Extrajudicial Killings
Diaries
"At 9 pm, undercover Israeli Special Forces walked down the main street of Ramallah. They wore civilian clothes and Palestinian police caps. They carried M-16s as all the police force does. No one looked at them twice. ... They continued walking straight down Rukab Street until they were opposite the famous Rukab ice cream shop where families gather every evening in the summertime. And then they opened fire" (from "Killings in Ramallah by Eliza Ernshire, 4 September 2006). Read the diaries of on-the-ground witnesses and those affected by Israel's policy of violence. (Added 13 October 2006)

At 9 pm, undercover Israeli Special Forces walked down the main street of Ramallah. They wore civilian clothes and Palestinian police caps. They carried M-16s as all the police force does. No one looked at them twice. ... They continued walking straight down Rukab Street until they were opposite the famous Rukab ice cream shop where families gather every evening in the summertime. And then they opened fire.

  • Killings in Ramallah, Eliza Ernshire writing from Ramallah (4 September 2006)

    Mary and Bassam had no idea that I had been in the thick of the action when they told me the news of what had happened the night before. They were used to Israeli soldiers coming in with their tanks, but even they were shocked by this turn of events. Palestinians fighting Palestinians was a new phenomenon. What can anybody expect if freedom and dignity are taken away? Now it seems that conditions have deteriorated further - lawlessness taken to a new level where the Israeli law enforcers take the law into their own hands and become lawless themselves.

  • A Night in Ramallah, Sonja Karkar writing from Ramallah (4 September 2006)

    Standing outside the gate of the Intensive Care Unit inside the hospital, Mohammed Mansour 24, who was there with his cousin Tae'er 13, who got injured. Mohammed has nothing to do but wait for Tae'er to wake up from the coma he is in. Meanwhile as he anxiously awaits his little cousin to open his eyes, Mohammed sees the large numbers of casualties with people with no legs and arms rushing into the hospitals.

  • Israel's rain of missiles on Gaza and Tae'er's legs Mohammed Omer writing from Gaza, occupied Palestine (8 August 2006)

    Israel killed 24 people yesterday, including an entire family in Khan Younis, in the middle of the besieged prison of the Gaza Strip. Mother, father, children. All wiped out. Several days earlier, the same story -- a family trying to enjoy a bit of a respite between shelling, barbecueing corn on the cob in their backyard, when a missile landed on their heads.

  • Gaza, repeated, ad infinitum, Nora Barrows-Friedman writing from Deheisheh Refugee Camp, occupied Palestine (13 July 2006)


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