clashes contrary to regulations that prohibit recourse to live fire against stone-throwers.

From Dec 30 to the 12 of January, according to OCHA, 42 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank, 45% (19) being children, and 14 being hit with live ammunition. Over the same period, 5,554 olive saplings and trees were reported to have been vandalized by Israeli settlers. Israeli media reported 11 Palestinian attacks, 6 involving stone-throwing and 3 the hurling of Molotov cocktails, on settlers and other Israelis in both the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Israeli military administration razed 27 Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank, while 5 more were demolished in East Jerusalem, with 2 more demolished by their Palestinian owners to avoid fines, all due to the lack of Israeli-issued building permits. From 13–19 January, 25 Palestinians, of whom 10 were children and 3 women, were injured in clashes across the West Bank, 40% during protests against the Separation Barrier in Bil'in, the closure of the road to Kafr Qaddum and the road connecting the villages of Surif and Jab'a in the Hebron Governorate. 3 incidents involving Palestinians stoning Israeli vehicles were recorded for the same period. Israeli forces fired 19 times in the same period in the direction of Palestinians found venturing into the Access Restricted Areas (ARA) of the Gaza Strip. From 20–26 January, 32 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, were injured in clashes, while Israeli authorities razed 41 Palestinian-owned structures in Area C of the West Bank, and four in East Jerusalem for lack of permits, displacing 81 Palestinians. In the same period there were 29 incidents involving Israeli naval and ground forces firing on Gazan fishing boats and Palestinians within the Strip in the Access Restricted Areas (ARA). From 27 January To 2 February,41 Palestinians, inclusive of 7 children and 3 women were injured by Israeli forces in West Bank clashes. Three incidents of Palestinian stone-throwing occurred in East Jerusalem resulting in damage to 2 Israeli vehicles. According to the Israeli Security Agency Shin Bet, 124 incidents related to Palestinian violence, defined by the agency as 'terrorist attacks' took place over the same month: 115 took place in the West Bank, 18 in Jerusalem and 1 in Tel Aviv. Of these 102 incidents consisted of throwing Molotov cocktails and 17 of throwing improvised hand bombs. 3 incidents involved small arms gunfire, and one related to a stabbing assault.

• 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".
  • The IDF demolished the tents of five families, 29 people including 17-22 minors, on the eve of a forecast storm, in Khirbet Umn al-Hamal in the West Bank, leaving them homeless.
  • Some 79 Palestinian livelihoods were affected by the discovery that 5,000 2- to 3-year-old olive saplings had been cut down at Turmus Ayya village, near Ramallah.
• 2 January
  • 2 19 year-old Palestinian youths throwing stones at Israeli forces near Gaza’s perimeter fence east of Jabalia were injured by IDF fire.
• 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.
  • Two to three Palestinian shepherds, Falah Youssef Bani Jaber, Ahmad Bani Jaber, and Judeh Bani Jaber of Yanun/Aqraba 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. The Palestinians claimed they were seeking restitution of their stolen herds. Israeli sources initially claimed they had fired in the air to quell a riot, and that the herds were later found, and had not been stolen. On 20 January, Israeli police arrested 2 members of Itamar, stating that the incident, in which a rapid-response team and the IDF were mobilized, arose from an alert by a settler shepherd that he was being attacked by 4 Palestinians. The four were arrested, and in the ensuing altercation, 2 Palestinians were hit by gunfire. Police later determined the initial report was false, and arrested the 2 Itamar settlers on suspicion they had shot the Palestinian shepherds.
• 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. The security coordinator said he fired after the children threw stones at the settlement.
• 5 January
  • Israeli authorities bulldozed several shops in the village of Husan in the West Bank, near Bethlehem, on the grounds they had not given permits for their construction.
  • The house, under construction, of Abd al-Rahim al-Jaabari in the Ein Bani Sleim area of eastern Hebron was razed to the ground by Israeli forces on the grounds that the structure was being erected without Israeli permission.
• 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.
  • The livelihoods of 10 Palestinian families in Qwawis and Ma'in (near Hebron) were affected when roughly 580 olive and almond trees were chopped down, reportedly by settlers.
• 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 of Beit Hagai. According to OCHA, he fired with live ammunition on children playing in the snow near the settlement fence. According to an Israeli source, The Palestinians kids threw stones at the town entrance and head of security tried to move them away. Two days later, Israeli police arrested the Beit Hagai settler on suspicion that he had shot 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 from 35 to 170 ancient olive trees, called "Roman" for their age and size, in private Palestinian groves at Kfar Yusuf/Yasuf contiguous to the settlement.
• 12 January
  • Two Israeli settler women were injured when stones were thrown at their car near Sinjil.
• 13 January.
  • 3 children and one woman were reportedly injured during a search and arrest raid, one of 92 such raids between 13–19 January, on the village of Beit Ummar, which led to the arrest of 18 Palestinians, including 3 children.
  • Settlers, according to Palestinians reports from Shilo, reportedly vandalized Palestinian property near Turmus Ayya.
• 14 January.
  • Israeli forces arrested one Palestinian man and shot dead another, a 17 years old youth, from Yatta 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 youth was shot while attempting to flee on foot, with an Israeli police spokesperson later stating that while the man was being chased, a soldier fired thinking he might be an armed militant.
  • 2 sheep belonging to a Palestinian herder from Salim, Nablus were run over by a settler near Elon Moreh, deliberately according to the shepherd, accidentally according to Israeli police.
  • A bus carrying Israeli students was damaged by stoning near 'Anata Junction.
  • Israeli forces demolished 3 structures, an uninhabited house and 2 animal pens, belonging to the Maghayyir Al Dir Bedouin community near Ramallah, affecting the livelihoods of 19 people belonging to 3 families.
  • A residence being built in Deir Jarir by a registered refugee family of 4 was demolished for lack of a permit.
• 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.
  • Sami al-Jaar (20) was shot during a police raid in Rahat conducted as part of a drug bust operation. Israel police spokesmen said they fired shots in the air when they came under attack from stone-throwers. According to the boy's father, a retired Arab Israeli policeman, he and his son came out to see what the noise was about, and when he observed police beating several youths with their weapons, he called on them to desist, a struggle ensued, he returned home, and subsequently, his son was sprayed with tear-gas and shot dead. According to Ma'an, he was standing on the family patio at the time. The father was arrested, and, according to his account, beaten up, suffering a broken arm, at the police station. According to Israeli police, they were brutally attacked. Leaders of Israel's Arab citizens declared a national strike fromm the Galilee to the Negev. Police are investigating whether the shot was fired by one of their men, or by townsfolk. An Israeli investigation led to the arrest of one of the policemen involved, after he had incriminated himself during an interrogation.
  • The Israeli military authority razed 7 acres of sown wheat at Khirbet an Nahla on what was reportedly private Palestinian land, south of Bethlehem, claiming it was on state land and was earmarked for building a road to the settlement of Efrat.
  • Israel border troops used machine gun fire to drive off Palestinian farmers tending their lands at on the outskirts of Khuza, al-Farahin and Al-Qarara, in eastern Khan Younis.
• 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 when Gazan Palestinians threw stones their way.
  • An Israeli settler was injured when his car was stoned near the Atarot junction.
  • The Israeli military authority razed 7 acres of sown wheat on what was reportedly private Palestinian land, south of Bethlehem, claiming it was on state land and was earmarked for building a road to the settlement of Efrat.
• 17 January
  • Israeli forces uprooted 185 saplings and razed a 250-metre retaining wall on 0.74 acres (3 dunums) of land between Al-Khader and Husan villages in the Bethlehem Governorate.
• 18 January
  • At 2:30 A.M. Israel soldiers, while attesting ‘Ali Talji Ya’qub (21) in the Ya’qub family home at Beit Rima, beat both him and 3 relatives northwest of Ramallah. Entering the house, soldiers arrested , beating him and three of his relatives.His brother, Ya’qub Talji Ya’qub (31) was dragged into the street and left unconscious, and was later diagnosed as suffering from neurogenic shock and respiratory distress.
  • According to Palestinian security forces, three Palestinian bakery workers, Nayif Muhammad Ali al-Shami, his brother Jihad al-Shami, and Muhammad Ali Ramadan, required hospital treatment after suffering injuries when Israeli forces beat them while conducting raids in Shuhada (Martyrs') Square in central Nablus, which is under full Palestinian administrative authority.
  • Sami Ibrahim Zayadna (45) died after inhaling fumes from a tear-gas cylinder fired at a crowd of mourners during a funeral ceremony in the Bedouin city of Rahat for Sami al-Jaar, shot dead some days earlier by Israeli forces during a drug-bust. Bedouin sources say the attack coincided with the beginning of a funeral eulogy. Israeli police stated that they fired after stones were thrown at them.
  • 12 olive trees in Asira al-Qibliya village and 21 in Al-Mughayyir, Ramallah were vandalized. The former attack was countersigned by a price tag graffito.
• 19 January
  • Muhammad Jamal Ghaith (16) sustained a deep gash to the head, reportedly from rifle butts to the head, and Israeli forces then arrested him outside his home in Silwan, East Jerusalem. After being detained at a local police station, he was taken to the Hadassah hospital for treatment. A Palestinian source describes the incident as an assault.
  • Two elderly Palestinian women, Zuheira Oweida Dandis ( 80), and Amal Dandis ( 52), were expelled from their home in central Hebron’s Shuhada Street, which was then sealed. Israeli forces imposed the eviction from and sealing up of, the property, claiming it was necessary for security reasons. Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to the street were imposed after Baruch Goldstein shot dead 29 Palestinians while they were at prayer in the nearby Ibrahimi Mosque, in 1994
  • A barracks serving as an animal shelter in Khallet al Wardeh (Hebron) was dismantled without notice, for lack of a permit, affecting 6 families' livelihoods (51 Palestinians).
  • Israeli authorities demolished 19 structures, 7 built with donor funds, belonging to Palestinians from the Qarzaliya area of Al Jiftlik Abu al ‘Ajaj, in Jericho, including five residential structures, three kitchens and 11 animal shelters for 1,000 sheep. 29 people, of whom 14 children, were displaced as a result.
• 20 January
  • A Palestinian woman was injured by a rubber-coated bullet, and a youth was reportedly beaten up and then arrested during a dawn operation, when Israeli forces raided the al-Thahra neighborhood in al-Isawiya, East Jerusalem, and deployed to enable bulldozers to raze to the ground a house under construction belonging to Osama Ribhi Dari, for which he lacked an Israeli permit.
  • A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was shot in the leg with a rubber bullet during clashes with police during a protest against the erection of a flying checkpoint at at-Tur in East Jerusalem. Another youth, Udayy Hisham Abu al-Hawa (18), apparently walking in the area according to a Palestinian source, was arrested after being 'assaulted.'
  • Israeli bulldozers razed the home of Osama Ribhi Dari in Isawiya during a dawn raid. The reason given was that the construction lacked an Israeli permit, which Palestinians say are rarely given to them.
  • 6 Palestinian structures were demolished, including a water cistern, near Halhul, and two houses were razed in Ar Rifa’iyya (Hebron).
• January 21
  • During search and arrest-related clashes in Askar and Balata Refugee Camps (Nablus), 5 Palestinians,including an 11-year-old girl and a woman, suffered injuries.
  • Israeli passengers were stabbed in a Tel Aviv bus by Hamza Muhammad Hasan Matrouk (23) from the West Bank Nur Shams refugee camp of Tulkarm. 16 passengers were wounded, of them 4 seriously and 3 moderately. The terrorist was apprehended after being shot in the leg during a chase, nearby. In a confession to police, Matrouk stated that the motive for his attack lay in a response to Operation Protective Edge, recent tensions over who should control the Temple Mount and Islamic videos promising entry into paradise.
  • Atef Muhammad Baker (19) a Gaza fisherman was shot in the foot after an Israeli navy patrol fired at fishing boats off Gaza's northern coast. The Palestinians say they were fishing within the Israel-imposed limits. The Israeli spokesman stated that after the fisherman failed to heed warning shots for deviating from the designated zone, they opened fire.
  • Israeli forces razed the house of Ulayyan Jalal Rabaya in the Jabel Mukaber neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, which has 150 demolition orders pending. They reason given was that the owners lacked a building permit from the Israeli authorities, which, Palestinians say, are rarely given by Israel to them.
  • Israeli forces demolished a 4 apartment two storey building owned by the Bishara, Mukheimar and al-Mashni families in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Shuafat, East Jerusalem. According to Palestinians, they had secured initial approval, but the building was sealed under court order and eventually slated for demolition for security reasons. Fees for securing a license and the legal costs for appealing the demolitonj order ran to over $40,000.
• 22 January.
  • The Israeli Military Authority governing the West Bank demolished the 7 tent homes, recently resupplied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, of a five-family Palestinian community at Khirbet 'Ein Karzaliyah in the Jordan Valley, making them homeless for the third time since January 2014. The United Nations promptly denounced this and other measures, asserting they were 'illegal' noting 77 Palestinians, half of them children, had been left homeless as a result of demolitions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 3 days.
  • 6 Palestinian structures, 3 of them residential, were pulled down in Beit Iksa. The demolitions affected 3 registered refugee families consisting of 14 people, of whom 8 are children.
• January 23
  • Yamen Nabil Mahmoud (5) of Shufa was moderately injured when hit by an Israeli settler's car near Tulkarem.
  • At the weekly protest march in the village of Bil'in, Israeli forces shot local village activist Muhammad Adbi Abu Rahmeh in the head, with a rubber-coated bullet, while another villager Iyad Burnat was hit by a tear gas canister.
  • In one of 4 reported incidents against settlers for the week 20–26 January, two settlers, mother and daughter, were lightly injured by stone-throwing as they drove near Sinjil and the settlement of Ofra.
  • 5 Palestinians were reportedly assaulted by Israeli forces in Susiya (Hebron), and a further 4 arrested, apparently when separating settlers and Palestinians, when the former, according to Palestinian sources, tried to impede a tree-planting event on privately owned land.
• January 24
  • An Israeli pillbox guarding the Israeli settlement of Beit El was set afire by Palestinian youths, who hurled improvised pipe bombs at it
  • A settler man was injured from Palestinian stone-throwing near Beit Hanina (East Jerusalem).
  • A Palestinian man cultivating his farmland at Khirbet an Nahla village (Bethlehem) was hot with live ammunition by an Israeli settler.
  • Israeli settlers reportedly kidnapped, after spraying him with a chemical, a Palestinian villager from Sa'ir (Hebron Governorate), when he was waiting on Road 60. He was beaten up, and left on the same road later, and taken to hospital by locals.
• January 25
  • Saad Addin Samir Abu Sneina, (20) of at-Tur in East Jerusalem was shot in the head (eyebrow) by a rubber-coated bullet fired at close range by an Israeli soldier, reportedly while emerging from his home.
  • Over 30 trees belonging to an elderly Palestinian, Khalil Najawaa, of Susya, were chopped down. A local spokesman said settlers had been pressuring him to leave the area.
  • According to a Palestinian report, 10-year-old Muhammad Afeef Khweis was arrested by Israeli police in a park in the at-Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem. His uncle was also arrested after being sprayed with pepper. The family complained of being assalted.
  • A Palestinian man reported that settlers had smashed his rear window and tried to stab him, near Silat ad-Dhahr (Jenin Governorate), and fled when other Palestinians arrived.
• 27 January
  • Basim Zakariyya Suleiman (16) was shot in the foot during clashes with Israeli forces responding to stone-throwing from dozens of Palestinian youths in Balata and Askar refugee camps after 15 military vehicles escorted ultra-orthodox Jews and settlers in a visit to Joseph's Tomb in Nablus at 2:30 a.m. According to Palestinian sources, the visit was not coordinated, but the IDF had informed officials they would be conducting military operations inside Nablus.
  • Israel forces shot and wounded 3 villagers during a protest demonstration at Al-Ram against the closure of the main entrance to the village.
  • Child Rights Information Network issued a report on conditions facing the 700 Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces each year, claiming their mistreatment in detention was systematic.
  • Israel confiscated hundreds of dunams of agricultural land at Beit Ula, claiming it was 'state land'. A local community leader said the land was owned by several families from Beit Ula who had farmed it since the Ottoman period.
• 28 January
  • According to his family, Ibrahim Gheith (14) of at-Tur, East Jerusalem, was beaten up while walking to school, after a car driven by local settlers stopped and one person assaulted him and tried to drag him into the vehicle. The boy was taken for treatment to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in West Jerusalem.
  • A Palestinian teenager from the village of Tayasir east of Tubas was injured lightly when abandoned Israeli ordnance in a field, declared by Israel a closed military zone, blew up as he was grazing his sheep near Ein al Hilwa . He required hospitalization.
  • Near Tammun (Tubas), Israeli authorities confiscated a water tank and agricultural vehicle from the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture deployed for a tree-planting project.
• 29 January
  • Israeli forces demolished the house and mobile home, donor-funded, of Ahmad Jamal al-Jiyawi at Khirbet al-Ras, west of Idhna, as well the barn of another in the town of Idhna in the southern West Bank, resulting in the displacement of a family of 7, 5 of whom children, while 55 others were affected.
  • Israeli forces demolished a large cow barn, also west of Idhna, belonging to a farmer, Mahmoud Musallam Abu Ijeheisha, whose family has 10 dependent members, mostly children.
  • Israeli forces destroyed a 2,000 meter-long water pipeline near the village of al-Atuf, feeding the water network of nearby Palestinian villages and Bedouin encampments in the northern Jordan Valley on the West Bank. In a separate operation, 250–300 meters of water-piping, provided by the Palestinian Authority with foreign donor funds, was confiscated near Yarza, east of Tubas, intended to link up the village to the Tubas water-network. The confiscationb affected the livelihoods of 86 people.
  • 2 Palestinians from Gaza, reportedly armed with grenades, knives and a screwdriver, were detained in the Eshkol Regional Council zone after illegally entering Israel.
  • A Palestinian car parked in the H2 zone of Hebron was vandalized, apparently by settlers.
• January 30
  • Muhammad Bilal al-Tamimi (15) was shot and wounded in the thigh by live ammunition fired by Israeli forces during a protest march at Nabi Saleh regarding Israeli violations against Palestinian children. In a similar protest march on behalf of Palestinian minors' rights in Bil'in, one demonstrator was struck by a tear gas canister.
  • Settlers from Ma'on cut down two trees at the Palestinian village of At-Tuwani.
• January 31
  • Ahmed Ibrahim Jaber al-Najjar (19) was shot dead by Israeli troops either as he and other youth were about to throw fire bombs and were sighted by a Golani unit lying in ambush, or after a group of Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at settler cars near the village of Burin and the Israeli outpost of Havat Gilad. Another involved youth was shot in the leg after a short manhunt. Settler leader Gershon Mesika blessed the soldiers for responding appropriately to terrorism.
  • A large group of Israeli settlers near the Israeli settlement of Beit El threw rocks at Palestinian cars driving on the Ramallah-Nablus road. According to local eyewitnesses, Israeli troops nearby did not intervene and several vehicles were damaged.

• Undated. Sometime during the week between 26 January-2 February.
  • Israeli authorities razed a dunum of land, destroying 30 olive trees in the process, in the ares of two Palestinian villages, Azzun Atma and Beit Amin villages (Qalqilya Governorate), in order to lay down water infrastructure for the Israeli settlement of Sha'arei Tikva.
  • In the area of Masafer Yatta, Hebron Masafer area between the Palestinian communities of Jinba Mirkez, Halaweh, Khirbet al-Fakheit and Khirbet al Majaz, Israeli authorities levelled around 800 dunums of land sown with wheat and barley for grazing. No explanation, apparently, has been forthcoming.

February

In the week from the 3rd to the 9th of February, 36 West Bank Palestinians, inclusive of 9 children, sustained injuries from Israeli forces. 6 were casualties of live ammunition fire. Israel conducted 96 search and arrest operations over the same period. Israeli media reported 11 instances of Palestinians throwing stones or Molotov cocktails at settlers' cars or property, mostly in East Jerusalem. Israeli tanks and bulldozers twice breached Gaza territory, northeast of Khan Younis and east of Rafah, and conducted a ground-leveling operation. In the week from 10–16 February, 30 Palestinians, including 9 children were injured in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank. Six adults and 4 children were reportedly shot with live ammunition. Over the week 17-23, one Palestinian was killed and 24 were injured in clashes with Israeli forces, which conducted 90 search and arrest operations, making 102 arrests, bringing to 899 the number of Palestinians detained since January 1. 3 incidents of Palestinians assaulting Israelis took place over the same period. Over the period 24 February–March 2, 64 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces, while Palestinians targeted Israeli settlers and property on 7 occasions.

• I February
  • Raed Jihad Abu Rmeila (28), a photographer for the Israeli Human Rights NGO B'Tselem, was run over by a settler's car as he walked, according to his testimony, on the pedestrian strip to work near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron.
• 2 February
  • Israeli forces bulldozed two small farmhouses, a water well,and 500 metres of traditional stone-walling belonging to Anwar and Akram Tayseer, two brothers, in the village of Qusra, near the Israeli outpost of Esh Kodesh in the Nablus Governorate. The structures were built with funds donated by the French government.The livelihoods of 10 families, 61 people, were affected.
  • Muhammad Yusuf Burqan (17),a teenage shepherd, was reportedly shot by a settler while tending a flock of sheep in the Wadi Yasul area of Silwan, East Jerusalem.
  • Seven Palestinian Authority security officers were injured when a settler's car crashed into their vehicle near the Al-Arroub refugee camp in the Hebron Governorate. They sustained light to moderate injuries.
• 4 February
  • Israeli forces raided a Palestinian high school near the villages of al-Lubban and As-Sawiya, firing sound bombs and reportedly forcing students to leave at gunpoint while detaining the principal and his assistant for interrogation concerning reports from local settlers that students had thrown stones at vehicles in the area.
  • An Israeli woman settler near Beit Hanina was injured by glass from Palestinians throwing stones.
  • Israeli authorities served Silwad residents Nasser Issa, Yasser Salim, Bassel al-Tawil, and Muhammad Saleh with a demolition order for wells on their land used to draw water for agricultural purposes.
  • Mahmoud Dawoud Abu al-Hawa (10) was arrested by Israeli police in front of his home in at-Tur, East Jerusalem. Release of the child would be secured by paying $195 at the local police station, the parents were informed.
  • A 13-year-old boy was injured after coming across unexploded Israeli ordnance near the village of Jayyous in the Qalqilya Governorate.
• 5 February
  • A group of Israeli settlers established a new illegal settlement, consisting of movable houses and water tanks, by fencing off an area in the Jabal Subeih zone skirting the Palestinian village of Beita.
  • 6 trees on privately-owned Palestinian land in Kafr Qaddum in the Qalqilya Governorate were found chemically burnt, reportedly by settlers from Qedumin.
  • An Israeli settler vehicle ran over a 5-year-old Palestinian boy, Hamza al-Haymouni, at Beit Khalil, in what Palestinian sources interpreted as a hit-and-run incident in the H2 area, causing serious injuries. Another 5-year-old boy Jamil al-Jaabari, sustained minor injuries in a similar incident involving a settler's car in southern Hebron city.
• 6 February
  • A Palestinian man was shot in the lower limbs by Israeli soldiers in Hebron after reportedly trying to wrest a gun from a soldier near Kiryat Arba.
  • According to Palestinian reports, settlers from Karmei Tzur shot live fire towards demonstrators at a protest held near Beit Ummar. No injuries were sustained.
  • 21 Palestinians engaged in a weekly protest demonstration against the closure of the entrance to Kafr Qaddum village (Qalqilya Governorate) were injured as the result of Israeli crowd control and dispersal actions.
  • Two 15-year-old Palestinians in the vicinity of the settlement of Ma'on were reportedly beaten, and then detained overnight, after settlers complained that they were grazing their sheep on land the settlement is planning to expand into.
• 7 February
  • According to Palestinian reports, several Palestinian cars, in proximity to the village of Aqraba, were fired on by an Israeli settler.
  • The Palestinian Environment Quality Authority, in response to growing concerns at the dumping of Israeli toxic products on Palestinian territory, with a recent case of Israeli asbestos being dumped near Tulkarem, stated that those convicted of complicity in the crime would face a sentence of lifetime imprisonment and hard labor. Local Palestinian collusion has been suspected in a number of cases.
  • Israeli settlers established 5 mobile homes on the Jabal Abu al-Rakha and Jabal Kweik sectors of Jalud village, which is located between the illegal outposts of Adei Ad and Esh Kodesh.
• 8 February
  • Israeli special forces reportedly infiltrated the Gaza Strip, and shot and wounded a 21-year-old Palestinian working on agricultural land east of al-Maghezi Refugee Camp, and some 300 metres from the Israel–Gaza barrier. He man remained in Israeli detention.
  • An undergraduate student, Muhammad Osama Suleiman, according to Palestinian reports, was assaulted by Israeli soldiers while walking home to the village of Ajjah near Jenin. He was accused of throwing stones at the military vehicles and suffered bruises to his head and back.
  • Settlers reportedly destroyed a plantation of some 70 tree saplings, donated by the YMCA and planted a week earlier, on land of the Sa'ir village, which under an annexation threat and near to the Israeli settlement of Asfar.
• 9 February
  • Israeli authorities demolished an agricultural irrigation pool near Jericho, funded by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, on the grounds it lacked an Israeli permit.
• 10 February
  • Israeli forces razed to the ground the house of Ahmad Mamun al-Abbasi, home to his 14-member family in Silwan, East Jerusalem. The demolition took place just after its construction, begun in February 2014, had been completed, and the family had taken up residence.
• 11 February
  • Israel gave seizure notices it would confiscate for Jewish settlement 500 acres of reportedly private Palestinian land belonging to the al-Halayqa, Rasna, and al-Hasasna families, at Ash-Shuyukh, 6 miles northeast of Hebron.
  • The Abu Sbitan family warehouse at at-Tur in East Jerusalem, used for stone storage, was raided by Israeli police and its materials, including supplementary electrical equipment, were reportedly confiscated. The move is seen to be preliminary to the demolition of the site structures, built 5 years earlier on the family property.
• 13 February
  • A Palestinian teenager, Jamil Shtewi (17), was reportedly shot in the leg with a live bullet as a weekly protest march took place in Kafr Qaddum, The demonstration was quelled by the use of tear gas and rubber-bullets.
  • 16 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces at al-Eizariya.
• 14 February
  • Imad Suleiman al-Khawli (20) suffered a critical brain injury when shot with live fire by Israeli soldiers, while he participated in a protest rally against the closure of exits to the village of Azzun (Qalqilya Governorate).
• 17 February
  • Israeli forces bulldozed dozens of olive trees belonging to Adnan Daraghmah at Safayih, on the edge of the Palestinian village of Tayasir, stating that the area was encompassed by an Israeli closed military zone, and that the owner had not obtained permission to plant them from the Israeli military administration.
  • According to Palestinians sources, Thaer Mahmoud Issa Daoud (37) was beaten with an iron rod by settlers, in the village of Jalud, near the Israeli outpost of Esh Kodesh and suffered injuries to the head.
  • 3 Palestinian children, ranging in age from 2 to 13, were injured when Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) blew up inside their home, to the west of Jabalia.
• 18 February
  • Settlers, reportedly from Metzad, uprooted 500 saplings recently planted by the al-Ayayda family at Ash-Shuyukh in the Hebron Governorate.
  • A molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli settler compound in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.
  • Stones were thrown at an Israeli vehicle near Al ‘Arrub Refugee Camp.
• 19 February 1000 olive saplings planted in a schoolyard in Tel Rumeida and donated by a Jordanian NGO were reportedly uprooted by settlers.
• 21 February
  • Israeli settlers chopped down over 35 olive trees belonging to the Abed Rabbu family in the Wadi al-Sweid area of southern Hebron.
• 22 February
  • Abraham Goldstein, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed in the stomach by a Palestinian teenager, Mahmoud Abu Aosba, (18) from Birzeit. The incident occurred in Safra Square in Jerusalem. The boy was arrested by an armed guard and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.
  • 7 Palestinians youths suffered wounds to their lower limbs during a raid by Israeli forces on the Aida refugee camp, when live ammunition was used. OCHA reports the total number of casualties as 11, including a child, 4 adults and 5 others, including a pregnant woman, due to physical assault. Two, Ali Adwan and Issa Sami Abu Srour, were hit by live fire, while a third, Mohammad Omar Badawneh, was shot twice in the thighs. A child was hit by live ammunition in the leg during a similar operation at Al Jalazun Refugee Camp. 5 settler attacks on persons and property were recorded.
• 23 February
  • An Israeli vehicle driving near the settlement of Karmei Tzur came under fire, reportedly from Palestinian gunmen. The driver, a Palestinian Israeli, was not injured.Preliminary reports suggest the shooting related to a work dispute between the Palestinian Israeli and his local employees.
  • Israeli forces shot and arrested a Gazan as he approached the perimeter fence north of Beit Lahia.
• 24 February
  • 19-year-old Jihad Shehada al-Jaafari, (19) was shot dead by Israeli forces during a dawn raid on Dheisha refugee camp, near Bethlehem. An Israeli spokesman said that, on failing to disperse a crowd when rocks were thrown, wounding one soldier lightly, the soldiers felt in danger and shot the leader of the rioters. The boy bled to death on the roof of his home. Palestinians say the Israelis blocked ambulances going to the home. An autopsy suggested he had been shot at close range.
  • A Palestinian girl, Mariam Karim Dana (10) suffered fractures after a settler guard jeep hit her in Silwan's Ein al-Lawza area in East Jerusalem. The driver was not detained.
  • Palestinians were deemed responsible for an arson attack on a Jewish cemetery in East Jerusalem.
• 25 February
  • After daubing a mosque's walls with slogans such as "we want the redemption of Zion", "revenge" alongside a Jewish Star of David, Jewish settlers reportedly set fire to a mosque in Jab'a near Bethlehem. The incident took place on the 21st anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in Hebron. It is not known whether the incident constitutes a price tag attack or not.
  • Settlers reportedly vandalized a Palestinian souvenir shop in Hebron, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, and physically assaulted three people there.
• 26 February
  • An arson attack on a Greek Orthodox seminary for the study of Christianity next to Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem destroyed the bathroom. The walls were smeared with graffiti, including "Jesus is a son of a b***h", and "the Redemption of Zion"
  • 25 Palestinians were injured in Azzun, Qalqilya Governorate, when Israeli forces clashed with protestors demonstrating against the closure of the eastern entrance to the village, a policy imposed in 2001.
• 27 February
  • 3 Palestinians, Abd al-Majid Amro, Issa Mahmoud Amro, and Anas Amro, were reportedly injured by live fire when Israeli forces moved to put down a demonstration to have Shuhada street reopened for public access in Hebron's Old City.
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  • Approximately 260 olive saplings in Qwawis, near Hebron were reportedly uprooted by settlers, bringing the figure for trees damaged or uprooted by settlers in the West Bank in the first three month of 2015 to 6840.