30 june 2001
On Saturday morning, a 4-days-old-infant, Khaled ‘Abdel-Nasser Nouri Mousa, died at the National Hospital in Nablus shortly he was brought to hospital. Israeli occupation forces at roadblocks obstructed immediate evacuation of the infant to hospital.
Early in the morning, Israeli occupation soldiers, positioned on top of a hill opposite to “Bezeq” military site north of Al-Zababda village near Jenin, fired at two Palestinians from a distance of more than 2,000m, killing them. The Israeli occupation forces have kept their bodies, claiming that the two intended to attack Israeli targets. |
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information from independent sources or eyewitnesses were available. The
two victims were:
Mahmoud Mousa Suleiman Khalil Halajia, 34, father of three children, a tractor driver from Jenin refugee camp; and Jamal Dheifallah Hassan Thalji, 35, father of three children, also from Jenin refugee camp.
At approximately 09:30 local time, Fatema Mohammed El-‘Abed El-Shirafi, 64, from Jabalya refugee camp, died at Rafah Border Crossing.
According to her family, she had left the Gaza Strip to Egypt through the crossing on June 20, 2001. She had spent one week in Egypt. On June 27, 2001, the came to the crossing to travel back to the Gaza Strip. However, procedures followed by the Israeli occupation forces at the crossing obstructed her passage on the same day.
She had been blocked at the crossing with thousands of Palestinians for three days, lacking appropriate medical care, waiting to travel back to the Gaza Strip. Her health remarkably deteriorated until she died on Saturday morning, June 30, 2001. She had suffered from hypertension and diabetes.
Mahmoud Mousa Suleiman Khalil Halajia, 34, father of three children, a tractor driver from Jenin refugee camp; and Jamal Dheifallah Hassan Thalji, 35, father of three children, also from Jenin refugee camp.
At approximately 09:30 local time, Fatema Mohammed El-‘Abed El-Shirafi, 64, from Jabalya refugee camp, died at Rafah Border Crossing.
According to her family, she had left the Gaza Strip to Egypt through the crossing on June 20, 2001. She had spent one week in Egypt. On June 27, 2001, the came to the crossing to travel back to the Gaza Strip. However, procedures followed by the Israeli occupation forces at the crossing obstructed her passage on the same day.
She had been blocked at the crossing with thousands of Palestinians for three days, lacking appropriate medical care, waiting to travel back to the Gaza Strip. Her health remarkably deteriorated until she died on Saturday morning, June 30, 2001. She had suffered from hypertension and diabetes.
23 june 2001
Muhannad Jamal Swedan
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20 june 2001
Jamal Muhammad 'Odeh Naf'a 30
resident of Ni'lin, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed in Ni'lin, Ramallah and al-Bira district. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while bypassing a checkpoint by Kiryat Sefer with other Palestinian laborers, on his way home from work in Israel. |
19 june 2001
Mahmoud Mustafa Muttair 17
from Qalandya refugee camp, was pronounced dead. He had been wounded with a live bullet in the head on Dec 22, 2000
from Qalandya refugee camp, was pronounced dead. He had been wounded with a live bullet in the head on Dec 22, 2000
Fatema ‘Oleian Abu Farwa 71
from the Bedouin area southeast of Qalqilya, was pronounced dead.
She was seriously injured after a car driven very fast by a settler ran her over, while she was crossing the road leading to “Alfi Menasheh” settlement south of Qalqilya to her nearby house.
from the Bedouin area southeast of Qalqilya, was pronounced dead.
She was seriously injured after a car driven very fast by a settler ran her over, while she was crossing the road leading to “Alfi Menasheh” settlement south of Qalqilya to her nearby house.
Massacre survivors seek trial of Sharon in Belgium
Twenty-eight survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Beirut 19 years ago lodged an official complaint against the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, in Brussels yesterday, taking advantage of a 1993 law which allows Belgium to try foreign nationals for war crimes committed abroad.
254 villagers were massacred in April 1948, in the most spectacular single attack in the conquest of Palestine.
Twenty-eight survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Beirut 19 years ago lodged an official complaint against the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, in Brussels yesterday, taking advantage of a 1993 law which allows Belgium to try foreign nationals for war crimes committed abroad.
254 villagers were massacred in April 1948, in the most spectacular single attack in the conquest of Palestine.
16 june 2001
Suleiman Sami al-Masri 12
of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his back. 14 june 2001
Hassan Abu Sha'ira 32
resident of Bethlehem, killed next to Bethlehem. Killed after he killed his GSS operative on the Haminharot road. |
13 june 2001
‘Awni ‘Abdel-Ra’ouf ‘Ali El-Haddad 42
settlers opened fire on a Palestinian truck traveling on a bypass road near Jerusalem. The driver was killed and three other civilians were wounded. The truck was traveling from Hebron to Ramallah through a bypass road when a settler car traveled past it near ‘Anata village to the east of Jerusalem. Settlers opened fire on the truck, killing its driver ‘Awni ‘Abdel-Ra’ouf ‘Ali El-Haddad, 42, father of 7 children, with several live bullets, and wounding ‘Awwad ‘Abdel-Jawad Abu Mayala, 50, and his sons Taher, 20, and Ahmed, 23. All the victims were from Hebron. |
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23 mei 2001
Tanks roll despite Sharon's ceasefire
Bush joins faltering diplomatic drive as 24 are injured by Israeli forces destroying crops and olive groves in Gaza.
Day one of the limited ceasefire declared by the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, brought a surge in violence yesterday, including fierce gun battles in the Gaza Strip and the fatal shooting of a Jewish motorist in the West Bank.
In Gaza, Palestinian officials said Israeli forces had staged four separate raids into territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority. They bulldozed olive trees and crops and injured 24 people with a spray of gunfire.
Mr Sharon had promised that his forces would not initiate military operations against the Palestinians and that soldiers would only open fire if their lives were in danger.
Near the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militiamen clashed in fierce exchanges of gunfire. Witnesses said 10 people were injured by shrapnel from a tank shell.
An Israeli army spokesman denied that the tanks had entered Palestinian territory to retaliate against gunmen or destroy property that could be used as a sanctuary.
"Today there has been repairing work for the fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip," Lieutenant-Colonel Olivier Rafowicz said. "We were actually close to the fence in order to protect the workers, who are civilians. But it was not an operation."
He said none of the Israelis tanks had opened fire.
In the West Bank, meanwhile, a motorist was killed and a second seriously wounded in an ambush near the illegal Jewish settlement of Ariel. Israel radio said that the two men were road construction workers.
Yesterday's clashes underline the deep distrust that prevails between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, sabotaging diplomatic efforts to use the Mitchell commission report as a means of ending the eight-month Palestinian uprising and reviving negotiations.
President George Bush, who has previously resisted a personal role as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, joined in the international effort yesterday when he telephoned Mr Sharon and Mr Arafat.
A US official said: "The president urged both leaders to seize the opportunity offered by the Mitchell committee report to end the violence. He urged them to work with us to develop a framework for implementation of the report's recommendations."
Palestinians have dismissed Mr Sharon's limited truce as a ploy to distract attention from his pointed refusal to accept a freeze on Jewish settlement activity - a central condition of the Mitchell report.
Ziyad abu Zayad, a member of the Palestinian cabinet, said: "Instead of playing games and searching for manoeuvres, and feinting and ducking here and there, Sharon needs to decide unequivocally to free all settlement activity, to order a ceasefire, to lift the blockades and closures.
"The Israelis must give us proof that they are not under estimating our intelligence, and our wisdom, nor our rights."
Meanwhile, a member of Mr Sharon's Likud party told Israel Radio that the prime minister's partial ceasefire offer was made with a view to Israel's public image, after he had rejected the call for a a freeze on settlements.
"Instead of appearing obstinate he said 'I call for an immediate ceasefire', and therefore he fulfils the first stage of the Mitchell report, without entering into high-flown declarations, and puts the burden on the other side," he said.
But commentators in the Israeli press said it was doubtful that the world would be so swayed as to stop putting pressure on Israel to freeze settlements.
It is also far from certain that any meaningful restraints have been placed on the Israeli army.
Mr Sharon's limited ceasefire seems to be little different from the rules of engagement which governed the first months of the intifada, when scores of Palestinian protesters throwing stones were shot dead by well-protected Israeli soldiers.
Rather, he seems to have reined back his field commanders, who had been given a virtually free hand against the uprising.
A spokesman for Mr Sharon said the new rules of engagement would not necessarily bar Israeli tanks from entering Palestinian-ruled territory, as they have dozens of times in the past weeks.
The army spokesman, Brigadier Ron Kitrey, said that such forays would now need government approval, and that troops would continue to defend themselves.
"If we have to catch snipers ... we will accept what the forces will do," he said.
PCHR
At approximately 2:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the western part of Khan Yunis refugee camp. A number of houses were damaged.
At approximately 14:30 local time, three tanks and a bulldozer of the Israeli occupation forces broke into Block “L” (Yebna refugee camp) in Rafah, adjacent to the border with Egypt. They entered 20-50m inside the refugee camp. Palestinian National Security Forces confronted the Israeli forces, which fired artillery shells containing dart-like objects at Palestinian civilians and houses.
As a result of such shelling, which lasted until 18:00 local time, 38 Palestinian civilians, mostly children, were wounded.
At approximately 20:00 local time, tanks of the Israeli occupation forces came to the border in Rafah again and opened fire on Palestinian houses in Block “L” and Block “O,” adjacent to the border. Five civilians were wounded.
Bush joins faltering diplomatic drive as 24 are injured by Israeli forces destroying crops and olive groves in Gaza.
Day one of the limited ceasefire declared by the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, brought a surge in violence yesterday, including fierce gun battles in the Gaza Strip and the fatal shooting of a Jewish motorist in the West Bank.
In Gaza, Palestinian officials said Israeli forces had staged four separate raids into territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority. They bulldozed olive trees and crops and injured 24 people with a spray of gunfire.
Mr Sharon had promised that his forces would not initiate military operations against the Palestinians and that soldiers would only open fire if their lives were in danger.
Near the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militiamen clashed in fierce exchanges of gunfire. Witnesses said 10 people were injured by shrapnel from a tank shell.
An Israeli army spokesman denied that the tanks had entered Palestinian territory to retaliate against gunmen or destroy property that could be used as a sanctuary.
"Today there has been repairing work for the fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip," Lieutenant-Colonel Olivier Rafowicz said. "We were actually close to the fence in order to protect the workers, who are civilians. But it was not an operation."
He said none of the Israelis tanks had opened fire.
In the West Bank, meanwhile, a motorist was killed and a second seriously wounded in an ambush near the illegal Jewish settlement of Ariel. Israel radio said that the two men were road construction workers.
Yesterday's clashes underline the deep distrust that prevails between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, sabotaging diplomatic efforts to use the Mitchell commission report as a means of ending the eight-month Palestinian uprising and reviving negotiations.
President George Bush, who has previously resisted a personal role as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, joined in the international effort yesterday when he telephoned Mr Sharon and Mr Arafat.
A US official said: "The president urged both leaders to seize the opportunity offered by the Mitchell committee report to end the violence. He urged them to work with us to develop a framework for implementation of the report's recommendations."
Palestinians have dismissed Mr Sharon's limited truce as a ploy to distract attention from his pointed refusal to accept a freeze on Jewish settlement activity - a central condition of the Mitchell report.
Ziyad abu Zayad, a member of the Palestinian cabinet, said: "Instead of playing games and searching for manoeuvres, and feinting and ducking here and there, Sharon needs to decide unequivocally to free all settlement activity, to order a ceasefire, to lift the blockades and closures.
"The Israelis must give us proof that they are not under estimating our intelligence, and our wisdom, nor our rights."
Meanwhile, a member of Mr Sharon's Likud party told Israel Radio that the prime minister's partial ceasefire offer was made with a view to Israel's public image, after he had rejected the call for a a freeze on settlements.
"Instead of appearing obstinate he said 'I call for an immediate ceasefire', and therefore he fulfils the first stage of the Mitchell report, without entering into high-flown declarations, and puts the burden on the other side," he said.
But commentators in the Israeli press said it was doubtful that the world would be so swayed as to stop putting pressure on Israel to freeze settlements.
It is also far from certain that any meaningful restraints have been placed on the Israeli army.
Mr Sharon's limited ceasefire seems to be little different from the rules of engagement which governed the first months of the intifada, when scores of Palestinian protesters throwing stones were shot dead by well-protected Israeli soldiers.
Rather, he seems to have reined back his field commanders, who had been given a virtually free hand against the uprising.
A spokesman for Mr Sharon said the new rules of engagement would not necessarily bar Israeli tanks from entering Palestinian-ruled territory, as they have dozens of times in the past weeks.
The army spokesman, Brigadier Ron Kitrey, said that such forays would now need government approval, and that troops would continue to defend themselves.
"If we have to catch snipers ... we will accept what the forces will do," he said.
PCHR
At approximately 2:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces fired artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in the western part of Khan Yunis refugee camp. A number of houses were damaged.
At approximately 14:30 local time, three tanks and a bulldozer of the Israeli occupation forces broke into Block “L” (Yebna refugee camp) in Rafah, adjacent to the border with Egypt. They entered 20-50m inside the refugee camp. Palestinian National Security Forces confronted the Israeli forces, which fired artillery shells containing dart-like objects at Palestinian civilians and houses.
As a result of such shelling, which lasted until 18:00 local time, 38 Palestinian civilians, mostly children, were wounded.
At approximately 20:00 local time, tanks of the Israeli occupation forces came to the border in Rafah again and opened fire on Palestinian houses in Block “L” and Block “O,” adjacent to the border. Five civilians were wounded.
22 may 2001
Khaled ‘Abed-Rabbu Mousa El-Astal 19
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19 may 2001
Hammam Salim Abdul Haq 20
resident of Nablus, killed at the checkpoint in the area of Nablus. Killed during demonstrations. |
Tayseer ‘Awadh Ismail El-‘Ar’ir 30 from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City. Farmer
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Fawaz Hussein Ahmad al-Damaj 35 from Jenin refugee camp First lieutenant
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In the morning, the Israeli occupation forces committed a new crime of willful killing. At approximately 7:15 local time, an undercover unit of the Israeli occupation forces sneaked towards a post of the Palestinian National Security Forces.
While the area did not witness any clashes, members of the unit opened fire on Palestinian security men from a distance of approximately 200m and withdrew to their military sites, approximately 1,500m to the west of the Palestinian post. First lieutenant Fawaz Hussein Ahmed El-Damaj, 35, from Jenin refugee camp, was killed with three live bullets in the chest, and soldier Mohammed Khalil Hassan Dalloul, 26, from Seilat Al-Harthia village, was seriously wounded with a live bullet in the shoulder. |
Also in the morning, the Israeli occupation forces committed another crime of willful killing. At approximately 8:45 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on a number of Palestinian farmers.
Tayseer ‘Awadh Ismail El-‘Ar’ir, 30, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, was killed with four live bullets in the head and the chest. According to PCHR’s investigation, El-‘Ar’ir went with his father and a number of relatives to the family’s farm, approximately 200m to the west of the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.
According to the victim’s father, Israeli occupation soldiers, positioned at the border, opened fire on them suddenly and when the area did not witness any clashes.
Tayseer ‘Awadh Ismail El-‘Ar’ir, 30, from Al-Shojaeya neighborhood in Gaza City, was killed with four live bullets in the head and the chest. According to PCHR’s investigation, El-‘Ar’ir went with his father and a number of relatives to the family’s farm, approximately 200m to the west of the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.
According to the victim’s father, Israeli occupation soldiers, positioned at the border, opened fire on them suddenly and when the area did not witness any clashes.
18 may 2001
Friday had been the bloodiest day in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada. In an unprecedented escalation in the use of excessive force, the Israeli occupation forces waged air raids, using F-16 fighter jets for the first time and Apatche combat helicopters, on a number of Palestinian security headquarters.
The most brutal air raids targeted Nablus. At approximately 17:30 local time, Israeli F-16 fighter jets raided on the headquarters of the Palestinian civil police and destroyed it completely. Eleven Palestinian police men were killed and more than 50 policemen and civilians were injured.
At approximately 17:15 local time, Israeli F-16 fighter jets raided on a post of the Palestinian President’s Guard (Force 17) in Ramallah and completely destroyed it.
A member of Force 17, Ismail Fatin Abu Rafi’, 24, from Jabalya refugee camp, was killed and another member, Khaled ‘Abed-Rabbu Mousa El-Astal, 19, from Khan Yunis, was seriously injured with shrapnel in the head. El-Astal was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Ramallah hospital where he was pronounced dead on Tuesday, May 22, 2001.
Furthermore, 6 Palestinian civilians were injured with shrapnel and some nervously broke down. A number of nearby civilian buildings were also severely damaged. Windows and doors of Grand Park and Rocki hotels, a three-story building of the Palestinian Communication Company, and a four-story building, in which 30 people live, broke.
At approximately 20:40 local time, Israeli F-16 fighter jets raided on a post of the Palestinian Marine Police in Al-Soudania area to the west of Beit Lahia in the northern area of the Gaza Strip. Two buildings were completely destroyed.
Furthermore, a nearby horsing club was severely damaged as windows and roofs were destroyed. Ten Palestinian civilians were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City after they nervously broke down as a result of air raids.
At approximately 20:45 local time, Israeli combat helicopters shelled a post of Force 17 in Ansar compund in Gaza City, causing severe damage. At the same time, Israeli combat helicopters shelled a post of Force 17 and completely destroyed it.
Friday had been the bloodiest day in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada. In an unprecedented escalation in the use of excessive force, the Israeli occupation forces waged air raids, using F-16 fighter jets for the first time and Apatche combat helicopters, on a number of Palestinian security headquarters.
The most brutal air raids targeted Nablus. At approximately 17:30 local time, Israeli F-16 fighter jets raided on the headquarters of the Palestinian civil police and destroyed it completely. Eleven Palestinian police men were killed and more than 50 policemen and civilians were injured.
At approximately 17:15 local time, Israeli F-16 fighter jets raided on a post of the Palestinian President’s Guard (Force 17) in Ramallah and completely destroyed it.
A member of Force 17, Ismail Fatin Abu Rafi’, 24, from Jabalya refugee camp, was killed and another member, Khaled ‘Abed-Rabbu Mousa El-Astal, 19, from Khan Yunis, was seriously injured with shrapnel in the head. El-Astal was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Ramallah hospital where he was pronounced dead on Tuesday, May 22, 2001.
Furthermore, 6 Palestinian civilians were injured with shrapnel and some nervously broke down. A number of nearby civilian buildings were also severely damaged. Windows and doors of Grand Park and Rocki hotels, a three-story building of the Palestinian Communication Company, and a four-story building, in which 30 people live, broke.
At approximately 20:40 local time, Israeli F-16 fighter jets raided on a post of the Palestinian Marine Police in Al-Soudania area to the west of Beit Lahia in the northern area of the Gaza Strip. Two buildings were completely destroyed.
Furthermore, a nearby horsing club was severely damaged as windows and roofs were destroyed. Ten Palestinian civilians were evacuated to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City after they nervously broke down as a result of air raids.
At approximately 20:45 local time, Israeli combat helicopters shelled a post of Force 17 in Ansar compund in Gaza City, causing severe damage. At the same time, Israeli combat helicopters shelled a post of Force 17 and completely destroyed it.
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16 may 2001
Muhammad Hasan al-Salim 14
of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF sniper fire to his back during a demonstration at Netzarim Junction.
of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF sniper fire to his back during a demonstration at Netzarim Junction.
15 may 2001, the 53rd anniversary of Al-Nakba, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators and killed:
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Moreover, more than 140 Palestinian civilians, mostly children, were wounded.
On the same day, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border to the east of Jabalya, fired live bullets and artillery shells at a Palestinian civilian car that was approximately 200m to the west of the border. ‘Abdel-Hakim ‘Abdel-Jalil El-Mana’meh, 35, from ‘Aamer housing project in Jabalya, was killed. The Israeli occupation forces claimed that El-Mana’meh was firing mortars at Israeli targets. |
14 may 2001
On Monday, May 14, 2001, at approximately 2:00 local time, the Israeli occupation forces committed a new crime of willful killing in Bitounia in the south of Ramallah, when there were no clashes in the area. Five members of the Palestinian National Security Forces – all of them are from the Gaza Strip – were killed.
On the same day, after an armed Palestinian attempted to attack a post of the Israeli occupation forces in the north of Khan Yunis with a hand grenade, the Israeli forces opened fire indiscriminately on him and on a number of Palestinian civilians and their cars while waiting at a military roadblock of these forces.
The armed Palestinian, ‘Arafat Talal Abu Kweik, 28, from Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, and a Palestinian civilian, Yousef Mousa El-Qassas, 26, from Gaza, were killed, and another seven bystander civilians were wounded.
On the same day, after an armed Palestinian attempted to attack a post of the Israeli occupation forces in the north of Khan Yunis with a hand grenade, the Israeli forces opened fire indiscriminately on him and on a number of Palestinian civilians and their cars while waiting at a military roadblock of these forces.
The armed Palestinian, ‘Arafat Talal Abu Kweik, 28, from Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, and a Palestinian civilian, Yousef Mousa El-Qassas, 26, from Gaza, were killed, and another seven bystander civilians were wounded.
12 may 2001
Mo’tassem Mohammed El-Sabbagh 26
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Segent ‘Allam Nasri ‘Abdel-Razeq El-Jaloudi 26
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Salman Suleiman El-‘Arrouqi 45
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Israeli occupation forces committed a new assassination when combat helicopters of these forces fired rockets at a Palestinian civilian car in Jenin. Mo’tassem Mohammed El-Sabbagh, 26, from Jenin refugee camp, an activist of Fatah Movement in the refugee camp, who was in the first car, and Segent ‘Allam Nasri ‘Abdel-Razeq El-Jaloudi, 26, from Faqou’a village near Jenin, who was in the police car, were killed.
On the same day, Salman Suleiman El-‘Arrouqi, 45, was killed with shrapnel of an artillery shell in the head, when the Israeli occupation forces shelled Palestinian houses in the refugee camp indiscriminately. |
11 may 2001
Hussam Fawaz Shaban Tafesh 16
of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration at the Karni checkpoint.
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On Friday 11, 2001, the Israeli occupation forces shot dead Hussam Fawaz Sha’ban Tafesh, 16, from Gaza City, with a live bullet that entered the right side and settled in the chest, during clashes in the east of the city.
of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration at the Karni checkpoint.
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On Friday 11, 2001, the Israeli occupation forces shot dead Hussam Fawaz Sha’ban Tafesh, 16, from Gaza City, with a live bullet that entered the right side and settled in the chest, during clashes in the east of the city.
7 may 2001
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Btisam Mohammed Ismail ‘Eissa's unborn baby
Israeli occupation forces, positioned in Homesh settlement fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Seilat Al-Zhaher village in Jenin, causing severe damage to a number of houses.
The shelling coincided with similar shelling by Israeli occupation forces, positioned in Sanour military site at Nablus-Jenin road, that targeted Palestinian houses in Sanour village near Jenin.
Ibtisam Mohammed Ismail ‘Eissa, a 39-year old three month pregnant woman, miscaried
Israeli occupation forces, positioned in Homesh settlement fired heavy and medium caliber bullets at Palestinian houses in Seilat Al-Zhaher village in Jenin, causing severe damage to a number of houses.
The shelling coincided with similar shelling by Israeli occupation forces, positioned in Sanour military site at Nablus-Jenin road, that targeted Palestinian houses in Sanour village near Jenin.
Ibtisam Mohammed Ismail ‘Eissa, a 39-year old three month pregnant woman, miscaried
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Name of Victim: Iman Hijo
Age: 4 Months Old Date of murder: May 07, 2001 Place of murder: At her grandmother's house in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp Weapon used: Israeli Tank Details of the last hours: Suzanne Hijo, Iman's mother, hastened on to the street with her three children, Dina (6 years), Mahmoud (18 months), and Iman. She was trying to escape a sudden Israeli attack on the grandmother's house. |
A tank shell ripped through the wall next to the front gate. Small fragments of shrapnel sliced into Iman's body, killing her almost instantly. Her mother, brother, and sister were severely wounded. "There was blood everywhere here," said Rocha Hijo, Iman's 15-year-old aunt, scuffing her foot on the floor. The shell's fragments went through Iman's back and dispersed parts of her body in the street and on the walls of the house.
Belongings:
Suzanne Hijo said, "Until now, her toys are still all in place... Her lollipop, her bed, her clothes - all are in the same place."
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Israeli occupation forces started to indiscriminately fire artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at several neighborhoods in Khan Yunis. As a result, a four-month-old infant was killed, and her grandmother was seriously wounded. Eleven Palestinian civilians, including medical personnel and school children, were wounded.
PCHR’s field officer in Khan Yunis reported that at approximately 11:10 local time, the Israeli occupation forces suddenly and unjustifiably began firing artillery shells at Palestinian residential neighborhoods in Khan Yunis. The shelling lasted for 50 minutes, during which time 30 artillery shells fell onto Al-Satar Al-Gharbi area, the west of Khan Yunis refugee camp, Al-Nemsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood and Al-Amal neighborhood.
The artillery shells were fired from Israeli occupation forces military sites near Gani Tal settlement, northwest of Khan Yunis, Neve Dekalim settlement, west of Khan Yunis and Al-Tuffah roadblock, as well as another two sites west of Al-Amal neighborhood and Khan Yunis refugee camp.
A four-month-old infant, Iman Mohammed Hejju, was killed while in the arms of her mother. Her mother, resident of Deir El-Balah, was visiting her family’s house in Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis. The mother, carrying the infant, evacuated the house with her mother and brothers after they heard sounds of shelling.
Artillery shell shrapnel hit Iman in the chest, disemboweling and instantly killed her. Furthermore, her mother Suzan Mustafa Hejju, 20, was critically wounded with shrapnel throughout the body. She was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Nasser hospital. Iman’s grandmother Samia Mohammed Harb Hejju, 38, was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen, the pelvis and the back.
She was evacuated to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis and from there she was transferred to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City in serious condition. On Tuesday, May 8, 2001, the grandmother was transferred to a hospital in Jordan for treatment. Iman’s 18-month-old uncle, Mahmoud Mustafa Hejju, was seriously wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen and was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Nasser hospital.
Iman’s aunt, Dunia Mustafa Hejju, 6, was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand and the left leg.
Belongings:
Suzanne Hijo said, "Until now, her toys are still all in place... Her lollipop, her bed, her clothes - all are in the same place."
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Israeli occupation forces started to indiscriminately fire artillery shells and heavy and medium caliber bullets at several neighborhoods in Khan Yunis. As a result, a four-month-old infant was killed, and her grandmother was seriously wounded. Eleven Palestinian civilians, including medical personnel and school children, were wounded.
PCHR’s field officer in Khan Yunis reported that at approximately 11:10 local time, the Israeli occupation forces suddenly and unjustifiably began firing artillery shells at Palestinian residential neighborhoods in Khan Yunis. The shelling lasted for 50 minutes, during which time 30 artillery shells fell onto Al-Satar Al-Gharbi area, the west of Khan Yunis refugee camp, Al-Nemsawi (the Austrian) neighborhood and Al-Amal neighborhood.
The artillery shells were fired from Israeli occupation forces military sites near Gani Tal settlement, northwest of Khan Yunis, Neve Dekalim settlement, west of Khan Yunis and Al-Tuffah roadblock, as well as another two sites west of Al-Amal neighborhood and Khan Yunis refugee camp.
A four-month-old infant, Iman Mohammed Hejju, was killed while in the arms of her mother. Her mother, resident of Deir El-Balah, was visiting her family’s house in Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis. The mother, carrying the infant, evacuated the house with her mother and brothers after they heard sounds of shelling.
Artillery shell shrapnel hit Iman in the chest, disemboweling and instantly killed her. Furthermore, her mother Suzan Mustafa Hejju, 20, was critically wounded with shrapnel throughout the body. She was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Nasser hospital. Iman’s grandmother Samia Mohammed Harb Hejju, 38, was wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen, the pelvis and the back.
She was evacuated to Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis and from there she was transferred to Shifa’ hospital in Gaza City in serious condition. On Tuesday, May 8, 2001, the grandmother was transferred to a hospital in Jordan for treatment. Iman’s 18-month-old uncle, Mahmoud Mustafa Hejju, was seriously wounded with shrapnel in the abdomen and was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Nasser hospital.
Iman’s aunt, Dunia Mustafa Hejju, 6, was wounded with shrapnel in the right hand and the left leg.
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