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Human Rights

Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
31 October 2002

Israeli forces have perpetrated more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, extra-judicial assassinations, shelling of, and incursion into Palestinian areas, and agricultural land leveling. This week, Israeli occupying forces killed 10 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children and an old man, and demolished 19 Palestinian houses in Rafah and in Beit Hanina, in occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli forces assassinate 19 year-old activist

LAW
28 October 2002

Israeli forces assassinated Issam Sawafteh (19 from Tubas near Jenin. At least 173 Palestinians have so far been killed in extra-judicial executions committed by Israel, including 63 Palestinian bystanders. This is the third extra-judicial killing to take place over forty-eight hours.

PCHR position on collaborators

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
28 October 2002

In this position paper, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights tackles the thorny question of how one deals with traitors in wartime. PCHR concludes that suspected collaborators should be investigated and tried in accordance with international standards, including the rights to fair trial, not to be subjected to torture and ill treatment, right to legal counsel and others.

Gaza: IDF House Demolition Injures Refugees

Human Rights Watch
24 October 2002

“There is no justification in international law for the collective punishment of relatives of someone responsible for a criminal act, no matter how heinous that act may have been,” says HRW researcher in Gaza, Johanna Bjorken.

Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
24 October 2002

Israeli forces have perpetrated more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, shelling of, and incursion into Palestinian areas, agricultural land leveling. This week, 7 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and 2 children, were killed by Israeli forces.

Israel forbids Palestinians picking olives

LAW
21 October 2002

The Israeli army today issued a directive forbidding Palestinians from picking olives in the West Bank. It’s olive picking season, but Palestinians are not allowed access to their crops.

Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
18 October 2002

Israeli occupying forces have committed further human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including apparent willful killings, extra-judicial assassinations, indiscriminate shelling, and incursions into Palestinian areas and the razing of agricultural land. This week, 16 Palestinian civilians, including five children and three women were killed.

80 percent of Palestinians killed by IDF while enforcing curfew are children

B'Tselem
16 October 2002

The Israeli army has killed 15 Palestinian civilians for violating the curfew in West Bank cities reoccupied since June, and 12 of the dead were children, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in a report published today.

Beit Jala: Extra-Judicial Execution

LAW
14 October 2002

Yesterday, Israeli forces extra-judicially executed Mohammad Abayat in Beit Jala. He was killed when a booby-trapped public phone exploded, close to the Beit Jala hospital.

13 Palestinian civilians killed and dozens wounded in Israeli attack on Khan Yunis

Palestinian Center for Human Rights
7 October 2002

Israeli occupying forces, backed by tanks and attack helicopters raided Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, killing 13 Palestinians and wounding more than 80, in the deadliest Israeli attack in the past few weeks.

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