14 October 2003
In a day-long Security Council meeting today, 44 speakers raised concerns regarding the security barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank. Read more about In day-long UN SC meeting, Palestine observer says Israeli security wall involves de facto annexation of occupied land
14 October 2003
Major General Moshe Kaplinski, GOC of the Israeli military Central Command, which includes the West Bank, today issued an order effectively transferring the 16 individuals from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. Read more about Israeli forces unlawfully transfer 16 Palestinians
14 October 2003
“Despite being the architect of the horrible tragedies at Qibya as well as Sabra and Shatila, Ariel Sharon is, for the most part, strangely immune from criticism for these incidents. A man with Mr. Sharon’s bloody record should not enjoy impunity. After he leaves office, Ariel Sharon should finally be held accountable for his sordid past. Justice 50 years late is better than no justice at all.” Eric Ridenour revisits a war crime committed half a century ago. Read more about Qibya: 50 years of injustice and impunity
13 October 2003
Israeli occupying forces are currently holding approximately 70 Palestinian farmers from the village of Jayous, northeast of Qalqilya, against their will. Read more about Israeli forces detained 70 farmers on the western side of the wall, opposite their village
13 October 2003
Following an Israeli military incursion that left dead 8 Palestinians, Israeli occupying forces finally withdrew from Rafah refugee camp at midnight on Sunday, 12 October 2003. Read more about Israeli forces withdraw from Rafah, leaving 8 Palestinians dead and 2,000 homeless
11 October 2003
For the seventh successive day, Israeli occupying forces have imposed a strict curfew on Jenin and its refugee camps, prohibiting Palestinian civilians from obtaining food supplies, and abrogating their rights to movement, education and medical attention. Read more about Curfew on Jenin enters second week
10 October 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today deplored the killing of Palestinian civilians, including two children, by an Israeli Defence Force missile during Israel’s incursion today into the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza Strip. Read more about Secretary-General deplores killing of Palestinian civilians
10 October 2003
On 9 October 2003, the Chairman of the Arab Group on behalf of the States members of the League of Arab States at the United Nations, requested an immediate meeting of the Security Council to consider Israel’s construction of the wall. Read more about New proposed UN Security Council resolution declaring Israel's construction of apartheid wall "illegal"
9 October 2003
This week Israeli forces killed six Palestinians, including a child and an elderly man. Two were killed in an extra-judicial execution in Tulkarem. Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli forces moved into Jenin and carried out retaliatory attacks against Palestinian civilian and property. Israeli forces razed hundreds of donums of Palestinian agricultural land in the Gaza Strip. In Rafah, Israeli forces demolished five homes. Israeli forces indiscriminately shelled Palestinian residential areas and fired missiles on a home in Gaza City and al-Boreij refugee camp. Israeli forces demolished three homes as part of the continued campaign of retaliation against the families of wanted Palestinians and those who allegedly carried out armed attacks against Israeli targets. Israeli forces continued to use Palestinian civilians as human shields in Israeli military operations. This week, the Israeli Minister of Defense decided to intensify the construction of the “separation wall”. The Gaza Strip was divided into four isolated zones. Palestinian communities in the West Bank were separated from one another and Palestinian vehicles were prohibited from traveling on the main roads in the West Bank. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
10 October 2003
Early this morning, Friday October 10, 2003, Israeli occupying forces conducted a large scale incursion into the Rafah refugee camp, adjacent to the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip. Under cover of intense shelling and gunfire from tanks and helicopters, Israeli forces invaded the area which is one of the most densely populated in the Gaza Strip. Read more about Israeli forces kill six Palestinians, 30 civilians wounded in Rafah refugee camp