Human Rights Violations/killings 2003
The 406th Child - Israel orders inquiry into shooting of Palestinian girl
.
Evidence of Israeli contempt for Geneva convention
3-13 - Army Kills Two Israelis by Mistake in W.Bank * Photo - the "shoot first, ask questions later" policy backfired.
From Last July: - tanks firing on civilians running away, killing 2 children
Hebron residents under attack; appeal for international protection - rampaging settlers
3-11 - Israeli, Palestinian Die in Hebron Clash
3-6 - 55-year old woman cutting grass shot by soldiers - and others. IDF still
trying to spin the story of the tank shell that was fired into the crowd that was caught on tape below.
3-6 - Israeli Forces Kill 11 Palestinians While Pursuing Hamas Note the spin the Israeli military is putting on the story about
the tank shelling - they rained shrapnel down on that crowd that was made up of unarmed innocent civilians - see both videos below. There can be no denying it. And it is not
acceptable. And another thing, what are they doing going after Hamas in this camp, when the identity of the suicide bomber
is known? In other words, why are they indiscriminately firing on unarmed civilians including children in a refugee camp
who have absolutely nothing to do with the lone suicide bomber who is already dead and gone?
"Israeli investigators said they found a letter near the body of the bomber, a West Bank Palestinian, that praised the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks in the United States. Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), Israel's prime minister, seized on that discovery as further evidence that Israel was battling the same enemy as the United States. " - Wow. What an utter
coincidence and so convenient too.
3-6 - Israeli Tanks Approach Jabaliya Camp Round 2 is about to begin of Isreal's revenge on
the Palestinians as a whole.
3-6 - EU calls on Israel to stop using indiscriminate force
3-6 -White House Admonishes Israel Again It's not enough to admonish. The time has come to end all aid to Israel until it can
abide by international law.
3-6 - Israel Kills 11 Palestinians in Raid After Bus Blast - The revenge for yesterday's bombing. * Photo
*AP video from above incident marked "
11 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raids
Thu Mar 6, 8:35 AM ET " Watch the video, and you'll notice that nobody was firing off guns or anything. They were watching firemen put out a blaze when Israeli forces fired onto the crowd.
Reuters video of the above incident scroll down to "Israel Retaliates, Killing 11 In Gaza Raids
Thu Mar 6,10:19 AM ET "
3-6 - From BBC: Witnesses describe Gaza horror
3-6 - World Bank: 2M Palestinians in Poverty
3-5 -
Israel Fires Five Missiles Into Gaza - Witnesses
- the collective punishment picks back up.
3-5 -
World Bank criticises Israel
3-5 -European Union donates 15 million euros in aid to Palestinian refugees
3-4 - Elderly Palestinian shepherd killed because he was in forbidden territory - Palestinian land (illegally) allotted to settlers.
3-4 - BBC reports of today's events in Palestine/Israel
3-4 - Israeli accused of attempting to run over a
Palestinian laborer
3-4 - Jewish Settlers Shoot Palestinian Boy, 14 -Medics
3-4 - Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian in Internet Cafe
3-4 - Britain expresses concern over Palestinian civilian deaths - Where are the concerned Americans?
3-4 - Israeli helicopters sprayed toxic chemicals
From 9/02 - Israeli Activists Threatened Interesting. They threaten their own citizens who try
to report the war crimes. Can't say it's a surprise. Look at this article and what it says about
a proposed law that would ban Israeli citizens from testifying at the International Criminal Court in Rome.
3-3 - Israeli soldiers kill eight Palestinians in Gaza raid - including the pregnant wife of this man - photo
3-2 - Actually 3 died in this offensive - a Palestinian gunman, a 50-year old man who was watching from his apartment,
and a 9-year old boy who was killed when Israeli troops fired into the funeral procession after Palestinians were firing into the air at the funeral procession.
Anne Gwynne, 65 year old Welsh grandmother audio file requires Real Media 2-19 REPORT: EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO HEAR THIS EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES - THIS SHOULD BE IN THE HEADLINES OF AMERICAN NEWS. SHE WAS SHOT BY ISRAELI TROOPS. UNARMED CIVILIANS AND CHILDREN ARE BEING SHOT AND KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES. Partial transcript of audio
Listen to Anne's testimony from the link on this page about what she is seeing in Nablus Her audio broadcast is right there to the left of her picture.
More About Anne Gwynne Previous story about Ms. Gwynne here.
From Jan 10: Attention builds over a slain civilian
A Palestinian grandmother's death tests Israel's justice system
2-27 - Palestinian patient dies after Israeli hospital sends him back to West Bank hospital
Wounded Palestinian teen shackled to her Israeli
hospital bed
2-25 - Palestinian Teen Killed in Gaza Conflict * Photo of siblings saying goodbye. How much longer are
we going to allow this to go on?
2-24 Reuters video of tank opening fire on rock throwers.
Although it wasn't shown in the video, one rockthrower was killed in that incident. We pay for the bullet, remember that. I would hardly
call this type of activity fighting terrorism. A thousand Palestinians died in the first intifada in '87. See also the story about the thousands of Palestinian child prisoners -
90% of whom committed the offense of rockthrowing.
Terror and Resistance
Nablus
Tommy and Maria
23 Feb 03
Two Palestinians were killed yesterday
(a man and his grandson who were crossing the road together)
and two more killed today. One was killed trying to cross the
street with his wife (who was injured in the same attack and is
now in hospital). The other was shot dead by soldiers when they
saw him trying to close the door of his store, which had been
damaged when the soldiers forced their way into the store on a
previous occasion...
....Though physically exhausted from their labours of the past four
days and shocked by the savagery of the violence that they have
witnessed against defenseless civilians, the spirits of the ISM
activists have been raised by this display of resistance by a
city that is occupied but nevertheless unconquered.
Source
2-19-2003
BBC
Anne Gwynne, 65, from Aberystwyth, was hit in the leg by shrapnel
while carrying a stretcher through the old quarter of the besieged
town of Nablus.
She said two soldiers opened fire on her and a colleague after they
failed to hear an order for them to halt as they were trying to
reach a heavily pregnant Palestinian woman.
"It's like Hell here, there are tanks firing on children."
Source
2-23 -"In all, six Palestinians were killed in Beit Hanoun, including a policeman, two stone throwers, ages 20 and 17, and a 27-year-old cow farmer, Palestinian security officials said.
Two border guards also were found dead near their post, hospital doctors said. Both had knife marks, in addition to bullet wounds, and one had no eyeballs, the doctors said, suggesting the corpses had been mutilated. "
As the world focuses on Iraq, the bodies pile up in Gaza
2-22 - IDF opens fire and kills 2 in a crowd of stonethrowers
2-21 - Soccer-Playing Brothers Killed in Gaza *Photo 1 * Photo 2
Israel-Europe tension mounts and of course this was followed by the usual denial and dismissal by Israeli officials of this legitimate criticism.
It would appear that the world will have to plunge into a total war before Israel will be made to abide by international law.
From July '02: Jenin deaths video implicates army
From Dec: Israelis kill woman, 95, at checkpoint
From Dec: Jenin riddle: Why did an Israeli soldier shoot a British official in the back?
From Dec: 'We are second-class people. It's our place to wait'
From last year: Israel's State Terrorism
An Israeli soldier stops a TV cameraman filming a demonstration of
international peace activists in the West Bank town of Beit Jala
near Bethlehem, April 1, 2002. Five foreign peace marchers and a
Palestinian television cameraman were injured by shrapnel when
Israeli soldiers fired at their feet, witnesses said. Firing started
when about 100 demonstrators, including Palestinians and foreigners,
marched near a church carrying a sign saying "We want peace not war",
they said. REUTERS/Magnus Johansson
Photos of this event here :
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
2-21 - Send aid to Gaza now
2-21 - 28 Palestinians dead for revenge of IDF tank explosion last week
2-20 Envoys Urge Israeli-Plaestinian Truce
2-19 The dead included a 32-year-old baker killed on his way to work, and a 16-year-old boy who was among a group of stonethrowers
2-19 - "If death is inevitable, I prefer to choose how to die."
US lawyer who is helping the Palestinians had his computer seized by Israeli security - More about the case here
- By the way, Israel controls everything and everyone who goes in and out of the territories - it also censors any media coming out of the territories.
Same story as above at Guardian
From Malaysia: "We strongly condemn the use of excessive and disproportionate force against innocent Palestinians by the Israelis. We call on the international community to urge Israel to comply with the various UN resolutions as it is the only way to achieve a lasting solution to the crisis,” "
Palestinians say they are being subjected to punishment 'lottery' by Israeli soldiers
2-11 Israeli soldiers shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid on Tuesday, Palestinians said, and an Israeli was killed in Bethlehem
*Photo
2-6 In the Gaza Strip, fire from an Israeli helicopter killed two Palestinian nurses at a home for the elderly
Same story at Guardian website
2-5 JERUSALEM - The Israeli military demolished the home of a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, killing an elderly woman inside, while in the West Bank, troops shot dead a Palestinian policeman, officials and witnesses said.
Related story
Funeral Funeral
Shelled while playing soccer with other kids
A nurse holds shrapnel which medical staff said were darts from an Israeli flechette shell extracted from the body of Palestinian Bilal Al-Arini (L), 17, who was injured three days ago, at Jabalia Refugee Camp's hospital February 3, 2003. Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups have condemned the use of flechette by Israeli army which had killed several Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) in the last two years.
Christian Aid said that Israel was violating international humanitarian law and impoverishing Palestinians by imposing curfews and seizing and destroying property in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
A Palestinian grandmother's death tests Israel's justice system
Photographer hit by shrapnel
Soldiers Kill Palestinian Teen in Gaza
Civilians Are Being Killed in Palestine
Israeli Police Beat AP Photographer
F16 attack kills 9 children and Sharon's response
BBC report of above incident
Amnesty report on the one-ton bomb dropped in the above attack
Palestinian rage over infant death - killed by a settler
Another article about above
Israeli attack kills baby girl
B'tselem page on settler crimes against Palestinians
Amnesty calls for Mid-East observers - we shot that down with our veto
Human rights situation in the Occupied Territories
Human rights groups say the army only investigates when forced by publicity, and it rarely punishes those responsible for such abuses. They say the military's attitude to people in the occupied territories was exposed by the Israeli army chief of staff, Moshe Ya'alon, when in a newspaper interview he likened the Palestinians to cancer and said he was administering chemotherapy.
- See the article on how they beat down the photographer, and note that the IDF censors what comes out of the territories for the above reasons. Moshe is still in the IDF picture here
Israelis play sickening game of 'Bingo'
Israeli court to take on issue of Jenin killings
"The army said the jeep tipped over and one soldier was lightly injured. The Palestinian driver stopped immediately, emerged from his car and approached the jeep, the army said. Soldiers in the jeep opened fire, assuming he was trying to attack them, the army said. The soldiers thought the man carried something in his hand, the army said. It turned out he was unarmed.
Palestinian security officials said the man was a 37-year-old school teacher who delivered groceries after work to make extra money. At the time of the incident, he had groceries in his car, the security officials said."
Amnesty.org articles on Israel/Pal conflict
Settler fined for killing Palestinian boy
Older story but it still pertains because it is still happening today despite the-then world outrage
Arab boy haunts army from grave - about the above incident.
Urgent Plea To Prevent Massive War Crimes Comes From Israeli Academics
UN rights chief criticises Israel
Man Shot Dead in Gaza, Palestinians Say
Why was it allowed in the first place?
115 Palestinian Youths Die in '02 Fights
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