This week, Israeli forces killed 7 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children. Two of the victims were killed in another extra-judicial execution. In Rafah, Israeli shelling of residential areas killed 4 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children. Israeli forces demolished 49 homes in Rafah. A branch campus of al-Aqsa University in Gaza was destroyed. Israel continues the construction of the Separation Wall. Israeli forces continued to impose a total siege on the Occupied Palestinian territories. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
Israeli forces killed two children in Rafah. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Wael Injili died of his injuries after being hit with shrapnel during the Israeli assault on Rafah refugee camp. Medical sources told WAFA that he was severely injured. Earlier, Israeli forces killed Mosbah Mwafi. Israeli attack helicopters fired missiles on homes. Mwafi was being hit with a missile which separated his head from his body. Israeli tanks, jeeps and army bulldozers, backed by Apache helicopters invaded Rafah refugee camp, opening fire on homes. Israeli bulldozers demolished five homes in the refugee camp. Read more about Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians in Rafah
This morning clashes erupted between armed Palestinians and security officers nearby the headquarters of the Palestinian Security Service in Suraya. During the clashes a grenade was thrown towards security officers at the scene, causing a number of injuries. Abed Al Amasi, who was driving along Al-Jalaa street as the clashes continued was hit with a bullet in his head. Medical sources reported that 21 others were injured, including a number injured by shrapnel from a hand grenade. Read more about One Palestinian killed and 21 Injured in internal clashes in Gaza
One year ago today 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was killed. This striking young American, representing the values of the American people if not its current government, was run over by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting house demolitions in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Rachel was the first international to be killed while peacefully protesting illegal Israeli military actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, yet her death has proven insufficient to shock the international community from its lethargic slumber. “What will it take?” asks Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. Read more about One Year Later: "What will it take?"
On Tuesday morning, Israeli forces destroyed the educational studies campus of al-Aqsa University in Gaza city. Israeli forces moved from Netzarim towards the Shuhada junction, north inside Zaytoun neighborhood and imposed a siege on the area. Israeli forces forced residents out of their homes and planted explosives inside the campus of al-Aqsa University. The explosion destroyed, damaging neighboring homes and wounding a woman and two Palestinian security officers. Read more about Israeli forces destroy university building in Gaza
Israeli occupying forces escalated their belligerent practices in two different incidences on Monday morning, 15 March 2004. Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian civilian in Rafah, claiming that he attempted to escape when they raided the family’s home to arrest his brother. In the same early morning, Israeli helicopter gunships launched missiles at three workshops in the densely populated Nasser and Zaytoun neighborhoods in Gaza city. The workshops were completely destroyed. Read more about Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Rafah and wound 4 others in Aerial attack on Gaza
Since the beginning of this month, Israeli forces have killed 44 Palestinians, including women and children. According to data from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Ministry of Health, 30 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and 14 in the West Bank. Among those killed are 18 minors. More than 197 Palestinians, mostly children, were wounded in the same period. In February 2004, Israeli forces killed 52 Palestinians. On March 7 alone, 14 Palestinians were killed, including 4 children, as Israeli forces invaded Nusseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. Read more about Israeli forces kill 44 Palestinians since beginning of March
Israeli forces killed 27 Palestinians, including 8 children and one woman. Fourteen were killed during an Israeli military raid on Nusseirat refugee camp. Five were killed in an extra-judicial execution. In Rafah, Israeli forces demolished 20 homes and destroyed 22 donums of Palestinian agricultural land. Israel continued construction of the Separation Wall for which more land was confiscated. Israel continued indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian residential areas in which three Palestinians, including a child and woman were killed and others were wounded. Israel continues to impose a total siege on Palestinian areas. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
In a moving ceremony on 16 February 2004, Craig and Cindy Corrie accepted the Housing Rights Defender Award from the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions [COHRE] on behalf of their daughter Rachel Corrie. This was the inaugural year for this award, which was partially a response to the heroism of Ms. Corrie’s actions in protecting the housing and water rights of Palestinians in occupied Gaza. Ms. Corrie died March 16th, 2003 in Rafah while attempting to prevent the forced eviction of a Palestinian family and the demolition of their home. candio. reports from Olympia, WA. Read more about International NGO honors Rachel Corrie with Housing Rights Defender Award
Abeer Zinaty, the 20-year-old McDonald’s employee in Israel who says she was fired by the world’s biggest fastfood chain for breaking a ban on speaking Arabic in the workplace, has spoken to the Electronic Intifada of the circumstances surrounding her dismissal. Her account flatly contradicts claims by McDonald’s head office in the United States that Zinaty’s dismissal had nothing to do with her speaking Arabic. Considerable weight is added to her version of events by documents in the hands of the Electronic Intifada. Jonathan Cook investigates for EI. Read more about McBusted: McDonald's manager admits speaking Arabic led to firing
