8 March 2003
As the world commemorates International Women’s Day, Addameer remembers the remaining 65 Palestinian female detainees currently being held by Israel in the Neveh Terzah section of Ramleh prison. Read more about International Women's Day: 65 Palestinian women remain in Israeli detention camps
6 March 2003
In the third major onslaught against the Gaza Strip in one week, Israeli occupying forces killed 11 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 3 children and two old men, when they invaded the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya and its refugee camp. Read more about Jabalya: Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians and demolished dozens of homes
5 March 2003
This week, Israeli forces killed 28 Palestinians, including six children, a deaf young man, two old men and two women, one of whom was pregnant. Israeli forces conducted a number of invasions, accompanied by indiscriminate shelling and continued to use Palestinian civilians as human shields. Israeli forces demolished Palestinian homes and arbitarily detained Palestinians. Israel continued to impose a strict siege on Palestinian areas. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
3 March 2003
On 3 March 2003, without prior warning, two airplanes belonging to the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), accompanied by a large number of police forces and Green “Black” Patrol members, sprayed toxic chemicals on houses and on more than 2,000 dunams (500 acres) of crops belonging to the residents of Abda, an unrecognized village in the Negev. Read more about Poisoning Palestinian bedouins land in unrecognized village Abda
5 March 2003
B’Tselem’s latest report discusses the harsh daily existence of the residents of al-Mawasi, which has received scant public attention. Al-Mawasi is a narrow strip of coastal land one kilometer wide and fourteen kilometers long. Read more about Al-Mawasi: Impossible life in an isolated enclave
5 March 2003
Information available to PCHR suggests that the six Palestinians detained by Israeli occupying forces during the onslaught on al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, 3 March 2003, have been subjected to beating, torture and inhuman treatment by Israeli soldiers. Read more about Israel tortured Palestinians detained in Gaza raid
3 March 2003
On 27 February 2003, Adalah, on behalf of six human rights organizations and in its own name, submitted arguments to the Supreme Court of Israel challenging the Israeli army’s recent military “assistance order”. Human rights organizations are seeking to prohibit the Israeli army from using Palestinian civilians as human shields and as hostages. Read more about Israeli military "assistance order" amounts to continued use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, say human rights organisations
3 March 2003
After a 12-year-old Palestinian girl was shot in the head while sitting at her desk in a UNRWA school in the Palestinian territory, a top UN relief official in the region has expressed dismay at the Israeli military’s indiscriminate use of force in civilian areas. Read more about UN dismayed by indiscriminate shooting of schoolgirl by Israeli forces
3 March 2003
Israeli forces killed 8 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman who bled to death under the ruins of her destroyed home in Bureij refugee camp. Israeli forces demolished 14 homes and a mosque. This Israeli military campaign came less than 24 hours after a similar operation in Khan Younis, which left three Palestinians dead, 39 others wounded and a number of Palestinian homes destroyed. Read more about Al-Bureij refugee camp: Israeli forces kill 8 Palestinians, including pregnant woman
2 March 2003
Israeli forces invaded Khan Younis refugee camp, killing two Palestinians, wounding 39, including seven inside Nasser hospital. In addition, Israeli forces destroyed an apartment building, rendering dozens of neighboring homes destroyed and bulldozed five additional homes. They also demolished large parts of the walls surrounding Nasser hospital and an UNRWA preparatory school. Read more about Khan Younis: Israeli forces kill two Palestinians, wound 39, demolish dozens of homes