- 'Human shield' dies as Hamas man is killed by troops - Describing how a Palestinian civilian, used as a human shied by Israeli troops in violation both of international law and the IDF's promises to Israel's high court, was killed during an attack on the home of a suspected Hamas militant, along with that suspect.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=197810
- 'Mistakenly' killed on a Friday morning - Describing the death of a Palestinian woman, whose car came under fire from an Israeli tank.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=174313
- 'They're shooting to kill, regardless of the target' - Describing the reactions of doctors in the West Bank, as they treat Palestinians shot by Israeli forces.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,582253,00.html
- 10 dead in mounting Middle East violence - Describing how despite concessions from Yasser Arafat, civilians and children on both sides were killed as violence continues.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,741589,00.html
- A catalogue of carnage - A chronology of Jewish and Palestinian people killed since the start of the Al Aqsa intifada.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,662081,00.html
- A deadly walk to school - Describing the death of five Palestinian boys, shredded on the way to school by an Israeli bomb.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,604346,00.html
- A death the Israelis cannot ignore - Describing the death of a German national during an Israeli missile attack in the occupied West Bank.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,398996,00.html
- A Memorial for The Dead of the Second Intifada - A list of the names of the victims, their age and day of death [Flash required].
middleeastdead.com
- A mother too angry for peace - Describing the frustrations of a Palestinian mother at the hospital bedside of her thirteen-year-old daughter, left severely brain damaged after being shot in the head by an Israeli sniper.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,393360,00.html
- Arafat police shoot dead their own - Describing the shooting of Palestinian protesters, as part of an effort to stem a possible revolt against Arafat's rule by groups favoring a more militant approach to the conflict.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,566012,00.html
- Baby's death stokes West Bank tensions - Describing the angry response following the murder of an Israeli baby by a Palestinian sniper in the Israeli settlement in Hebron.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,463809,00.html
- Both Sides are Wrong - Describing how contempt for each other's lives, starting with Israel's use of excessive, deadly force against Palestinians at the start of the Intifada, and continuing through the present suicide attacks, reflects a mutual misconception that increased force will restrain the opposing side's actions.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=18015
- Boy's death stokes up battle for Jerusalem - Describing the deaths under Israeli fire of small children and an ambulance driver in the occupied territories.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,376078,00.html
- Buried with chocolate in his hand - Describing how an Israeli tank was caught on videotape, chasing and firing on three small children who had left home to buy candy during a break in the 24-hour curfew imposed on Palestinian villages, killing two and seriously wounding the third.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=182987
- Cameraman records the slaughter of bicycling children - Describing video footage of three Palestinian children who came under Israeli tank fire while cycling back from a shop after buying a chocolate bar.
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-350200,00.html
- Children bear scars of Mid-East conflict - Describing the stress of life for Palestinian children resulting from life under Israel's occupation and extended curfews, from deprivation and poverty, and from the deaths of other children in the course of the conflict.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1951000/1951569.stm
- Conflicting evidence at inquiry into shooting of Arab citizens - Describing conflicting accounts from Israeli police with regard to the shooting of unarmed Palestinian protesters, and Ehud Barak's admission that Israel's use of snipers under the circumstances was 'not logical'.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,603614,00.html
- Deadly 'home court' advantage - Challenging comparisons of Israel's bombing attack on a crowded civilian neighborhood with American action in Afghanistan, and observing that Israel's claims of the importance of the assassination target are contradicted by its prior statements about wanted militants.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=193446
- Deliberate Israeli killing of children uncovered - AP reporter and B'tselem investigators find that IDF lets soldiers shoot children at play, with impunity.
www.fairnews.org/pmw/db/alerts/display_message.asp?mid=232
- European Human Rights Groups mission to Palestine, 4-8 October, 2000 - Press release, demanding an international commission of inquiry on Israel's use of force against Palestinian civilians.
www.euromedrights.net/english/emhrn-documents/pressreleases/11_10_2000.htm
- Five Palestinians, including 2 children, killed in IAF strike - Describing a missile attack on a car by Israeli Apache attack helicopters, which killed a ten-year-old boy and six-year-old girl standing nearby. Also describing the difficulties faced by Palestinian schoolchildren.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=203475
- Four Palestinians die in revenge attacks - Describing the deaths of two Palestinian policeman and a ten-year-old boy, and the murder of a Palestinian man by an Israeli settler.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,416809,00.html
- Four settlers killed as gunmen open fire on their cars - Describing the deaths of four residents of an Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, purportedly in retaliation for the casualties resulting from Israel's missile attack on a Palestinian civilian neighborhood.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=318816
- Gaza breach foiled; Palestinian woman, 3 children killed - Describing how Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian family, and shot two nine-year-old boys, killing one, during separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, and a third incident in which troops stopped two Palestinians from trying to breach a security fence.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=159739
- Gazas own 'ground zero' - Describing the psychological trauma and suffering of children in the occupied Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's occupation, military actions and the continuing conflict.
www.msnbc.com/news/788669.asp
- How should Israel solve the "Arafat problem"? - The Dutch director of The International Christian Zionist Center presents five historically tested methods of eliminating indigenous populations, for Israeli consideration.
www.israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0117.htm
- IDF leaves Jenin, arrests 24; Palestinian boy killed in Nablus - Describing Israeli military actions, primarily around Nablus and Jenin, to capture suspected militants, and the resulting death of a seven-year-old child, killed when IDF troops opened fire on his father's store.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=165104
- In the dark of night, with no witnesses - Contrasting two versions of the events which led up to the shooting deaths of four Palestinian quarry workers by Israeli troops.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=207910
- IndyMedia Center - Israelis plant trees in Beduin village - Activists planted olives to dramatize support for villagers in the Negev that the government is trying to remove.
www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/13539.html
- Intifada Fact Sheet - Footnoted and updated statistical reports on killings, collective punishment and other Israeli violations, concluding that most victims were not involved in clashes or demonstrations. Source: HDIP, the Health Development Information and Policy Institute.
www.hdip.org/reports/PalestinianIntifadaFactSheet.htm
- Israel "regrets" mistaken shooting - Describing the death of a Palestinian worker, shot several times in the head by Israeli troops as he drove through Nablus.
portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/10/umid.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/08/10/ixport.html
- Israel accused of whitewash over Palestinian deaths - Describing international reaction to Israel's declaring its soldiers without fault, following a spate of attacks on unarmed Palestinian civilians.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=331192
- Israel shifts to live bullets - Describing the use of live ammunition against Palestinian protestors, and an Israeli sniper's assertion that although Israel was trying not to shoot small children, anybody over the age of twelve is fair game.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,403921,00.html
- Israeli Arab woman killed by IDF gunfire north of Tul Karm - Describing how a civilian was killed by machinegun fire while driving her car in the occupied territories, the initial false claim that she was shot by Palestinians, and the subsequent claim that she was killed by misdirected 'warning shots'.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=165127
- Israeli army admits killing boys - Israel's defense of its roadside bomb that killed five children, aged six to fourteen, as being intended to kill Palestinian militants.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,605287,00.html
- Israeli dart shells kill family of Palestinians - Describing Israel's 'flechette' tank shells, packed with approximately 3,000 arrows which scatter in all directions upon explosion, and deaths and injuries suffered by Palestinian civilians in a recent attack.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=328703
- Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian woman, her two children, a young boy - Describing the shooting deaths of Palestian civilians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank.
www.dallasnews.com/world/stories/050602dnintwestbank.588198db.html
- Israeli troops firing at children - Western diplomats claim they saw Israeli troops firing live ammunition at a group of children throwing stones, even though the children were too far to pose a risk.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=56368&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
- Israelis fear army may be trigger-happy - Describing a sudden concern in Israel that deadly force is being used irresponsibly, following the killing of eleven Palestinians, including two children, during a twenty-four hour period.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,784566,00.html
- Italian journalist dies in Mideast - Describing how an Italian news photographer was killed, after being shot in the chest six times by Israeli forces, in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/13/italy.death/index.html
- Jenin Deaths Video Implicates Israeli Army - Discussing how the Israeli military was caught on videotape firing upon small children, killing two and injuring a third, and its response that the tank crew that opened fire meant to discourage curfew violations.
www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0706-02.htm
- Jewish settlers allegedly kill Palestinian girl - Describing how extremist Israeli settlers from the Hebron settlement rioted at a funeral for an IDF soldier, attacking Palestinians and destroying property, stabbing an eight-year-old boy, and shooting dead a fourteen-year-old girl.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-07-28-israel_x.htm
- Lives in ruins - A Palestinian poet describes living under siege, and the effect on his life, his family, and the community.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,688411,00.html
- Mideast civilians at risk - report - Reporting a call from Human Rights Watch for Israel's military forces to stop forcing Palestinian civilians to serve as human shields or to assist in its military operations, upon the Palestinian Authority to do more to prevent militants from putting civilians at risk.
europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/04/18/mideast.humanrights/index.html
- Muhammad's Killer - Chatting with a stranger, activist Neta Golan discovers the young soldier who needlessly gunned down her young Arab friend.
www.mediamonitors.net/netagolan1.html
- Mutilated children of a crippled Palestine - Describing the condition of four Palestinian boys in a medical clinic, left permanently paralyzed after being shot by Israeli troops for throwing stones.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,481100,00.html
- Nothing happened - After his taxi came under fire by Israeli forces, Ha'aretz reporter Gideon Levy criticizes the ease at which Israel's army opens fire on Palestinian vehicles, and the way they shrug off their errors even when innocent people are injured or killed.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=197792
- Official: Riot aimed at Arabs in Hebron - Describing the impressions of an Israeli government official, considered pro-settler, to rioting in Hebron, and his dismissal of claims by settlers that their acts of violence were in any way provoked.
www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/news_d37418555566228400bf.html
- Oops! - An introspective essay, examining Israel's lack of concern over the deaths of innocent Palestinians, and asserting that whomever cheapens the lives of the innocent also cheapens our lives and the lives of their own children.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=204755
- PA: IDF blocked evacuation of girl shot dead by settlers - Describing how extremist Jewish settlers from Hebron again rioted following the funeral of a soldier, vandalizing cars and property, attacking and shooting at their Palestinian neighbors, wounding civilians and murdering a young girl.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=191625
- Palestian Sources: IDF kills 3, including 2-year-old girl, in Gaza - Describing civilian deaths, and another round of mass arrests, as part of Israel's continuing military operations in the occupied Gaza strip.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=183804
- Palestinian and Israeli kids suffer post traumatic stress - Discussing a 2001 study which showed that seventy percent of Palestinian children, and thirty percent of the children of Israelis living in settlements in the occupied territories, suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
www.health24.co.za/Default.asp?action=article&ContentID=17924
- Palestinian baby dies after born at IDF roadblock - Describing the death of a newborn, whose mother was not able to reach a hospital due to Israel's restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=168166
- Palestinian Boy Killed by Tank Fire in Gaza - Describing the death of a five-year-old boy under Israeli tank fire, and the injury of two men who attempted to rescue him, and the IDF's claim to have no knowledge of the shooting of the child. Also describing financial issues, and Israel's use of civilians as human shields. [Free registration required]
www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-mideast.html?ex=1030075200&en=ff48592aaf50035f&ei=5040
- Palestinian Kids Face Malnutrition - Describing a UNICEF determination that almost half of all young Palestinian children suffer from chronic malnutrition as a result of Israel's curfews, closures, and collective punishments on the civilian population of the occupied territories.
abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/Palestinian_malnutrition020804.html
- Palestinian women: 'We just want to live normally' - A report on the stressful life of Palestinian women, including danger, deprivation, destruction of homes, domestic violence, and people killed while sleeping, following the Intifada's first female suicide bomber.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,641078,00.html
- Palestinians mourn killing of mother and daughter - Describing funeral proceedings for a woman and her twelve-year-old daughter, killed by an Israeli tank while working in a field.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=299272
- Palestinians' tell-tale wounds expose shoot-to-kill tactics - Describing a pattern of wounds which doctors describe as indicative of an intent to kill, permanently maim, or blind, by Israeli snipers.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,377690,00.html
- Senior IDF officer rejects charges of hunger in territories - An Israeli military officer responds to a growing humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories with the dismissive statement, 'hunger is when people have swollen bellies and are falling over dead.'
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=194868
- Settler fined for clubbing Arab boy to death - Describing how a settler who bludgeoned an eleven-year-old Palestinian boy to death was sentenced to probation and a fine, and the objection of an Israeli human rights group that this sends the message that settlers can 'abuse Palestinians with impunity'.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,426101,00.html
- Settlers' strikes create cold fury - Amember of the Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron describes incidents of taunting, vandalism and brutality by residents of Israel's settlement against their Palestinian neighbors, and the anger it inspires.
www.commondreams.org/views02/0104-04.htm
- Shooting to kill in the Holy Land - A war correspondent describes a disturbing reality in the occupied Gaza strip, where Israeli snipers routinely shoot Palestinians, including small children, despite there being no conceivable danger to the soldiers.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,376384,00.html
- Shoppers killed as Israeli tank opens fire in market - Describing the deaths of Palestinian civilians, including two children, killed 'in error' when Israeli troops fired tank shells and machinegun fire at a crowded market.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=307756
- Six Palestinian boys hurt in clashes; IDF raids Gaza village - Describing how four young boys were injured by machinegun fire when they threw stones at armored army vehicles, and how another two were injured by tank fire when Israel fired on civilians who were violating curfew in the occupied West Bank.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=205897
- Soldiers Fire on Civilians in West Bank - Descriing the deaths of a mother and her two children, and of a nine-year-old boy, shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,51955,00.html
- Starved of Hope, Stripped of Dignity - Describing the Palestinian civilians forced to resort to begging for food as a result of Israel's closures and curfews, as they gather on the day Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=11846759&method=full&siteid=89488
- Suspects beaten near minister - In what may turn out to be a backfired public relations ploy, as Israel's attorney-general served at a checkpoint claiming he wanted to see how Palestinians were treated, soldiers at that checkpoint severely beat two Palestinian men and a boy.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,773052,00.html
- Tell the Truth, Shimon - Gideon Levy excoriates Shimon Peres for standing by as an accomplice to the war crimes Ariel Sharon is wreaking on the Palestinians.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=120930
- Testimonies - Statements of civilians, collected by the human rights organization, B'tselem, relating to acts of violence against Palestinians and their property by Israeli soldiers, police and settlers, in the occupied territories.
www.btselem.org/English/Testimonies/Index.asp
- The ICRC urges respect for medical services - An official Red Cross statement calling upon both sides in the conflict to respect the safety of medical personnel and the rights of the wounded to receive treatment, protesting Israel's harassment of medical professionals, its firing at ambulances, delays of up to eight hours at its blockades, and the injury of medical personnel in a suicide boming.
www.icrc.org/icrceng.nsf/c1256212004ce24e4125621200524882/6049d6badf517c20c1256b8f003b6702?OpenDocument
- The latest targets amid the blood and violence: Pregnant women - Describing the shootings of pregnant women by Israeli soldiers at their checkpoints in the occupied territories.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=139969
- The other schoolchildren of war - Observing the traumatic effects of violence on Palestinian children in the occupied territories, along with the oppressive effects of Israel's curfews, closures, and collective punishments.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=203540
- The Road to the Hague - Asserting, in the context of the IDF's refusal to investigate the deaths of Palestinian children at the hands of its soldiers, that it is not enough for Israel to claim that it does not intend to kill civilians, but that it must also demonstrate that it tries not to kill them.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=162446
- The school run on a sunny day, but a tank shell found them in the wrong place at the wrong time - Describing the deaths of five schoolchildren, aged four through fifteen, as the result of the mistaken shelling of a car by Israeli forces, as well as civilian deaths from an attack on an ambulance and an incursion into the Jenin refugee camp.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,662080,00.html
- The Stories of Palestinian Children - Describing the psychological suffering of six Palestinians growing up under Israeli occupation.
www.globalministries.org/mee/me102600.htm
- The Village Voice: Shoot to Maim - Report of the high number of injuries to Palestinian youth by the fragmenting bullets used by Israel Defense Forces.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0108/tolan.shtml
- Trigger Happy - Unjustified Gunfire and the IDF's Open-Fire Regulations during the al-Aqsa Intifada - An analysis of Israeli Defense Force policies, patterns of unjustified shooting, and the ultimate responsibility of senior commanders and the policymakers. From the Israeli human rights organization, B'tselem.
www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/2002/020321.asp
- Twilight Zone - `I'm sorry for your loss,' the officer said - Describing the experience of a Palestinian father, stripped of his pants and detained for hours after Israeli troops accidentally killed his wife and two of his children in front of him, and his reaction to their deaths.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=164581
- Twilight Zone / Grapes of wrath - Contrasting an Israeli military commander's claim that Israel fights with 'purity of arms' as its guiding principle with the facts behind the deaths of thirteen Palestinian civilians, including children, as a result of the actions of Israeli troops.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=206972
- Two Israeli boys found bludgeoned to death - Describing the murder of two boys, killed in the West bank in a cave near their settlement, and settlers' protests that Sharon is not taking adequate steps to protect them from terrorism.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,488169,00.html
- Two Paradises, Two Cemeteries - Describing the impact of Israel's military incusions, curfews, collective punishments, checkpoints, interference with access to medical treatment, and destruction of schools and government buildings, on the Palestinian residents of Tul Karm.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=158317
- Whitewash - Office of the Military Advocate General's Investigation into the Death of Khalil al-Mughrabi, age 11, on July 7, 2001 - Detailing the killing of a small child by Israeli forces while he played soccer with friends, and the subsequent cover-up of the facts surrounding the death.
www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/2001/011113.asp
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