25 March 2003
ACRI and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) file supreme court petition: More than 10,000 palestinians in the Nablus area have been held under total closure for over one year: medical supplies depleted; ambulances delayed; deprivation and poverty prevail. Read more about Remove physical barriers from villages in Nablus area
19 March 2003
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), in a petition filed to the High Court of Justice today, March 20, 2003, demanded that the Minister of Defense and the IDF Commander of Judea and Samaria allow an attorney to visit a physically disabled detainee, confined to a wheelchair, who is being held at the Howara Camp. Read more about The Minister of Defense and the IDF Commander of Judea and Samaria are obligated to allow an attorney to visit a physically disabled detainee who is confined to a wheelchair
26 March 2003
Anan Abd Al-Fatah Labadeh, a physically disabled detainee, confined to a wheelchair, was allowed to meet with counsel following an appeal filed on March 20, 2003 by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) to the High Court of Justice. Read more about The physically disabled detainee Anan Abd Al-Fatah Labadeh
3 April 2003
This week Israeli occupying forces killed 10 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including two children. Two of the victims bled to death. Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas, accompanied by indiscriminate shelling. The Israeli retaliatory campaign continues against families of wanted Palestinians and those who allegedly have carried out armed attacks against Israeli targets. Over 1200 Palestinians have been detained. The tight siege of the Occupied Palestinian Territories continued to be imposed. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
2 April 2003
The U.S. State Department has quietly withdrawn all CD-ROM copies of its annual human rights report due to a one-word error that was thought to overstate the extent of Israel’s rights abuses, officials said Tuesday. Agence France Presse Read more about US withdraws copies of human rights report due to Israel criticism
3 April 2003
Israeli incursions into refugee camps continue under the cover of the war on Iraq as numerous Palestinians have been shot dead by occupation forces in the last week. Ha’aretz reports. Read more about IDF kills seven Palestinians in territories
1 April 2003
Today, a three-judge panel of the Nazareth Magistrate Court unanimously decided to dismiss the indictment currently pending against Member of Knesset (MK) Azmi Bishara. Read more about Court dismisses the indictment against MK Azmi Bishara
29 March 2003
The commemoration of Palestinian Land Day this year coincides with the ongoing Israeli reoccupation and military siege of Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps in the 1967 occupied Palestinian territories and the US-UK led war against Iraq. Read more about Palestinian Land Day 2003
29 March 2003
“The American military has been asking the Israeli army for advice on fighting inside cities, and studying fighting in the West Bank city of Jenin last April, unnamed United States and Israeli sources have confirmed. Reports that US troops trained with Israeli forces for street-to-street fighting have been denied. If the US army believes the road to Baghdad lies through Jenin, there is reason for Iraqi civilians to be concerned. During fighting in the Jenin refugee camp last April, more than half the Palestinian dead were civilians.” Justin Huggler of The Independent files a disturbing story on the institutionalization of war crimes, from Warsaw, to Jenin, and perhaps to Baghdad, too. Read more about Israelis trained US troops in Jenin-style urban warfare
28 March 2003
“For months, Israeli officials have been furiously shuttling between Jerusalem and the White House lobbying to have the peace ‘road-map’ torn up. A memo from Sharon’s office, published in the Israeli daily Haaretz two weeks ago, revealed that, along with more than 100 other alterations, Israel was urging the Americans to change the road map’s goal from creating an ‘independent’ Palestinian state to one with ‘certain attributes of sovereignty’.” Jonathan Cook reports on Ariel Sharon’s late conversion to the utility of a growing dividing wall that is changing facts on the ground for Palestinians. Read more about Sharon's real fence plan