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Backs to the Wall
By Lucy Mair and Robyn, Electronic Intifada 11/24/2003
Uncertainty about the future intensified for Mufida Ahmad’s family this year when a mammoth wall ripped through their land in the West Bank village of Jayyus. Ahmad and her husband had bought the quarter acre for $1,400—a hefty but hopeful investment for the family of seven. On it, they cultivated eight olive trees. To pay for the land, and pay off a $4,000 bank loan they had taken to meet the family’s basic needs, Ahmad worked nine hours a day in a sewing factory for a mere $150 a month. But the trees, land, and future for which they had sacrificed have all disappeared under the Israeli Separation Wall.The Wall—called a "security fence" by the Israeli government and the "Apartheid Wall" by Palestinians—is actually a series of walls, razor wire, electrified fences, trenches, and watchtowers flanked by a 30- to 75-yard "buffer zone" which the Israeli military patrols. The first phase of construction was launched in June 2002 and finished just 13 months later, in July of this year. The completed section stretches for 90 miles in the northwestern West Bank districts of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Qalqiliya. At several points it cuts almost four miles into the West Bank (which spans only 35 miles at its widest section; see the map on p. 29). The Wall has already resulted in Israel’s de facto annexation of fertile Palestinian agricultural land, groundwater wells, and 10 illegal Israeli Jewish-only settlements. Although the first phase of construction was declared complete, demolitions and razing continue around it. The Israeli government has announced three more building phases and it plans to finish the structure by 2005.In March, the Jewish settlers’ council (YESHA)—fearing that many settlements would be trapped on the Palestinian side—convinced the Israeli government to change the Wall’s trajectory so that in future phases it will cut 10 miles into the West Bank, incorporating major settlement blocs like Ariel and Immanuel. The route zigzags to annex the maximum amount of land possible for the Israeli settlements while leaving major Palestinian population centers outside Israel’s borders. more..
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Israel to Annex Shuafat, ‘Maale Adumim’ and Bilal Mosque
Palestine Media Center 3/15/2005
26,000 Palestinian Homes Set for Demolition in Jerusalem -- Israel’s deputy prime minister Ehud Olmert confirmed Palestinian fears that the Israeli government plans to unilaterally annex major colonies it illegally built in occupied east Jerusalem, in addition to a refugee camp and a Muslim Mosque in the vicinity of the city, after an Israeli ministerial committee decided Sunday to accelerate the process of walling-in the Holy City.Eleven passage crossings are to be built to give Jerusalemites access to the West Bank.Israeli Cabinet ministers of “Defense” Shaul Mofaz, Interior Ofer Pines, Housing Yitzhak Herzog and Public Security Gideon Ezra sat on the ministerial committee that took the decision over the new route.“Does anyone have even the slightest doubt that (the illegal Jewish colony of) Maale Adumim is an integral part of Israel?” he told Israel radio on Monday.Olmert said he expected no opposition from Washington to the move because US President George W. Bush has already said that a final agreement would have to recognize the so-called demographic realities created by Jewish settlements. more..
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Largest demolition in years: Israel destroys entire commercial market in one day
Electronic Intifada/PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign 8/22/2003
OVER 100 SHOPS AND 5 HOMES DEMOLISHED IN NAZLAT 'ISA FOR THE BUILDING OF THE WALL -- (21 August 2003, Nazlat 'Isa, Occupied West Bank. PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign) -- Marking the single largest demolition of buildings in years, the entire commercial area of Nazlat 'Isa was today raised to the ground as some 15 bulldozers, accompanied by large numbers of military and border police, entered the community at 5:00 AM and destroyed over 100 shops and 5 homes. The market, which was previously targeted in January of this year with the destruction of 82 or close to one half of its shops, has been the commercial center for the entire region.The bulldozers began the demolitions early in the morning and continued unabated until the late hours of the night.The commercial area, just east of the Green Line in the Occupied West Bank, has been leveled for the building of an "isolation barrier"--an extension or offshoot of the Wall--that will entrap the community and the surrounding areas between it and the Wall to ensure complete isolation. Commercial areas along the Green Line have been consistently targeted with the building of the Wall in what assures that communities trapped between the Wall and the Green Line (the Wall in this case is located 2 km inside the West Bank) will have no infrastructure for survival. more..
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Al-Mintar Neighborhood in Sur Baher: "Under Occupation …Under Demolition Threat"
Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2/12/2005
When Israel commenced the building of the Segregation Wall in 2002 along the western parts of the West Bank, it also included occupied East Jerusalem, even though it has done so under a different naming and called it the “Jerusalem Envelope”. Sur Baher town is one of many unfortunate towns that crossed path with the Segregation Wall and suffers as a result the anguish of tearing the fabric of their society as parts of the towns built up areas were slated out in addition to 151 Dunums of the cultivated lands. The harassment of Sur Baher residents by Israel continue to endure as calls of threats to demolish houses located where the route of the Segregation Wall penetrates are announced from time to time. See Map belowRecently, (January 31, 2005) , the Israeli Border Police revealed its intention to demolish an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Sur Baher town located southeast of Jerusalem in order to “protect the separation fence built in the area”. The announcement made by the Israeli Border Police commander Amitai Levy in-charge of Jerusalem envelope area divulged the latter decision to create a 500-meter wide security buffer zone along each side of the fence penetrating the Palestinian lands around Jerusalem. According to Levy’s decision, dozens of Palestinian houses in Al-Mintar neighborhood in Sur Baher town face the caterpillar of demolition. In an inspection of the impact of the Israeli Border Police commander decision on the residents of Sur Baher, some 74 houses falls within the 500 meter wide range proclaimed by Levy to protect the fence. However, the buffer zone area set along the segregation fence and wall through out its route in parts of the West Bank averages 60 to 100 meter; even though at some points, the segregation wall literally come into contact with Palestinian houses or sets few meters from them. The Border Police commander said that the targeted houses for demolition are built without permit from Jerusalem municipality, which constitutes an additional reason to demolish them. more..
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Israeli Forces Wound Five Civilians and Arrest Four Others in West Bank
International Press Center 4/6/2005
SALFEET, Palestine, April 6, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded five civilians in the town of Marda and Salfeet and arrested four others throughout the West Bank, while a house in Beir Nabala was demolished and another occupied in Hebron. IPC correspondent...
Photos: Transforming Palestinian Land
MIFTAH 4/1/2005
Palestine:the most contested land in the world – land embedded with religion and history. The illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land has resulted not only in the destruction of the earth itself, but also the livelihood of a people dependent on their land. While Israeli...
World Council of Churches concerned about Israeli actions in Jerusalem
Electronic Intifada 3/31/2005
Report, WCC -- AN OPEN LETTER ON THE STATUS OF JERUSALEM - From Peter Weiderud, director, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches is deeply concerned about actions by the Government of Israel which threaten the achievement of...
New Scandal: Israeli Forces Used Orders to Demolish Two Houses in Rafah to Demolish 25
International Press Center 3/17/2005
GAZA, March 17, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Israeli occupation forces threatened to demolish four houses in Jenin province, as a new scandal revealed that Israeli troops used orders to demolish two houses in Rafah to demolish 25 others illegally. According to an investigation carried out by...
Israel to Annex Shuafat, ‘Maale Adumim’ and Bilal Mosque
Palestine Media Center 3/15/2005
26,000 Palestinian Homes Set for Demolition in Jerusalem -- Israel’s deputy prime minister Ehud Olmert confirmed Palestinian fears that the Israeli government plans to unilaterally annex major colonies it illegally built in occupied east Jerusalem, in addition to a refugee camp and a Muslim Mosque in...
With the High Court and B'Tselem
By Uzi Benziman, Ha'aretz 3/1/2005
The late Yitzhak Rabin explained his decision to sign the Oslo Accords, among other reasons, because Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization would deal with terrorists "without the High Court and B'Tselem." Now the current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has made the Supreme Court...
Al-Mintar Neighborhood in Sur Baher: "Under Occupation …Under Demolition Threat"
Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2/12/2005
When Israel commenced the building of the Segregation Wall in 2002 along the western parts of the West Bank, it also included occupied East Jerusalem, even though it has done so under a different naming and called it the “Jerusalem Envelope”. Sur Baher town is...
Speaking out about Israel to save the Jewish soul
By Cecilie Surasky, Electronic Intifada 2/2/2005
Every time a Gazan father faints as he watches his family home demolished; every time a Jew, Muslim or Christian is violently attacked by armed Israelis because they are non-violently protesting the separation wall; every time a rain of Israeli army bullets flies into the...
Barak halts house razing close to Alfei Menashe
Ha'aretz 1/31/2005
High Court calls demolitions retribution for petition against fence -- Supreme Court President Justice Aharon Barak has issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the Civil Administration in the West Bank from demolishing homes in the village of Wadi al-Rasha, near Qalqilyah. The petitioners argued that the demolition...
Assassinations in Jenin
International Solidarity Movement 1/22/2005
By ISM Nablus -- It's been many months since I was last in Jenin. I took the opportunity of the relative quiet of the election period to visit friends in the town. Much has changed. The camp that was raised and devastated in an invasion in...
Israeli Military Destroys Twelve Structures in Walaja
International Solidarity Movement 1/17/2005
The Israeli military destroyed five homes and seven chicken coops and barns today in the village of Walaja on the border of Bethlehem and Jerusalem districts.According to eyewitnesses, Israeli military and bulldozers entered the village at 7:00 AM today and began bulldozing the structures.Israeli...
Israeli Military Fails to Intimidate Izbit Al Tabib
International Solidarity Movement 1/16/2005
A West Bank village of 300 residents, Izbit Al-Tabib, was left without water for two days after an Israeli bulldozer damaged water pipes while constructing road blocks there on Friday.Located west of Azzoun in the Qalqilya district, the village of Izbit Al Tabib has never...
Israel’s war on the milieu
By John Collins, Electronic Intifada 12/21/2004
When the Nobel Committee announced its decision to award its 2004 Peace Prize to an environmental activist best known for planting trees, more than a few observers raised their eyebrows. After all, isn't the world's most prestigious peace prize typically reserved for those who have...
After his death, still the occupation
By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz 11/17/2004
On the day that Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat died, five Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces gunfire. Four of them were killed in the Gaza Strip: three in a dawn raid by tanks and helicopters on a section in southern Gaza, and the...
Israeli Troops Aggression on Northern Gaza Leaves Behind Ruins
International Press Center 10/21/2004
NORTHERN GAZA, Palestine, October21, 2004 (IPC Exclusive) - Amidst the ruins of her house the Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished along with scores others in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahya, Omaima Albahry, 31, began talking about the knocking down by Israeli troops of her...
Devastation in Beit Awa; Hebron Farmers Face Immeasurable Suffering this Olive Harvest Season
StopTheWall.org 9/23/2004
Occupation Forces continued on Tuesday destroying lands and uprooting trees in the south and middle of Beit Awa village. The people of the village, defending their lands, confronted the Occupation Forces who fired tear gas and live bullets at the people, in addition to beating...
Prisoner Stories: Sleiman Sari al Sa'di's sons
By Rima Merriman, Electronic Intifada 9/17/2004
Sleiman Sari al Sa'di (62) has eight children, two of whom, Ziad and Omar, both policemen with the Palestinian National Authority, are in Israeli jails. The Sa'di family comes from al Mazar, one of over 500 towns and villages destroyed after the creation of Israel...
Building peace: Demolished home rebuilt in Anata village
By Am Johal, Daily Star 9/1/2004
Here in the open fields the caterpillars don't become butterflies yet another family's dream, dies bulldozing hillsides, one house at a time singing all the while, this land is mine Palestinian Bedouin wander to be free this, Israel doesn’t want to see -so we girdle...
More Palestinians made homeless
Al-Jazeera 7/20/2004
The Israeli army has embarked on a flurry of house demolitions at a northern West Bank village in an activity apparently related to the continued construction of the separation wall. Just last week the controversial barrier was found by the World Court to be in...
IOF Destroys Marketplace in Barta
International Solidarity Movement 7/20/2004
Jenin, ISM activist 20 Jul 04 - The army claimed the reason for the demolition of the shops was that they had been built "without a permit." A total of 21 houses (mostly shops) had to be demolished.... -- Today we went with a group of ISM-ers...
News Briefs: July 9, 2004
International Middle East Media Center 7/9/2004
Procession in Bethlehem against the Wall / Army arrests a resident in Beit Hanoun / Israeli Judge: “The Policeman used the violence he is entitled to” / Israeli to expel an American peace activist / Soldiers close Salah Ed-Deen Street / Army invades east Gaza / MOH appeals the Gaza resdients...
Two Homes Demolished in Jericho
International Middle East Media Center 7/1/2004
Army invades Jericho, arrests twenty Palestinians -- Israeli army demolished Thursday two homes in Jericho and destroyed a wall which encircles a mosque in the city. WAFA news agency said that soldiers detonated the homes of Abdul-Maseeh Mjarooh, and Rajeh Masoudy, after invading Al-Bayader neighborhood in...
IOF Kills a Child in Rafah, Demolishes Two Houses in Jericho
International Press Center 7/1/2004
RAFAH, July 1, 2004 (IPC) --- Israeli occupyingForces (IOF) killed a Palestinian child in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafahon Thursday, Palestinian medical source said. The Rafah’sAbu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital officials said that the nine-years-oldMohammed Zara'an, was shot dead due the indiscriminate firings by Israeli...
On this side of the "fence"
International Solidarity Movement 6/29/2004
Jerusalem, Gail, 29 Jun 04 -- Hi Everyone, We arrived in Biddu yesterday. The ISM house is up on the hill in a place that could be Tuscany if the bulldozers hadn’t demolished houses, if the settlement over there didn’t look like an affluent bungalow colony...
Eyewitness account of the invasion of Rafah
By Laura Gordon, International Middle East Media Center 10/14/2003
Then the streets started screaming and we were running almost without thinking, down the edges of the street around the people who had lost their fear, around donkey carts loaded full, ran until we fround a corner to turn into and then we ran past...
Citizen Dies of Wounds, Another Wounded and Several Arrested as IOF Continues Apartheid Wall Construction
International Press Center 6/16/2004
RAFAH, Palestine, June 16, 2004 (IPC + WAFA) - - A citizen was declared dead today from an extrajudicial execution today in Jenin, as the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) continued its escalation throughout the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), as a citizen was wounded with Israeli gunfire and several...
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 10 - 16 June 2004
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 6/17/2004
Sunday, 13 June2004At approximately 02:00, Israeli troops moved into Jenin town and refugee camp.They opened fire at houses.A number of members of the Palestinian resistance exchanged fire with Israeli troops.In the exchange of fire, one member of the resistance, Yamen Faisal 'Abdul Wahab, 20...
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 6/17/2004
8 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed by Israeli forces / 4 of the victims were killed in 2 extra-judicial assassinations /Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip / 315 donums[1] of agricultural land were...
Weekly report on human rights violations
Electronic Intifada/PCHR 5/27/2004
This week, Israeli forces killed 19 Palestinians, including 5 children. One of the victims was killed in another extrajudicial execution in Qalqilya. In Rafah, Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, including 2 children. Israel demolished 255 homes, leaving hundreds of Palestinians homeless. Israel razed at least...
Sharon's right hand
By Azmi Bishara, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 5/27/2004
While demolitions and assassinations continue to be the methods preferred by Israel to subjugate Palestinians by force, the Israeli left has run out of ideas -- For Israel, demolition is a way of life, a path it has chosen, building itself on the ruins of the...
Weekly report on human rights violations
Electronic Intifada/PCHR 5/13/2004
This week Israeli forces killed 22 Palestinians, including four children. Fifteen were killed during an Israeli military invasion of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza. In Rafah and Khan Yunis alone, Israeli forces demolished 47 homes. Israeli forces razed agricultural land and uprooted trees. Israeli forces...
IOF Embarks on Demolition Campaign Throughout oPt
International Press Center 4/21/2004
EAST JERUSALEM, Palestine, April 21, 2004 (IPC + WAFA) - - The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) embarked from the early morning on a campaign of demolition and arrest of citizens throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli bulldozers tore down today three houses in the...
UNRWA Condemns Israeli House Demolitions in Rafah
Palestine Media Center 1/24/2004
Israel’s Apartheid Wall Severely Affects Lives of Palestinians in Jerusalem -- UNRWA appealed on Thursday to the international community for new funds to build shelters for nearly 600 people left homeless by Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) demolition of Palestinian houses in the southern Gaza Strip town...
Al Haq: Campaign Against Collective Punishment
By Al-Haq, Palestine Media Center/Electronic Intifada 1/22/2004
Al-Haq, the oldest Palestinian human rights organization and the West Bank affiliate of The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), recently launched a campaign to stop collective punishment.Collective punishment is simply penalising a group as a whole with no regard for individual responsibility. Such punishments and...
Israeli bulldozers flatten 30 houses in Gaza refugee camp
Khilafah.com 1/22/2004
Israeli bulldozers flattened 30 houses and a mosque in Rafah Refugee Camp on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, accusing Israel of systematically razing homes to widen a military buffer zone. However, Israeli military said it only targeted buildings from which shots were fired overnight at Israeli...
News Briefs: Army continues attacks in Rafah, Shoots woman dead, Uprooting trees in Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 1/21/2004
The army continues its attacks in Rafah: Palestinian sources mentioned today that a Palestinian woman was shot dead after sustaining a gunshot in her head fired by the military south Rafah. Sources in Abu Yousif Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said that Mona Ismail, 31 years...
Eyewitness in Rafah: More killings and home demolitions
Rafah Today 1/1/2004
Evening: the Rafah people are appealing to the media just two hours after the attacks on Khan Younes when the tanks and bulldozers moved from Khan Younes into Rafah. They had a map that they were showing to the people in Rafah, near the Jewish...
2003 Retrospective: July - Rafah demolished; Video & Photos
Electronic Intifada 7/1/2003
EI's Arjan El Fassed visited Rafah, which is located on the southern border of the Gaza Strip. Repeatedly, Israeli occupying forces have demolished hundreds of homes in this area. This has been the scene of large destruction and razing of lands and the place where...
Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, Rafah Counts the Dead
By Kristen Ess, CounterPunch 12/24/2003
Christmas Eve Day, 2003 Rafah to Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine -- Israeli occupation forces left the center of Rafah, although as is normal the Israelis remain at the border they have created. The Wall the Israelis are building with armoured machines is overshadowed only by its many...
Rafah governor: Zionist “death wall” destroyed 1,320 houses
Palestinian Information Center 12/8/2003
Rafah - The governor of Rafah, Majid Al-Agha, has charged that the Zionist segregation fence currently under construction along the border strip between Palestine and Egypt to the south of his city had destroyed 1,320 houses so far. He said that the destruction of those houses...
Israel plans 300 new homes for Jewish settlers
By Miriam Ward, RSM, Rutland Herald 11/1/2003
Israel plans 300 new homes for Jewish settlers" (Rutland Herald, Oct. 29). Not mentioned is that Sharon, at the same time, issued demolition orders for 12 out of 18 Palestinian homes in the village of Akaba.Two years ago Israeli peace activists and international critics saved...
Hanan Ashrawi Assures Californians That Palestinians Won't Emigrate or Evaporate
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs November 2003
In the space of one August week Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, visiting Southern California, managed to deliver three major speeches, address 10 organizations and meet with the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times. Throughout her whirlwind tour, the articulate scholar reinvigorated California audiences whose spirits...
Jenin: the massacre the world did not acknowledge
By Peter Lagerquist, Daily Star 11/20/2003
Israel wins propaganda battle from media perspective; Palestinians tell a different story - In the wake of intensified Israeli demolitions of Palestinian “lifescapes” in Gaza and the West Bank during the summer and fall of 2003, The Daily Star looks back at events that remain a...
Of Walls and Land Theft
By Juliana Fredman, CounterPunch 11/14/2003
They offered the family a blank check to leave their home to the bulldozers. Muneera and Hani refused and now all they can see is concrete. They tell us the story in a lovely living room, insisting on serving us sweet tea despite their own...
Back to that old autonomy
Ha'aretz 11/10/2003
Every road into East Jerusalem last Friday was blocked with checkpoints and hundreds of police officers and soldiers, if not more. In effect, it made it impossible for anyone from the territories to get to the mosque, even if they had the necessary permits. -- Palestinian...
Changing the Boundaries
By Isabelle Humphries, Islam Online 11/5/2003
A growing number of people are coming to the realization that a two state solution can never bring justice. Isabelle Humphries argues that a democratic one state is the only way to reach lasting peace and equality for Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East...
Shadow of home
By Toine van Teeffelen, Electronic Intifada 11/5/2003
Lately I met Ibrahim 'Issa, the principal of the Hope Flowers School to the south of Bethlehem. We had a relaxed talk together with friends from abroad. For years the school has been known for its peace programs conducted with Israeli partners. Ibrahim is quiet...
Wall that breaks Rafah's heart
Al-Jazeera 10/28/2003
The view from the top of one of Rafah’s many partially demolished houses is as strikingly beautiful as it is incongruous. Arid agricultural land, now completely flattened, stretches out for miles amidst the hazy horizon, all the way into the Egyptian border. Yet, disrupting the...
Arabs Jeer Lieberman For Defending Israeli "Terrorism"
Islam Online 10/20/2003
DEARBORN, Michigan, October 18 (IslamOnline.net) - Democratic Presidential hopeful Joseph Lieberman received Friday, October 17, a rowdy response from Arab Americans after defending the demolition of Palestinian houses by Israeli forces as "not terrorism but destruction" and the ongoing construction of the West Bank separating wall...
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OccupiedPalestinianTerritories 2 - 8 Oct. 2003
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 10/9/2003
6 Palestinians, including 1 child and 1 elderly man killed by Israeli forces *2 of the victims killed in extra-judicial assassination in Tulkarm *Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip *Israeli forces moved into Jenin...
Unhappy New Year - Rosh Hashana at Jbarra
International Solidarity Movement 9/29/2003
Tulkarem - Radhika S. 28 Sep 03 -- As Israeli Jews celebrated Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) just a few kilometers on the other side of the Green Line, villagers from the Jbarra area south of Tulkarem received orders for a home demolition, and 88 children were...
Updates from Rafah: The Same As Hell
International Solidarity Movement 9/24/2003
Gaza - Laura, Mohammed 24 Sep 03 -- 1) Rafah update by Laura - It’s been so long since I’ve written that I don’t know where to begin, how to compile the weeks into any linear or coherent story. It’s back to business as usual along the border...
IOF Demolishes a House in Jerusalem, Seizes Lands in Tulkarem
International Press Center 9/22/2003
In Tulkarem, and after completing the construction of the Israeli separation barrier there, Israeli occupying forces forcibly seized 150 dunums (150,000 square meters) of lands belonging to Far'on Village and Ertah suburb near Tulkarem City. -- EAST JERUSALEM, Palestine, September 22, 2003 (IPC + Agencies) - - Israeli occupying...
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 11-17 September 2003
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 9/18/2003
Israeli Forces escalate war crimes in the OPT: 5 Palestinians, including a child and an old man, were killed by Israeli forces / 1 of the victims was killed in an extra-judicial assassination in Hebron / 3 of the victims, including a child, were killed in 3...
Palestinians trapped by Israeli military occupation need international protection
By Lev Grinberg, Arabic Media Internet Network 9/16/2003
The crucial problem is not security, but the uneven power relations between Israelis and Palestinians, and the ascendance of the military society over the civil society. -- The deadline for the first stage of the Road Map (RM) was May 2003, it has expired three moths...
Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 4 - 10 September 2003
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 9/11/2003
11 Palestinians, including 2 children, were killed by Israeli forces / 3 of the victims killed in extra-judicial assassinations/ 2 failed assassination attempts carried out by Israeli forces against the founder and 2 other senior leaders of Hamas movement / Indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian residential areas continued...
Fear of the sky
By Elizabeth Holt, Electronic Intifada 9/10/2003
6 September 2003 -- Yesterday was so beautiful. It was the second time in the two-and-a-half months in which I've been here that I wasn't hot. The sky had full grey and white clouds, just like home. There was a perfect breeze and the air was...
The World's Largest Open Air Prison
By Darren Ell, Electronic Intifada 9/11/2003
Jamal Juma' is a busy man. As coordinator of PENGON, the organization spearheading the campaign to stop the construction of the Israeli Wall rapidly surrounding the future Palestinian 'state', he is constantly scrambling to reach as many people as he can, independent journalists and heads...
Is Sharon trying to incite suicide bombings?
Editorial, Palestine Monitor 9/9/2003
It has been almost three weeks since Israeli helicopter gun-ships assassinated Hamas leader, Ismail Abu Shanab formally ending the shaky ceasefire sustaining the US-backed peace plan. The fact that the ceasefire was littered with Israeli violations, including 16 killings of innocent Palestinians, barely made the...
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 28 Aug - 3 Sep 2003
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 9/4/2003
10 Palestinians, including 2 children and an elderly woman, were killed by Israeli forces / 8 of the victims were killed in extra-judicial assassinations perpetrated by Israeli forces / Indiscriminate Israeli shelling of Palestinian residential areas continued / Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas...
Update: The Palestinian Territories
ReliefWeb/Global IDP Project 8/29/2003
Political status quo and the new security barrier worsening the humanitarian situation for Palestinian IDPs -- Since Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1967, Israel has ordered the demolition of thousands of homes in the Palestinian Territories and has confiscated land, such...
IOF Wounds Two Civilians, Arrests Others, Demolishes Homes
International Press Center 9/1/2003
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, August 31, 2003 (IPC+Agencies)—Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and wounded Sunday two Palestinian civilians, arrested others and demolished homes in separate incidents in the West Bank. In the West Bank city of Hebron, local hospital sources told IPC correspondent that Mahran...
Letter: Tear down the Wall
By Miriam Ward, RSM, Brattleboro Reformer 8/8/2003
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down.' So wrote Robert Frost. Not the most famous line of the poem, but Frost says it twice. Whether called a wall or a fence, the 200-mile, 25-foot-high-barrier, now 90 miles complete...
Troops demolishes 22 houses and shops in Nazalat Issa
International Middle East Media Center 8/22/2003
For the sake of building the separation wall, Israeli bulldozers demolished Thursday 22 houses in the town of Nazalat Issa near the close to the green line village of Baka Algharbea. While the owners of the demolished buildings are not all known, few are owned...
Largest demolition in years: Israel destroys entire commercial market in one day
Electronic Intifada/PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign 8/22/2003
OVER 100 SHOPS AND 5 HOMES DEMOLISHED IN NAZLAT 'ISA FOR THE BUILDING OF THE WALL -- (21 August 2003, Nazlat 'Isa, Occupied West Bank. PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign) -- Marking the single largest demolition of buildings in years, the entire commercial area of Nazlat 'Isa was...
ISM Update: Anin Advisory / Hebron / Balata
International Solidarity Movement 8/15/2003
1) Press Advisory: "Don't Take a Fence" -- Joint Action Saturday /2) Report on student takeover of Hebron Polytechnic /3) Report on house demolition in Balata...
Likud's Leftwing Mouthpiece
By E. Taylor, Palestine Chronicle 8/8/2003
If the New York Times becomes a mouthpiece for Likudnik policies, American understanding can plummet only further -- It's depressing what the New York Times accepts for its op-eds these days. Last week, in the place of analysis or argument, William Safire, one of the paper's...
Palestinian home destroyed; Over 45 Human Rights Activists Detained
International Solidarity Movement 8/5/2003
Occupied West Bank] At approximately 7am this morning, Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights activists were detained while attempting to block the demolition of part of a Palestinian family’s home, near the village of Mas’ha. The building had been slated for demolition by the Israeli...
ISM: Update on Mas'ha activists detained
International Solidarity Movement 8/5/2003
Action Alert! - Update on Mas'ha activists detained -- ** OVER 45 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DETAINED TODAY, 5/8/03 ** AT LEAST TWO ARRESTED - DETAINEES ARE FROM PALESTINE, ISRAEL, U.S., U.K., ITALY, SWEDEN, FRANCE, DENMARK, JAPAN, IRELAND, GERMANY AND CANADA - [Occupied West Bank] At approximately 7am this morning...
Israeli Military Detains 41 Peaceful Activists
International Solidarity Movement 8/5/2003
August 5, 2003, 8:10 am, Mas'ha, Occupied Palestine -- As of this writing, 41 internationals and Israelis have been removed from the land they were peacefully protecting. -- First they arrested the people filming their brutality. Then they beat several people who were trying to get...
Peace Activists protest against the Separation wall
International Middle East Media Center 8/4/2003
Around 50 International ISM and Israeli peace activists started a protest tent at the yard of Hani Amer’s house in the village of Masha near Qalqelyah to protest against the construction of the apartheid wall and its destructive effect on the life of Amer’s family...
BREAKING NEWS: Palestinian shot by settler near Nablus
International Press Center 8/4/2003
19:00 -- A Palestinian young man was shot and wounded moderately in his leg by an armed Jewish mob settler near the West Bank city of Nablus, WAFA....15:10 -- Jewish settlers of the illegitimate Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba’ began erecting a new settlenment...
A One-Family Bantustan Must Not Be Allowed
International Solidarity Movement 8/4/2003
Update on Mas'ha activities -- Mas'ha, Occupied Palestine, August 3, 2003 - Today Palestinians, along with 50 internationals and 10 Israeli activists prevented the demolition of Palestinian property and blocked the construction of the Apartheid Wall in front of Hani A'amer's house. He and his family live...
A Test of the Road Map
By Jeff Halper, Miftah 2003-07-30
Even as I write this Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is meeting with representatives of AIPAC, Israel' owerful lobby in Washington, in preparation for his meeting with President Bush tomorrow (Tuesday). According to news reports, the American Administration is looking to Sharon to "give a boost...
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