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. Israeli search and arrest operations in the Palestinian territories, which averaged 75 per week earlier, rose to 86 per week in the first five months of 2015. According to the same source, averaging statistics from January through to June, 2 Israelis have been injured and, excluding settler assaults, 40 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli forces, per week. In the Hebron governorate alone from January to June, 550 Palestinians, among them 105 teenagers, were arrested, and 225 sentenced to administrative detention without trial.'Report: Israeli detained 550 Palestinians from Hebron in 6 months', Ma'an News Agency 2 July 2015.
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).Terror Data and Trends:Monthly summary – January 2015, Israel Security Agency February 2015.
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.'Group: 13 Palestinians being detained by Israel every day', Ma'an News Agency 7 February 2015. 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.'Military steps up use of live 0.22 inch bullets against Palestinian stone-throwers', B'Tselem 18 January 2015.
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.'Protection of Civilians:Reporting period: 30 December 2014 – 12 January 2015' , OCHA From 13 to 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)Access restricted Areas (ARA) in the Gaza Strip, UNISPAL 3 July 2013 of the Gaza Strip. From 20 to 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.'Monthly summary – January 2015' , Shin Bet
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".'Israeli soldiers critically injure Palestinian in shooting near Nablus', Ma'an News Agency 2 January 2015. 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.Kh. 'Um al-Jamal: Israeli military demolishes 5 families' tents mere days before the storm', B'Tselem 8 January 2015. 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.'Palestinian fisherman critically injured in Israeli naval attack', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2015. 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.' Israeli forces shoot 3 Palestinian shepherds near Nablus', Ma'an News Agency 3 January 2015.'3 Palestinians said injured during clashes with settlers', The Times of Israel 3 January 2015. 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.Stuart Winer, 'Two settlers arrested for shooting Palestinians', The Times of Israel 20 January 2015. 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.'Israeli security guard shoots, injures Hebron teen', Ma'an News Agency 4 January 2015. 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.'Israeli forces demolish shops in Bethlehem-area village', Ma'an News Agency 5 January 2015. 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.'Israeli forces demolish house under construction in Hebron', Ma'an News Agency 5 January 2015. 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.'Israeli troops raid West Bank, shoot teenager', Ma'an News Agency 6 January 2015. 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.Lazar Berman, 'Police arrest East Jerusalem youth for Thursday stabbing', The Times of Israel 9 January 2015.'Report: Israeli stabbed near Jerusalem Old City', Ma'an News Agency 8 January 2015'Jewish man stabbed near Jerusalem's Old City', The Times of Israel 8 January 2015. Mohammad Hani Subhi Matouq was sentenced to 28 months in jail in mid June on two counts of stabbing. 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.'Israeli settlers chop down 45 olive trees south of Hebron', Ma'an News Agency 9 January 2015 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.'Israeli settlers chop down 300 olive trees south of Hebron', Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2015 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.'Israeli forces shoot 2 Palestinian youths with live fire in Burin', Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2015. 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.'Settler shoots Palestinian in village south of Hebron', Ma'an News Agency 10 January 2015'Settler arrested on suspicion of shooting Hebron teen', Ma'an News Agency 12 January 2015.