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Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
25 June 2002

This week, Israeli forces encroached into more Palestinian areas, killing a number of Palestinians and destroying several public and private facilities. Twenty-five Palestinians, including twenty civilians, were killed by Israeli occupying forces this week.

What occupation means: shooting at the sewage repair team

Nigel Parry
St. Paul,
Minnesota
25 June 2002

The press release below is part of the picture. It’s not big enough news for CNN or its friends to report. It’s not big enough news that some unit of Israeli soldiers in Gaza is taking potshots at a sewage repair crew but this kind of incident is endemic in every Palestinian town.

A sense of normalcy

Susan Brannon
East Jerusalem,
Palestine
25 June 2002

Israel’s reoccupation, the lack of movement and being locked up inside of your own home without the knowledge of knowing how long has become normal. This is the sad thing.

CNN negates Palestinian victims and international law

Michael F. Brown,
Ali Abunimah and
Nigel Parry
24 June 2002

Bowing to strong Israeli pressure, CNN is to broadcast a special series profiling Israeli victims of terror. Astonishingly, neither the website nor the planned series profile any of the more than 1,000 unarmed Palestinian civilians—one quarter of them children—killed or any of the 19,452 Palestinians injured in the past 21 months by Israeli occupation forces.

Bush's Speech - A Vision of Permanent War

Ali Abunimah
Chicago,
Illinois
24 June 2002

George Bush’s much-anticipated speech on how to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, weighed in at 1,867 words. By my count, more than one thousand words were devoted to criticizing and making demands of the Palestinians, while just 137 words dealt with what Israel should do.

Back to occupation, back to "normal"

Islah Jad
Ramallah,
Palestine
24 June 2002

It’s been awhile since I’ve written; I have needed some time to digest our new situation, one dominated by the presence of the Israeli army. Their presence has never been easy to accept, but what is harder to accept now is that we are back to “normal,” and this, apparently for us, means being in the continuous presence of an occupying army.

Nablus: what it really means

Arjan El Fassed
Rotterdam,
the Netherlands
24 June 2002

I left Palestine on Thursday night. Security at Ben Gurion Airport was tight. As always, thanks to my Arab sounding name, I got a special treatment. ‘Excuses for any inconvenience’, says the security officer at the airport, ‘it’s for your own security’.

'The best lack all conviction...'

Laurie King
Victoria,
Canada
23 June 2002

Lately, we watch the news with one eye shut, the other wincing in anticipation of anguish. Though we mumble to ourselves: “It can’t possibly get worse” as the newscaster reports another dozen Israelis or Palestinians are dead, we dare not say it out loud for fear of tempting fate with such presumption.

Massive military operation against Nablus

Patricia Smith
Beit Hanina,
Palestine
22 June 2002

The Israeli army has launched a massive military operation against Nablus City, including its four refugee camps.

'Before our own eyes'

Ali Abunimah
Chicago,
Illinois
21 June 2002

The falsehood that Israel ever made significant withdrawals from the occupied territories or that the three and a half million Palestinians subject to its military rule ever enjoyed more freedom than any people corralled into tiny ghettos by an oppressor serves the same purpose as the thoroughly debunked myth that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak made ‘far-reaching compromises’ at Camp David.

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