7 March 2003
Israel is good at floating vague ideas that grow in their generosity and magnanimity if they are rejected but quickly prove empty of any meaningful content if accepted, writes regular EI contributor Hasan Abu Nimah, who recently visited Washington and found a number of dangerous myths about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict alive and well. Read more about Myths and Disasters
5 March 2003
This week, Israeli forces killed 28 Palestinians, including six children, a deaf young man, two old men and two women, one of whom was pregnant. Israeli forces conducted a number of invasions, accompanied by indiscriminate shelling and continued to use Palestinian civilians as human shields. Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes and arbitarily detained Palestinians. Israel continued to impose a strict siege on Palestinian areas. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
6 March 2003
Israeli journalist Amira Hass who has spent the last decade living in and reporting on the Palestinian Territories for the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz, was today awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2003. Read more about Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Awarded World Press Freedom Prize 2003
3 March 2003
On 3 March 2003, without prior warning, two airplanes belonging to the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), accompanied by a large number of police forces and Green “Black” Patrol members, sprayed toxic chemicals on houses and on more than 2,000 dunams (500 acres) of crops belonging to the residents of Abda, an unrecognized village in the Negev. Read more about Poisoning Palestinian bedouins land in unrecognized village Abda
5 March 2003
Immediate implementation of a political solution leading to two states is the only way to resurrect the devastated Palestinian economy and protect Israel from “murderous attacks,” a senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, said today. Read more about Only political solution can resurrect devastated Palestinian economy - UN
5 March 2003
B’Tselem’s latest report discusses the harsh daily existence of the residents of al-Mawasi, which has received scant public attention. Al-Mawasi is a narrow strip of coastal land one kilometer wide and fourteen kilometers long. Read more about Al-Mawasi: Impossible life in an isolated enclave
5 March 2003
Information available to PCHR suggests that the six Palestinians detained by Israeli occupying forces during the onslaught on al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, 3 March 2003, have been subjected to beating, torture and inhuman treatment by Israeli soldiers. Read more about Israel tortured Palestinians detained in Gaza raid
5 March 2003
Twenty-seven months after the outbreak of the intifada, 60 percent of the population of the West Bank and Gaza live under a poverty line of US$2 per day. The numbers of the poor have tripled from 637,000 in September 2000 to nearly 2 million today. Read more about World Bank: 60 percent poverty level in Palestinian territories
3 March 2003
On 27 February 2003, Adalah, on behalf of six human rights organizations and in its own name, submitted arguments to the Supreme Court of Israel challenging the Israeli army’s recent military “assistance order”. Human rights organizations are seeking to prohibit the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians as human shields and as hostages. Read more about Israeli military "assistance order" amounts to continued use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, say human rights organisations
Nablus, Palestine 3 March 2003
Yesterday I went to the old city accompanying a reporter. The first place we went to was the Yasmina quarter. The first martyr in this latest invasion was from this neighbourhood. He was shot in his legs and died waiting for medical aid. Israeli occupation soldiers prevented medical personnel from reaching him. Read more about Nablus: History under rubble