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- 'What did my kids do to deserve this?' - Describing an Israeli military incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin, in which tanks and bulldozers flattened the police headquarters.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,537136,00.html
- A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Nigel Parry's Photodiary of conflict 'on the ground' in Ramallah, West Bank.
nigelparry.com/diary
- As curfew bites, a handful of men bring hope to the trapped - Describing the actions of a small Palestinian fire brigade, exempted by Israeli forces from a 24-hour military curfew, and the hardships imposed on Palestinian civilians, including the shooting deaths and injuries to several children by Israeli forces.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,746121,00.html
- Families caught in the crossfire - Describing the siege of the Palestinian town of Beit Jalla, and the hardships imposed on its residents, resulting from its proximity to the illegal Israeli settlement at Gilo.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,384814,00.html
- Free Rein: Vigilante Settlers and Israel's Non-Enforcement of the Law - Describing crimes, attacks, vandalism, and other offenses committed by settlers against Palestinian civilians, often while border police and soldiers watch.
www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/Free_Reign_2001.asp
- From Bethlehem to Austin - A journalist moves from the violence of Palestine to the safety of Austin, and finds herself dazed by the difference. The Austin Chronicle Politics.
www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-10-19/pols_feature.html
- Human Rights Watch April 2001: Hebron - Background to the tension in Hebron/Al-Khalil.
www.hrw.org/reports/2001/israel/hebron6-03.htm
- Independent News - Jose Bove takes his magic potion to the West Bank - the Asterix of the peace movement on the barricades against the settlements
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=79292
- Israeli invasion provokes outrage - Describing international criticism of Israel's incursion into Beit Jala, and its associated occupation of a Palestinian orphanage as a military outpost while refusing to let its child residents leave for safety.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,543760,00.html
- Israeli tanks invade Jericho and Jenin - Describing Israeli military incursions into Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,551608,00.html
- Israeli tanks invade two West Bank towns - Describing military incursions into Jericho and Jenin.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,550893,00.html
- Minister's aide calls Hebron riots a 'pogrom' - An aide to Israel's Security Minister and eyewitness to a bloody rampage of Hebron settlers through a Palestinian neighborhood dismisses as false the settlers' claim that they acted in self-defense, and criticises the police and military for not intervening.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=192129
- Notes from Underground - American visitor to Hebron gives a harrowing eye-witness account of settler brutality on the West Bank. Santa Barbara Independent.
www.independent.com/news/voi_0735.htm
- Rioting Hebron settlers kill Palestinian girl, wound dozens after funeral - Describing an hour-long riot by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians, how Israeli soldiers ignored the violence, and that fifteen officers were injured by settlers when border police finally arrived to stop the attacks.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1027506368260
- Settler Violence and September 11 - A Report from the Mean Streets of Hebron - An account by a Christian peacekeeper of her experiences with violence by Israeli settlers and their children in the occupied territories, and the sincere expressions of sympathy she recieved from both Israelis and Palestinians following the September 11 attacks.
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0111/article/011112b.html
- The Americans of the Middle East - Two Americans, a scholar and a peace activist, comment on their experiences in the occupied territories, the effect of Israel's incursions, human rights, and peaceful protests that come under live fire from Israeli forces.
www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12821
- The hostility of Hebron - Describing the history of Hebron, and how Israel's four hundred person settlement in the middle of the city results in severe hardship for thirty-thousand Palestinian civilians who live in its shadow.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/issues/1683017.stm
- The rulers of Hebron - Observing that from the start of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, settlers in Hebron have demonstrated militancy, racism, and contempt for the law, and criticising Israeli authorities for doing nothing to control them, even as it forcefully stops peace demonstrators.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=196980
- Today's Palestinian Patchwork - Describing the limited autonomy granted to the Palestinian Authority, over isolated patches of the occupied territories constituting approximately forty-one percent of the West Bank, following the Oslo Accords.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35704-2000Sep8
- Vigilantes take up arms, vow to expel 'Muslim filth' - Abusive behavior of extremist settlers in Hebron. USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010904/3599125s.htm
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