31 mar 2001
At approximately 8:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces positioned at Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City, opened fire on a number of Palestinian boys who were demonstrating approximately 150m south of the junction. As a result, five were wounded as follows:
1) ‘Abdel-Razeq Ya’cob El-Qatrawi, 13, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right hand;
2) Mohammed Saleh El-Helo, 18, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face;
3) Khalil Mahmoud Ramadan, 12, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
4) Nour Hamad Abu Maktouma, 13, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right shoulder;
5) Hammouda Mohammed Hammouda, 14, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh.
Also at approximately 8:00 local time, approximately 200 Palestinian civilians, mostly school children, came from Jabalya and Beit Hanoun to demonstrate near the entrance of Erez industrial zone which is in the north of the Gaza Strip and under control by the Israeli occupation forces. Israeli soldiers opened fire at demonstrators during clashes that lasted until the afternoon, wounding:
1) Ziad ‘Arafat ‘Abdel-Dayem, 33, a medic from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand;
2) Wae’l Zamel Al-Weheidi, 33, from Jabalya, seriously with two live bullets in the chest and the abdomen;
3) Ossama Ahmed Hammad, 16, from Beit Lahia, with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Tariq Mohammed Abu Eshkian, 20, from Beit Lahia, with a live bullet in the left foot;
5) Ahmed Jamal Mohammed Dhiab, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the right knee;
6) Ashraf Jamal Zeidan, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left thigh;
7) Mohammed Mohammed Samir El-Leddawi, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left thigh;
8) ‘Abdel-Salam Amin Mousa, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left knee;
9) Sae’d Mohammed ‘Awadallah, 25, from Jabalya refugee camp, with two live bullets in the right leg and arm;
10) Ramzi Ibrahim Abu Namous, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg;
11) Hassan Abu El-Yakhni, 18, with two live bullets in the left leg and arm;
12) Adam ‘Omar El-Kahlout, 18, from Beit Lahia, with a live bullet in the buttocks;
13) Yousef Ibrahim Abu Sa’da, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left thigh;
14) Hussein Na’im ‘Abbas, 25, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg;
15) ‘Abdel-Khaleq ‘Adel Zhaher, 13, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg; and
16) Haitham Isamail Mahanna, 23, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg.
Furthermore, dozens of Palestinian civilians suffered from suffocation and breathing difficulties due to tear gas inhalation, including Hazem Ismail Ghaben, a 33-year-old Palestine Red Crescent Society medic from Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
In Rafah, Shaker Mohammed Shaker Shahin, a 54-year-old UNWRA ambulance driver from Khan Yunis, was wounded with shrapnel in the left forearm while he was driving the ambulance near the border in Rafah. In his testimony to PCHR, Shahin said that, immediately after being informed of clashes in the area, he and an accompanying nurse, he drove the ambulance from the UNRWA clinic in Rafah towards the Brazil refugee camp next to the border.
He added that he and his colleague offered medical assistance to five civilians who were lightly wounded with shrapnel of live bullets fired by the Israeli forces. He stated that at approximately 9:00 local time, he was wounded with shrapnel in the forearm when he was inside the ambulance, approximately 40m away from the border.
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces fired upon a number of Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, to the east of Gaza City.
As a result, the 13-year-old child from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, Mohammed Rafiq El-Sedoudi, was wounded with a live bullet in the left knee.
Clashes also erupted between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli occupation forces at the southern entrance of Nablus. The Israeli forces opened fire, wounding Nafez Mohammed ‘Eissawi, 30, from Balatta refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left shoulder.
At approximately 8:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border in Rafah fired a hail of bullets on Al-Joneina neighborhood in Rafah, located approximately 1,000m from the border. This shooting wounded two children with live bullets who were near their families’ homes at the time. They were:
1) Wala’ Mahmoud Abu ‘Obeid, 8, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh; and
2) Samar Fuad Abu Jazar, 2.5, wounded with two live bullets in both thighs.
In the evening, Whid Nasser ‘Azer El-Dik, 54, from Ramallah, was pronounced dead at Ramallah hospital. El-Dik was critically wounded during shelling the headquarters of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Ramallah by the Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday, March 28, 2001. He was a guard of the nearby Palestine Technical College near the aforementioned headquarters. He fell off the roof the campus when he tried to flee after hearing the nearby bombings.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 17:00 local time, a number of Jewish settlers from Beit Hadassa settlement inside Hebron, attacked the house of Nabil El-Halabi near the aforementioned settlement with stones and Molotov cocktails. The house was severely damaged.
At approximately 8:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces positioned at Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City, opened fire on a number of Palestinian boys who were demonstrating approximately 150m south of the junction. As a result, five were wounded as follows:
1) ‘Abdel-Razeq Ya’cob El-Qatrawi, 13, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right hand;
2) Mohammed Saleh El-Helo, 18, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face;
3) Khalil Mahmoud Ramadan, 12, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
4) Nour Hamad Abu Maktouma, 13, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right shoulder;
5) Hammouda Mohammed Hammouda, 14, from Nusseirat refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh.
Also at approximately 8:00 local time, approximately 200 Palestinian civilians, mostly school children, came from Jabalya and Beit Hanoun to demonstrate near the entrance of Erez industrial zone which is in the north of the Gaza Strip and under control by the Israeli occupation forces. Israeli soldiers opened fire at demonstrators during clashes that lasted until the afternoon, wounding:
1) Ziad ‘Arafat ‘Abdel-Dayem, 33, a medic from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand;
2) Wae’l Zamel Al-Weheidi, 33, from Jabalya, seriously with two live bullets in the chest and the abdomen;
3) Ossama Ahmed Hammad, 16, from Beit Lahia, with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Tariq Mohammed Abu Eshkian, 20, from Beit Lahia, with a live bullet in the left foot;
5) Ahmed Jamal Mohammed Dhiab, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the right knee;
6) Ashraf Jamal Zeidan, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left thigh;
7) Mohammed Mohammed Samir El-Leddawi, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left thigh;
8) ‘Abdel-Salam Amin Mousa, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left knee;
9) Sae’d Mohammed ‘Awadallah, 25, from Jabalya refugee camp, with two live bullets in the right leg and arm;
10) Ramzi Ibrahim Abu Namous, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg;
11) Hassan Abu El-Yakhni, 18, with two live bullets in the left leg and arm;
12) Adam ‘Omar El-Kahlout, 18, from Beit Lahia, with a live bullet in the buttocks;
13) Yousef Ibrahim Abu Sa’da, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left thigh;
14) Hussein Na’im ‘Abbas, 25, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg;
15) ‘Abdel-Khaleq ‘Adel Zhaher, 13, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg; and
16) Haitham Isamail Mahanna, 23, from Jabalya refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left leg.
Furthermore, dozens of Palestinian civilians suffered from suffocation and breathing difficulties due to tear gas inhalation, including Hazem Ismail Ghaben, a 33-year-old Palestine Red Crescent Society medic from Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
In Rafah, Shaker Mohammed Shaker Shahin, a 54-year-old UNWRA ambulance driver from Khan Yunis, was wounded with shrapnel in the left forearm while he was driving the ambulance near the border in Rafah. In his testimony to PCHR, Shahin said that, immediately after being informed of clashes in the area, he and an accompanying nurse, he drove the ambulance from the UNRWA clinic in Rafah towards the Brazil refugee camp next to the border.
He added that he and his colleague offered medical assistance to five civilians who were lightly wounded with shrapnel of live bullets fired by the Israeli forces. He stated that at approximately 9:00 local time, he was wounded with shrapnel in the forearm when he was inside the ambulance, approximately 40m away from the border.
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces fired upon a number of Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, to the east of Gaza City.
As a result, the 13-year-old child from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, Mohammed Rafiq El-Sedoudi, was wounded with a live bullet in the left knee.
Clashes also erupted between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli occupation forces at the southern entrance of Nablus. The Israeli forces opened fire, wounding Nafez Mohammed ‘Eissawi, 30, from Balatta refugee camp, with a live bullet in the left shoulder.
At approximately 8:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border in Rafah fired a hail of bullets on Al-Joneina neighborhood in Rafah, located approximately 1,000m from the border. This shooting wounded two children with live bullets who were near their families’ homes at the time. They were:
1) Wala’ Mahmoud Abu ‘Obeid, 8, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh; and
2) Samar Fuad Abu Jazar, 2.5, wounded with two live bullets in both thighs.
In the evening, Whid Nasser ‘Azer El-Dik, 54, from Ramallah, was pronounced dead at Ramallah hospital. El-Dik was critically wounded during shelling the headquarters of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Ramallah by the Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday, March 28, 2001. He was a guard of the nearby Palestine Technical College near the aforementioned headquarters. He fell off the roof the campus when he tried to flee after hearing the nearby bombings.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 17:00 local time, a number of Jewish settlers from Beit Hadassa settlement inside Hebron, attacked the house of Nabil El-Halabi near the aforementioned settlement with stones and Molotov cocktails. The house was severely damaged.
30 mar 2001 LANDDAY
In a serious escalation in the use of excessive force and willful killings, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians during clashes that erupted in Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps, on the 25th anniversary of the Land Day.
The Israeli occupation forces killed six and injured approximately 100.
The West Bank city of Nablus witnessed the bloodiest clashes. During the clashes, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians, killing five and injuring dozens. After the Friday prayer, a mass demonstration moved from the city’s largest mosque towards the city’s southern entrance where Israeli occupation forces had been reinforced in the morning by additional deployments. The Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians, killing:
6) ‘Ayesh Ghazi Mustafa Zamel, 19, from Deir El-Hatab village, with a an explosive bullet in the head;
7) Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Marahil, 16, from Balatta refugee camp, with an explosive bullet in the neck;
8) Sha’ban Sa’id Salloum, 31, from Balatta refugee camp, with an explosive bullet in the head that cut it from the rest of his body; and
9) Murad Hani Sharai’a, 20, with an explosive bullet in the head that exploded part of it.
Furthermore, 94 Palestinian civilians were evacuated to Raffidia and Al-Ittihad hospitals in Nablus, after they were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets or inhaled tear gas employed extensively by the Israeli occupation forces during clashes in Nablus. Of the wounded, 32 were wounded with live bullets. This includes Khaled Shehadeh Dhib Nahla, 28, from Nablus, who was critically wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen.
At approximately 20:30 local time, Nahla was pronounced dead at Raffidiah hospital in Nablus. Medical sources at Raffidia hospital stated that the Israeli occupation forces used a type of explosive bullets against Palestinian civilians.
These bullets partially exploded the heads of three victims. Shrapnel from these bullets were found in: the heads of Zamel, Zalloum and Sharai’a; in the neck of Abu Marahil; and in the abdomen of Nahla, whose kidney, spleen and arteries were ruptured. The same medical sources asserted that the Israeli occupation forces also used a highly effective gas with unfamiliar symptoms, similar to that used first in Khan Yunis on February 12, 2001 (for more details about the symptoms, see PCHR’s Weekly Report on February 15, 2001.) The wounded in Nablus who received live bullets were:
1) Ahmed Mahmoud Faraj, 13, wounded with a live bullet in the right leg;
2) Sumar Yahia Darwish, 27, wounded with a live bullet in the genital area;
3) Ghassan Mohammed Jaber, 36, wounded with a live bullet in the right hand;
4) Bilal ‘Abdel-Rahim Dweikat, 38, wounded with a live bullet in the right knee;
5) Mohammed Bahjat El-Khalili, 19, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
6) Sabe’ Salim Sayeh, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the left leg;
7) Hamad Kamal Abu Thera’, 19, wounded with a live bullet in the right knee;
8) Majdi Jamil Barakat, 28, wounded with a live bullet in the back;
9) ‘Abdullah Sedqi Qanadilo, 16, wounded with a live bullet in the head;
10) Samer Fahmi ‘Oweijan, 27, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
11) Najib Mas’oud ‘Abdel-Karim, 19, wounded with an explosive live bullet in the left thigh; and
12) Farid Mustafa Abu Leil, 17, wounded with a live bullet in the neck.
At the northern entrance of Al-Bireh, in the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating more than 100m away.
As a result, Mohammed ‘Abdel-Muhsin El-Wawi, 21, from Al-Am’ari refugee camp, was killed with a live bullet in the head. Additionally, another 16 civilians were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets and dozens suffered from suffocation due to tear gas inhalation. Among the wounded were:
1) Mohammed Mahmoud Moqbel, 50, from Ramallah, wounded with a live bullet in the pelvis;
2) Wasfia ‘Ali El-Barghouthi, 51, from Deir Abu Mesh’al, wounded with a live bullet in the left leg and shrapnel in the abdomen;
3) Mohammed Zakaria Abu El-‘Adas, 18, from Bitounia, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
4) Amjad Rushdi El-Hanbali, 39, from Ramallah, wounded with two live bullets in the left leg and hand; and
5) Mohammed Hussein, 23, from Qaddoura refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the head.
Also in the afternoon, a demonstration of approximately 300 Palestinian civilians moved from Nusseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip towards Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction south of Gaza City. Israeli occupation forces opened fire and used tear gas against civilians, wounding seven with live bullets and shrapnel. The wounded were:
1) Anwar ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Sharif, 18, wounded with a live bullet in the left side of the chest;
2) Jehad ‘Ezzat El-Hour, 13, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen;
3) Akram Khaled Hamad, 16, wounded with shrapnel in the left hand;
4) Islam Hussam El-‘Essawi, 9, wounded with shrapnel in the left leg;
5) Mahmoud Salim Haroun, 17, wounded with shrapnel in the face;
6) Yousef ‘Ali El-Asmr, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the pelvis; and
7) Rami Mattar, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the left knee.
On Friday afternoon, a similar demonstration moved toward Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Erez industrial zone, opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators. As a result 11 civilians, mostly children, were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets. They are:
1) Nabil Suleiman Shabat, 15, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the left leg;
2) Thae’r Fayeq Abu El-Qumsan, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right hand;
3) Sufian ‘Abdel-Hai ‘Abed-Rabbo, 16, from Jabalya village, wounded with a live bullet in the left knee;
4) Maher Salim Abu Mo’awadh, 23, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
5) Mohammed Fathi Abu El-‘Eish, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
6) Mahmoud Helmi El-Madhoun, 13, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a live bullet in the left foot;
7) Khalil ‘Abdel-Karim Abu Zhaher, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
8) Mohammed Yousef Sahwil, from Beit Hanoun, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
9) ‘Abdel-Karim Mohammed Abu Jabal, 10, from Tal El-Za’tar, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left arm;
10) Khalil Maher El-Masri, 23, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
11) Khalil Ziad Abu Jasser, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right thigh;
12) Ahmed Sahwil, 15, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with shrapnel in the right foot;
13) Ibrahim Faisal Mousa, 13, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head; and
14) Mohammed Nizar Rayan, 13, from Jbalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen.
Also in the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet. As a result, 12 civilians were wounded with live bullets as follows:
1) the child Ibrahim Tayseer Yassin, 15, from Al-Shati refugee camp, critically wounded with a live bullet in the head;
2) the child Hani Khamis Baker, 14, from Gaza, critically wounded with a live bullet in the head.
3) Jamil Na’im El-‘Attar, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Amin ‘Abdel-Karim Mohammedein, 20, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
5) Ahmed Khamis ‘Oudeh, 16, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the left ear;
6) Hassan Mohammed Ghazal, 17, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the left upper arm.
7) Mohammed Ahmed Helles, 19, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the right leg;
8) Fahmi Mahmoud El-Shawa, 17, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the right forearm;
9) Mohammed ‘Abdel-Rahim El-Dabash, 16, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with shrapnel in the head;
10) Sami Fathi Abu ‘Amr, 15, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
11) Mohammed Khalil Barakat, 16, from Al-Shati refugee camp, wounded with a bullet in the right arm; and
12) Khamis Hassan El-Fishawi, 25, from Al-Shati refugee camp, wounded with shrapnel in the head.
Not only did the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who peacefully demonstrated, but also they fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses and civilian facilities, thus wounding more civilians and causing severe damage to properties.
At approximately 16:30 local time, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Al-Taktouri, Al-Sheikh, Bab Al-Zawia, Al-Karantina, Abu Sneineh, Khllet Hadour, Sh’aba and Nemra neighborhoods in Hebron.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli occupation forces positioned in Ramay Yishai and Avraham Avino settlements inside Hebron, and the Kharsina and Hagai settlements east and southwest of Hebron, participated in the shelling. The intensity of the shelling on a scale unprecedented since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada. Fourteen Palestinian civilians, including three brothers and four children, were wounded as follows:
1) Munjid Ahmed Dandis, 29, wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
2) Anas Zuhdi Rezeq, 23, wounded with shrapnel in the back;
3) ‘Amer Rezeq Abu El-Fillat, 18, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Lu’ai Waddah El-Qatrawi, 22, wounded with shrapnel in the left shoulder;
5) ‘Abdullah Joudi Abu ‘Eisha, 18, wounded with shrapnel in the right foot.
6) Khamis ‘Abdel-‘Azziz Edris, 17, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
7) Nofouz Ibrahim Dweik, 12, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
8) Feras Mosawdi, 25, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
9) Wissam Ibrahim El-Qawasmi, 25, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
10) Samih Ibrahim El-Qawasmi, 15, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
11) ‘Adnan ‘Ali El-Haimouni, 15, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
12) Ibrahim Naji El-Fakhouri, 33, wounded with shrapnel in the right hand;
13) Hussam Ibrahim El-Qawasmi, 23, wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh; and
14) Ibrahim Jamil Hassan, 20, wounded with shrapnel in the left hand.
In addition, dozens of Palestinian houses and civilian facilities were severely damaged.
At approximately 18:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in a military site near Kishori factory in Tulkarm, shelled the southern neighborhood in the city. The shelling, in which heavy, medium and light machine guns were used, resulted in wounding three Palestinian civilians with shrapnel; another civilian was wounded with a live bullet in the right hand. Additionally, a number of houses and buildings were severely damaged. The wounded were:
1) Shaker Hamdan Shaker, 24, wounded with shrapnel in the back;
2) Riadh Qattawi, 35, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
3) Ossama Saqafa, 22, wounded with a live bullet in the right hand.
At approximately 21:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Gani Tal settlement, in the northwest of Khan Yunis, shelled Palestinian houses to the west of Al-Satar Al-Gharbi area in Khan Yunis. This shelling coincided with similar shelling from Israeli occupation forces' postions in the vicinity of Al-Tuffah roadblock and Neve Dekalim settlement, that targeted Palestinian houses in the west of Khan Yunis refugee camp, and Al-Nemsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood in the southwest of the city.
The shelling, which lasted until 2:30 local time Saturday, resulted in damaging dozens of houses, whose residents left due to the frequent shelling.
In a serious escalation in the use of excessive force and willful killings, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians during clashes that erupted in Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps, on the 25th anniversary of the Land Day.
The Israeli occupation forces killed six and injured approximately 100.
The West Bank city of Nablus witnessed the bloodiest clashes. During the clashes, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians, killing five and injuring dozens. After the Friday prayer, a mass demonstration moved from the city’s largest mosque towards the city’s southern entrance where Israeli occupation forces had been reinforced in the morning by additional deployments. The Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians, killing:
6) ‘Ayesh Ghazi Mustafa Zamel, 19, from Deir El-Hatab village, with a an explosive bullet in the head;
7) Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Marahil, 16, from Balatta refugee camp, with an explosive bullet in the neck;
8) Sha’ban Sa’id Salloum, 31, from Balatta refugee camp, with an explosive bullet in the head that cut it from the rest of his body; and
9) Murad Hani Sharai’a, 20, with an explosive bullet in the head that exploded part of it.
Furthermore, 94 Palestinian civilians were evacuated to Raffidia and Al-Ittihad hospitals in Nablus, after they were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets or inhaled tear gas employed extensively by the Israeli occupation forces during clashes in Nablus. Of the wounded, 32 were wounded with live bullets. This includes Khaled Shehadeh Dhib Nahla, 28, from Nablus, who was critically wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen.
At approximately 20:30 local time, Nahla was pronounced dead at Raffidiah hospital in Nablus. Medical sources at Raffidia hospital stated that the Israeli occupation forces used a type of explosive bullets against Palestinian civilians.
These bullets partially exploded the heads of three victims. Shrapnel from these bullets were found in: the heads of Zamel, Zalloum and Sharai’a; in the neck of Abu Marahil; and in the abdomen of Nahla, whose kidney, spleen and arteries were ruptured. The same medical sources asserted that the Israeli occupation forces also used a highly effective gas with unfamiliar symptoms, similar to that used first in Khan Yunis on February 12, 2001 (for more details about the symptoms, see PCHR’s Weekly Report on February 15, 2001.) The wounded in Nablus who received live bullets were:
1) Ahmed Mahmoud Faraj, 13, wounded with a live bullet in the right leg;
2) Sumar Yahia Darwish, 27, wounded with a live bullet in the genital area;
3) Ghassan Mohammed Jaber, 36, wounded with a live bullet in the right hand;
4) Bilal ‘Abdel-Rahim Dweikat, 38, wounded with a live bullet in the right knee;
5) Mohammed Bahjat El-Khalili, 19, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
6) Sabe’ Salim Sayeh, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the left leg;
7) Hamad Kamal Abu Thera’, 19, wounded with a live bullet in the right knee;
8) Majdi Jamil Barakat, 28, wounded with a live bullet in the back;
9) ‘Abdullah Sedqi Qanadilo, 16, wounded with a live bullet in the head;
10) Samer Fahmi ‘Oweijan, 27, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
11) Najib Mas’oud ‘Abdel-Karim, 19, wounded with an explosive live bullet in the left thigh; and
12) Farid Mustafa Abu Leil, 17, wounded with a live bullet in the neck.
At the northern entrance of Al-Bireh, in the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating more than 100m away.
As a result, Mohammed ‘Abdel-Muhsin El-Wawi, 21, from Al-Am’ari refugee camp, was killed with a live bullet in the head. Additionally, another 16 civilians were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets and dozens suffered from suffocation due to tear gas inhalation. Among the wounded were:
1) Mohammed Mahmoud Moqbel, 50, from Ramallah, wounded with a live bullet in the pelvis;
2) Wasfia ‘Ali El-Barghouthi, 51, from Deir Abu Mesh’al, wounded with a live bullet in the left leg and shrapnel in the abdomen;
3) Mohammed Zakaria Abu El-‘Adas, 18, from Bitounia, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
4) Amjad Rushdi El-Hanbali, 39, from Ramallah, wounded with two live bullets in the left leg and hand; and
5) Mohammed Hussein, 23, from Qaddoura refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the head.
Also in the afternoon, a demonstration of approximately 300 Palestinian civilians moved from Nusseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip towards Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction south of Gaza City. Israeli occupation forces opened fire and used tear gas against civilians, wounding seven with live bullets and shrapnel. The wounded were:
1) Anwar ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Sharif, 18, wounded with a live bullet in the left side of the chest;
2) Jehad ‘Ezzat El-Hour, 13, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen;
3) Akram Khaled Hamad, 16, wounded with shrapnel in the left hand;
4) Islam Hussam El-‘Essawi, 9, wounded with shrapnel in the left leg;
5) Mahmoud Salim Haroun, 17, wounded with shrapnel in the face;
6) Yousef ‘Ali El-Asmr, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the pelvis; and
7) Rami Mattar, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the left knee.
On Friday afternoon, a similar demonstration moved toward Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Erez industrial zone, opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators. As a result 11 civilians, mostly children, were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets. They are:
1) Nabil Suleiman Shabat, 15, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the left leg;
2) Thae’r Fayeq Abu El-Qumsan, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right hand;
3) Sufian ‘Abdel-Hai ‘Abed-Rabbo, 16, from Jabalya village, wounded with a live bullet in the left knee;
4) Maher Salim Abu Mo’awadh, 23, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
5) Mohammed Fathi Abu El-‘Eish, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
6) Mahmoud Helmi El-Madhoun, 13, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a live bullet in the left foot;
7) Khalil ‘Abdel-Karim Abu Zhaher, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
8) Mohammed Yousef Sahwil, from Beit Hanoun, 15, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
9) ‘Abdel-Karim Mohammed Abu Jabal, 10, from Tal El-Za’tar, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left arm;
10) Khalil Maher El-Masri, 23, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
11) Khalil Ziad Abu Jasser, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right thigh;
12) Ahmed Sahwil, 15, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with shrapnel in the right foot;
13) Ibrahim Faisal Mousa, 13, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head; and
14) Mohammed Nizar Rayan, 13, from Jbalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen.
Also in the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet. As a result, 12 civilians were wounded with live bullets as follows:
1) the child Ibrahim Tayseer Yassin, 15, from Al-Shati refugee camp, critically wounded with a live bullet in the head;
2) the child Hani Khamis Baker, 14, from Gaza, critically wounded with a live bullet in the head.
3) Jamil Na’im El-‘Attar, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Amin ‘Abdel-Karim Mohammedein, 20, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
5) Ahmed Khamis ‘Oudeh, 16, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the left ear;
6) Hassan Mohammed Ghazal, 17, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the left upper arm.
7) Mohammed Ahmed Helles, 19, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the right leg;
8) Fahmi Mahmoud El-Shawa, 17, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the right forearm;
9) Mohammed ‘Abdel-Rahim El-Dabash, 16, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with shrapnel in the head;
10) Sami Fathi Abu ‘Amr, 15, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
11) Mohammed Khalil Barakat, 16, from Al-Shati refugee camp, wounded with a bullet in the right arm; and
12) Khamis Hassan El-Fishawi, 25, from Al-Shati refugee camp, wounded with shrapnel in the head.
Not only did the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who peacefully demonstrated, but also they fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses and civilian facilities, thus wounding more civilians and causing severe damage to properties.
At approximately 16:30 local time, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Al-Taktouri, Al-Sheikh, Bab Al-Zawia, Al-Karantina, Abu Sneineh, Khllet Hadour, Sh’aba and Nemra neighborhoods in Hebron.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli occupation forces positioned in Ramay Yishai and Avraham Avino settlements inside Hebron, and the Kharsina and Hagai settlements east and southwest of Hebron, participated in the shelling. The intensity of the shelling on a scale unprecedented since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada. Fourteen Palestinian civilians, including three brothers and four children, were wounded as follows:
1) Munjid Ahmed Dandis, 29, wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder;
2) Anas Zuhdi Rezeq, 23, wounded with shrapnel in the back;
3) ‘Amer Rezeq Abu El-Fillat, 18, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Lu’ai Waddah El-Qatrawi, 22, wounded with shrapnel in the left shoulder;
5) ‘Abdullah Joudi Abu ‘Eisha, 18, wounded with shrapnel in the right foot.
6) Khamis ‘Abdel-‘Azziz Edris, 17, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
7) Nofouz Ibrahim Dweik, 12, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot;
8) Feras Mosawdi, 25, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
9) Wissam Ibrahim El-Qawasmi, 25, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
10) Samih Ibrahim El-Qawasmi, 15, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
11) ‘Adnan ‘Ali El-Haimouni, 15, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
12) Ibrahim Naji El-Fakhouri, 33, wounded with shrapnel in the right hand;
13) Hussam Ibrahim El-Qawasmi, 23, wounded with shrapnel in the left thigh; and
14) Ibrahim Jamil Hassan, 20, wounded with shrapnel in the left hand.
In addition, dozens of Palestinian houses and civilian facilities were severely damaged.
At approximately 18:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in a military site near Kishori factory in Tulkarm, shelled the southern neighborhood in the city. The shelling, in which heavy, medium and light machine guns were used, resulted in wounding three Palestinian civilians with shrapnel; another civilian was wounded with a live bullet in the right hand. Additionally, a number of houses and buildings were severely damaged. The wounded were:
1) Shaker Hamdan Shaker, 24, wounded with shrapnel in the back;
2) Riadh Qattawi, 35, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
3) Ossama Saqafa, 22, wounded with a live bullet in the right hand.
At approximately 21:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Gani Tal settlement, in the northwest of Khan Yunis, shelled Palestinian houses to the west of Al-Satar Al-Gharbi area in Khan Yunis. This shelling coincided with similar shelling from Israeli occupation forces' postions in the vicinity of Al-Tuffah roadblock and Neve Dekalim settlement, that targeted Palestinian houses in the west of Khan Yunis refugee camp, and Al-Nemsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood in the southwest of the city.
The shelling, which lasted until 2:30 local time Saturday, resulted in damaging dozens of houses, whose residents left due to the frequent shelling.
29 mar 2001
At approximately 8:00 local time, approximately 250 students of schools of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, move towards Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing, and a number of them started to throw stones at an Israeli occupation forces site inside Erez industrial zone. Israeli occupation soldiers immediately opened fire on students.
At approximately 9:30 local time, the child Mahmoud Khaled Abu Shehadeh, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, a student of the 10th grade at Ahmed El-Shaqanqiri school near Beit Hanoun, was killed with a live bullet that penetrated the left arm and entered the chest, settling in the heart.
Additionally, the child Mohammed Salman Abu Shamla, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, was wounded with a live bullet that entered the right side of the back and exited the left side of the chest. He died at the surgery unit of Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. The number of the wounded in these clashes, which have continued up to now, was 17. They are:
1) Mohammed Zeid Mahanna, 19, from Jabalya refugee camp, seriously wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen;
2) Sueiman Marwan ‘Okasha, 13, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with shrapnel in the left arm;
3) Ahmed Majed ‘Obeid, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the mouth;
4) Naji Khader Salem, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the left foot;
5) Ramez ‘Awdallah El-Z’anin, 17, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
6) Ahmed Fayez Abu Es’ifan, 18, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
7) Fadi Ahmed Bader, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right hand;
8) Bassam Fathi Khader, 18, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a live bullet in the left hand;
9) Ossama Abu Zhaher, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the hand;
10) Sa’ed Mohammed ‘Awadallah, 24, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a sound bomb in the knee;
11) Mahmoud Samir Abu ‘Oun, 14, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand;
12) Mohammed Abu ‘Amsha, 15, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
13) Sa’ed Abu Setteh, 16, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet under the left eye;
14) Kamal El-Taramsi, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
15) Mohammed Samir Qarmout, 17, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face;
16) Mohammed Nezar Rayyan, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with three rubber-coated metal bullets in the right thigh, the back and the foot; and
17) Mahmoud Wahid Abu El-Qumsan, 15, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand.
Update
At approximately 10:00 local time, approximately 100 Palestinian children from Nusseirat refugee camp went to Al-Shuhada’ junction leading to Netzarim settlement, south of Gaza City. This came as soon as they heard news about the death of Hussam Ghanem Al-Kronz, 24, (28 march) from Al-Boreij refugee camp, who was killed by Israeli occupation forces positioned near the aforementioned settlement. When those children were approximately 150m to the south of the junction, they started to throw stones at Israeli occupation soldiers positioned there. Those soldiers opened fire, wounding 10 children as follows:
1) Salah Abu Dabbagh, 14, wounded with a live bullet in the right knee;
2) Samir Zakaria Abu Dalal, 12, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face;
3) Mohammed El-Hawajri, 17, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Mohammed Abu Shawish, 17, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the abdomen;
5) ‘Abdel-Rahim Zaqout, 14, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
6) Mohammed Zaki Abu Safeya, 17, wounded with a live bullet in the back;
7) Qais El-‘Aidi, 15, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
8) ‘Ali Ghaleb El-Namrouti, 12, wounded with a live bullet in the side;
9) Mohammed Talal El-Sheikh, 12, wounded with a live bullet in the right shoulder; and
10) Tariq Sueiman Abu Shallouf, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli tanks positioned at the border in Rafah opened fire on Palestinian civilians and houses near Al-Nour mosque in the Brazil refugee camp, adjacent to the border. As a result, four Palestinian civilians, including a 3-year-old child, were wounded near their homes, located 5-100m away from the border. The wounded were:
1) Hadil Jehad Abu El-S’oud, 3, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
2) Mohammed Lutfi El-Sayed, 20, wounded with a live bullet in the right arm;
3) Sawsan Abu El-‘Einein, 35, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot; and
4) Khaled Kassab, 15, wounded with shrapnel in the right arm.
In addition, a number of houses were damaged after their walls were hit with bullets.
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Abu Sneineh neighborhood in Hebron. At approximately 16:00 local time, the Israeli forces stormed at least 150m into the neighborhood which is located in an "area A"--an area under full control by the Palestinian National Authority. Fifteen minutes later, they withdrew to nearby Israeli military sites.
At approximately 8:00 local time, approximately 250 students of schools of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, move towards Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing, and a number of them started to throw stones at an Israeli occupation forces site inside Erez industrial zone. Israeli occupation soldiers immediately opened fire on students.
At approximately 9:30 local time, the child Mahmoud Khaled Abu Shehadeh, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, a student of the 10th grade at Ahmed El-Shaqanqiri school near Beit Hanoun, was killed with a live bullet that penetrated the left arm and entered the chest, settling in the heart.
Additionally, the child Mohammed Salman Abu Shamla, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, was wounded with a live bullet that entered the right side of the back and exited the left side of the chest. He died at the surgery unit of Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City. The number of the wounded in these clashes, which have continued up to now, was 17. They are:
1) Mohammed Zeid Mahanna, 19, from Jabalya refugee camp, seriously wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen;
2) Sueiman Marwan ‘Okasha, 13, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with shrapnel in the left arm;
3) Ahmed Majed ‘Obeid, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the mouth;
4) Naji Khader Salem, 18, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the left foot;
5) Ramez ‘Awdallah El-Z’anin, 17, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a live bullet in the left thigh;
6) Ahmed Fayez Abu Es’ifan, 18, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
7) Fadi Ahmed Bader, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right hand;
8) Bassam Fathi Khader, 18, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a live bullet in the left hand;
9) Ossama Abu Zhaher, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the hand;
10) Sa’ed Mohammed ‘Awadallah, 24, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a sound bomb in the knee;
11) Mahmoud Samir Abu ‘Oun, 14, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand;
12) Mohammed Abu ‘Amsha, 15, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
13) Sa’ed Abu Setteh, 16, from Beit Hanoun, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet under the left eye;
14) Kamal El-Taramsi, 16, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
15) Mohammed Samir Qarmout, 17, from Beit Lahia, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face;
16) Mohammed Nezar Rayyan, 14, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with three rubber-coated metal bullets in the right thigh, the back and the foot; and
17) Mahmoud Wahid Abu El-Qumsan, 15, from Jabalya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand.
Update
At approximately 10:00 local time, approximately 100 Palestinian children from Nusseirat refugee camp went to Al-Shuhada’ junction leading to Netzarim settlement, south of Gaza City. This came as soon as they heard news about the death of Hussam Ghanem Al-Kronz, 24, (28 march) from Al-Boreij refugee camp, who was killed by Israeli occupation forces positioned near the aforementioned settlement. When those children were approximately 150m to the south of the junction, they started to throw stones at Israeli occupation soldiers positioned there. Those soldiers opened fire, wounding 10 children as follows:
1) Salah Abu Dabbagh, 14, wounded with a live bullet in the right knee;
2) Samir Zakaria Abu Dalal, 12, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face;
3) Mohammed El-Hawajri, 17, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
4) Mohammed Abu Shawish, 17, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the abdomen;
5) ‘Abdel-Rahim Zaqout, 14, wounded with a live bullet in the right foot;
6) Mohammed Zaki Abu Safeya, 17, wounded with a live bullet in the back;
7) Qais El-‘Aidi, 15, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
8) ‘Ali Ghaleb El-Namrouti, 12, wounded with a live bullet in the side;
9) Mohammed Talal El-Sheikh, 12, wounded with a live bullet in the right shoulder; and
10) Tariq Sueiman Abu Shallouf, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen.
At approximately 15:00 local time, Israeli tanks positioned at the border in Rafah opened fire on Palestinian civilians and houses near Al-Nour mosque in the Brazil refugee camp, adjacent to the border. As a result, four Palestinian civilians, including a 3-year-old child, were wounded near their homes, located 5-100m away from the border. The wounded were:
1) Hadil Jehad Abu El-S’oud, 3, wounded with a live bullet in the right thigh;
2) Mohammed Lutfi El-Sayed, 20, wounded with a live bullet in the right arm;
3) Sawsan Abu El-‘Einein, 35, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot; and
4) Khaled Kassab, 15, wounded with shrapnel in the right arm.
In addition, a number of houses were damaged after their walls were hit with bullets.
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Abu Sneineh neighborhood in Hebron. At approximately 16:00 local time, the Israeli forces stormed at least 150m into the neighborhood which is located in an "area A"--an area under full control by the Palestinian National Authority. Fifteen minutes later, they withdrew to nearby Israeli military sites.
28 mar 2001
At approximately 10:30 local time, there was an explosion near the border in Brazil refugee camp in Rafah. Residents hurried to the location of the explosion, finding a child lying on the ground with his chest and abdomen torn, his bowels on the ground and his face deformed.
The body of the unidentified child was taken, along with another three wounded children, to Al-Joeneina hospital in Rafah. Later, the child was identified as Yahaia Fathi Mohammed El-Sheikh ‘Eid, a 12-year-old from ‘Amer housing project in the east of Rafah. The other wounded children were:
1) Mohammed Jaber ‘Abed, 12, from Brazil refugee camp in Rafah, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) ‘Ammar Mohammed El-Kurd, 12, Brazil refugee camp in Rafah, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
3) Walid ‘Abdel-Fattah Mansour, 12, from Brazil refugee camp in Rafah, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
According to PCHR’s investigation and eyewitness and wounded testimonies, the explosion resulted from an explosive object left behind by the Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border in Rafah. Investigation also asserted that the four children were on their way to school, when a civilian living near the border asked them to help him carry two household gas jars home.
The children carried the two jars into the house. After they noticed a cylindrical metal piece, an iron hammer and a colored leather glove, the children entered the border area through a hole in the border fence. The child Yahia El-Sheikh ‘Eid picked up the metal piece and the hammer, and ‘Ammar El-Kurd picked up the glove. Then, the four children left the area. Approximately 10m away from the border, the child Yahia started to fidget with the metal piece and the hammer, which exploded between his hands.
At approximately 23:00 local time, shooting from a military site of the Israeli occupation forces at Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City, was heard. In the morning of Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces handed over to the Palestinian side the body of Hussam Ghanem ‘Ali Al-Kronz, a 23-year-old member of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service from Al-Boreij refugee camp. According to medical sources at Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, Al-Kronz received a live bullet in the chest. According to initial information, Al-Kronz was shot at Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, but no addional details were available.
In the evening, the Israeli occupation forces started to shell Palestinian cities from their military sites and using combat helicopters. This resulted in killing two Palestinians, including a 45-year-old civilian, and wounding dozens. It also caused severe damage to a number of civilian facilities and buildings of the Palestinian security services.
At approximately 19:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on ‘Eibal and Jarzim mounts, to the north and south of Nablus respectively, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Khellet El-‘Amoud and Iraq El-Tayeh neighborhoods and Balatta refugee camp.
As a result, Farid ‘Abdel-Hamid Badran, 57, from Balatta refugee camp, was wounded with shrapnel in the head and the chest, and some houses were severely damaged.
At approximately 19:35, the Israeli occupation forces shelled a site of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Ramallah, killing one of its members, Akram ‘Omar Ahmed El-Hindi, 25, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, whose body completely burnt after having been directly hit with a rocket.
Such shelling coincided with shelling Palestinian residential neighborhoods in Bitounia by Israeli occupation forces positioned in ‘Ofar military site, to thee south of Ramallah. Such shelling resulted in the death of Su’ad El-Sheikh Khalil, 45, after she received a heavy caliber bullet in the head, while she was driving her car towards her house in Bitounia.
At approximately 19:45 local time, combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces started to fire rockets at a site of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Al-Twam area in Jabalya in the northern area of the Gaza Strip. As a result, three members of Force 17 were wounded as follows:
1) Anwar El-Faq’awi, 25, from Khan Yunis, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Eshteiwi El-‘Azayza, 23, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
3) ‘Abdullah Zeid, 22, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
The shelling also resulted in severe damage to a number of nearby houses and civilian facilities as follows:
1) Twenty-one windows of a 180-square-meter, three-story house (newly established and not inhibited), owned by ‘Alla’ As’ad El-Saftawi, were broken.
2) Seven windows of a 200-square-meter, two-story house, owned by Tahsin Saleh Khalil El-Halimi, were broken.
3) Eight windows of a 200-square-meter, three-story house, in which four people live, owned by Khamis Ramadan El-Hessi, were broken and walls cracked.
4) Four windows of the second floor of a 150-square-meter, three-story house, in which 11 people live, owned by Tahsin Saleh Khalil El-Halimi, were broken.
5) Three windows of the second floor of a 370-square-meter, three-story house, in which 30 people live, owned by Tawfiq Ahmed ‘Atteya ‘Oweida, were broken.
6) Seven windows of ‘A’esha mosque, established on a 350-square-meter area, were broken.
7) Nine windows of Hijazi Medical Center of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, established on a 450-square-meter area, were broken.
The shelling coincided with similar shelling by combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces that targeted the headquarters of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Ma’n village, to the east of Khan Yunis. The building was severely damaged.
In addition, nearby UNRWA clinic and Ma’n elementary school were severely damaged.
At the same time, combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces shelled a site of the Palestinian National Security Forces near Al-Qarara crossroads, to the north of Khan Yunis.
As a result, one of the site’s members, Nour ‘Abed Abu Hattab, 24, was wounded with shrapnel in the back, and the site was severely damaged. PCHR’s field officer in Khan Yunis reported that a number of the area’s residents arrived at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, after they suffered from nervous breakdowns and bruises in the body. He added that a number of houses and civilian facilities near the targeted site were severely damaged as follows:
1) Windows of a 120-square-meter, two-story house, in which 25 people live, owned by ‘Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Hassan El-‘Abadleh, were broken and walls cracked.
2) Windows of a 140-square-meter, two-story house, in which 10 people live, owned by Sharif Ibrahim El-‘Abadleh, were broken.
3) Windows of a 120-square-meter, three-story house, in which three people live, owned by Ahmed ‘Abdullah Ahmed El-‘Abadleh, were broken.
4) Windows of a 100-square-meter fuel station, owned by ‘Abdel-‘Azziz Hassan Temraz, were broken.
5) Windows of a medical clinic of the Palestinian Ministry of Health were destroyed.
6) Windows of Al-Salam mosque were broken and walls cracked.
At approximately 20:00 local time, combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces fired rockets at a site of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) at Deir El-Balah seashore, destroying six rooms used as administrative offices.
At approximately 23:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at Al-Tuffah roadblock and in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the west of Khan Yunis refugee camp and in Al-Nemsawi neighborhood. As a result three Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Naji Abu ‘Awadh, 35, wounded with shrapnel in the right thigh;
2) Akmal Anu Khadra, 36, wounded with shrapnel in the right leg; and
3) Ahmed ‘Atteya Abu Sahloul, 25, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 2:30 local time, more than 100 Jewish settlers and units of the Israeli occupation forces burst into Al-Karantina area, and entered up to approximately 350m inside areas under the control of the Palestinian National Authority. Settlers, under full protection by the Israeli occupation forces, attacked Palestinian houses, throwing stones and incendiary materials at them, and breaking their windows with iron bars.
They also attacked a number of Palestinian civilian cars in the area, and set fire to nine of them, two of which belong to Hebron Municipality. In the afternoon, Jewish settlers set fire to a part of the headquarters of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments, located near a settlement center known as “Avraham Avino,” causing severe damage to its furniture.
At approximately 10:30 local time, there was an explosion near the border in Brazil refugee camp in Rafah. Residents hurried to the location of the explosion, finding a child lying on the ground with his chest and abdomen torn, his bowels on the ground and his face deformed.
The body of the unidentified child was taken, along with another three wounded children, to Al-Joeneina hospital in Rafah. Later, the child was identified as Yahaia Fathi Mohammed El-Sheikh ‘Eid, a 12-year-old from ‘Amer housing project in the east of Rafah. The other wounded children were:
1) Mohammed Jaber ‘Abed, 12, from Brazil refugee camp in Rafah, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) ‘Ammar Mohammed El-Kurd, 12, Brazil refugee camp in Rafah, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
3) Walid ‘Abdel-Fattah Mansour, 12, from Brazil refugee camp in Rafah, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
According to PCHR’s investigation and eyewitness and wounded testimonies, the explosion resulted from an explosive object left behind by the Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border in Rafah. Investigation also asserted that the four children were on their way to school, when a civilian living near the border asked them to help him carry two household gas jars home.
The children carried the two jars into the house. After they noticed a cylindrical metal piece, an iron hammer and a colored leather glove, the children entered the border area through a hole in the border fence. The child Yahia El-Sheikh ‘Eid picked up the metal piece and the hammer, and ‘Ammar El-Kurd picked up the glove. Then, the four children left the area. Approximately 10m away from the border, the child Yahia started to fidget with the metal piece and the hammer, which exploded between his hands.
At approximately 23:00 local time, shooting from a military site of the Israeli occupation forces at Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City, was heard. In the morning of Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces handed over to the Palestinian side the body of Hussam Ghanem ‘Ali Al-Kronz, a 23-year-old member of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service from Al-Boreij refugee camp. According to medical sources at Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, Al-Kronz received a live bullet in the chest. According to initial information, Al-Kronz was shot at Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, but no addional details were available.
In the evening, the Israeli occupation forces started to shell Palestinian cities from their military sites and using combat helicopters. This resulted in killing two Palestinians, including a 45-year-old civilian, and wounding dozens. It also caused severe damage to a number of civilian facilities and buildings of the Palestinian security services.
At approximately 19:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned on ‘Eibal and Jarzim mounts, to the north and south of Nablus respectively, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Khellet El-‘Amoud and Iraq El-Tayeh neighborhoods and Balatta refugee camp.
As a result, Farid ‘Abdel-Hamid Badran, 57, from Balatta refugee camp, was wounded with shrapnel in the head and the chest, and some houses were severely damaged.
At approximately 19:35, the Israeli occupation forces shelled a site of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Ramallah, killing one of its members, Akram ‘Omar Ahmed El-Hindi, 25, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, whose body completely burnt after having been directly hit with a rocket.
Such shelling coincided with shelling Palestinian residential neighborhoods in Bitounia by Israeli occupation forces positioned in ‘Ofar military site, to thee south of Ramallah. Such shelling resulted in the death of Su’ad El-Sheikh Khalil, 45, after she received a heavy caliber bullet in the head, while she was driving her car towards her house in Bitounia.
At approximately 19:45 local time, combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces started to fire rockets at a site of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Al-Twam area in Jabalya in the northern area of the Gaza Strip. As a result, three members of Force 17 were wounded as follows:
1) Anwar El-Faq’awi, 25, from Khan Yunis, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Eshteiwi El-‘Azayza, 23, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body; and
3) ‘Abdullah Zeid, 22, wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
The shelling also resulted in severe damage to a number of nearby houses and civilian facilities as follows:
1) Twenty-one windows of a 180-square-meter, three-story house (newly established and not inhibited), owned by ‘Alla’ As’ad El-Saftawi, were broken.
2) Seven windows of a 200-square-meter, two-story house, owned by Tahsin Saleh Khalil El-Halimi, were broken.
3) Eight windows of a 200-square-meter, three-story house, in which four people live, owned by Khamis Ramadan El-Hessi, were broken and walls cracked.
4) Four windows of the second floor of a 150-square-meter, three-story house, in which 11 people live, owned by Tahsin Saleh Khalil El-Halimi, were broken.
5) Three windows of the second floor of a 370-square-meter, three-story house, in which 30 people live, owned by Tawfiq Ahmed ‘Atteya ‘Oweida, were broken.
6) Seven windows of ‘A’esha mosque, established on a 350-square-meter area, were broken.
7) Nine windows of Hijazi Medical Center of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, established on a 450-square-meter area, were broken.
The shelling coincided with similar shelling by combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces that targeted the headquarters of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) in Ma’n village, to the east of Khan Yunis. The building was severely damaged.
In addition, nearby UNRWA clinic and Ma’n elementary school were severely damaged.
At the same time, combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces shelled a site of the Palestinian National Security Forces near Al-Qarara crossroads, to the north of Khan Yunis.
As a result, one of the site’s members, Nour ‘Abed Abu Hattab, 24, was wounded with shrapnel in the back, and the site was severely damaged. PCHR’s field officer in Khan Yunis reported that a number of the area’s residents arrived at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, after they suffered from nervous breakdowns and bruises in the body. He added that a number of houses and civilian facilities near the targeted site were severely damaged as follows:
1) Windows of a 120-square-meter, two-story house, in which 25 people live, owned by ‘Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Hassan El-‘Abadleh, were broken and walls cracked.
2) Windows of a 140-square-meter, two-story house, in which 10 people live, owned by Sharif Ibrahim El-‘Abadleh, were broken.
3) Windows of a 120-square-meter, three-story house, in which three people live, owned by Ahmed ‘Abdullah Ahmed El-‘Abadleh, were broken.
4) Windows of a 100-square-meter fuel station, owned by ‘Abdel-‘Azziz Hassan Temraz, were broken.
5) Windows of a medical clinic of the Palestinian Ministry of Health were destroyed.
6) Windows of Al-Salam mosque were broken and walls cracked.
At approximately 20:00 local time, combat helicopters of the Israeli occupation forces fired rockets at a site of the Palestinian President’s Guards (Force 17) at Deir El-Balah seashore, destroying six rooms used as administrative offices.
At approximately 23:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at Al-Tuffah roadblock and in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the west of Khan Yunis refugee camp and in Al-Nemsawi neighborhood. As a result three Palestinian civilians were wounded as follows:
1) Naji Abu ‘Awadh, 35, wounded with shrapnel in the right thigh;
2) Akmal Anu Khadra, 36, wounded with shrapnel in the right leg; and
3) Ahmed ‘Atteya Abu Sahloul, 25, wounded with shrapnel in the left foot.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 2:30 local time, more than 100 Jewish settlers and units of the Israeli occupation forces burst into Al-Karantina area, and entered up to approximately 350m inside areas under the control of the Palestinian National Authority. Settlers, under full protection by the Israeli occupation forces, attacked Palestinian houses, throwing stones and incendiary materials at them, and breaking their windows with iron bars.
They also attacked a number of Palestinian civilian cars in the area, and set fire to nine of them, two of which belong to Hebron Municipality. In the afternoon, Jewish settlers set fire to a part of the headquarters of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments, located near a settlement center known as “Avraham Avino,” causing severe damage to its furniture.
27 mar 2001
At approximately 7:30 local time, Palestinian residents of Jabe’ village near Jenin confronted the Israeli occupation forces that had burst into the their village for the second time on the same day, in order to arrest a village resident. The Israeli forces opened fire and used tear gas against Palestinian civilians and houses. A tear gas canister fell into a house.
As a result, Khaireya Qassem ‘Ali Fshafsha, 70, died after she suffered from breathing difficulties due to tear gas inhalation. Other members of her family, including a 30-year-old pregnant woman, also suffered from breathing difficulties.
Additionally, ‘Abdullah ‘Abdel-Qader ‘Alawneh, 18, was wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the hand.
At approximately 9:00 local time, a demonstration organized by preparatory school students moved from Nusseirat refugee camp in the middle area of the Gaza Strip towards Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City. Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the junction, opened fire and used tear gas against students who demonstrated approximately 150m away.
As a result, Majdi Mohammed Abu Hamdeh, a 14-year-old from Nusseirat refugee camp, was wounded with a live bullet in the left hand. He was evacuated to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir El-Balah for treatment.
At approximately 11:00 local time, approximately 300 Palestinian civilians moved from Al-‘Awda square in Rafah towards a junction leading to Marag settlement, and organized a peaceful sit-in, in protest to the continued closure of Rafah-Khan Yunis road since December 14, 2000. During the sit-in, which lasted for approximately one hour, Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a number of Palestinian children, who were trying to reach the border of Morag settlement, approximately 300m away from the sit-in.
As a result, the 13-year-old child Ashraf Fayez Madhi, from Rafah, was wounded with a live bullet in the left leg. He was evacuated to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah for treatment.
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating at the northern entrance of Al-Bireh. As a result, three Palestinian civilians were wounded, including a field officer of the Israeli B’tselem Nisreen Kahlil ‘Oleyan, 22, who was wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head. The other wounded were:
1) Samer Sa’di Al-Weheidi, 18, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left knee; and
2) ‘Abdel-Hamid ‘Abdel-Rahman Hamed, 24, from Al-Bireh, wounded with a live bullet in the left foot.
At approximately 20:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces indiscriminately opened fire on Palestinian civilians and houses in Kenar neighborhood in the southwest of Hebron.
As a result, the 11-year-old child Mahmoud Ismail Darawish, was killed with a live bullet in the chest that was fired by Israeli soldiers positioned in a military site at Al-Fawar-Doura junction.
At approximately 21:40 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Kharsina settlement, to the east of Hebron, shelled Palestinian houses in Sh’aba and Nemer neighborhoods, under control by the Palestinian National Authority. These forces fired heavy and medium caliber bullets, causing severe damage to a number of houses, and electricity, telephone and water networks.
Furthermore, the child Wassim Mohammed Fahmi Da’na, 10, was wounded with shrapnel in the left eye. He was evacuated to Al-Mizan hospital in Hebron for treatment.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 13:20 local time, Jewish settlers Al-Zaytoun quarter in Hebron, and destroyed a Palestinian civilian car owned by Salah El-Zaro, a Director General at the Palestinian Ministry of Labor.
On the same day, settlers attacked three Palestinian commercial stores in the market of vegetables in Hebron, destroying the doors of some and setting fire to them. They also burnt a carpentry workshop in Khan El-Kayala, owned by Qassem Abu Mayala.
At approximately 7:30 local time, Palestinian residents of Jabe’ village near Jenin confronted the Israeli occupation forces that had burst into the their village for the second time on the same day, in order to arrest a village resident. The Israeli forces opened fire and used tear gas against Palestinian civilians and houses. A tear gas canister fell into a house.
As a result, Khaireya Qassem ‘Ali Fshafsha, 70, died after she suffered from breathing difficulties due to tear gas inhalation. Other members of her family, including a 30-year-old pregnant woman, also suffered from breathing difficulties.
Additionally, ‘Abdullah ‘Abdel-Qader ‘Alawneh, 18, was wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the hand.
At approximately 9:00 local time, a demonstration organized by preparatory school students moved from Nusseirat refugee camp in the middle area of the Gaza Strip towards Al-Shuhada’ (Netzarim) junction, to the south of Gaza City. Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the junction, opened fire and used tear gas against students who demonstrated approximately 150m away.
As a result, Majdi Mohammed Abu Hamdeh, a 14-year-old from Nusseirat refugee camp, was wounded with a live bullet in the left hand. He was evacuated to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir El-Balah for treatment.
At approximately 11:00 local time, approximately 300 Palestinian civilians moved from Al-‘Awda square in Rafah towards a junction leading to Marag settlement, and organized a peaceful sit-in, in protest to the continued closure of Rafah-Khan Yunis road since December 14, 2000. During the sit-in, which lasted for approximately one hour, Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a number of Palestinian children, who were trying to reach the border of Morag settlement, approximately 300m away from the sit-in.
As a result, the 13-year-old child Ashraf Fayez Madhi, from Rafah, was wounded with a live bullet in the left leg. He was evacuated to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah for treatment.
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were demonstrating at the northern entrance of Al-Bireh. As a result, three Palestinian civilians were wounded, including a field officer of the Israeli B’tselem Nisreen Kahlil ‘Oleyan, 22, who was wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head. The other wounded were:
1) Samer Sa’di Al-Weheidi, 18, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left knee; and
2) ‘Abdel-Hamid ‘Abdel-Rahman Hamed, 24, from Al-Bireh, wounded with a live bullet in the left foot.
At approximately 20:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces indiscriminately opened fire on Palestinian civilians and houses in Kenar neighborhood in the southwest of Hebron.
As a result, the 11-year-old child Mahmoud Ismail Darawish, was killed with a live bullet in the chest that was fired by Israeli soldiers positioned in a military site at Al-Fawar-Doura junction.
At approximately 21:40 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Kharsina settlement, to the east of Hebron, shelled Palestinian houses in Sh’aba and Nemer neighborhoods, under control by the Palestinian National Authority. These forces fired heavy and medium caliber bullets, causing severe damage to a number of houses, and electricity, telephone and water networks.
Furthermore, the child Wassim Mohammed Fahmi Da’na, 10, was wounded with shrapnel in the left eye. He was evacuated to Al-Mizan hospital in Hebron for treatment.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 13:20 local time, Jewish settlers Al-Zaytoun quarter in Hebron, and destroyed a Palestinian civilian car owned by Salah El-Zaro, a Director General at the Palestinian Ministry of Labor.
On the same day, settlers attacked three Palestinian commercial stores in the market of vegetables in Hebron, destroying the doors of some and setting fire to them. They also burnt a carpentry workshop in Khan El-Kayala, owned by Qassem Abu Mayala.
26 mar 2001
In the afternoon, Israeli occupation forces, positioned near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, to the east of Gaza City, fired live and rubber-coated metal bullets at a number of Palestinian civilians, who were demonstrating approximately 100m away. The Israeli forces again resorted to the use of a new highly effective gas that left symptoms different from those of the highly effective gas used first against Palestinian civilians in Khan Yunis, starting from February 12, 2001.
Three Palestinian civilians were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets and were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City for treatment. They were:
1) Hassan Sufian Mansour, 15, from Al-Nasser neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen;
2) Mohammed Farajallah El-‘Emrani, 24, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the leg; and
3) Majdi El-Sarasak, 20, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left foot.
Furthermore, another three Palestinian civilians were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, after having inhaled a highly effective gas. They were:
1) Eyad Fahim Zaqout, 23, from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City;
2) Ra’ed Suleiman Hassan, 30, from Al-Boreij refugee camp; and
3) Ra’fat ‘Abed El-Masri, 26, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
According to one of them, the new gas is orange-colored and has a nice-smell and delicious taste upon inhalation. Then, the inhaler feels tired throughout the body, their muscles loosen, and they suffer from breathing difficulties. The gas also leaves red signs on the skin, causing agitation. Some hours later, the inhaler suffers severe abdominal pains.
At approximately 17:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in a settlement center, known as “Avraham Avino,” and in a military barracks in Ossam Ben Monqeth school, in the area of Hebron under the control of these forces, shelled Palestinian houses in Hebron. These forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian house in Qubbat Janeb, Al-Takrouri and Abu Sneineh neighborhoods.
As a result, six Palestinian civilians were wounded with, and a number of houses were severely damaged after having been hit with artillery shells and live bullets. According to eyewitnesses, Palestinian ambulances were not able to reach the targeted areas due to intense shelling. Among the wounded was a 22-year-old Reuters cameraman from Hebron, Lu’ai ‘Abdel-Salam ‘Orabi Abu Haikal, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left side, the back and the right hand, while he was in duty. The other wounded were:
1) Ibrahim Salameh Abu Sneineh, 6, wounded with shrapnel in the right hand and suffered from a nervous breakdown;
2) Khalil ‘Eissa Sa’idi, 30, wounded with shrapnel in the chest and the abdomen;
3) ‘Emad ‘Eissa El-Barad’ei, 25, wounded with shrapnel in the left eye and the forehead;
4) Fadi Khalil Abu Hadid, 25, wounded with shrapnel in the right leg; and
5) Samer Ahmed Mattar, 18, wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder.
At approximately 21:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces positioned at an observation tower and on a tank in the vicinity of Morag settlement, opened fire at Palestinian houses and farms in Gizan Al-Najjar area in the southeast of Khan Yunis.
As a result, the 11-year-old child ‘Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Al-Najjar, was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand, when he was near his family’s house. He was evacuated to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis for treatment. The shelling also caused severe damage to a number of Palestinian houses.
At approximately 23:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement and Al-Tuffah roadblock, to the west of Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, shelled Palestinian houses in Khan Yunis refugee camp and in the vicinity of Al-Amal neighborhood, and housing units in Al-Newsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood.
As a result, Fayez ‘Abdel-Mo’ti Abu Jaber, 22, was wounded with shrapnel of an artillery shell while he was passing near Al-Nemsawi neighborhood. He was evacuated to the hospital of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Yunis for treatment. The shelling also caused severe damage to a number of houses.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 17:00 local time, a number of Jewish settlers from Ganim and Qadim settlements, to the east of Jenin, severely beat three Palestinian farmers from Faqou’a village with hands, feet and gun butts. As a result, the three farmers received bruises throughout the body. They were:
1) As’ad Fayez El-Khatib, 32;
2) Radwan Salah, 22; and
3) Zuhair Salah, 35.
In the evening of the same day and the morning of Tuesday, March 27, 2001, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian houses and properties in Hebron, under full protection by the Israeli occupation forces.
As a result, ‘Abdel-Salam El-Sarahneh, received bruises throughout the body while he was in the market of the city. Settlers also crashed a car of S’ada El-Sharbati, and broke windows of a number of cars and six houses.
Update: Assassinaton
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces committed a new assassinated Mohammed ‘Atwa ‘Abdel-‘Al, 26, from Al-Salam neighborhood in Rafah, was killed. This crime, the latest in a growing record of assassinations and extra-judicial killings during the past six months, represents a serious escalation against Palestinian civilians. The Israeli government has openly declared a policy of extra-judicially killing and assassinating and Palestinians.
At approximately 12:40 local time, Israeli combat helicopters flew over Rafah and fired three rockets at a a white civilian car, a Peugeot Thunder. At the time, the car was on Khaled Ben Al-Walid Street in Al-Barazil neighborhood, adjacent to the border in the south of Rafah. The two direct hits on the car killed its driver Mohammed ‘Atwa ‘Abdel-‘Al.
PCHR’s field officer in Rafah reported that the car was completely destroyed and that ‘Abdel-‘Al’s body completely burnt. ‘Abdel-‘Al’s body was removed from the scorched vehicle to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah. Furthermore, a taxi behind ‘Abdel-‘Al’s car was destroyed.
Its driver ‘Omar Sahqfeh miraculously survived because he and the passengers fled as soon as they heard the first explosion. Additionally, two passing civilians, including an 11-year-old child who was on her way back from school, were evacuated to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah after they suffered a nervous breakdown.
It is worth mentioning that the policy of assassination and extra-judicial killing carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian civilians resulted in killing 17 Palestinians in the past six months. This includes six civilian bystanders who were not targets.
This incident increased tension in Rafah and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During the funeral ceremony of ‘Abdel-‘Al in Rafah, clashes erupted between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli occupation forces, near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah.
The Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians, wounding a 15-year-old child from Al-Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, Sa’id Amin El-Khayat, , with a live bullet in the head. He was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City in critical condition.
Furthermore, the child Fadi ‘Ali Joudeh, 13, was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
In the afternoon, similar clashes erupted near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, to the east of Gaza City, during which Nedal ‘Ezzat El-Sheikh Khalil, 17, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, was wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen. He was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, where medical sources stated that his spleen and right kidney were reuptured.
Before this, in the morning, Ashraf Mohammed El-Sayed, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, was wounded with a live bullet in the right hand, when the Israeli occupation forces fired at a number of Palestinian youth who were demonstrating near Erez industrial zone in the north of the Gaza Strip.
In the afternoon, Israeli occupation forces, positioned near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, to the east of Gaza City, fired live and rubber-coated metal bullets at a number of Palestinian civilians, who were demonstrating approximately 100m away. The Israeli forces again resorted to the use of a new highly effective gas that left symptoms different from those of the highly effective gas used first against Palestinian civilians in Khan Yunis, starting from February 12, 2001.
Three Palestinian civilians were wounded with live and rubber-coated metal bullets and were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City for treatment. They were:
1) Hassan Sufian Mansour, 15, from Al-Nasser neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen;
2) Mohammed Farajallah El-‘Emrani, 24, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a live bullet in the leg; and
3) Majdi El-Sarasak, 20, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left foot.
Furthermore, another three Palestinian civilians were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, after having inhaled a highly effective gas. They were:
1) Eyad Fahim Zaqout, 23, from Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City;
2) Ra’ed Suleiman Hassan, 30, from Al-Boreij refugee camp; and
3) Ra’fat ‘Abed El-Masri, 26, from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
According to one of them, the new gas is orange-colored and has a nice-smell and delicious taste upon inhalation. Then, the inhaler feels tired throughout the body, their muscles loosen, and they suffer from breathing difficulties. The gas also leaves red signs on the skin, causing agitation. Some hours later, the inhaler suffers severe abdominal pains.
At approximately 17:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in a settlement center, known as “Avraham Avino,” and in a military barracks in Ossam Ben Monqeth school, in the area of Hebron under the control of these forces, shelled Palestinian houses in Hebron. These forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian house in Qubbat Janeb, Al-Takrouri and Abu Sneineh neighborhoods.
As a result, six Palestinian civilians were wounded with, and a number of houses were severely damaged after having been hit with artillery shells and live bullets. According to eyewitnesses, Palestinian ambulances were not able to reach the targeted areas due to intense shelling. Among the wounded was a 22-year-old Reuters cameraman from Hebron, Lu’ai ‘Abdel-Salam ‘Orabi Abu Haikal, who was wounded with shrapnel in the left side, the back and the right hand, while he was in duty. The other wounded were:
1) Ibrahim Salameh Abu Sneineh, 6, wounded with shrapnel in the right hand and suffered from a nervous breakdown;
2) Khalil ‘Eissa Sa’idi, 30, wounded with shrapnel in the chest and the abdomen;
3) ‘Emad ‘Eissa El-Barad’ei, 25, wounded with shrapnel in the left eye and the forehead;
4) Fadi Khalil Abu Hadid, 25, wounded with shrapnel in the right leg; and
5) Samer Ahmed Mattar, 18, wounded with shrapnel in the right shoulder.
At approximately 21:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces positioned at an observation tower and on a tank in the vicinity of Morag settlement, opened fire at Palestinian houses and farms in Gizan Al-Najjar area in the southeast of Khan Yunis.
As a result, the 11-year-old child ‘Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Al-Najjar, was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand, when he was near his family’s house. He was evacuated to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis for treatment. The shelling also caused severe damage to a number of Palestinian houses.
At approximately 23:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement and Al-Tuffah roadblock, to the west of Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, shelled Palestinian houses in Khan Yunis refugee camp and in the vicinity of Al-Amal neighborhood, and housing units in Al-Newsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood.
As a result, Fayez ‘Abdel-Mo’ti Abu Jaber, 22, was wounded with shrapnel of an artillery shell while he was passing near Al-Nemsawi neighborhood. He was evacuated to the hospital of the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Yunis for treatment. The shelling also caused severe damage to a number of houses.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
At approximately 17:00 local time, a number of Jewish settlers from Ganim and Qadim settlements, to the east of Jenin, severely beat three Palestinian farmers from Faqou’a village with hands, feet and gun butts. As a result, the three farmers received bruises throughout the body. They were:
1) As’ad Fayez El-Khatib, 32;
2) Radwan Salah, 22; and
3) Zuhair Salah, 35.
In the evening of the same day and the morning of Tuesday, March 27, 2001, Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian houses and properties in Hebron, under full protection by the Israeli occupation forces.
As a result, ‘Abdel-Salam El-Sarahneh, received bruises throughout the body while he was in the market of the city. Settlers also crashed a car of S’ada El-Sharbati, and broke windows of a number of cars and six houses.
Update: Assassinaton
In the afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces committed a new assassinated Mohammed ‘Atwa ‘Abdel-‘Al, 26, from Al-Salam neighborhood in Rafah, was killed. This crime, the latest in a growing record of assassinations and extra-judicial killings during the past six months, represents a serious escalation against Palestinian civilians. The Israeli government has openly declared a policy of extra-judicially killing and assassinating and Palestinians.
At approximately 12:40 local time, Israeli combat helicopters flew over Rafah and fired three rockets at a a white civilian car, a Peugeot Thunder. At the time, the car was on Khaled Ben Al-Walid Street in Al-Barazil neighborhood, adjacent to the border in the south of Rafah. The two direct hits on the car killed its driver Mohammed ‘Atwa ‘Abdel-‘Al.
PCHR’s field officer in Rafah reported that the car was completely destroyed and that ‘Abdel-‘Al’s body completely burnt. ‘Abdel-‘Al’s body was removed from the scorched vehicle to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah. Furthermore, a taxi behind ‘Abdel-‘Al’s car was destroyed.
Its driver ‘Omar Sahqfeh miraculously survived because he and the passengers fled as soon as they heard the first explosion. Additionally, two passing civilians, including an 11-year-old child who was on her way back from school, were evacuated to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah after they suffered a nervous breakdown.
It is worth mentioning that the policy of assassination and extra-judicial killing carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian civilians resulted in killing 17 Palestinians in the past six months. This includes six civilian bystanders who were not targets.
This incident increased tension in Rafah and throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During the funeral ceremony of ‘Abdel-‘Al in Rafah, clashes erupted between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli occupation forces, near Salah El-Din Gate on the border in Rafah.
The Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians, wounding a 15-year-old child from Al-Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, Sa’id Amin El-Khayat, , with a live bullet in the head. He was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City in critical condition.
Furthermore, the child Fadi ‘Ali Joudeh, 13, was wounded with shrapnel throughout the body.
In the afternoon, similar clashes erupted near Al-Mentar (Karni) Outlet, to the east of Gaza City, during which Nedal ‘Ezzat El-Sheikh Khalil, 17, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, was wounded with a live bullet in the abdomen. He was evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City, where medical sources stated that his spleen and right kidney were reuptured.
Before this, in the morning, Ashraf Mohammed El-Sayed, 17, from Jabalya refugee camp, was wounded with a live bullet in the right hand, when the Israeli occupation forces fired at a number of Palestinian youth who were demonstrating near Erez industrial zone in the north of the Gaza Strip.
25 mar 2001
At approximately 10:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in a military site in Tal Zourob area in the southwest of Rafah, opened fire on a number of Palestinian young men in Block “J” area in Rafah refugee camp, adjacent to the border. PCHR’s field officer in Rafah reported that these young men were approximately 1,000m away from the mentioned military site from which fire were unjustifiably opened.
As a result, Majdi Ahmed El-Natour, 33, from Rafah, was seriously wounded with a live bullet that entered the back and exited the chest. He was evacuated to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah for treatment.
At approximately 12:00 local time, tanks and bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces burst into agricultural land, adjacent to the border, to the east of Beit Hanoun, in the northeast of the Gaza Strip. They fired artillery shells and live bullets to terrify Palestinian civilians, forcing them to leave the area before staring to raze agricultural land. In his testimony to PCHR, Sa’id Fahmi Salah Abu Salah, 34, from Beit Hanoun, said:
“At approximately 14:00 (local time), I was with my family on my 35-donum tract of agricultural land planted with citrus, olives and fruits. I was with my brothers and children organizing a sit-in on my land, on which my 150-square-meter house, in which 16 people live, is established. Then, I saw a number of tanks of the Israeli occupation forces bursting into our land. Israeli soldiers shot in the air to terrify and force us to leave the area. An Israeli combat helicopter and a small plane, apparently an exploratory one, were flying over the area.
The combat helicopter threw a barrel-like object, which fell onto our land, approximately 150m away from us. The object exploded and white smoke raised in the air.
As a result, my father Fahmi Salah Abu Salah, 74, and my mother Warda ‘Abdel-Karim Abu Salah, 65, suffered from hysteria. We took them by an ambulance to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City.
After the explosion, a tank fired an artillery shell that penetrated walls of two asbestos-roofed pigeon farm, and fell near our house, without exploding. Then, a minesweeper came to comb our land for mines, and tanks and bulldozers entered the area and started to raze it. I confronted a bulldozer with my body and a tree fell on me.
As a result, I lost consciousness and regained it only at hospital. Later, I knew that razing our land lasted for approximately 90 minutes.”
At approximately 12:30 local time, a Palestinian peaceful march moved towards a military roadblock of the Israeli occupation forces at Beit Fourik junction, to the east of Nablus. Israeli occupation soldiers indiscriminately opened fire and used tear gas against Palestinian civilians participating in the march.
As a result, 26 Palestinian civilians, including three medics and a physician of the medical staff of the Palestinian Union of Medical Relief Committees, were wounded as follows:
1) Ghassan Hamdan, 40, a physician from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right arm;
2) ‘Ammar El-‘Assi, 26, a medical reliever from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-caoted metal bullet in the left foot;
3) Mohammed Kalbouna, 24, a medical reliever from Nablus, wounded with two rubber-coated metal bullet in the shoulder and the left leg;
4) Suhad Hisham Shureim, 32, a nurse from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left thigh;
5) ‘Amer Ahmed Mustafa Abu Shehadeh; 22, from ‘Anabta village in Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
6) Taher Mohammed Hanani, 14, from Beit Fourik village in Nablus, wounded with a live bullet in the head;
7) Ahmed Fuad Abu Hamdeh, 22, from Balatta refugee camp in Nablus, wounded with a live bullet in the head;
8) Akram Mohammed Hussein Hamed, 12, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
9) Mohammed Na’eim Mohammed Hussein, 17, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
10) Samer Ahmed Amin El-Torabi, 23, from Surra village in Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right eye;
11) Mohammed Yousef Ahmed Qawariq, 29, from ‘Awarta village in Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left side;
12) Bilal ‘Abdel-Jad Mohammed Zoreiqi, 20, from Balatta refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left foot;
13) Mahmoud ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Deb’ei, 15, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right thigh;
14) Ra’ed Nehad Hassan ‘Abdel-Jalil, 18, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest;
15) Zuhair Ghazi Mustafa Zamel, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the mouth;
16) Eyad Mohammed Mahmoud Harb, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the back;
17) ‘Amer Mohammed Hassan Hbeisha, 16, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left foot;
18) Manna’ Majed Muleitat, 30, from Beit Fourik village, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
19) Eyad ‘Abdel-Rahim Hanani, 18, from Beit Fourik village, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
20) Mahdi Yousef Fadhel, 12, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the back;
21) Mo’tassem Nassouh ‘Abed Eshtayeh, 18, from Salem viallege, wounded with two rubber-coated metal bullets in the right shoulder and the right hand;
22) Fares Bassam Ahmed El-‘Att, 20, from Balatta refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand;
23) Jamal Zuhair Yousef, 18, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
24) Wassim ‘Ayyesh ‘Abdel-Rahman Hanani, 16, from Beit Fourik village, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
25) Jehad Shaker ‘Abdel-Latif Abu ‘Ayyash, 12, from Balatta refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face; and
26) Sa’ed ‘Adel Wadi’ El-Ratrout, 16, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
On Sunday, March 25, 2001, at approximately 13:00 local time, Murtada Salem Abu ‘Eisha, 76, from Hebron, received bruises and injuries throughout the body, after he was attacked by Jewish settlers.
A number of Jewish settlers in settlement centers inside Hebron beat and threw stones at some Palestinian civilians in Al-Sahleh area and Al-Shallala Street in the city, and damaged goods of hawkers, under full protection by the Israeli occupation forces.
At approximately 10:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in a military site in Tal Zourob area in the southwest of Rafah, opened fire on a number of Palestinian young men in Block “J” area in Rafah refugee camp, adjacent to the border. PCHR’s field officer in Rafah reported that these young men were approximately 1,000m away from the mentioned military site from which fire were unjustifiably opened.
As a result, Majdi Ahmed El-Natour, 33, from Rafah, was seriously wounded with a live bullet that entered the back and exited the chest. He was evacuated to Al-Joneina hospital in Rafah for treatment.
At approximately 12:00 local time, tanks and bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces burst into agricultural land, adjacent to the border, to the east of Beit Hanoun, in the northeast of the Gaza Strip. They fired artillery shells and live bullets to terrify Palestinian civilians, forcing them to leave the area before staring to raze agricultural land. In his testimony to PCHR, Sa’id Fahmi Salah Abu Salah, 34, from Beit Hanoun, said:
“At approximately 14:00 (local time), I was with my family on my 35-donum tract of agricultural land planted with citrus, olives and fruits. I was with my brothers and children organizing a sit-in on my land, on which my 150-square-meter house, in which 16 people live, is established. Then, I saw a number of tanks of the Israeli occupation forces bursting into our land. Israeli soldiers shot in the air to terrify and force us to leave the area. An Israeli combat helicopter and a small plane, apparently an exploratory one, were flying over the area.
The combat helicopter threw a barrel-like object, which fell onto our land, approximately 150m away from us. The object exploded and white smoke raised in the air.
As a result, my father Fahmi Salah Abu Salah, 74, and my mother Warda ‘Abdel-Karim Abu Salah, 65, suffered from hysteria. We took them by an ambulance to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City.
After the explosion, a tank fired an artillery shell that penetrated walls of two asbestos-roofed pigeon farm, and fell near our house, without exploding. Then, a minesweeper came to comb our land for mines, and tanks and bulldozers entered the area and started to raze it. I confronted a bulldozer with my body and a tree fell on me.
As a result, I lost consciousness and regained it only at hospital. Later, I knew that razing our land lasted for approximately 90 minutes.”
At approximately 12:30 local time, a Palestinian peaceful march moved towards a military roadblock of the Israeli occupation forces at Beit Fourik junction, to the east of Nablus. Israeli occupation soldiers indiscriminately opened fire and used tear gas against Palestinian civilians participating in the march.
As a result, 26 Palestinian civilians, including three medics and a physician of the medical staff of the Palestinian Union of Medical Relief Committees, were wounded as follows:
1) Ghassan Hamdan, 40, a physician from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right arm;
2) ‘Ammar El-‘Assi, 26, a medical reliever from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-caoted metal bullet in the left foot;
3) Mohammed Kalbouna, 24, a medical reliever from Nablus, wounded with two rubber-coated metal bullet in the shoulder and the left leg;
4) Suhad Hisham Shureim, 32, a nurse from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left thigh;
5) ‘Amer Ahmed Mustafa Abu Shehadeh; 22, from ‘Anabta village in Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
6) Taher Mohammed Hanani, 14, from Beit Fourik village in Nablus, wounded with a live bullet in the head;
7) Ahmed Fuad Abu Hamdeh, 22, from Balatta refugee camp in Nablus, wounded with a live bullet in the head;
8) Akram Mohammed Hussein Hamed, 12, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
9) Mohammed Na’eim Mohammed Hussein, 17, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
10) Samer Ahmed Amin El-Torabi, 23, from Surra village in Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right eye;
11) Mohammed Yousef Ahmed Qawariq, 29, from ‘Awarta village in Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left side;
12) Bilal ‘Abdel-Jad Mohammed Zoreiqi, 20, from Balatta refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left foot;
13) Mahmoud ‘Abdel-Rahman El-Deb’ei, 15, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the right thigh;
14) Ra’ed Nehad Hassan ‘Abdel-Jalil, 18, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest;
15) Zuhair Ghazi Mustafa Zamel, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the mouth;
16) Eyad Mohammed Mahmoud Harb, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the back;
17) ‘Amer Mohammed Hassan Hbeisha, 16, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left foot;
18) Manna’ Majed Muleitat, 30, from Beit Fourik village, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
19) Eyad ‘Abdel-Rahim Hanani, 18, from Beit Fourik village, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
20) Mahdi Yousef Fadhel, 12, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the back;
21) Mo’tassem Nassouh ‘Abed Eshtayeh, 18, from Salem viallege, wounded with two rubber-coated metal bullets in the right shoulder and the right hand;
22) Fares Bassam Ahmed El-‘Att, 20, from Balatta refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left hand;
23) Jamal Zuhair Yousef, 18, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the left leg;
24) Wassim ‘Ayyesh ‘Abdel-Rahman Hanani, 16, from Beit Fourik village, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
25) Jehad Shaker ‘Abdel-Latif Abu ‘Ayyash, 12, from Balatta refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the face; and
26) Sa’ed ‘Adel Wadi’ El-Ratrout, 16, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest.
Attacks and Shooting on Palestinian Civilians by Settlers
On Sunday, March 25, 2001, at approximately 13:00 local time, Murtada Salem Abu ‘Eisha, 76, from Hebron, received bruises and injuries throughout the body, after he was attacked by Jewish settlers.
A number of Jewish settlers in settlement centers inside Hebron beat and threw stones at some Palestinian civilians in Al-Sahleh area and Al-Shallala Street in the city, and damaged goods of hawkers, under full protection by the Israeli occupation forces.
24 mar 2001
At approximately 11:30 local time, a peaceful Palestinian march arrived at Al-Ram roadblock of the Israeli occupation forces, to the north of Jerusalem, calling for lifting the siege imposed on Palestinian cities by the Israeli occupation forces. As soon as the this march arrived at the roadblock, the Israeli forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters, and threw sound bombs at participants who kept the peaceful nature of their march.
Eleven Palestinian civilians were wounded, including the Coordinator of the Field Work Unit at the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW) Fahmi Hamdi Shahin, 40, from Hebron, who suffered from breathing difficulties due to tear gas inhalation. He was exposed to the tear gas while he was observing the march near the headquarters of LAW near Al-Ram roadblock. He was evacuated to Ramallah hospital for treatment.
Furthermore, two on-duty journalists suffered from burns. Mahfouzh Abu Turk, a 52-year old Reuters correspondent and a France 2 cameraman from Jerusalem suffered from burns in the left hand; and Journalist Rassem ‘Abdel-Wahed, a 42-year-old Director of the Palestinian Press Agency (Wafa) in Jerusalem, suffered from leg burns. The other wounded were:
1) Ihsan Mohammed ‘Atta ‘Azzam, 23, from Al-Jadira in Ramallah, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
2) Rami Jamal El-Soudani, 19, from Qalandya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the abdomen;
3) Samar Hawash, 40, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest;
4) Reem Meqdadi, 26, suffered from burns in the left leg;
5) Nassif Mo’allem, 40, from Ramallah, suffered from burns in the left leg;
6) Eftekhar Na’el ‘Arar, 25, from Qarawat Bani Zeid village in Ramallah, suffered from burns in the right leg;
7) Elham Nadi ‘Arar, 25, from Qarawat Bani Zeid village in Ramallah, suffered from burns in the left leg; and
8) Samiha Adib El-Rimawi, 55, from Beit Reema village in Ramallah, received bruises in the chest and the shoulders after having been beaten by Israeli soldiers.
At approximately, 20:25 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on Khaled Mohammed Awadh Badawi, 21, from Al-‘Arrob refugee camp in Hebron, killing him with five live bullets in the chest, the limbs and the back.
According to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), the Israeli soldiers, positioned on the roof of a Palestinian house at the northern entrance of Al-‘Arroub refugee camp, willfully opened fire on Badawi from a distance of approximately 10m.
At approximately 10:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement, to the west of Khan Yunis, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at housing units owned by Al-Farra Company in Al-Nemsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood. As a result, these units received additional damage as they were frequently shelled in the past weeks. Bullets also hit the fence of Khan Yunis cemetery, to the south of Al-Nemsawi neighborhood.
At approximately 00:45 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement and at Al-Tuffah roadblock, to the west of Khan Yunis, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the western area of Khan Yunis refugee camp. In his testimony to PCHR, Hassan Mohammed Abu Namous said that he, his wife, and his children were awoken by sounds of explosions. Shrapnel fell onto the asbestos and tin roof of his house, which is located approximately 70m away from Al-Tuffah roadblock.
He added that he and his family were forced to flee their house to the house of a relative (located approximately 150m away from the roadblock) where he stayed up to 5:00 local time. PCHR’s field officer reported that more than ten artillery shells and several heavy and medium caliber bullets were fired at the area, causing the following damage:
1) An artillery shell fell on the roof of the children bedroom and the kitchen of a 140-square-meter, asbestos and tin-roofed house, in which 12 people live, owned by Hassan Mohammed Abu Namous, damaging the roof and a water saving tank.
2) An artillery shell fell on a 140-square-meter, asbestos-roofed house, in which 21 people live, owned by Hussein Mohammed Abu Khoreis, damaging the roof.
3) Four artillery shells hit a 250-square-meter, four-story house, in which 18 people used to live, owned by Abdullah Hassan Abu ‘Obeida, causing damage to its walls. The family left the house a few months ago due to frequent shelling by the Israeli occupation forces.
4) An artillery shell hit a 130-square-meter, two-story house, in which 11 people used to live, making holes in walls. The family left the house a few months ago due to frequent shelling.
5) Two artillery shells hit a 350-square-meter, asbestos-roofed house, in which 30 people used to live, owned by Mahmoud Hassan Abu Radwan. The family left the house a few months ago due to frequent shelling.
At approximately 11:30 local time, a peaceful Palestinian march arrived at Al-Ram roadblock of the Israeli occupation forces, to the north of Jerusalem, calling for lifting the siege imposed on Palestinian cities by the Israeli occupation forces. As soon as the this march arrived at the roadblock, the Israeli forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters, and threw sound bombs at participants who kept the peaceful nature of their march.
Eleven Palestinian civilians were wounded, including the Coordinator of the Field Work Unit at the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW) Fahmi Hamdi Shahin, 40, from Hebron, who suffered from breathing difficulties due to tear gas inhalation. He was exposed to the tear gas while he was observing the march near the headquarters of LAW near Al-Ram roadblock. He was evacuated to Ramallah hospital for treatment.
Furthermore, two on-duty journalists suffered from burns. Mahfouzh Abu Turk, a 52-year old Reuters correspondent and a France 2 cameraman from Jerusalem suffered from burns in the left hand; and Journalist Rassem ‘Abdel-Wahed, a 42-year-old Director of the Palestinian Press Agency (Wafa) in Jerusalem, suffered from leg burns. The other wounded were:
1) Ihsan Mohammed ‘Atta ‘Azzam, 23, from Al-Jadira in Ramallah, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head;
2) Rami Jamal El-Soudani, 19, from Qalandya refugee camp, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the abdomen;
3) Samar Hawash, 40, from Nablus, wounded with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest;
4) Reem Meqdadi, 26, suffered from burns in the left leg;
5) Nassif Mo’allem, 40, from Ramallah, suffered from burns in the left leg;
6) Eftekhar Na’el ‘Arar, 25, from Qarawat Bani Zeid village in Ramallah, suffered from burns in the right leg;
7) Elham Nadi ‘Arar, 25, from Qarawat Bani Zeid village in Ramallah, suffered from burns in the left leg; and
8) Samiha Adib El-Rimawi, 55, from Beit Reema village in Ramallah, received bruises in the chest and the shoulders after having been beaten by Israeli soldiers.
At approximately, 20:25 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on Khaled Mohammed Awadh Badawi, 21, from Al-‘Arrob refugee camp in Hebron, killing him with five live bullets in the chest, the limbs and the back.
According to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), the Israeli soldiers, positioned on the roof of a Palestinian house at the northern entrance of Al-‘Arroub refugee camp, willfully opened fire on Badawi from a distance of approximately 10m.
At approximately 10:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement, to the west of Khan Yunis, fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at housing units owned by Al-Farra Company in Al-Nemsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood. As a result, these units received additional damage as they were frequently shelled in the past weeks. Bullets also hit the fence of Khan Yunis cemetery, to the south of Al-Nemsawi neighborhood.
At approximately 00:45 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned in the vicinity of Neve Dekalim settlement and at Al-Tuffah roadblock, to the west of Khan Yunis, fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the western area of Khan Yunis refugee camp. In his testimony to PCHR, Hassan Mohammed Abu Namous said that he, his wife, and his children were awoken by sounds of explosions. Shrapnel fell onto the asbestos and tin roof of his house, which is located approximately 70m away from Al-Tuffah roadblock.
He added that he and his family were forced to flee their house to the house of a relative (located approximately 150m away from the roadblock) where he stayed up to 5:00 local time. PCHR’s field officer reported that more than ten artillery shells and several heavy and medium caliber bullets were fired at the area, causing the following damage:
1) An artillery shell fell on the roof of the children bedroom and the kitchen of a 140-square-meter, asbestos and tin-roofed house, in which 12 people live, owned by Hassan Mohammed Abu Namous, damaging the roof and a water saving tank.
2) An artillery shell fell on a 140-square-meter, asbestos-roofed house, in which 21 people live, owned by Hussein Mohammed Abu Khoreis, damaging the roof.
3) Four artillery shells hit a 250-square-meter, four-story house, in which 18 people used to live, owned by Abdullah Hassan Abu ‘Obeida, causing damage to its walls. The family left the house a few months ago due to frequent shelling by the Israeli occupation forces.
4) An artillery shell hit a 130-square-meter, two-story house, in which 11 people used to live, making holes in walls. The family left the house a few months ago due to frequent shelling.
5) Two artillery shells hit a 350-square-meter, asbestos-roofed house, in which 30 people used to live, owned by Mahmoud Hassan Abu Radwan. The family left the house a few months ago due to frequent shelling.