31 july 2001
Mohammed ‘Emad As’ad Fahmi El-Hasani 21
member of Military Intelligence, tried to move towards demonstrators to drive them away from the area, but Israeli soldiers fired at him, killing him with a live bullet that entered the right arm and the chest and settled in the abdomen.
member of Military Intelligence, tried to move towards demonstrators to drive them away from the area, but Israeli soldiers fired at him, killing him with a live bullet that entered the right arm and the chest and settled in the abdomen.
Eight Victims of an Assassination in Nablus
On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli occupation forces carried out the worst assassination of its kind since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada. Eight Palestinian civilians – two Hamas political leaders, a Hamas activist, the secretary of the Palestinian Center for Studies and Media, two journalists and two passing children – were killed.
At approximately 13:50 local time, a US-made Israeli Apache helicopter gunship fired two rockets at the office the Palestinian Center for Studies and Media, located on the second floor of a residential building in Nablus. Inside, Hamas political officials Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim were giving an interview with Mohammed El-Bishawi of An-Najah press office and ‘Othman Qatanani from Nablus press office. The office of the center, directed by Jamal Mansour, was destroyed.
Six Palestinian civilians who were in the office, and two passing children, were killed. They were:
Jamal ‘Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Mansour, 41, from Balata refugee camp;
Jamal Salim Damouni, 42, from ‘Ein Beit El-Ma’ refugee camp;
Mohammed ‘Abdel-Karim El-Bishawi, 28, a journalist from Balata refugee camp;
‘Othman ‘Abdel-Qader Qatanani, 25, a journalist from ‘Askar refugee camp;
‘Omar Mansour Mohammed Mansour, 28, from Blata refugee camp, Jamal Mansour’s bodyguard and cousin;
Fahim Ibrahim Mustafa Dawabsheh, 32, from Nablus;
Bilal ‘Abdel-Mun’em Khalil Abu Khader, 8, from Al-Judaideh village near Jenin; and
Ashraf ‘Abdel-Mun’em Khalil Abu Khader, 5, from Al-Judaideh village near Jenin.
The two children were on a visit to their uncle in Nablus. Furthermore, three civilians were injured:
1) Jihad Salim Damouni, 25, from ‘Ein Beit El-Ma’ refugee camp, Jamal Salim’s brother, injured by shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Ahmed Ismail Abu Shallal, 31, a researcher in the Internal Solidarity Institution, seriously injured by shrapnel in the head; and
3) Taghrid Fyez Abu Ghudeib, 42, from Nablus, seriously injured by shrapnel in the head while she was passing near the targeted building.
On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli occupation forces carried out the worst assassination of its kind since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada. Eight Palestinian civilians – two Hamas political leaders, a Hamas activist, the secretary of the Palestinian Center for Studies and Media, two journalists and two passing children – were killed.
At approximately 13:50 local time, a US-made Israeli Apache helicopter gunship fired two rockets at the office the Palestinian Center for Studies and Media, located on the second floor of a residential building in Nablus. Inside, Hamas political officials Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim were giving an interview with Mohammed El-Bishawi of An-Najah press office and ‘Othman Qatanani from Nablus press office. The office of the center, directed by Jamal Mansour, was destroyed.
Six Palestinian civilians who were in the office, and two passing children, were killed. They were:
Jamal ‘Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Mansour, 41, from Balata refugee camp;
Jamal Salim Damouni, 42, from ‘Ein Beit El-Ma’ refugee camp;
Mohammed ‘Abdel-Karim El-Bishawi, 28, a journalist from Balata refugee camp;
‘Othman ‘Abdel-Qader Qatanani, 25, a journalist from ‘Askar refugee camp;
‘Omar Mansour Mohammed Mansour, 28, from Blata refugee camp, Jamal Mansour’s bodyguard and cousin;
Fahim Ibrahim Mustafa Dawabsheh, 32, from Nablus;
Bilal ‘Abdel-Mun’em Khalil Abu Khader, 8, from Al-Judaideh village near Jenin; and
Ashraf ‘Abdel-Mun’em Khalil Abu Khader, 5, from Al-Judaideh village near Jenin.
The two children were on a visit to their uncle in Nablus. Furthermore, three civilians were injured:
1) Jihad Salim Damouni, 25, from ‘Ein Beit El-Ma’ refugee camp, Jamal Salim’s brother, injured by shrapnel throughout the body;
2) Ahmed Ismail Abu Shallal, 31, a researcher in the Internal Solidarity Institution, seriously injured by shrapnel in the head; and
3) Taghrid Fyez Abu Ghudeib, 42, from Nablus, seriously injured by shrapnel in the head while she was passing near the targeted building.
30 july 2001
On Monday, a heavy explosion occurred in a car parts shop in Wadi Al-Far’a in Jenin, killing six Palestinians and injuring one severely.
According to initial information, at approximately 01:25 local time, a heavy explosion was heard in Al-Far’a village, while Israeli helicopters were flying over the area and Israeli tanks were actively moving near “Allon Morei” settlement near the village. In their testimonies to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), eyewitnesses said that seven people were in a park where car parts are sold, approximately 200m away from a roadblock of the Palestinian National Security Forces south of Al-Far’a village.
Israeli officials said that three of the victims were wanted by Israeli occupation forces. Those killed were:
Maher Ahmed ‘Abdullah Jawabra, 25, from Al-Far’a refugee camp, a member of Palestinian Military Intelligence;
Hekmat ‘Abdel-Karim Hammad Abu El-Habal, 28, from Al-Far’a refugee camp;
‘Abdel-Rahman Eshteitawi Hassan Mubarak, 25, from Al-Far’a refugee camp;
Amin Mohammed Hafezh Balatia, 25, from Wadi Al-Far’a;
Mohammed Taye’ Qassem Balatia, 19, from Wadi Al-Far’a; and
Munir Mustafa Saleh Balatia, 24, from Wadi El-Far’a.
Nassim Helmi Karkari, 30, from Al-Far’a refugee camp, was seriously injured by shrapnel in the head and the chest. He was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Jenin Hospital.
Six Palestinians killed in refugee camp blast
Six Palestinian activists in Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement were killed in an explosion today at a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus. The blast was one of the deadliest single episodes in the 10 months of violence in the Middle East. It came only hours after a tense confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinians at Jerusalem's most contested religious shrine.
The blast blew the roof off the home at a refugee camp north of Nablus. Palestinians said the explosion was part of Israel's policy of targeting suspected Palestinian paramilitaries.
"The Israeli government continues its policy of assassination," said the Palestinian cabinet secretary, Ahmed Abdel Rahman. "This policy will destroy any hope for peace. Resistance will continue."
Israel said it was checking the circumstances of the explosion. In some similar cases in the past, Israel has described explosions as "work accidents," a euphemism for Palestinian bombs that exploded prematurely.
The force of the blast blew the roof off the home, suggesting that the explosion came from inside the structure, which was a car parts store.
Palestinian witnesses said they did not hear helicopters or tank guns - signals of earlier Israeli attacks.
Palestinian Mansour Barahmah said he was sleeping when he heard a powerful explosion early today. "I went there immediately and found a fire," he said. "The bodies were still burning."
The bodies were dismembered by the explosion, and some body parts were tossed 30 metres from a table where the men apparently had been sitting, he said.
All six of the dead were members of Fatah, the movement headed by Mr Arafat, the Palestinian leader. At least three were among the dozens of suspected militants sought by the Israelis, according to Mahmoud al-Aloul, the governor of Nablus.
The men, aged 22 to 31, regularly slept in the shack, fearing the Israelis would attack them in their homes, Palestinian witnesses said. A seventh man in the shack was wounded, they added.
The explosion followed a tense day yesterday. In Jerusalem, Palestinians rained stones on Jewish worshippers commemorating a holy day at the Western Wall, prompting Israeli police to storm the Al Aqsa Mosque compound and drive back the crowd with stun grenades.
Yesterday's clash came exactly 10 months after the current round of Mideast violence erupted inside the same hilltop compound where two large mosques were built atop the ruins of the biblical Jewish temples.
Israeli police blocked a group of about 30 hardline Jewish nationalists, the Temple Mount Faithful, from placing the symbolic cornerstone of a new temple within the mosque compound. The police permitted the group to hold a short ceremony in a parking lot outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
Shortly after, Muslims inside the compound began throwing stones, bricks and bottles at hundreds of Jews praying down below at the Western Wall, which forms an exterior wall of the compound.
When the stone-throwing began, about 400 Israeli police in riot gear rushed inside the mosque compound. The police were met with a hail of rocks, and tossed stun grenades.
Fifteen Israeli policemen and 10 Palestinians were injured and 28 Palestinians were arrested.
Israel claims sovereignty over the compound, which Jews call the Temple Mount. However, the Waqf, an Islamic trust, has day-to-day control over what Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary.
The first clashes in the current violence broke out at the site on September 29 - the day after a controversial visit by Ariel Sharon, now Israel's prime minister.
Since then, 539 Palestinians and 133 Israelis have died in the fighting.
According to initial information, at approximately 01:25 local time, a heavy explosion was heard in Al-Far’a village, while Israeli helicopters were flying over the area and Israeli tanks were actively moving near “Allon Morei” settlement near the village. In their testimonies to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), eyewitnesses said that seven people were in a park where car parts are sold, approximately 200m away from a roadblock of the Palestinian National Security Forces south of Al-Far’a village.
Israeli officials said that three of the victims were wanted by Israeli occupation forces. Those killed were:
Maher Ahmed ‘Abdullah Jawabra, 25, from Al-Far’a refugee camp, a member of Palestinian Military Intelligence;
Hekmat ‘Abdel-Karim Hammad Abu El-Habal, 28, from Al-Far’a refugee camp;
‘Abdel-Rahman Eshteitawi Hassan Mubarak, 25, from Al-Far’a refugee camp;
Amin Mohammed Hafezh Balatia, 25, from Wadi Al-Far’a;
Mohammed Taye’ Qassem Balatia, 19, from Wadi Al-Far’a; and
Munir Mustafa Saleh Balatia, 24, from Wadi El-Far’a.
Nassim Helmi Karkari, 30, from Al-Far’a refugee camp, was seriously injured by shrapnel in the head and the chest. He was evacuated to the intensive care unit at Jenin Hospital.
Six Palestinians killed in refugee camp blast
Six Palestinian activists in Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement were killed in an explosion today at a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus. The blast was one of the deadliest single episodes in the 10 months of violence in the Middle East. It came only hours after a tense confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinians at Jerusalem's most contested religious shrine.
The blast blew the roof off the home at a refugee camp north of Nablus. Palestinians said the explosion was part of Israel's policy of targeting suspected Palestinian paramilitaries.
"The Israeli government continues its policy of assassination," said the Palestinian cabinet secretary, Ahmed Abdel Rahman. "This policy will destroy any hope for peace. Resistance will continue."
Israel said it was checking the circumstances of the explosion. In some similar cases in the past, Israel has described explosions as "work accidents," a euphemism for Palestinian bombs that exploded prematurely.
The force of the blast blew the roof off the home, suggesting that the explosion came from inside the structure, which was a car parts store.
Palestinian witnesses said they did not hear helicopters or tank guns - signals of earlier Israeli attacks.
Palestinian Mansour Barahmah said he was sleeping when he heard a powerful explosion early today. "I went there immediately and found a fire," he said. "The bodies were still burning."
The bodies were dismembered by the explosion, and some body parts were tossed 30 metres from a table where the men apparently had been sitting, he said.
All six of the dead were members of Fatah, the movement headed by Mr Arafat, the Palestinian leader. At least three were among the dozens of suspected militants sought by the Israelis, according to Mahmoud al-Aloul, the governor of Nablus.
The men, aged 22 to 31, regularly slept in the shack, fearing the Israelis would attack them in their homes, Palestinian witnesses said. A seventh man in the shack was wounded, they added.
The explosion followed a tense day yesterday. In Jerusalem, Palestinians rained stones on Jewish worshippers commemorating a holy day at the Western Wall, prompting Israeli police to storm the Al Aqsa Mosque compound and drive back the crowd with stun grenades.
Yesterday's clash came exactly 10 months after the current round of Mideast violence erupted inside the same hilltop compound where two large mosques were built atop the ruins of the biblical Jewish temples.
Israeli police blocked a group of about 30 hardline Jewish nationalists, the Temple Mount Faithful, from placing the symbolic cornerstone of a new temple within the mosque compound. The police permitted the group to hold a short ceremony in a parking lot outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
Shortly after, Muslims inside the compound began throwing stones, bricks and bottles at hundreds of Jews praying down below at the Western Wall, which forms an exterior wall of the compound.
When the stone-throwing began, about 400 Israeli police in riot gear rushed inside the mosque compound. The police were met with a hail of rocks, and tossed stun grenades.
Fifteen Israeli policemen and 10 Palestinians were injured and 28 Palestinians were arrested.
Israel claims sovereignty over the compound, which Jews call the Temple Mount. However, the Waqf, an Islamic trust, has day-to-day control over what Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary.
The first clashes in the current violence broke out at the site on September 29 - the day after a controversial visit by Ariel Sharon, now Israel's prime minister.
Since then, 539 Palestinians and 133 Israelis have died in the fighting.
27 july 2001
Israel reveals its fear of war crimes trials
The Israeli contingency plan follows reports yesterday that Tel Aviv has hired a Belgian lawyer for Mr Sharon, who will try to persuade judges in Brussels to throw out a complaint seeking his prosecution over the massacre of Palestinian refugees nearly 20 years ago.
The Belgian courts are also reportedly considering complaints against Israel's army chief, Shaul Mofaz, and the air force commander, Dan Halutz, for the death of Palestinian civilians during the current 10-month-old uprising.
Israel reveals its fear of war crimes trials
The Israeli contingency plan follows reports yesterday that Tel Aviv has hired a Belgian lawyer for Mr Sharon, who will try to persuade judges in Brussels to throw out a complaint seeking his prosecution over the massacre of Palestinian refugees nearly 20 years ago.
The Belgian courts are also reportedly considering complaints against Israel's army chief, Shaul Mofaz, and the air force commander, Dan Halutz, for the death of Palestinian civilians during the current 10-month-old uprising.
25 july 2001
Salah Nour El Din Darwazeh 38
Assassinations in Jenin and Nablus
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated Salah, from Nablus, when an Israeli combat helicopter fired six rockets at his car at the western entrance to Nablus.
PCHR learnt that at approximately 12:15 local time, Darwazeh was traveling in his own car on Haifa Street towards Nablus. When he was approximately 20m away from Tamimi fuel station, an Israeli combat helicopter fired two rockets at his car, but they missed. Darwazeh tried to move to the other side of the road. When he drove the car 15m forward, the Israeli combat helicopter fired four rockets at the car, destroying it and killing Darwazeh.
Assassinations in Jenin and Nablus
On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated Salah, from Nablus, when an Israeli combat helicopter fired six rockets at his car at the western entrance to Nablus.
PCHR learnt that at approximately 12:15 local time, Darwazeh was traveling in his own car on Haifa Street towards Nablus. When he was approximately 20m away from Tamimi fuel station, an Israeli combat helicopter fired two rockets at his car, but they missed. Darwazeh tried to move to the other side of the road. When he drove the car 15m forward, the Israeli combat helicopter fired four rockets at the car, destroying it and killing Darwazeh.
23 july 2001
Ref’at Saber El-Nahhal 15
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Mustafa Yousef Hussein Yassin 26
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Assassinations in Jenin and Nablus
This week, Israeli occupation forces assassinated two Palestinians. On Monday, July 23, 2001, at approximately 16:30 local time, Israeli occupation forces accompanied by an undercover unit in plainclothes moved into ‘Aanin village, west of Jenin. They surrounded the house of Mustafa Yousef Hussein Yassin, 26, and killed him. PCHR was informed that Yassin was with his wife and their child in the house when they heard sounds of unusual movement outside the house. He opened a window to check what was going on. |
Then, he came back
and told his wife that Israeli occupation forces were surrounding the
house and started to reassure her. As soon as Yassin complied with the
Israeli soldiers’ demands to open the door to his house, Israeli
soldiers fired a live bullet at him from 1m, wounding him in the
chest. He turned back, but the Israeli soldiers fired another live
bullet, hitting him in the back. Yassin fell down to the ground
bleeding.
In her testimony to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, Yassin’s wife stated that she was standing near her husband, carrying her child, when Yassin fell down.
She asked the Israeli soldiers to help him, but they pointed their guns at her and forced her to get out of the house away from her husband. She added that her husband bled for 40 minutes without Israeli soldiers offering him help, while she was shouting and crying. When the Israeli soldiers were certain that Yassin was dead, they took his body into a military vehicle and left the area.
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Israeli occupation forces, positioned at Salah El-Din Gate on the border with Egypt south of Rafah, opened fire on ‘Omar Ben ‘Al-Khattab Street, approximately 500m away from the gate, killing a 15-year-old child, Ref’at Saber El-Nahhal, from Rafah, with a medium caliber bullet in the back.
In his testimony to PCHR, ‘Eid ‘Abdel-Salam Qeshta said that he was standing in front of his restaurant in ‘Omar Ben ‘Al-Khattab Street, when he heard sounds of intensive shooting from Salah El-Din Gate. He saw bullets hitting the walls of shops on the western side of the street, he added. Then, the child and another young man were near a shop and were about to get into a civilian car. Suddenly, the child fell down to the ground. A number of young men hurried towards him and carried him to a civilian car, which transferred him to Martyr Mohammed Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
From there, he was transferred to Shifa’ Hospital in Gaza City because of his critical condition. He was pronounced dead at approximately 19:30 local time.
In her testimony to the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment, Yassin’s wife stated that she was standing near her husband, carrying her child, when Yassin fell down.
She asked the Israeli soldiers to help him, but they pointed their guns at her and forced her to get out of the house away from her husband. She added that her husband bled for 40 minutes without Israeli soldiers offering him help, while she was shouting and crying. When the Israeli soldiers were certain that Yassin was dead, they took his body into a military vehicle and left the area.
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Israeli occupation forces, positioned at Salah El-Din Gate on the border with Egypt south of Rafah, opened fire on ‘Omar Ben ‘Al-Khattab Street, approximately 500m away from the gate, killing a 15-year-old child, Ref’at Saber El-Nahhal, from Rafah, with a medium caliber bullet in the back.
In his testimony to PCHR, ‘Eid ‘Abdel-Salam Qeshta said that he was standing in front of his restaurant in ‘Omar Ben ‘Al-Khattab Street, when he heard sounds of intensive shooting from Salah El-Din Gate. He saw bullets hitting the walls of shops on the western side of the street, he added. Then, the child and another young man were near a shop and were about to get into a civilian car. Suddenly, the child fell down to the ground. A number of young men hurried towards him and carried him to a civilian car, which transferred him to Martyr Mohammed Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
From there, he was transferred to Shifa’ Hospital in Gaza City because of his critical condition. He was pronounced dead at approximately 19:30 local time.
21 july 2001
Mustafa Yusef Muhammad Yasin 28
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Raja’ei Mohammed Farid Abu Rjab El-Tamimi 35
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Yhaia Subhi El-Dayeh 47
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Mustafa resident of A'nin, Jenin district, killed in A'nin, Jenin district, by live ammunition. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed when Border Police came to his house to arrest him.
Yhaia, from Gaza City, was killed in the evening, with a live bullet in the side fired by Israeli occupation soldiers. According to PCHR’s investigations, at approximately 22:00 local time, Israeli occupation soldiers, positioned in the vicinity of “Netzarim” settlement, suddenly opened fire on Palestinian houses in Sheikh ‘Ejlin neighborhood, approximately 600m north of the settlement, south of Gaza City. |
Then, 6 Israeli occupation soldiers and a tank penetrated approximately 1,000m inside areas under full control of the Palestinian National Authority, indiscriminately firing live bullets and flash bombs.
Raja’ei, an electrical engineer, was killed, and eight Palestinian civilians were injured.
The headquarters and some houses and shops were severely damaged. PCHR was informed that the blast occurred at the entrance of the building, which is located in the ‘Ein Sara neighborhood in Hebron. Raja’ei Mohammed Farid Abu Rjab El-Tamimi, father of three children, was sitting in the balcony of his house, adjacent to the building, when the explosion occurred. He was killed instantly by shrapnel in the head and chest. Moreover, eight Palestinian civilians were injured.
Investigations carried out by Palestinian security services indicated that a bomb was detonated near the headquarters by remote control. Palestinian security services held the Israeli occupation forces responsible for the explosion.
Raja’ei, an electrical engineer, was killed, and eight Palestinian civilians were injured.
The headquarters and some houses and shops were severely damaged. PCHR was informed that the blast occurred at the entrance of the building, which is located in the ‘Ein Sara neighborhood in Hebron. Raja’ei Mohammed Farid Abu Rjab El-Tamimi, father of three children, was sitting in the balcony of his house, adjacent to the building, when the explosion occurred. He was killed instantly by shrapnel in the head and chest. Moreover, eight Palestinian civilians were injured.
Investigations carried out by Palestinian security services indicated that a bomb was detonated near the headquarters by remote control. Palestinian security services held the Israeli occupation forces responsible for the explosion.
19 july 2001
A New Killing by Settlers in Hebron
Dhia’ Tmaizi 3 months (c), Mohammed Hilmy Tmaizi 20 (r), Mohammed Salameh Tmaizi 22 (l)
Jewish settlers killed three Palestinian civilians, including a 3-month-old infant. At approximately 21:15 local time, a number of settlers opened fire on a civilian car, in which members of a Palestinian family were traveling from Ethna village to their house at Ethna-Tarqoumia junction.
According to eyewitnesses, the shooting took place from a distance of only 5m. After having committed the crime, the settlers fled in their car towards an Israeli military roadblock approximately 200m away. Three of the car’s occupants were killed:
Dhia’ Marwan Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 3 months;
Mohammed Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 23; and
Mohammed Slameh Tumeizi, 22.
Moreover, 5 Palestinian civilians were injured in the incident:
1) Mai Najib Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 16, the wife of martyr Mohammed Salameh Tumeizi, who had been married for only 6 weeks, seriously injured;
2) Samar Sa’di Musallam Tumeizi, 22, cousin of the martyrs, married and mother of two children, seriously inured;
3) Rawan Wa’el Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 4 months, daughter of Samar, seriously injured;
4) Amira Wa’el Helmi Tumeizi, 3, Rawan’s sister, seriously injured by shrapnel in the head and the shoulder and a live bullet in the left leg; and
5) Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 15, injured by a live bullet in the left thigh.
According to eyewitnesses and medical personnel, they faced difficulties in evacuating the injured to hospitals due to Israeli military roadblocks. According to medical sources, some of the injuries were caused by explosive bullets.
It is worth mentioning that an extremist Jewish group of settlers, called “the Committee for Security on Roads,” claimed responsibility for the crime, which recalls dozens of similar attacks committed by settlers against Palestinian civilians.
This crime further proves the need for an international intervention to protect Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, not only against killing by the Israeli occupation forces, but also against crimes committed by settlers operating under the full protection of these forces.
-----Dhia’ was killed by settler gunfire to her head and back.
Jewish settlers killed three Palestinian civilians, including a 3-month-old infant. At approximately 21:15 local time, a number of settlers opened fire on a civilian car, in which members of a Palestinian family were traveling from Ethna village to their house at Ethna-Tarqoumia junction.
According to eyewitnesses, the shooting took place from a distance of only 5m. After having committed the crime, the settlers fled in their car towards an Israeli military roadblock approximately 200m away. Three of the car’s occupants were killed:
Dhia’ Marwan Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 3 months;
Mohammed Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 23; and
Mohammed Slameh Tumeizi, 22.
Moreover, 5 Palestinian civilians were injured in the incident:
1) Mai Najib Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 16, the wife of martyr Mohammed Salameh Tumeizi, who had been married for only 6 weeks, seriously injured;
2) Samar Sa’di Musallam Tumeizi, 22, cousin of the martyrs, married and mother of two children, seriously inured;
3) Rawan Wa’el Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 4 months, daughter of Samar, seriously injured;
4) Amira Wa’el Helmi Tumeizi, 3, Rawan’s sister, seriously injured by shrapnel in the head and the shoulder and a live bullet in the left leg; and
5) Helmi Musallam Tumeizi, 15, injured by a live bullet in the left thigh.
According to eyewitnesses and medical personnel, they faced difficulties in evacuating the injured to hospitals due to Israeli military roadblocks. According to medical sources, some of the injuries were caused by explosive bullets.
It is worth mentioning that an extremist Jewish group of settlers, called “the Committee for Security on Roads,” claimed responsibility for the crime, which recalls dozens of similar attacks committed by settlers against Palestinian civilians.
This crime further proves the need for an international intervention to protect Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, not only against killing by the Israeli occupation forces, but also against crimes committed by settlers operating under the full protection of these forces.
-----Dhia’ was killed by settler gunfire to her head and back.
17 july 2001
Israeli helicopter attack 'kills four'
Israeli helicopter attack 'kills four'
Assassinations and Extra-Judicial Killings
Four men are reported to have been killed today in an Israeli helicopter gunship rocket attack on the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. Initial reports suggest that one of the victims was a senior member of the militant Islamist group, Hamas. The helicopter attack came amid heightened security alerts throughout |
Israel, and growing public pressure on the government to mount an all-out assault on the Palestinian territories.
On Monday, a suicide bomber of the Islamic Jihad killed himself and two Israeli soldiers, one of them a woman. The organisation boasted that it would mount further such actions.
Yesterday another bomb was found and defused, while police combed the Tel Aviv satellite town of Petah Tiqvah after a tip-off about a second suicide bomber. There was also tight security in Jerusalem, where the Jewish Maccabiah games are being held.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian gunmen fired at Israeli soldiers, and at a group of civilian road workers.
The latest surge of violence has caused Israeli defence minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, to cancel a planned trip to Washington, where he had been expected to hold talks with the US secretary of state, Colin Powell.
The Israeli government has, as usual, heaped all the blame for the latest violence on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), headed by Yasser Arafat.
According to PNA officials, Mr Arafat has ordered militant factions, including Islamic Jihad and Hamas, to stop targeting Israelis. That instruction is unlikely to impress the Israeli government, who say that attacks are being launched daily from territory controlled by the PNA.
Palestinian officials counter-charge that their efforts to enforce the month-old ceasefire are being thwarted by Israeli provocations - such as the helicopter attack on Bethlehem - and restrictions on the movements of the Palestinian security forces.
On Monday, a suicide bomber of the Islamic Jihad killed himself and two Israeli soldiers, one of them a woman. The organisation boasted that it would mount further such actions.
Yesterday another bomb was found and defused, while police combed the Tel Aviv satellite town of Petah Tiqvah after a tip-off about a second suicide bomber. There was also tight security in Jerusalem, where the Jewish Maccabiah games are being held.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian gunmen fired at Israeli soldiers, and at a group of civilian road workers.
The latest surge of violence has caused Israeli defence minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, to cancel a planned trip to Washington, where he had been expected to hold talks with the US secretary of state, Colin Powell.
The Israeli government has, as usual, heaped all the blame for the latest violence on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), headed by Yasser Arafat.
According to PNA officials, Mr Arafat has ordered militant factions, including Islamic Jihad and Hamas, to stop targeting Israelis. That instruction is unlikely to impress the Israeli government, who say that attacks are being launched daily from territory controlled by the PNA.
Palestinian officials counter-charge that their efforts to enforce the month-old ceasefire are being thwarted by Israeli provocations - such as the helicopter attack on Bethlehem - and restrictions on the movements of the Palestinian security forces.
15 july 2001
Tariq Jawad Abu El-Dhab’at 17
Israeli occupation forces renewed the shelling of Palestinian residential areas in Hebron, using artillery shells, surface-to-surface and heavy and medium caliber guns. They also shelled Doura and Halhoul, near Hebron. The shelling which lasted until 05:00 local time on the following day was accompanied by attempts by the Israeli occupation forces to penetrate into Palestinian controlled areas in the north and south of Hebron.
Tariq Jawad Abu El-Dhab’at, 17, was evacuated to ‘Aalia Hospital in critical condition after he had a nervous breakdown. He died later after his heart stopped beating. Moreover, more than 19 Palestinian civilians were injured
Israeli occupation forces renewed the shelling of Palestinian residential areas in Hebron, using artillery shells, surface-to-surface and heavy and medium caliber guns. They also shelled Doura and Halhoul, near Hebron. The shelling which lasted until 05:00 local time on the following day was accompanied by attempts by the Israeli occupation forces to penetrate into Palestinian controlled areas in the north and south of Hebron.
Tariq Jawad Abu El-Dhab’at, 17, was evacuated to ‘Aalia Hospital in critical condition after he had a nervous breakdown. He died later after his heart stopped beating. Moreover, more than 19 Palestinian civilians were injured
13 july 2001
Assassinations and Extra-Judicial Killings
This week, the Israeli occupation forces committed new crimes of political assassinations and extra-judicial killings, in the context of a policy adopted by the Israeli government. In two separate crimes, five Palestinians were killed in ways similar to those which the Israeli occupation forces and security services have used in the past months to carry out such operations.
In the first crime, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated Fawaz Bashir Badran, 27, from Deir El-Ghusoun village and resident of Tulkarm. On Friday, July 13, 2001, at approximately 14:35 local time, Badarn was going back home in the western part of Tulkarm after he had done the Friday prayer, when a car exploded as soon as he passed by it. Badran was instantly killed.
According to Palestinian official sources, the car was exploded by a remote control, and Israeli intelligence is responsible for the assassination of Badran. It is worth mentioning that Badarn, the sole son of his mother and father of three children, was an activist of the Palestinian Islamic movement. He had an M.A. in the Islamic Legislation from the Jordanian University and was a teacher in Al-Aqsa schools.
Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead ‘Aatef Mohammed Shehadeh Tafesh, 24, from Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, with several live bullets in the head, the abdomen and the right arm. The Israeli occupation forces claimed that Tafesh was about to plant a bomb near “Nissanit” settlement, north of Beit Lahia. His body was handed to Palestinian officials in the evening after hours of detention by the Israeli occupation forces.
This week, the Israeli occupation forces committed new crimes of political assassinations and extra-judicial killings, in the context of a policy adopted by the Israeli government. In two separate crimes, five Palestinians were killed in ways similar to those which the Israeli occupation forces and security services have used in the past months to carry out such operations.
In the first crime, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated Fawaz Bashir Badran, 27, from Deir El-Ghusoun village and resident of Tulkarm. On Friday, July 13, 2001, at approximately 14:35 local time, Badarn was going back home in the western part of Tulkarm after he had done the Friday prayer, when a car exploded as soon as he passed by it. Badran was instantly killed.
According to Palestinian official sources, the car was exploded by a remote control, and Israeli intelligence is responsible for the assassination of Badran. It is worth mentioning that Badarn, the sole son of his mother and father of three children, was an activist of the Palestinian Islamic movement. He had an M.A. in the Islamic Legislation from the Jordanian University and was a teacher in Al-Aqsa schools.
Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead ‘Aatef Mohammed Shehadeh Tafesh, 24, from Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, with several live bullets in the head, the abdomen and the right arm. The Israeli occupation forces claimed that Tafesh was about to plant a bomb near “Nissanit” settlement, north of Beit Lahia. His body was handed to Palestinian officials in the evening after hours of detention by the Israeli occupation forces.
7 july 2001
According to PCHR’s investigations and eyewitnesses’ testimonies, at approximately 20:00 local time, a number of Palestinian children were playing near their houses adjacent to the border with Egypt in Rafah, when they were fired upon by Israeli occupation soldiers positioned at an observation tower in Tal Zo’rob area. Distance between the children and the observation tower was approximately 1,000m
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5 july 2001
Nasser Lutfi ‘Aabed 39
In the evening, Israeli occupation soldiers willfully killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded four in Al-Bireh. No clashes were reported at the time. At approximately 18:30 local time, Nasser Lutfi ‘Aabed, 39, from Al-Bireh, wearing a training suit, was on his way to the Hashimite school east of Al-Bireh where he practiced sports. When he was approximately 50m away from the gate of the school, Israeli soldiers in a jeep traveling in the vicinity of “Psagot” settlement east of Al-Bireh opened fire and shot him dead with an explosive live bullet in the chest. |
4 july 2001
Murad Jamil ‘Abdullah El-Masri 14
In the afternoon, a 14-year-old child, from Khan Yunis, was pronounced dead in Amman Surgical Hospital in Jordan. According to PCHR’s documentation, the child had been wounded in the head with a live bullet fired by Israeli occupation soldiers during clashes near Salah El-Din Gate on the border with Egypt, south of Rafah, on Dec 8, 2001. Since he was in critical condition, he was moved to Amman Surgical Hospital where he was pronounced dead in the afternoon. |
2 july 2001
Radwan Ibrahim Yousef Eshtayeh 38
Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead Radwan, father of four children from Salem village near Nablus. Eshtayeh was a taxi driver, he arrived with four travelers in his taxi at the junction. The four travelers got out of the taxi to cross the roadblock. He noticed that a traveler forgot his bag of vegetables. He got out of the taxi, calling the traveler to come back and take her bag. Israeli soldiers, positioned in a military site approximately 200m away, saw him putting the bag at the side of the road. They fired at him, wounding him with six live bullets in the neck, the kidneys and the legs. He was pronounced dead in the hospital. |
An Assassination in Jenin
On Sunday, July 1, 2001, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated three Palestinian civilian activists of the Intifada. At approximately 23:15 local time, a combat helicopter of the Israeli occupation forces bombarded a Palestinian civilian car that was traveling at the junction of Al-Jarba village on its way from Jenin to Tammoun village. The car was completely destroyed and its three occupants were killed. |
Israeli media and governmental sources claimed that the three young men intended to wage attacks against Israeli targets and that the strength of the explosion of the car was attributed to explosives that were inside the car. However, according to investigations carried out by PCHR and other human rights organizations, the three young men were on their way back home after they had consoled the family of a Palestinian martyr in Jenin refugee camp. Investigations also proved that the car was hit by eight rockets.
It is worth mentioning that this crime was the second of its kind in one week, after Ussama Fathi Ibrahim Jawabreh, 29, from Nablus was killed in what is believed to have been an extra-judicial execution, when a public phone cabin was exploded on Sunday, June 24, 2001. Additionally, two children passing by, Malak ‘Abdel-Nasser Shabaru, 2, and her brother ‘Ammar, 4, sustained multiple shrapnel wounds.
According to PCHR’s documentation, this is the 17th extra-judicial execution committed by the Israeli occupation forces since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada on September 29, 2001. As a result of these assassinations, 19 Palestinian activists and 7 civilian bystanders have been killed. According to information and reports received by PCHR, the Israeli security services have attempted other assassinations, but these attempts either were hampered by Palestinian security services or resulted only in injury of those targeted.
One of the failed assassination attempts targeted Mohammed Ahmed Suleiman Bisharat, a victim of the most recent crime, on June 3, 2001. Bisharat was then driving his car in the eastern part of Tammoun village when a bomb, apparently planted by Israeli security services, exploded 5m away from his car. At the same time, an Israeli helicopter was flying over the area. It is believed that the helicopter detonated the bomb by remote control. Bisharat survived this attack.
Meriam Mohammed Ibrahim ‘Omara, 61, from Nabi Saleh village northwest of Ramallah, died when Israeli soldiers obstructed her evacuation to hospital after she suffered from a heart attack.
According to her son Bassam Mahmoud ‘Omara, he took her in his car at approximately 01:00 local time to Ramallah hospital after a physician in Beit Rima village checked her condition. Israeli occupation forces at three military roadblocks on the road to Ramallah held them up for approximately two hours. When they arrived at hospital, the mother died.
It is worth mentioning that this crime was the second of its kind in one week, after Ussama Fathi Ibrahim Jawabreh, 29, from Nablus was killed in what is believed to have been an extra-judicial execution, when a public phone cabin was exploded on Sunday, June 24, 2001. Additionally, two children passing by, Malak ‘Abdel-Nasser Shabaru, 2, and her brother ‘Ammar, 4, sustained multiple shrapnel wounds.
According to PCHR’s documentation, this is the 17th extra-judicial execution committed by the Israeli occupation forces since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada on September 29, 2001. As a result of these assassinations, 19 Palestinian activists and 7 civilian bystanders have been killed. According to information and reports received by PCHR, the Israeli security services have attempted other assassinations, but these attempts either were hampered by Palestinian security services or resulted only in injury of those targeted.
One of the failed assassination attempts targeted Mohammed Ahmed Suleiman Bisharat, a victim of the most recent crime, on June 3, 2001. Bisharat was then driving his car in the eastern part of Tammoun village when a bomb, apparently planted by Israeli security services, exploded 5m away from his car. At the same time, an Israeli helicopter was flying over the area. It is believed that the helicopter detonated the bomb by remote control. Bisharat survived this attack.
Meriam Mohammed Ibrahim ‘Omara, 61, from Nabi Saleh village northwest of Ramallah, died when Israeli soldiers obstructed her evacuation to hospital after she suffered from a heart attack.
According to her son Bassam Mahmoud ‘Omara, he took her in his car at approximately 01:00 local time to Ramallah hospital after a physician in Beit Rima village checked her condition. Israeli occupation forces at three military roadblocks on the road to Ramallah held them up for approximately two hours. When they arrived at hospital, the mother died.