13 November 2003
This week, Israeli forces killed 17 Palestinians, including 6 children and a woman. During military raids, Israeli forces killed 8 Palestinians. Six Palestinians were killed in cases of willful killing. Three Palestinian civilians died from injuries sustained earlier. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
12 November 2003
On Wednesday morning, 12 November 2003, the Israeli High Court approved an Israeli military order to transfer a Palestinian detainee, Taha Tamadan Rateb Dwaik, a resident of Hebron, to the Gaza Strip for 2 years. Dwaik is married and a father of 4 children. Dwaik is the second detainee to have been transferred to the Gaza Strip this week. Read more about Israeli High Court approves the transfer of second Palestinian to the Gaza Strip
13 November 2003
Despite their longstanding efforts to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians, two experts clashed sharply over the role of international law in the peace process at an 11 November public forum entitled, “Peace and international law in Israel and Palestine: assessing the paths to peace.” The forum was part of the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) International Affairs and Advocacy Week in New York. Law professor Richard Falk asserted the importance of International Humanitarian Law, while former Knesset Member Avraam Burg downplayed the role of such legal documents in settling a conflict he portrayed as more rooted in clashing ideas of governance and history. Both panelists, however, decried religious intolerance and the use of violence against civilians. Read more about Panelists at odds over role of international law in Palestinian-Israeli peace efforts
12 November 2003
The United Nations expert on the right to food said today that Israel should be condemned for the effects that its policies of occupation are having on the nourishment of Palestinian children. Read more about Israeli policies hurting Palestinian children, UN expert on right to food says
10 November 2003
On Monday, 10 November 2003, Israeli occupying forces transferred Kamal Mohammed Hussein Edris, a resident of Hebron, to the Gaza Strip, implementing an Israeli High Court ruling of 4 November 2003 which approved his “assigned residence” to the Gaza Strip for a period of two years. Read more about Israeli forces implement transfer order against Palestinian from the West Bank
11 November 2003
On Monday 10 November 2003, during a military incursion into the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip Israeli occupying forces killed one Palestinian child. During the incursion into Block O in the Rafah camp, Israeli forces also demolished 23 Palestinian houses and 5 commercial properties. Read more about Israeli forces kill Palestinian child and demolish 23 homes in Rafah
10 November 2003
At a hearing on 9 November 2003, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an order nisi compelling the state to explain why the new ban on family unification law, which prohibits the granting of any residency or citizenship status to Palestinians from the Occupied Territories who are married to Israeli citizens, should not be declared null and void. Read more about Supreme Court of Israel orders State to respond to petitions challenging ban on family unification law
11 November 2003
On Wednesday, 12 November 2003 at 12 p.m., the Nazareth Magistrate Court will deliver its decision on the preliminary arguments in Member of Knesset (MK) Azmi Bishara’s political speeches case. In this ruling, the Court will decide whether or not to dismiss the indictment currently pending against MK Bishara, the head of the National Democratic Assembly (NDA) political party. Read more about Israeli Court will decide in Azmi Bishara's political speeches case
11 November 2003
The General Assembly would call on Israel to halt all settlement activities, and stress the urgent need for it to stop and reverse construction of the wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to one of four draft resolutions approved today by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. Read more about Palestinian Rights Committee seeks end to Israeli settlement activities, reversal of building of separation wall
11 November 2003
OCHA reports that approximately 680,000 - 30 percent of the Palestinian population in the West Bank - will be directly harmed by the Wall. The damage caused by the destruction of land and property for the Wall’s construction is irreversible and undermines Palestinians’ ability to ever recover even if the political situation allows conditions to improve. Read more about New wall projections: Severe humanitarian consequences for more than 680,000 Palestinians in the West Bank