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“The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point
of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of
view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank.” Just as he was saying
this – as an example of one of the absurdities that characterize the
political situation – Palestinian Agriculture Minister Ismail Daiq
received a phone call from the Jenin district to inform him that five
artesian wells in the village of Daan had been destroyed that morning.
One person was shot and wounded in the abdomen when he tried to lift the
pump to save it from damage. This was not an attack by settlers but a
raid by the army.

And that wasn’t the only routine event on Wednesday, February 24.
The negotiations affairs department of the Palestine Liberation
Organization collects information daily from all the districts of the
occupied territories (Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Jerusalem) and
publishes it in a daily situation report by the Palestinian Monitoring
Group. For the sake of convenience, the report categorizes the events
and then provides details for each district.

That Wednesday, a total of 212 occupation-related incidents were
recorded. Examples include: four physical assaults (which took place in
the West Bank, and included civilians being beaten in Nablus and
Jerusalem); one injury (a civilian hurt in a clash in Daan)... >>>