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A new occupation

Anna Weekes Kufr Sur, Palestine 4 May 2003

Kufr Sur is an isolated village of 1000 people situated between Qalqilya and Tulkarem in the West Bank. The bulldozing for the Apartheid Wall has begun, totally destroyed 10 thousand dunums of land belonging to 53 families. Anna Weekes reports. 

PCHR: "No exchange of fire took place when Israeli soldiers shot dead a British journalist"

4 May 2003

An investigation conducted by PCHR and eyewitnesses’ testimonies prove that Israeli soldiers willfully shot dead James Miller, a British cameraman, contrary to the claims of the Israeli military southern command that Israeli soldiers returned fire coming from Palestinian sources at the time that Miller was shot. 

UK seeks probe into Israeli shooting of cameraman

Andrew Cawthorne 3 May 2003

Israeli forces demolishing a home suspected of concealing an arms-smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip shot Miller on Friday in the flashpoint Rafah refugee camp where he was making a documentary on the impact of violence on Palestinian children, witnesses said. Abdel-Rahman Abdullah, a freelance Palestinian journalist who saw the night-time incident, told Reuters the troops opened fire unprovoked despite clear press markings on the TV crew. 

Israeli army asked about enquiry into killing of journalist

Reporters Without Borders 28 April 2003

Reporters Without Borders’ secretary-general, Robert Ménard, welcomed the army’s “competence and goodwill ” in announcing at once that an enquiry would be made into the 19 April death of the journalist, Nazeh Darwazeh, in the centre of Nablus and said a Reporters Without Borders representative would go to Israel next month to see how the investigation was going. 

ISM clarifies suicide bombers had "no connection" with organization

2 May 2003

“On April 30, 2003 a suicide bomber and an accomplice tried to enter ‘Mike’s Place’ bar in Tel Aviv. One murdered three people in addition to killing himself. The other escaped…. There have been media reports trying to connect these two men to ISM. There is no connection. They never tried to infiltrate ISM. They never contacted the ISM.” 

"Remember These Children" website commemorates murdered Palestinian and Israeli children

1 May 2003

“From September 29, 2000 through March 27, 2003, the violence in occupied Palestine and Israel claimed the lives of at least 419 Palestinian and 93 Israeli children under the age of 18. Remember These Children lists these 512 children side by side. The documentation, though painful, conveys the personal reality of these terrible statistics. Arranged chronologically by date of death, each entry includes the child’s name, hometown, how the child was killed, and, where available, the location of the fatal injury. ” A new website provides searing and powerful reminders of the urgent need for increased activism and educational outreach on the question of Palestine. 

Rachel Corrie Died In Palestine Rubble, But Her Issue Lives

Philip Weiss 1 May 2003

“Rachel Corrie represented the finest tradition of nonviolent peacemaking,” said Rachael Kamel of the Jewish Mobilization for a Just Peace, in Philadelphia. “An investigation is needed not only to clarify the circumstances of her death, but also to help Congress and the American public understand more fully the violence carried out every day in the occupied territories. “Rachel Corrie is a hero,” said Washington-based Charles Lenchner, president of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel. “These international volunteers represent the best of what American values are all about—Martin Luther King-style action.” Philip Weiss of the New York Observer examines growing sympathies among American Jewish groups with the goals of Americans like Rachel Corrie.