18 apr 2001
At approximately 20:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on the western, southern and northeastern hills of the cities of Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour and Al-Khader village, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian residential areas. The shelling lasted for two hours and targeted Al-‘Azzeh and ‘Aida refugee camps, Al-Khader village, Suleiman Pools project in Bethlehem, and Al-Iraq, Al-Sedreh, Al-Ro’a and ‘Ush El-Ghorab neighborhoods in Beit Jala.
A number of Palestinian houses and buildings of Suleiman Pools project were severely damaged.
At approximately 20:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on the western, southern and northeastern hills of the cities of Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour and Al-Khader village, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian residential areas. The shelling lasted for two hours and targeted Al-‘Azzeh and ‘Aida refugee camps, Al-Khader village, Suleiman Pools project in Bethlehem, and Al-Iraq, Al-Sedreh, Al-Ro’a and ‘Ush El-Ghorab neighborhoods in Beit Jala.
A number of Palestinian houses and buildings of Suleiman Pools project were severely damaged.
17 apr 2001
At approximately 10:00 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers fired at Hazem Yousef Abu Jazar, 16, from Rafah, wounding him with a live bullet in the right foot. Abu Jazar was approximately 100m away from the border adjacent to Al-Barazil neighborhood in Rafah, when a tank passing the border unjustifiably fired him upon.
At approximately 13:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the entrance of a bypass road used by settlers to the south of Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, east of Gaza City, opened fire on a number of Palestinian children who were demonstrating more than 100m away. PCHR’s field officer in the area reported that the Israeli forces opened fire instantly--without first employing less lethal means.
As a result, Hamza Khader ‘Obeid, 14, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, was critically wounded with a live bullet in the chest. He was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, where he was pronounced dead in the evening.
Furthermore, five Palestinian children were wounded as follows:
1) Samir Zakaria Karim, 10, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left shoulder;
2) Hassan Zuhair El-Shawa, 13, from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left side;
3) Mohammed Khalil Nassar, 14, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the pelvis;
4) Mohammed ‘Adnan Nayef, 17, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the chest; and
5) Sameh Yousef Doghmush, 17, from Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the buttocks.
At approximately 14:00 local time, Ghali Suleiman Abu Snaimeh, 21, from Rafah, was wounded with a live bullet in the right leg when he was shot by Israeli occupation forces who were razing areas of Palestinian agricultural land in the east of Rafah (Al-Shouka area). Abu Snaimeh was approximately 400m away from the area.
At approximately 10:00 local time, Israeli tanks passing the Rafah border opened fire on Palestinian houses in Al-Barazil neighborhood in the city. As a result, Mustafa Mohammed Qeshta, 43, was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh. At the time he was wounded, Qeshta was near his house, approximately 200m away from the border.
At approximately 14:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border near Salah El-Din Gate in Rafah, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Barazil neighborhood to the north of the Gate.
As a result, a ten-year-old child from Al-Barazil neighborhood, Bara’ Jalal Mahmoud El-Sha’er, was wounded with a medium caliber bullet in the head, and died later that day.
According to PCHR’s investigation, the child was with his elder brother Ossama going to Al-Jama’e Club in Al-Barazil neighborhood to attend special classes. When they arrived at the main road of the neighborhood, Al-Rawda Street, approximately 200m away from Israeli military sites, Israeli forces fired approximately 50 bullets at the rod. The child was wounded and collapsed.
Then, a number of Palestinian civilians evacuated him to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah, where medical sources stated that he was wounded with a medium caliber bullet that entered the forehead and exited from the back of the head. Only after co-ordination with the Israeli occupation forces required by the current internal siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, was Al-Sha'er transferred to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. The child's transfer took one hour. At approximately 21:30 local time, El-Sha'er was pronounced dead at Shifa’ hospital.
At approximately 19:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on the western and southern hills of Al-Khader village and Bethlehem, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Khader village and at the tourist project in Suleiman Pools.
As a result of the shelling, which lasted until midnight, Rami Yahia Ibrahim Gharib, 16, from Al-Khader village, was killed with a heavy caliber bullet in the chest. At the time he was shot, Gharib was with his family near the garden of their house in order to escape the fire, located approximately 2km away from the positions of the attacking Israeli forces. Furthermore, four Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Ziad Yousef Mousa Sobeh, 35, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
2) Amena ‘Ali Yousef, 100, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen and the shoulder;
3) Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud Salah, 20, wounded with shrapnel in the right leg and eye; and
4) Ahlam Bajes Shousha, 20, from Housan village, wounded with shrapnel in the legs.
Additionally, a number of Palestinian houses and civilian facilities were severely damaged, and a house owned by Bashir ‘Abdel-Qader Subeih was partially destroyed after having been hit with three artillery shells.
At approximately 20:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces positioned on top of Beit Jala near Abu Ghoneim settlement and Bilal Ben Rabah mosque, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in ‘Aida and Al-‘Azzeh refugee camps near Bethlehem, and Al-Iraq neighborhood in Beit Jala.
As a result of the shelling, which lasted until 2:00 local time on the following day, Wednesday, April 18, 2001, a Palestinian house, owned by Yousef Qatamesh, was completely burnt after having been hit with an artillery shell. Furthermore, six Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Mohannad ‘Abdel-Fattah Abu ‘Oudeh, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Samia Wadi’ Taha, 56, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
3) ‘Ali ‘Abdel-Mon’em Al-Hamouz, 38, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
4) Meriam Mustafa El-‘Ezza, 50, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
5) George Bishara ‘Asfour, 21, who was wounded with shrapnel in the back and the legs; and
6) Manal Abu Sh’ireh, 23, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
In the evening, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in Avraham Avino and Ramat Yeshai settlements in the middle of Hebron, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Abu Sneineh and El-Sheikh neighborhoods in the city.
As a result of the indiscriminate shelling, which lasted until the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 2001, five Palestinian houses were completely destroyed after having directly hit with artillery shells. Several other houses were partially destroyed. Furthermore, eight Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Najah Yousef ‘Abdin, 40, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
2) Riad Hassan ‘Abdin, 57, who suffered from suffocation and a nervous breakdown after his house was destroyed;
3) Kamal Yousef ‘Abdin, 20, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
4) Nawal Riad ‘Abdin, 48, who suffered from suffocation after her house burnt;
5) Muna ‘Abdin, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the limps;
6) Hatem Khader ‘Abdin, 20, who was wounded with shrapnel in the limps and the head;
7) Zahia Ahmed El-Qawasmi, 70, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
8) Jawad ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Natsheh, 39, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand and the chest.
Update:
At approximately 20:00 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers, on a military observation tower near Bilal Ben Rabah mosque (Rachel’s Tomb) fired medium caliber bullets at a Palestinian civilian car that was traveling toward ‘Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem , killing a passenger and wounding the driver and another child passenger.
PCHR learned that a Palestinian civilian car, a white Subaru driven by Ziad ‘Mohammed ‘Abdel-Khaleq Qaraqe’, 27, in which ‘Emad Daoud Hassan Qaraqe’, 33, from ‘Aida refugee camp, his six month pregnant wife, Maysa’ Qaraqe’, 23, and their five-year-old child, Haitham, were travelling to ‘Aida refugee camp, northwest of Bethlehem.
When the car turned near the Intercontinental hotel, Israeli occupation soldiers on the observation tower suddenly opened fire on the car from a distance of approximately 100m. ‘Emad Qaraqe,’ who was in the passenger’s seat, was killed with a live bullet in the face and shrapnel in the chest.
Furthermore, his child Haitham, who was sitting in the back seat, was seriously wounded with a live bullet in the left eye. The driver, Ziad Qaraqe,’ was wounded with shrapnel in the shoulder and the chest.
At approximately 10:00 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers fired at Hazem Yousef Abu Jazar, 16, from Rafah, wounding him with a live bullet in the right foot. Abu Jazar was approximately 100m away from the border adjacent to Al-Barazil neighborhood in Rafah, when a tank passing the border unjustifiably fired him upon.
At approximately 13:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the entrance of a bypass road used by settlers to the south of Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, east of Gaza City, opened fire on a number of Palestinian children who were demonstrating more than 100m away. PCHR’s field officer in the area reported that the Israeli forces opened fire instantly--without first employing less lethal means.
As a result, Hamza Khader ‘Obeid, 14, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, was critically wounded with a live bullet in the chest. He was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, where he was pronounced dead in the evening.
Furthermore, five Palestinian children were wounded as follows:
1) Samir Zakaria Karim, 10, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left shoulder;
2) Hassan Zuhair El-Shawa, 13, from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left side;
3) Mohammed Khalil Nassar, 14, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the pelvis;
4) Mohammed ‘Adnan Nayef, 17, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the chest; and
5) Sameh Yousef Doghmush, 17, from Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with a live bullet in the buttocks.
At approximately 14:00 local time, Ghali Suleiman Abu Snaimeh, 21, from Rafah, was wounded with a live bullet in the right leg when he was shot by Israeli occupation forces who were razing areas of Palestinian agricultural land in the east of Rafah (Al-Shouka area). Abu Snaimeh was approximately 400m away from the area.
At approximately 10:00 local time, Israeli tanks passing the Rafah border opened fire on Palestinian houses in Al-Barazil neighborhood in the city. As a result, Mustafa Mohammed Qeshta, 43, was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh. At the time he was wounded, Qeshta was near his house, approximately 200m away from the border.
At approximately 14:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border near Salah El-Din Gate in Rafah, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Barazil neighborhood to the north of the Gate.
As a result, a ten-year-old child from Al-Barazil neighborhood, Bara’ Jalal Mahmoud El-Sha’er, was wounded with a medium caliber bullet in the head, and died later that day.
According to PCHR’s investigation, the child was with his elder brother Ossama going to Al-Jama’e Club in Al-Barazil neighborhood to attend special classes. When they arrived at the main road of the neighborhood, Al-Rawda Street, approximately 200m away from Israeli military sites, Israeli forces fired approximately 50 bullets at the rod. The child was wounded and collapsed.
Then, a number of Palestinian civilians evacuated him to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah, where medical sources stated that he was wounded with a medium caliber bullet that entered the forehead and exited from the back of the head. Only after co-ordination with the Israeli occupation forces required by the current internal siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, was Al-Sha'er transferred to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. The child's transfer took one hour. At approximately 21:30 local time, El-Sha'er was pronounced dead at Shifa’ hospital.
At approximately 19:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on the western and southern hills of Al-Khader village and Bethlehem, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Khader village and at the tourist project in Suleiman Pools.
As a result of the shelling, which lasted until midnight, Rami Yahia Ibrahim Gharib, 16, from Al-Khader village, was killed with a heavy caliber bullet in the chest. At the time he was shot, Gharib was with his family near the garden of their house in order to escape the fire, located approximately 2km away from the positions of the attacking Israeli forces. Furthermore, four Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Ziad Yousef Mousa Sobeh, 35, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
2) Amena ‘Ali Yousef, 100, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen and the shoulder;
3) Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud Salah, 20, wounded with shrapnel in the right leg and eye; and
4) Ahlam Bajes Shousha, 20, from Housan village, wounded with shrapnel in the legs.
Additionally, a number of Palestinian houses and civilian facilities were severely damaged, and a house owned by Bashir ‘Abdel-Qader Subeih was partially destroyed after having been hit with three artillery shells.
At approximately 20:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces positioned on top of Beit Jala near Abu Ghoneim settlement and Bilal Ben Rabah mosque, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in ‘Aida and Al-‘Azzeh refugee camps near Bethlehem, and Al-Iraq neighborhood in Beit Jala.
As a result of the shelling, which lasted until 2:00 local time on the following day, Wednesday, April 18, 2001, a Palestinian house, owned by Yousef Qatamesh, was completely burnt after having been hit with an artillery shell. Furthermore, six Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Mohannad ‘Abdel-Fattah Abu ‘Oudeh, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Samia Wadi’ Taha, 56, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
3) ‘Ali ‘Abdel-Mon’em Al-Hamouz, 38, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
4) Meriam Mustafa El-‘Ezza, 50, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
5) George Bishara ‘Asfour, 21, who was wounded with shrapnel in the back and the legs; and
6) Manal Abu Sh’ireh, 23, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
In the evening, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in Avraham Avino and Ramat Yeshai settlements in the middle of Hebron, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Abu Sneineh and El-Sheikh neighborhoods in the city.
As a result of the indiscriminate shelling, which lasted until the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 2001, five Palestinian houses were completely destroyed after having directly hit with artillery shells. Several other houses were partially destroyed. Furthermore, eight Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Najah Yousef ‘Abdin, 40, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
2) Riad Hassan ‘Abdin, 57, who suffered from suffocation and a nervous breakdown after his house was destroyed;
3) Kamal Yousef ‘Abdin, 20, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
4) Nawal Riad ‘Abdin, 48, who suffered from suffocation after her house burnt;
5) Muna ‘Abdin, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the limps;
6) Hatem Khader ‘Abdin, 20, who was wounded with shrapnel in the limps and the head;
7) Zahia Ahmed El-Qawasmi, 70, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
8) Jawad ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Natsheh, 39, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand and the chest.
Update:
At approximately 20:00 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers, on a military observation tower near Bilal Ben Rabah mosque (Rachel’s Tomb) fired medium caliber bullets at a Palestinian civilian car that was traveling toward ‘Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem , killing a passenger and wounding the driver and another child passenger.
PCHR learned that a Palestinian civilian car, a white Subaru driven by Ziad ‘Mohammed ‘Abdel-Khaleq Qaraqe’, 27, in which ‘Emad Daoud Hassan Qaraqe’, 33, from ‘Aida refugee camp, his six month pregnant wife, Maysa’ Qaraqe’, 23, and their five-year-old child, Haitham, were travelling to ‘Aida refugee camp, northwest of Bethlehem.
When the car turned near the Intercontinental hotel, Israeli occupation soldiers on the observation tower suddenly opened fire on the car from a distance of approximately 100m. ‘Emad Qaraqe,’ who was in the passenger’s seat, was killed with a live bullet in the face and shrapnel in the chest.
Furthermore, his child Haitham, who was sitting in the back seat, was seriously wounded with a live bullet in the left eye. The driver, Ziad Qaraqe,’ was wounded with shrapnel in the shoulder and the chest.
16 apr 2001
At approximately 10:30, Israeli forces attempted to assassinate a ‘Abdel-Hadi ‘Abdel-Muttaleb El-Natsheh, 32, from Hebron, but he miraculously survived. El-Natsheh was wounded with a medium caliber bullet in the left arm when Israeli occupation forces opened fire on him from heavy machine guns as he was getting out of his car near his house in Ra’s Al-Joura neighborhood, at the northern entrance of Hebron.
This area is located near the dividing line of the part of Hebron controlled by the Israeli occupation forces. El-Natsheh scrambled to escaped and sheltered behind a nearby concrete column. The shooting lasted for five minutes and came from came from Israeli occupation forces positioned on the roof of a Palestinian house in the Israeli controlled area of Hebron. El-Natsheh was evacuated to Al-Ahli hospital in Hebron for treatment.
At approximately 17:00 local time, Bassel Rafiq Hassan Zahran, 19, from ‘Allar village near Tulkarm and resident of Jerdan, was killed with several live bullets in the head, the chest, the neck and the limbs, fired at him by the Israeli occupation forces.
These forces claimed that Zahran attempted to stab one of their soldiers at a military roadblock between Baqa Al-Gharbeya and Nazlet ‘Eissa. According to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), Zajran came from Jordan on the same day to visit his relatives.
Israeli occupation soldiers chased him and opened fire on him willfully from a short distance, killing him instantly. Irrespective of the exact circumstances of his death, this incident proves that the Israeli occupation forces excessively use force. The soldiers were able to arrest Zahran, but fired upon him instead.
At approximately 10:30 local time, two Palestinian children from Al-Boreij refugee camp were wounded with shrapnel after a suspicious object left over from the Israeli occupation forces exploded in Gaza Valley area. According to PCHR’s investigation, those children were walking on farms located approximately 500m to the west of the border in the east of Al-Boreij refugee camp, when they found a suspicious object that exploded and wounded them. They are:
1) Hani ‘Adel Shahin, 15, who was injured in the forehead and lost his left eye; and
2) Qassem ‘Abed-Rabbo Abu Meddain, 15, who was injured in the forehead.
In a similar incident in the same area on April 9, 2001, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Gaza Valley area, Hania Suleiman Khader El-Nomeili, was grazing animals in an area approximately 600m west of the eastern border of the Gaza Strip. She stepped on a remaining portion of a shell that exploded.
As a result, she was seriously wounded and evacuated to a clinic in Nusseirat refugee camp and from there to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. According to a medical report by Shifa’ hospital, her right foot and ankle and the sole of her left foot were severed.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border near Salah El-Din Gate in Rafah, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Barazil and Al-Salam neighborhoods. The shelling, which continued intermittently until 18:00 local time, wounded two Palestinian children as they were playing near their houses located approximately 150m away from the border as follows:
1) Shadi Ahmed El-Kurd, 9, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head; and
2) Mohammed ‘Adnan Abu Ahmed, 10, who was wounded with shrapnel in the back.
At approximately 18:40 local time, the Israeli occupation forces shelled a Palestinian Border Forces site in the northeast of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. The shelling, which lasted for approximately 90 minutes, wounded two members of the Palestinian Border Forces as follows:
1) ‘Emad ‘Edwan, 38, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head; and
2) Nasser Moqbel, 34, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face.
At approximately 22:00 local time, Israeli forces, using combat helicopters and gunboats, shelled a Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) compound in the west of Deir El-Balah, wounding one of its members, Madhi Khalil Madhi, 35, from Khan Yunis, with an artillery shell.
Mahdi's his left foot and right hand were severed and he is still receiving medical care in the intensive care unit at Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City where he is in critical condition. Artillery shell shrapnel also hit a number of nearby houses, wounding
1) Intissar Suleiman Baraka, 35, in the neck; and
2) Tamer Mohammed Abu Saqer, 24, in the left hand.
An artillery shell also hit the nearby Al-Barouk mosque, severely damaging its walls. Moreover, the second floor of the Fatah Movement headquarter in Deir El-Balah (and the main headquarters of the Movement in the middle area of the Gaza Strip) was destroyed when the headquarters were bombed with four surface to surface missiles launched from inside Israel east of the town.
At approximately midnight, several headquarters of the Palestinian security services in Gaza City were hit with surface to surface missiles launched from locations inside Israel and east of the city. Missiles hit the main headquarters of Palestinian police in Al-Remal neighborhood and a compound of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Al-Nasser neighborhood.
Two missiles also fell near the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Tal El-Hawa neighborhood. The shelling coincided with similar shelling by Israeli gunboats that targeted the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) on the coast in Sheikh ‘Ejlin neighborhood. A number of Palestinian civilians and security personnel were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital to be treated for shrapnel wounds or falls during the shelling.
Also at approximately midnight, Israeli forces resumed intense shelling of the northeast of Beit Hanoun while at the same time, Israeli units, reinforced with tanks and bulldozers, invaded. PCHR’s field officer in the northern area of the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli occupation forces razed large areas of Palestinian agricultural land and demolished four Palestinian Border Forces sites in a strip of land 3km long and 1km wide inside areas under the control of the Palestinian National Authority. This land razing and destruction lasted until noon of the following day, Tuesday, April 17, 2001.
Mohammed Ramadan Nemer El-Masri, 23, a member of the Palestinian Border Forces from Beit Hanoun, was killed today at approximately 4:20 local time with an artillery shell. Additionally, another four members of the Palestinian Border forces were wounded with artillery shell shrapnel as follows:
1) Bassem Yousef El-‘Affifi, 36, from Beit Lahia, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
2) ‘Azmi ‘Abdullah El-Jamal, 36, from Jabalya, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
3) Mohammed Jehad El-Bitar, 28, from Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left foot; and
4) Mousa ‘Atteya Abu Hattab, 27, from Al-Shati refugee camp, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand.
During their invasion of the area, the Israeli occupation forces completely demolished ten Palestinian houses and their contents and partially destroyed another two. They also removed the ruins of an old mosque.
At approximately 10:30, Israeli forces attempted to assassinate a ‘Abdel-Hadi ‘Abdel-Muttaleb El-Natsheh, 32, from Hebron, but he miraculously survived. El-Natsheh was wounded with a medium caliber bullet in the left arm when Israeli occupation forces opened fire on him from heavy machine guns as he was getting out of his car near his house in Ra’s Al-Joura neighborhood, at the northern entrance of Hebron.
This area is located near the dividing line of the part of Hebron controlled by the Israeli occupation forces. El-Natsheh scrambled to escaped and sheltered behind a nearby concrete column. The shooting lasted for five minutes and came from came from Israeli occupation forces positioned on the roof of a Palestinian house in the Israeli controlled area of Hebron. El-Natsheh was evacuated to Al-Ahli hospital in Hebron for treatment.
At approximately 17:00 local time, Bassel Rafiq Hassan Zahran, 19, from ‘Allar village near Tulkarm and resident of Jerdan, was killed with several live bullets in the head, the chest, the neck and the limbs, fired at him by the Israeli occupation forces.
These forces claimed that Zahran attempted to stab one of their soldiers at a military roadblock between Baqa Al-Gharbeya and Nazlet ‘Eissa. According to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), Zajran came from Jordan on the same day to visit his relatives.
Israeli occupation soldiers chased him and opened fire on him willfully from a short distance, killing him instantly. Irrespective of the exact circumstances of his death, this incident proves that the Israeli occupation forces excessively use force. The soldiers were able to arrest Zahran, but fired upon him instead.
At approximately 10:30 local time, two Palestinian children from Al-Boreij refugee camp were wounded with shrapnel after a suspicious object left over from the Israeli occupation forces exploded in Gaza Valley area. According to PCHR’s investigation, those children were walking on farms located approximately 500m to the west of the border in the east of Al-Boreij refugee camp, when they found a suspicious object that exploded and wounded them. They are:
1) Hani ‘Adel Shahin, 15, who was injured in the forehead and lost his left eye; and
2) Qassem ‘Abed-Rabbo Abu Meddain, 15, who was injured in the forehead.
In a similar incident in the same area on April 9, 2001, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Gaza Valley area, Hania Suleiman Khader El-Nomeili, was grazing animals in an area approximately 600m west of the eastern border of the Gaza Strip. She stepped on a remaining portion of a shell that exploded.
As a result, she was seriously wounded and evacuated to a clinic in Nusseirat refugee camp and from there to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. According to a medical report by Shifa’ hospital, her right foot and ankle and the sole of her left foot were severed.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border near Salah El-Din Gate in Rafah, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Barazil and Al-Salam neighborhoods. The shelling, which continued intermittently until 18:00 local time, wounded two Palestinian children as they were playing near their houses located approximately 150m away from the border as follows:
1) Shadi Ahmed El-Kurd, 9, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head; and
2) Mohammed ‘Adnan Abu Ahmed, 10, who was wounded with shrapnel in the back.
At approximately 18:40 local time, the Israeli occupation forces shelled a Palestinian Border Forces site in the northeast of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. The shelling, which lasted for approximately 90 minutes, wounded two members of the Palestinian Border Forces as follows:
1) ‘Emad ‘Edwan, 38, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head; and
2) Nasser Moqbel, 34, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face.
At approximately 22:00 local time, Israeli forces, using combat helicopters and gunboats, shelled a Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) compound in the west of Deir El-Balah, wounding one of its members, Madhi Khalil Madhi, 35, from Khan Yunis, with an artillery shell.
Mahdi's his left foot and right hand were severed and he is still receiving medical care in the intensive care unit at Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City where he is in critical condition. Artillery shell shrapnel also hit a number of nearby houses, wounding
1) Intissar Suleiman Baraka, 35, in the neck; and
2) Tamer Mohammed Abu Saqer, 24, in the left hand.
An artillery shell also hit the nearby Al-Barouk mosque, severely damaging its walls. Moreover, the second floor of the Fatah Movement headquarter in Deir El-Balah (and the main headquarters of the Movement in the middle area of the Gaza Strip) was destroyed when the headquarters were bombed with four surface to surface missiles launched from inside Israel east of the town.
At approximately midnight, several headquarters of the Palestinian security services in Gaza City were hit with surface to surface missiles launched from locations inside Israel and east of the city. Missiles hit the main headquarters of Palestinian police in Al-Remal neighborhood and a compound of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Al-Nasser neighborhood.
Two missiles also fell near the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in Tal El-Hawa neighborhood. The shelling coincided with similar shelling by Israeli gunboats that targeted the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) on the coast in Sheikh ‘Ejlin neighborhood. A number of Palestinian civilians and security personnel were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital to be treated for shrapnel wounds or falls during the shelling.
Also at approximately midnight, Israeli forces resumed intense shelling of the northeast of Beit Hanoun while at the same time, Israeli units, reinforced with tanks and bulldozers, invaded. PCHR’s field officer in the northern area of the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli occupation forces razed large areas of Palestinian agricultural land and demolished four Palestinian Border Forces sites in a strip of land 3km long and 1km wide inside areas under the control of the Palestinian National Authority. This land razing and destruction lasted until noon of the following day, Tuesday, April 17, 2001.
Mohammed Ramadan Nemer El-Masri, 23, a member of the Palestinian Border Forces from Beit Hanoun, was killed today at approximately 4:20 local time with an artillery shell. Additionally, another four members of the Palestinian Border forces were wounded with artillery shell shrapnel as follows:
1) Bassem Yousef El-‘Affifi, 36, from Beit Lahia, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
2) ‘Azmi ‘Abdullah El-Jamal, 36, from Jabalya, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
3) Mohammed Jehad El-Bitar, 28, from Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left foot; and
4) Mousa ‘Atteya Abu Hattab, 27, from Al-Shati refugee camp, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand.
During their invasion of the area, the Israeli occupation forces completely demolished ten Palestinian houses and their contents and partially destroyed another two. They also removed the ruins of an old mosque.
15 apr 2001
At approximately 11:00 local time, an Israeli occupation soldier, positioned near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah, fired a live bullet from a silenced gun at Mohammed Kamel Abu Taha, 18, wounding him in the right leg.
At approximately 21:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in military sites in Gadid and Neve Dekalim settlements, west of Khan Yunis refugee camp, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the Al-Nemsawi neighborhood, southeast of Khan Yunis refugee camp.
As a result, a number of Palestinian houses were severely damaged and walls of the eastern cemetery were pot-marked. Furthermore, two Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Mahmoud Sha’ban Abu ‘Olwan, 26, wounded with a live bullet in the head, when he was near Khan Yunis Youth Club, approximately 700m away from the Israeli military sites; and
2) Meriam Salem Abu Hattab, 46, wounded with shrapnel in the left leg, when she was near her house, approximately 200m away from the Israeli military sites.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli tanks, passing at the border in Rafah, opened fire on Palestinian houses in Block “J,” approximately 100m north of the border.
As a result, Mohammed ‘Abdel-Hai Hussein, 45, was wounded with a live bullet in the head. At the time he was shot, Hussein was inside his house.
Approximately one hour later, approximately 16:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah, fired four sound bombs at Palestinian civilians at ‘Omar Ben El-Khattab Street near the Gate. Six Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Jamal Mohammed Qeshta, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
2) Ashraf ‘Omar ‘Abdel-‘Al, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right leg;
3) ‘Omar Salem Abu Zuhri, 14, who was wounded with shrapnel in the chest;
4) Mahmoud Ahmed ‘Arram, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left arm;
5) Mousa Nasser ‘Abed, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head; and
6) Mohammed Saleh Qeshta, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen.
At approximately 17:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Abu Sneineh, Qubbat Jneb and Al-Takrouri neighborhoods in Hebron. The shelling lasted until 3:00 local time on the following day, Monday, April 16, 2001. The shelling wounded five Palestinian civilians as follows:
1) Ahmed ‘Emad Abu Sneineh, 9, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Samiha Ahmed Khalil Abu El-Halawa, 70, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
3) Khetam Tawfiq Ahmed Abu El-Halawa, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
4) Nayef El-Jamal, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
5) Bassam ‘Abdullah El-Fallah, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
At approximately 20:45 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on the western and southern hills of Al-Khader village, near bypass road 60, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Khader village and the tourist projects in Suleiman Pools area in the south of Bethlehem.
As a result, a number of Palestinian houses and the aforementioned projects were severely damaged. At approximately 21:00 local time, such shelling expanded and targeted ‘Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, Al-Iraq neighborhood in Beit Jala and the vicinity of the Christian Youth Society in Beit Sahour. A number of Palestinian houses were severely damaged. Six Palestinian civilians were also wounded as follows:
1) Yamin Abu El-Zoluf, 40, from Beit Sahour, who was wounded with shrapnel in the shoulder;
2) Rose Eskander Abu El-Zoluf, 53, from Beit Sahour, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
3) Bo’azer Abu El-Zoluf, 64, from Beit Sahour, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left eye and the right hand;
4) ‘Abdel-Khaliq Mefreh Abu Zeina, 32, from Nablus, a guard of the tourist projects, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
5) Fatema ‘Eid Sobeh, 12, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel in the legs; and
6) Eiman Ya’qob Mahmoud, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
At approximately 11:00 local time, an Israeli occupation soldier, positioned near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah, fired a live bullet from a silenced gun at Mohammed Kamel Abu Taha, 18, wounding him in the right leg.
At approximately 21:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in military sites in Gadid and Neve Dekalim settlements, west of Khan Yunis refugee camp, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the Al-Nemsawi neighborhood, southeast of Khan Yunis refugee camp.
As a result, a number of Palestinian houses were severely damaged and walls of the eastern cemetery were pot-marked. Furthermore, two Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Mahmoud Sha’ban Abu ‘Olwan, 26, wounded with a live bullet in the head, when he was near Khan Yunis Youth Club, approximately 700m away from the Israeli military sites; and
2) Meriam Salem Abu Hattab, 46, wounded with shrapnel in the left leg, when she was near her house, approximately 200m away from the Israeli military sites.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli tanks, passing at the border in Rafah, opened fire on Palestinian houses in Block “J,” approximately 100m north of the border.
As a result, Mohammed ‘Abdel-Hai Hussein, 45, was wounded with a live bullet in the head. At the time he was shot, Hussein was inside his house.
Approximately one hour later, approximately 16:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah, fired four sound bombs at Palestinian civilians at ‘Omar Ben El-Khattab Street near the Gate. Six Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Jamal Mohammed Qeshta, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
2) Ashraf ‘Omar ‘Abdel-‘Al, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right leg;
3) ‘Omar Salem Abu Zuhri, 14, who was wounded with shrapnel in the chest;
4) Mahmoud Ahmed ‘Arram, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left arm;
5) Mousa Nasser ‘Abed, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head; and
6) Mohammed Saleh Qeshta, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen.
At approximately 17:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Abu Sneineh, Qubbat Jneb and Al-Takrouri neighborhoods in Hebron. The shelling lasted until 3:00 local time on the following day, Monday, April 16, 2001. The shelling wounded five Palestinian civilians as follows:
1) Ahmed ‘Emad Abu Sneineh, 9, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Samiha Ahmed Khalil Abu El-Halawa, 70, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
3) Khetam Tawfiq Ahmed Abu El-Halawa, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
4) Nayef El-Jamal, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
5) Bassam ‘Abdullah El-Fallah, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
At approximately 20:45 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on the western and southern hills of Al-Khader village, near bypass road 60, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Al-Khader village and the tourist projects in Suleiman Pools area in the south of Bethlehem.
As a result, a number of Palestinian houses and the aforementioned projects were severely damaged. At approximately 21:00 local time, such shelling expanded and targeted ‘Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, Al-Iraq neighborhood in Beit Jala and the vicinity of the Christian Youth Society in Beit Sahour. A number of Palestinian houses were severely damaged. Six Palestinian civilians were also wounded as follows:
1) Yamin Abu El-Zoluf, 40, from Beit Sahour, who was wounded with shrapnel in the shoulder;
2) Rose Eskander Abu El-Zoluf, 53, from Beit Sahour, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
3) Bo’azer Abu El-Zoluf, 64, from Beit Sahour, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left eye and the right hand;
4) ‘Abdel-Khaliq Mefreh Abu Zeina, 32, from Nablus, a guard of the tourist projects, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
5) Fatema ‘Eid Sobeh, 12, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel in the legs; and
6) Eiman Ya’qob Mahmoud, from Al-Khader village, who was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
14 apr 2001
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, reinforced with tanks and bulldozers, invaded the area near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah. Without prior warning, these forces demolished a number of Palestinian-owned houses and their contents. Israeli forces also destroyed a number of Palestinian-owned stores, including their contents, and a Palestinian Military Intelligence Service site. The escalation was accompanied by the firing of artillery shells, heavy caliber bullets, and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Qeshta neighborhood and Block “O."
This escalation came four days after a similar attack on the western area of Khan Yunis refugee camp. On April 10, 2001, Israeli forces demolished 30 houses, leaving more than 500 Palestinian civilians, mostly children, women and the elderly, homeless. Dozens were also wounded with live bullets and artillery shell shrapnel.
Like Khan Yunis refugee camp and other Palestinian residential areas, these Palestinian-owned houses and commercial stores in Rafah had been subjected to systematic and continuous Israeli shelling over the past six months. On Saturday, Israeli forces escalated these attacks by invading the area and demolishing houses, stores, and their contents, without prior warning.
According to PCHR’s documentation, Israeli forces demolished 15 Palestinian houses and 42 stores as well as their contents. Six houses and were also partially destroyed. As a result, more than 187 Palestinian civilians became homeless. In addition, dozens of Palestinian houses were severely damaged.
Indiscriminate shelling also affected houses more than 1,000m away from the border. More than 40 Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Mohammed Suleiman Jarghoun, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
2) Mahmoud ‘Abdel-‘Azziz Lafi, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
3) ‘Alla’ Ahmed Zannoun, 18, who was wounded with a live bullet and shrapnel in both shoulders and in the chest and was evacuated to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis;
4) ‘Aref ‘Abdullah El-Qadhi, 28, who was wounded with shrapnel of an artillery shell in the right foot and was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. He was approximately 1,000m away from the border when he was wounded;
5) Rami Khaled ‘Abed, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand;
6) Hassan Ibrahim El-Sattari, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh;
7) Anwar Mohammed Qeshta, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh;
8) ‘Adel Fayez Madhi, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
9) Nidal Mohammed Meqdad, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
10) Mahmoud Mohammed Abu Mo’ammar, 18, who was wounded with shrapnel in the neck;
11) Mahmoud Rasmi Abu Taha, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
12) ‘Abdel-Halim Jom’a Joudeh, 34, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
13) Eyad Ossama El-Sha’er, 18, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right foot;
14) Mohammed Ahmed Abu Sweilem, 31, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
15) Nidal Mesbah Abu Toior, 21, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
16) Hazem Ishaq Abu Rezeq, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand;
17) Sa’id Salim Abu Jalaleh, 21, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left eye;
18) Hala Ibrahim El-Sha’er, 30, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand;
19) ‘Atteya Mustafa El-Jazzar, 17, who was wounded with a live bullet in the right leg;
20) Thae’r Ghazi Abu Siam, 16,who was seriously wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
21) Mohammed Ibrahim Zannoun, who was seriously wounded with a live bullet in the buttocks that entered the pelvis;
22) Ibrahim Fathi Abu Jazar, 15, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
23) Fadi Sha’ban Abu ‘Obeid, 13, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh;
24) Hani Jamal Abu ‘Anzeh, 22, who was wounded with shrapnel in the chest;
25) Rae’d Hassan Abu Jazar, 25, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
26) Hani Jamal Abu Helal, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
27) Mahmoud Sami Joudeh, 23, who was wounded with shrapnel in the neck;
28) Fadwa Ibrahim Shekh El-‘Eid, 19, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh when he was approximately 500m away from the border;
29) Ibrahim ‘Abdel-Karim Abu ‘Anzeh, 44, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left shoulder;
30) Tayseer ‘Ali ‘Ashour, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
31) Amjad ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Nawajha, 25, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen;
32) Jamal ‘Ali Abu Helal, 15, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right knee;
33) Hatem Mohammed El-Sattari; 34, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
34) Ismail Brak Erjeilat, 15, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right foot;
35) Tal’at Ahmed El-Bouji, 25,who was wounded with shrapnel in the right forearm;
36) Kamal Jamal Abu Tayem, 18, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
37) Anwar Hussein El-Sedoudi, 23, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen;
38) Ahmed ‘Abdel-Hamid Abu Hasna, 33, who was wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
39) Khaled Jamal El-Moghayer, 14, who was wounded with shrapnel in the neck;
40) Salah Hassan Dwei’e, 18, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
41) Thiab Mohammed Abu Zeid, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand;
42) Mohammed Mousa El-Sattari, 6, who was wounded with shrapnel in the mouth; and
43) Mahmoud Mohammed Lafi, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right foot.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, reinforced with tanks and bulldozers, invaded the area near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah. Without prior warning, these forces demolished a number of Palestinian-owned houses and their contents. Israeli forces also destroyed a number of Palestinian-owned stores, including their contents, and a Palestinian Military Intelligence Service site. The escalation was accompanied by the firing of artillery shells, heavy caliber bullets, and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Qeshta neighborhood and Block “O."
This escalation came four days after a similar attack on the western area of Khan Yunis refugee camp. On April 10, 2001, Israeli forces demolished 30 houses, leaving more than 500 Palestinian civilians, mostly children, women and the elderly, homeless. Dozens were also wounded with live bullets and artillery shell shrapnel.
Like Khan Yunis refugee camp and other Palestinian residential areas, these Palestinian-owned houses and commercial stores in Rafah had been subjected to systematic and continuous Israeli shelling over the past six months. On Saturday, Israeli forces escalated these attacks by invading the area and demolishing houses, stores, and their contents, without prior warning.
According to PCHR’s documentation, Israeli forces demolished 15 Palestinian houses and 42 stores as well as their contents. Six houses and were also partially destroyed. As a result, more than 187 Palestinian civilians became homeless. In addition, dozens of Palestinian houses were severely damaged.
Indiscriminate shelling also affected houses more than 1,000m away from the border. More than 40 Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Mohammed Suleiman Jarghoun, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
2) Mahmoud ‘Abdel-‘Azziz Lafi, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
3) ‘Alla’ Ahmed Zannoun, 18, who was wounded with a live bullet and shrapnel in both shoulders and in the chest and was evacuated to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis;
4) ‘Aref ‘Abdullah El-Qadhi, 28, who was wounded with shrapnel of an artillery shell in the right foot and was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. He was approximately 1,000m away from the border when he was wounded;
5) Rami Khaled ‘Abed, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand;
6) Hassan Ibrahim El-Sattari, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh;
7) Anwar Mohammed Qeshta, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh;
8) ‘Adel Fayez Madhi, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
9) Nidal Mohammed Meqdad, 19, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
10) Mahmoud Mohammed Abu Mo’ammar, 18, who was wounded with shrapnel in the neck;
11) Mahmoud Rasmi Abu Taha, 12, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
12) ‘Abdel-Halim Jom’a Joudeh, 34, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
13) Eyad Ossama El-Sha’er, 18, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right foot;
14) Mohammed Ahmed Abu Sweilem, 31, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
15) Nidal Mesbah Abu Toior, 21, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
16) Hazem Ishaq Abu Rezeq, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand;
17) Sa’id Salim Abu Jalaleh, 21, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left eye;
18) Hala Ibrahim El-Sha’er, 30, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand;
19) ‘Atteya Mustafa El-Jazzar, 17, who was wounded with a live bullet in the right leg;
20) Thae’r Ghazi Abu Siam, 16,who was seriously wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
21) Mohammed Ibrahim Zannoun, who was seriously wounded with a live bullet in the buttocks that entered the pelvis;
22) Ibrahim Fathi Abu Jazar, 15, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
23) Fadi Sha’ban Abu ‘Obeid, 13, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh;
24) Hani Jamal Abu ‘Anzeh, 22, who was wounded with shrapnel in the chest;
25) Rae’d Hassan Abu Jazar, 25, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
26) Hani Jamal Abu Helal, 17, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
27) Mahmoud Sami Joudeh, 23, who was wounded with shrapnel in the neck;
28) Fadwa Ibrahim Shekh El-‘Eid, 19, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh when he was approximately 500m away from the border;
29) Ibrahim ‘Abdel-Karim Abu ‘Anzeh, 44, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left shoulder;
30) Tayseer ‘Ali ‘Ashour, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
31) Amjad ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Nawajha, 25, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen;
32) Jamal ‘Ali Abu Helal, 15, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right knee;
33) Hatem Mohammed El-Sattari; 34, who was wounded with shrapnel in the face;
34) Ismail Brak Erjeilat, 15, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right foot;
35) Tal’at Ahmed El-Bouji, 25,who was wounded with shrapnel in the right forearm;
36) Kamal Jamal Abu Tayem, 18, who was wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
37) Anwar Hussein El-Sedoudi, 23, who was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen;
38) Ahmed ‘Abdel-Hamid Abu Hasna, 33, who was wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
39) Khaled Jamal El-Moghayer, 14, who was wounded with shrapnel in the neck;
40) Salah Hassan Dwei’e, 18, who was wounded with shrapnel in the head;
41) Thiab Mohammed Abu Zeid, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left hand;
42) Mohammed Mousa El-Sattari, 6, who was wounded with shrapnel in the mouth; and
43) Mahmoud Mohammed Lafi, 16, who was wounded with shrapnel in the right foot.
13 apr 2001
At roughly 15:30 local time, approximately 150 Palestinian children gathered near Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City, and started to throw stones at site of the Israeli occupation forces near the aforementioned junction. Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on those children, wounding Bader Ibrahim Shokur, 15,from Nusseirat refugee camp, with a live bullet in the right side of the chest.
He was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City for treatment.
At roughly 15:30 local time, approximately 150 Palestinian children gathered near Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City, and started to throw stones at site of the Israeli occupation forces near the aforementioned junction. Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on those children, wounding Bader Ibrahim Shokur, 15,from Nusseirat refugee camp, with a live bullet in the right side of the chest.
He was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City for treatment.