Under international law, it is a war crime for Israel to use indiscriminate force, destroy public and private property, inflict collective punishment, or establish settlements in the occupied territories. Judge for yourself...
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I have stood in front of tearful Palestinian women as they nursed the bruises of their children who had been attacked by soldiers or settlers. I have listened to their sobs and wails as bulldozers plowed into their houses while Israeli soldiers laughed and cheered. I have seen men picking up little bits of people stuck to asphalt, walls, and trees. I have seen Israeli soldiers beckon settlers to come and spit on terrified young men at a checkpoint. Folks like Ariel Sharon should experience the pain and terror they have inflicted on their victims for decades. - Kathleen Kern, Christian Peacemaker Teams
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July 10, 2004. Israeli soldiers shot and wounded three Palestinian women in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. The women, holding white flags, were attempting to leave their houses to get food after the town had been besieged for 12 days. - Xinhua
July 10, 2004. A 16-year-old Palestinian girl, Hanin Udeh Abu Samahdaneh, was killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Witnesses said it was unclear why the Israeli troops had fired, as there were no clashes under way at the time of the shooting. - News.com
July 9, 2004. Israeli troops killed a 35-year-old Palestinian woman, Jamilia Hamad, in the northern Gaza Strip. She was shot in the abdomen while guiding her seven children through the streets to escape the fighting. - International Herald Tribune
July 6, 2004. Israeli army commandos shot and killed Khaled Salah, a professor at Nablus's al-Najah University, and his 16-year-old son, Muhammed. Troops who rang the doorbell shot Salah as soon as he opened it and then killed his son, who was standing behind him. - Reuters
July 6, 2004. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Ala' Shaer, was killed by heavy and random Israeli artillery fire against Palestinians houses in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. - Xinhua
June 2, 2004. Two 10 year-old schoolchildren were shot in the al-Omaria school run by UNRWA in Rafah, when an Israeli tank fired into their classroom. Bullets fired from the tank flew through the classroom window, hitting Mahmoud Hamad in the neck and Hisham al Habil in the head. They survived the brutal attack. - Electronic Intifada
July 4, 2004. Nine-year-old Ihab Shakat was killed and a second child wounded in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun when Israeli troops opened fire on stonethrowing youths. - The Age
July 4, 2004. In the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian man with no connection to militant groups was shot in the head and killed by Israeli soldiers late Sunday as he was walking down a main road in the town of Rafah. - ABC News
July 4, 2004. The Israeli army dynamited three Palestinian houses that had been built without permission in the Hebron area. An Israeli spokeswoman said the houses, which were home to around 30 people, had been destroyed as a result of 'illegal construction'. - The Australian
June 25, 2004. During a vast search operation in the casbah district of Nablus, in the West Bank, Israeli troops killed Ihab Slim, 19, in his house and also wounded his brother and father. - Yahoo News
June 25, 2004. A Christian Aid delegation has been fired upon by the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. 'We were all very shaken,' a spokeswoman said. 'I can't believe they fired at us. We were clearly civilians. We were surrounded by children at the time.' - Christian Aid
June 23, 2004. In Nablus, Shadi Al Masri, 26, died after being shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers who raided his photography studio and arrested him and six other photographers. - IPC
May 18, 2004. Asma al-Mughayr, 16, and her brother Ahmad, 13, were shot dead on the roof-terrace of their home in Rafah. Each was killed by a single bullet in the head fired from the top floor of a nearby house which had been taken over by Israeli soldiers. - Amnesty International
October 15, 2003. An eight-year-old boy was killed in Rafah when an Israeli tank backed into his home, shot him as he ran out, and then denied an ambulance for two hours while he bled to death. - CounterCurrents
June 7, 2004. In Tulkarem, Israeli troops shot dead a mentally and physically handicapped Palestinian, Abdul Fattah Farekh. They claimed he did not obey orders to stop and was carrying a "suspicious sack". - PCHR
May 20, 2004. Israeli forces fired tank shells into a peaceful Palestinian protest in Rafah refugee camp yesterday, killing at least 10 people - mostly children - and critically wounding many others. - The Guardian
May 23, 2004. A 3-year-old Palestinian girl, Rwan Abu Zaid, died of gunshot wounds to the head after Israeli troops opened fire in Rafah's devastated Brazil neighbourhood. - News.com
May 23, 2004. Two Israeli bulldozers systematically plowed through the Rafah zoo's two acres of animal pens, bird cages, fish ponds and gardens, killing and maiming swans, pheasants, raccoons, turkeys, sheep, gazelles, tortoises, an ostrich and the zoo's three-legged fox. - Newsday
April 6, 2002. In Nablus, three children aged four, seven and nine years, their pregnant mother and four relatives died under the rubble of their house which was demolished by the Israeli Army. Two survivors were eventually pulled from under the rubble, one week later. - Amnesty International
April 22, 2004. Two Palestinian girls aged four and 11 have been killed during an Israeli army incursion into the northern Gaza Strip. A 16-year-old boy was also killed during a third day of clashes in Beit Lahiya, in which 16 Palestinians have died and at least 20 have been injured. - BBC
November 25, 2002. An 8-year-old Palestinian boy was killed today when Israeli soldiers fired at crowds of children throwing stones as they returned from school in the West Bank city of Nablus. - New York Times
March 7, 2004. An Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip today left four children dead and more than 26 wounded. The children killed were Mahmoud Abdullah Younis, 11, Mohammed Amer Abu Zuraiq, 12, Mohammed Ali Bedawi, 15, and Haitham Mohammed Al Issawi, 16. - Electronic Intifada
September 21, 2002. Abdel Salam Sumerin, aged 9, was killed yesterday when Israeli troops used live ammunition to disperse a crowd of school children challenging the army's attempt to impose a curfew on the El Amari refugee camp. - Ha'aretz
January 3, 2004. In Nablus, two men and a boy were killed by Israeli military fire. Amjad Bilal Masri, 15, was shot while standing in front of his house. Amer Kathym Arafat and Rouhi Hazem Shouman, 25, were both shot in the back by a sniper. - Electronic Intifada
April 3, 2003. Israeli troops shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in Qalqilya. Witnesses said the boy had opened the door to look at troops outside. Israeli forces said he had been trying to run away. - BBC
February 29, 2004. An Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip has killed three Palestinians, including a six-year-old boy, and wounded more than a dozen others. Israel says it was targeting a senior member of the Islamic Jihad militia. - ABC News
February 26, 2004. Israeli forces killed two Palestinians and wounded dozens in the village of Biddu during a protest against Israel's Apartheid Wall. Mohammad Sabel Rayan, a father of two, and Zakariya Eyad, a father of three, were shot during the demonstration. - Electronic Intifada
February 13, 2004. A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed and another wounded after Israeli soldiers opened fire at a group of children near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot dead a 28-year-old farmer, Ahmed Nazal, while he was on his way to work in his fields. - ABC News
October 5, 2002. Rami al-Barbri joined a group of children throwing stones at a tank. A soldier shot back and blew off the top of Rami's head. He was only 10 years old. At the funeral the next day, Rami's stepfather said: "I think the Israelis wanted to send a message to the children that this is their future." - The Guardian
17 October 2003. Said Abu Azzum, 26, was driving his wife and their two sons on a routine trip to Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He was shot in the heart as he turned a corner. He had no job, no money, and no house, and he leaves behind a 21-year-old widow, a four-year-old and a six-year-old. - Double Standards
December 18, 2003. Ala Dawaya, 21, was on his way to work as a baker when he was shot by Israeli soldiers in Nablus. Ambulance driver Adnan Soso arrived to see the wounded man sitting upright and still alive. "Then they started shooting at him from the jeep," he said. "They shot him about ten times over several minutes." - The Guardian
December 8, 2003. Israeli troops stationed at Jewish settlement in Gaza opened fire at the al-Namsawi area of Khan Yunis refugee camp. A Palestinian schoolgirl, Fatima Mousa Khalafallah, age 10, was wounded by a live bullet in the chest while she was in her school 700 metres away. - Electronic Intifada
October 12, 2003. Israeli forces withdrew from Rafah refugee camp at midnight after an two-day operation that left eight Palestinians - including 3 children - dead, and more than 2,000 homeless. Israeli occupying forces destroyed 170 houses, a number of civilian facilities and civilian infrastructure in the area. - Electronic Intifada
November 8, 2003. Ten-year-old Mahmoud Kayed was shot east of Gaza City early today as he trapped birds near the border fence with Israel, hospital officials said. The children had come under fire from a tank. Doctors said that the boy was killed by two bullets. - The Guardian
November 9, 2003. Sweeping into the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli troops were confronted by young Palestinian stone-throwers. Responding, soldiers shot dead a 15-year-old boy and wounded two other children. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s985209.htm
September 2, 2003. An 11-year-old Palestinian girl, Sana Daour, died of injuries she sustained last week in an Israeli missile strike. The girl became the third victim of the attack, which killed two other bystanders but missed its target. - ABC News
July 28, 2003. Huda Darwish, 12, was sitting at her desk when shots ripped through a tree outside her classroom. One ricocheted off the window frame and lodged in her brain. After weeks in hospital, she has regained use of her arms and legs, but will be blind for the rest of her life. - The Guardian
March 3, 2003. During an incursion this morning into al-Boreij refugee camp, Israeli occupation forces killed eight Palestinian civilians, including a pregnant woman who bled to death under ruins of her destroyed house. - Electronic Intifada
October 20, 2001. Johnny Thaljiah, 17, an Orthodox Christian, had just been at worship in the Nativity Church, Bethlehem. He was carrying the baby of one of his cousins. Less than 100 feet from church, he was shot dead by an Israeli sniper from a hill nearly a mile away. - Jubilee Campaign
October 7, 2002. Ten Palestinians were killed during an Israeli incursion into southern Gaza today. Most of the casualties occurred when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile that exploded in a crowd. Later, Israeli troops fired machine guns into Nasser Hospital, where hundreds of people had gathered. Four people were wounded. - The Guardian
June 5, 2003. 15-year-old Ibrahim Abu Habla, who was shot in the eye by Israeli occupation forces in Tulkarm on 28 May, died of his wounds. He had been among a number of children shot with live bullets for throwing stones at the Israeli tanks - Electronic Intifada
August 30, 2002. An Israeli tank firing flechettes - small sharp darts - killed a 55-year-old woman, her two sons, and their cousin late Wednesday night. Eight others were wounded, including a three-year-old boy. Three of the wounded are in a serious condition. - Ha'aretz
May 1, 2003. Israeli troops launched an incursion into a militant stronghold in the Gaza Strip, killing two boys aged two and 13. The infant, Amir Ayyad, was killed by a large-calibre bullet to the head. - The Guardian
September 7, 2003. Hashem El-Haj Yousef, 46, was shot by Israeli snipers while tanks were demolishing houses in his area. A father of five children, he was on watch in case the tanks entered his street and he had to evacuate his family. - Electronic Intifada
October 20, 2003. Seven Palestinians, including a child and an on-duty doctor, were killed when Israeli forces carried out a failed assassination attempt in Gaza's Nusseirat refugee camp. Fifty people were injured, including 11 children. An eighth civilian later died from his injuries. - Electronic Intifada
May 7, 2003. An 18-month-old Palestinian boy has died after being shot in the neck when Israeli forces guarding a Jewish settlement opened fire on a southern Gaza refugee camp. - ABC News
October 26, 2003. Israeli troops in Gaza killed three members of the Al-Sumairi family who were on their way to celebrate the end of Ramadan with relatives. The three men, aged 40, 32 and 30, were 300 metres from their house when Israeli forces opened fire on their car without warning. Israeli authorities admitted that the men had been killed "by mistake." - Electronic Intifada
August 31, 2003. Israeli troops stationed at a Jewish settlement west of the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis killed a 9-year-old girl Saturday. Soldiers fired tank shells, killing the girl and wounding two others. - Washington Times
June 5, 2003. The screams echoed around the clinic yesterday as a woman brought in her 7-year-old daughter shot in the abdomen by an Israeli soldier. As George Bush talked about peace, Israeli soldiers were raiding Balata refugee camp for the third day running. - The Guardian
July 28, 2003. Among the latest victims of apparently indiscriminate shooting were three teenagers and an 8-year-old, Yousef Abu Jaza, hit in the knee when Israeli soldiers shot at children playing football. - The Guardian
May 22, 2003. Israel Defense Forces troops shot to death a 65-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, and wounded five others near Ramallah Wednesday afternoon. - Ha'aretz
June 10, 2003. A wounded boy is carried into the Shifa hospital in Gaza City after Israeli troops fired from tanks and helicopters toward a Palestinian residential area in the northern Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians in their teens were killed and 30 people were wounded. Redding.com
May 29, 2003. Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian during an incursion in the southern Gaza Strip. Relatives said Mohammed el-Kadra, 24, had been wounded and was being carried to his house when Israeli soldiers intervened and shot him dead in a nearby street. - News.com
May 27, 2003. Israeli soldiers randomly opened fire on Palestinian houses in Karawat Bani Zeid village, near Ramallah, killing 11-year-old Samer Arrar. The boy was shot in the head and died while he was on the way to hospital. Arrar is the second child to be killed in the village in the past few weeks. - Palestine Chronicle
May 27, 2003. Mohammad Amin Mahmud, 16, was shot dead when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of young stone-throwers during an incursion into the the northern West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem today. - News.com
May 20, 2003. Israeli troops withdrew from Beit Hanoun earlier Tuesday, after a five-day takeover during which they flattened orchards, demolished 15 homes, knocked over garden walls, tore up streets and damaged the sewage, water and electricity systems. - Globe and Mail
May 16, 2003. Israeli troops yesterday seized Beit Hanoun, a town in the Gaza Strip from which Palestinians have fired rockets into Israel. Five Palestinians, including three boys, ages 12 and 15, were killed in the raid. - Irish Examiner
May 14, 2003. A Palestinian boy was shot in the head during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday and died of his wounds moments later. Diya Ghawadrah, 12, was hit by heavy machine-gun fire. - Utusan
May 9, 2003. Doctors said a Palestinian woman died from wounds she received in April when Israeli soldiers opened fire on her while harvesting her fields with her daughter. - Arabic News
September 1, 2003. At least 16 Palestinian teenagers were wounded, one seriously, as they hurled stones at Israeli troops in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Five were wounded by live bullets, one of them in the head, and the remaining eleven by rubber bullets. - Agence France-Presse
April 12, 2003. British peace activist Tom Hurndall, 21, was pronounced brain-dead yesterday after being shot by an Israeli army sniper while trying to rescue Palestinian children pinned down by Israeli gunfire. - The Independent
April 5, 2003. Brian Avery, 24, an American peace activist, was shot in the face by a burst of machine gun fire from an Israeli armoured personnel carrier. When he was shot, Brian was wearing a fluorescent vest with a reflective white cross on its back and front. - Palestine Solidarity
April 4, 2003. Late yesterday, Israeli troops shot dead a 26-year-old farmer in his fields in the northern Gaza Strip. - Gulf News
March 19, 2003. Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an attempt to break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist killed by an army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday. - The Guardian
March 6, 2003. A missile fired from an Israeli helicopter killed at least 11 Palestinians on Thursday while they watched firefighters put out a fire in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza. More than 100 people were wounded. - CBS News
February 17, 2004. Since 29 September 2000, the Israeli army has killed 275 people in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Seventy-six of the dead were children. It has destroyed 1,759 homes, displacing a total of 12,643 people. - Electronic intifada
July 23, 2002. Israeli F-16 warplanes bombed the house of the military commander of Hamas in Gaza City last night, burying him and at least 11 other Palestinians, including seven children, beneath the rubble of a four-storey block of flats, and wounding 120 others. - The Guardian
March 13, 2003. Israeli troops killed two Israeli security guards in a bizarre accident near Bani Naim. As the men sat in their vehicle, a hail of over 200 bullets was unleashed, killing one of them. The passenger, who fled the scene, was chased by an Apache helicopter and finished off with an anti-tank missile. - InfoShop
June 28, 2004. Two Palestinians, Ashraf Al Sabagh, 36, and Mohammad Al Shorbagi, 15, were killed when Israeli forces fired randomly from outposts of the Neve Dkalim settlement into An Nim Sawiy neighbourhood of Khan Younis for a half hour period. - Palestine Monitor
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December 31, 2002. The body of Amran Abu Hamediye, 18, was carried for burial along the streets of the West Bank town of Hebron today. He was allegedly abducted and beaten to death by Israeli police after he had finished nightly prayers. - Washington Post
December 31, 2002. Soldiers shot dead a 37-year-old teacher whose car was in a collision with an army jeep near the town of Jenin. An army spokesman said that after the collision the driver emerged holding an object which soldiers "mistakenly identified as a gun" and they shot him. - OneNews
December 29, 2002. Israeli forces shot and killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Sunday. Abdel-Karim Salameh was hit in the head by machinegun fire as an Israeli tank and three jeeps passed through the eastern sector of the city. - Independent Online
December 28, 2002. Israeli troops have shot to death a Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians said 9-year-old Hanneen Abu Suleiman was shot in the head outside her home in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis when troops opened fire from a Jewish settlement. - Salt Lake Tribune
December 24, 2002. Palestinian medical workers at Shifa hospital in Gaza wheeled in the body of 14-year-old Mohammed Breaka after he was hit by an Israeli tank shell. Israeli soldiers fired the tank shell at a group of Palestinians between the Karni and Erez crossings with Israel. - BBC News
December 18, 2002. A 15-year-old boy was killed overnight by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. Witnesses said that tanks fired shells at a building in the Al-Amal neighborhood of the town, killing Jawad Issam Zidan, and wounding a 12-year-old boy and a 65-year-old man. - Ha'aretz
December 15, 2002. Palestinian doctors wheel a seriously wounded girl, Sawsan el Salaq, to the emergency room at Al-Najar hospital in the Gaza Strip. Seven houses were demolished and two teenage sisters seriously injured when Israeli tanks and bulldozers moved into the outskirts of Rafah, near the Jewish settlement of Morag. - Indymedia
December 12, 2002. A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli forces on Wednesday as clashes erupted in the southern Gaza Strip border town of Rafah. Ala Mohammed Asdudi was among the onlookers but was not involved in the stone-throwing, witnesses said. - Middle East Online
December 8, 2002. Israeli military forces shot and killed a 28-year-old mentally disabled Palestinian today. Basem Kou was riding his donkey at the entrance to his village, near a Jewish settlement. Teachers from the village told the soldiers that he was mentally disabled. "The soldiers said, 'That's not our problem. We told him to stop and he didn't.'" - Salt Lake Tribune
December 8, 2002. A Palestinian woman, Nahla Ajel, 36, was killed by Israeli tank fire near the Gaza settlement of Rafiah Yam. Four others were wounded, including Ajel's three children, aged 10, 7 and 5, and another woman, aged 26. Witnesses said they were walking to their home when Israeli troops opened fire. - Ha'aretz
December 4, 2002. The Israeli army killed a 95-year-old Palestinian woman near Ramallah yesterday after opening fire at a minibus taxi. Fatima Hassan, the oldest known victim among 2,000 Palestinians killed in the past two years, was returning from a visit to the doctor. Two other women were wounded. - The Guardian
December 27,2003. One Palestinian teenager was killed and up to five wounded after Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on schoolchildren returning home in the West Bank town of Nablus. Al'Jazeera
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October 18, 2001. Riham al-Ward, 10, was killed when her school in Jenin was shelled during an Israeli attack. The tanks started shelling just as children were arriving at the school; one girl was hit in the doorway of the room and Riham, who turned to help her, was hit in the heart and died before reaching hospital. - Amnesty International
June 6, 2004. Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinian civilians in Qalandya. Arafat Ibrahim Ya'qoub, 31, who was paralyzed by after being shot in the back by Israeli troops in 1992, was unable to reach shelter and was killed instantly by two bullets in the head. - PCHR
May 2, 2002. At night you hear gunshots coming from the settlements and the military bases that 'protect' them. A couple days ago a 3-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli soldiers. We stayed with a family who had most of their crops and their entire irrigation system destroyed by Israeli bulldozers. - Indymedia
April 3, 2002. Weedad Safran, a grandmother in her fifties, was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in Ramallah as she walked from the hospital gates on her cane. She arrived at the hospital to have a cast removed from a broken leg. She made it about 50 yards down the road before she was shot dead. - The Guardian
November 1, 2000. A group of children was standing around the rubble of the demolished houses but they were not throwing stones or demonstrating. Two Israeli jeeps arrived and after a moment a soldier fired a single shot which hit Muhammad, 15, in the chest and he fell. He died on the way to hospital. - Amnesty International
October 10, 2000. Sami Fathi Abu Jazzar died on the eve of his 12th birthday after being shot in the head by a live bullet fired by Israeli soldiers into a crowd of mostly primary school children. The shooting took place in the aftermath of a stone throwing demonstration. Six other children were injured by live fire in the same incident. - Amnesty International
October 12, 2002. A 60-year-old Palestinian woman, Shadin Abu Hijleh, was killed in Nablus last night by an Israeli soldier who stopped his jeep in front of her villa and opened fire at the veranda on which she, her son and husband were having coffee. She died instantly. - Electronic Intifada
June 26, 2002. Seven-year-old Bassam Al-sahadi was killed today in Jenin. His friend was also hit and is currently in surgery. They had been playing just outside Bassam's house after curfew, which can occur any time of the day or night. After killing Bassam, Israeli tanks continued to roll through Jenin. - Znet
November 22, 2002. War crimes seen so blatantly across the world in April of this year continue daily in Jenin. These are not military campaigns. They are acts of terror designed to humiliate, brutalise, and bully Palestinians into subjugation. They are being denied not only the right to resist, but to exist. - Electronic Intifada
April 26, 2002. Two of the schoolboys were 14, the other was 15. Hours after they had been shot dead by the Israeli army, their fathers received the three young bodies. They had been driven over by an armored vehicle which in the case of 14-year-old Ismail Abu-Nadi cut his corpse in half. - The Independent
September 1, 2002. Combat helicopters killed five people, including two children, by blasting missiles into a Palestinian car on the West Bank. A boy and a girl, both thought to be 9, who had been standing near the vehicle were among the dead, adding yet more infant names to the long list of uninvolved juveniles killed in Israeli military operations. - The Independent
April 2, 2002. Farwa Jammal, a 27-year-old nurse, put on her white nurse's uniform, marked with the Red Crescent symbol (the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross), and exited the house together with her sister Rufaida, intending to help the wounded man. Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing Farwa and wounding Rufaida. Rufaida's husband was shot at as he tried to rescue his wife, and she finally had to crawl to safety under a hail of bullets. - Human Rights Watch
December 24, 2002. Many of the West Bank's 1.7 million Palestinians are living under house arrest. The 180,000 residents of the northern city of Nablus have been under 24-hour curfew for all but about 70 hours since July 21. Breaking the curfew means risking being shot by Israeli troops. - San Francisco Examiner
April 21, 2002. Israeli soldiers occupying Al Quds University's medical building have left destruction in their wake. Computers were stolen, bullet holes have punctured TV and computer monitors. Soldiers who took over the building littered it with graffiti. Among them: 'Death to Arabs', 'Death to Arafat', 'Eat, drink and destroy'. - Gush Shalom
July 21, 2002. By day, tanks patrol the streets, firing sporadically at children in front of their houses. At night, I watched red tracers from machine guns etch steady arcs across the city, hitting whatever or whomever happened to be in their path. I fail to see indiscriminate firing on a captive civilian population in the middle of the night as anything but terrorism. - Palestine Monitor
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November 19, 2002. Gazing at the darkened Palestinian houses, Naaman Menachan, a 20-year-old Jewish settler, tried to envision Hebron in 20 years. "What I hope is, no Arabs," he said. "If they continue to make trouble, no Arabs, and a Jewish city. If they're good people - if they know this is our land, that God gave it to us - they can stay." About 130,000 Palestinians live in Hebron. - New York Times
December 31, 2003. The population of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has grown by about 16% during the almost three years of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's rule. Statistics show the population is 236,381 people, up from 203,067 at the end of 2000. Israel's overall population annual growth rate is 1.8%. - International Herald tribune
January 21, 2004. Israeli armoured vehicles and bulldozers destroyed 36 buildings in Rafah refugee camp during an operation that began in the early hours of this morning. The buildings housed some 81 families, or approximately 400 people. - UN News
December 4, 2002. The Israeli housing ministry and the Settlers Council have drawn up a plan for increased settlement activity in the West Bank. The ministry has initiated the construction of a record 1,894 new housing units, more than twice the 2001 figure. Some 210,000 Jewish settlers live in 160 settlements across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, while another 200,000 live in occupied east Jerusalem. - The Courier-Mail
June 24, 2004. Radical rabbis representing Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip issued a religious edict forbidding the Israeli army and police from uprooting settlements in the occupied territories. - Yahoo News
February 2002. Israel has demolished hundreds of houses and destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip. These acts have left thousands of residents homeless and harmed the livelihood of thousands. The house demolitions took place mostly at night, without any warning given to the residents. Some were forced to flee from their homes when the bulldozers were at their doorstep, and could not remove their possessions. - B'Tselem
August 12, 2003. Israel is seizing hundreds of acres of West Bank land, plowing through fields, cemeteries and homes, and even splitting families to erect the 10-foot-high electronic fence, most of it iron mesh topped by coiled barbed wire. In some stretches, the fence becomes a solid wall of concrete 26 feet high. - Newsday
July 7, 2003. In Hebron, construction of a new permanent fence has begun. After gates are installed, a click of a soldier's key will trap Palestinian residents behind it in a kind of mini-ghetto. - Christian peacemaker teams
January 21, 2003. In the biggest demolition in the occupied West Bank in years, Israel razed 62 shops and market stalls in a Palestinian village today. Seven bulldozers, guarded by some 300 troops, began tearing down shops in the village of Nazlat Issa. By midmorning, 62 shops had been demolished. - Yellow Times
July 2002. In Hebron, settlers have been breaking into stores. This is how the settlers take over places here. They break in, refuse to leave, and the soldiers and police do nothing to make them leave. Legally it still belongs to Palestinians, but they are left without a store, without a livelihood, without compensation and without any justice. - Palestine Monitor
October 7, 2002. Settlers killed one Palestinian and wounded two others yesterday during an attack on olive harvesters near Nablus, the latest in a series of such attacks. Israel Defense Forces officers confirmed that a group of young settlers in the area has been deliberately attacking Palestinian olive harvesters, and that the army has taken no real measures to prevent it. - Ha'aretz
January 21, 2003. In Nablus, bullets constantly ping along the roof as soldiers take pot shots at the city, or the 'settlers' do. On the hills to the west and to the east are Israeli military camps, and on the other hilltops the guns of the 'settlers' are ready to kill. - CounterPunch
July 19, 2001. A four-months-old baby was killed when the car he was travelling in with his family was shot at by Israeli settlers. Two other family members were killed in the attack, and five were wounded. The attack happened not far from an Israeli roadblock, but soldiers did not stop the killers' car when it fled. - Amnesty International
June 9, 2001. Settlers frequently set up their own roadblocks, stoning Palestinian cars that fail to turn around quickly enough. They start brush fires alongside the road, pull up Palestinian irrigation piping, and uproot crops. - Christian Peacemaker Teams
May 12, 2003. Israeli forces stationed in the Jewish settlement of Netser Hazany opened fire with heavy machine guns on Palestinian civilians while they were farming. Hassan Ahmed Al Astal, 18, was shot dead and his cousin, Ahmed Al Astal, 31, was shot in the hand when he tried to save him. - IPC
April 4, 2001. In Jerusalem, the Israeli military demolished the "Peace House" of Salim Shawamreh for the third time. Bulldozers destroyed the home, garden and water tanks, and plowed up the foundations to ensure that it would not be rebuilt. Nothing was left of the "House of Peace" sign - in Arabic, Hebrew and English - that had been hanging on the front door. - Palestine Monitor
March 6, 2003. A World Bank report published Wednesday said almost two million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip live on less than $2 a day, triple the number before violence erupted in September 2000. Another U.N. report said the traumatized Palestinian economy was a result of ongoing Israeli military closure of the Palestinian territories. - Bradenton.com
August 9, 2003. Two Jewish settlers were charged with possessing explosives, allegedly in preparation for a terrorist attack on Palestinian civilians. The two men are suspected of links to a terror cell in Hebron held responsible for killing at least eight Palestinians and for an abortive attempt to blow up a Palestinian school in East Jerusalem last year. - The Guardian
October 10, 2002. The last Palestinian families have left Khirbet Yanun village. Years of unrelenting harassment, destruction of infrastructure, threats of shooting and actual shots on the part of the settlers achieved their goal. The primary school has closed. Another 'abandoned Palestinian village' has appeared on the map. - Ta'ayush
April 15, 2002. We are seriously concerned about the on-going large-scale destruction of important Palestinian infrastructure, including farm assets such as stores, irrigation systems, greenhouses, water facilities, orchards, and even the removal of soil from an estimated 20,000 acres of land. - UN Food and Agriculture Organization
June 19, 2004. Members of Britain's House of Lords said that Israeli soldiers shot at them during a fact-finding visit to Gaza the day before, none were hurt. Ha'aretz
July 29, 2001. I'm not sure of the number of people arrested. Some were limping, and many were already bleeding, and the police and soldiers were brutal. To animals they would have been more gentle. The Jewish people were screaming "Death to the Arabs." Then they brought another kid. They were twisting his arm, and they were twisting it and twisting it and he was screaming and they were twisting, and then it broke. - Not-In-My-Name
October 9, 2000. A mob of 1,000 Jews descended on the Arab town of Nazareth [in Israel], and started hitting and shooting its inhabitants indiscriminately. When the inhabitants rallied to defend themselves, the police attacked - first with tear gas and later with live ammunition. There are many wounded, and at least one Arab was killed. This is a day of shame for Israel. - Gush Shalom
February 24, 2004. Israeli police enforcing house demolitions in the Arab village of al-Bea'neh [in Israel] beseiged a kindergarten, trapping several dozen small children in the building while firing tear gas indiscriminately in the area. When the kindergarten principal warned police that children were suffocating inside, she was told: "Let them suffocate." - Electronic intifada
May 2, 2003. James Miller, an award-winning cameraman making a film on how violence was affecting Palestinian children, died after he was shot in the neck by Israeli gunfire while wearing a jacket marked "Press" and waving a white flag as he approached Israeli troops. - Electronic intifada
May 18, 2004. Discriminatory planning and building policies make it practically impossible for Israeli Arabs to obtain building permits. In Israel, the demolition of homes for lack of building permits in the Arab sector is a recurrent phenomenon, whereas demolition of homes without building permission in the Jewish sector is almost unheard of. - Amnesty international
April 17, 2003. About 300 Palestinian minors [aged under 16] have been rounded up in Israeli army sweeps over the past year and are being held in crowded lockups, some without charge, human rights monitors say. A total of 7,600 Palestinians are currently in custody. - BreakingNews
July 7, 2001. Khalil al-Mughrabi, 11, was playing with a group of children when a burst of gunfire hit him in the head, killing him and wounding two of his friends. The military cleared the soldiers who caused the death of the boy and covered up the circumstances of the death. - B'Tselem
April 22, 2003. A Palestinian cameraman working with Associated Press was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus. Nazih Darwazeh was shot in the head at close range. - Electronic intifada
February 15, 2003. As part of the Israeli government's policy of uprooting Bedouins [in Israel] into townships, two airplanes belonging to the Israel Lands Administration sprayed toxic chemicals on houses and on more than 500 acres of crops belonging to the residents of Abda, an unrecognized village in the Negev. - Electronic intifada
July 2001. Ten boys, aged 14 to 17, were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones. In most cases, the police arrested them at their homes in the middle of the night and took them to the police station, where police interrogators tortured them until morning. - B'Tselem
October 2000. I knew one of the 13 young Israeli Arabs killed [in clashes with Israeli police]. Asil Assli, 18, was shot assassination-style by Israeli security forces in the olive groves as his mother watched. He was wearing a T-shirt with the words "Seeds of Peace" - the slogan of an American camp for Jewish-Arab youth dialogue that he attended each year. - Washington Post
March 9, 2002. Rana a-Jayushi gave birth at the home of a midwife because the roads were blocked and she couldn't get to hospital. The infant died at birth. The mother's condition deteriorated and her husband tried to take her to hospital. Soldiers at the checkpoint delayed them for 30 minutes before summoning an ambulance. When it arrived Rana, aged 17, was already dead. - B'Tselem
As usual always pointing to effect and no cause. And clearly while all this is going on, Palestinians are merely sitting in their livingrooms and going about their day while Israel decides to pop up and kill and destroy.
Are there any Palestinian crimes you can post in these forums TWBR? I won't hold my breath.
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Some Israelis have the guts to condemn this barbarity.Israelis For Peace
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"Bono! We appeal to you, and to all the music world, to speak out now and say: 'STOP THE OCCUPATION!'"
So begins an online appeal - addressed to Bono, leader of the rock group U2 - that asks the music world to organize a global "Concert for Palestine".
The appeal - now open for endorsement at http://www.concert4palestine.org - has been launched by Gazzella, an Italian NGO that helps rehabilitate Palestinian children wounded in Israeli ground and air attacks on Palestinian cities and villages.
"We wondered why the music world has never held a global concert for the Palestinians," said Gazzella president Marina Rossanda, listing the many "humanitarian" events held in the past - from the historic Concert for Bangladesh (1971) and Live Aid for Ethiopia (1985) to the Freedom Tibet Concert (1997) and the recent 46664 concert to fight AIDS.
"We're sure a concert for Palestine would find widespread support among young people around the world - and also among many musicians, starting with Bono himself." (Over the years, Bono has campaigned for numerous causes, including Amnesty International and the Jubilee 2000 project to end Third World debt.)
The appeal is available at http://www.concert4palestine.org in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, and will soon be published on the site in Arabic and Hebrew.
oneofpeace said this in post #5 : As usual always pointing to effect and no cause. And clearly while all this is going on, Palestinians are merely sitting in their livingrooms and going about their day while Israel decides to pop up and kill and destroy.
Are there any Palestinian crimes you can post in these forums TWBR? I won't hold my breath.
Thanks for messing up my thread, you could have least done it with a worthy post, but not, its garbage like usual.
Ok my little brainwashed Islamic militant. If you think my post is garbage, you should see what this crap that peppers this forum looks like through the eyes of anyone with objectivity.
You pepper this entire forum with all of what Israel's done and you ask such a question?
Maybe instead of posting such rhetoric from obviously onesided websites, you should try some balance in your approach. So far you have not exhibited this in your constant bid to prove Israel as the enemy.
