Palestinian Center for Human Rights28 November 2002
Israeli occupying forces have perpetrated more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including willful killings, shelling of, and incursion into Palestinian areas and agricultural land leveling. This week, 21-27 November 2002, 7 civilians – 6 Palestinians and an UNRWA official – and a security man were killed by Israeli forces. This number does not include Palestinians who were killed in military attacks. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
The United Nations has refuted Israeli claims that a slain aid worker managing a UN project in the West Bank was killed amid gunfire. Read more about UN refutes Israel's claims
On Friday, November 22, Israeli forces attacked Jenin refugee camp, killed a Palestinian child and British engineer Ian Hook (50). An eyewitness stated that Hook exited the office, which overlooked snipers, raising the flag of the UN. He stood in front of the entrance of the office and asked the Israeli forces, including the sniper upon the roof of an eyewitness, to stop shooting. They did not heed his request, and opened fire upon him from a distance of around 20 meters. Read more about British citizen and Palestinian child killed in Jenin
Palestinian Center for Human Rights20 November 2002
Israeli occupying forces have perpetrated more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians. This week 13 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 5 children, a woman and an old man, were killed by Israeli forces. This number does not include Palestinians who were killed while carrying out attacks against Israeli tartgets. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
Yesterday, Tuesday November 19,in the evening, an extra-judicial assassination killed Tareq Zaghal (20) alongside four civilians, including a child. According to LAW’s findings, at least 179 Palestinians have so far been killed in extra-judicial executions committed by Israel, including 68 Palestinian bystanders. Read more about Five Palestinians killed in an extra-judicial execution in Tulkarem
Palestinian Center for Human Rights14 November 2002
Israeli forces have perpetrated more human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including willful and extra-judicial killings, shelling of, and incursion into Palestinian areas and agricultural land leveling. This week, six Palestinian civilians, including three children from Rafah, two of whom were infants, were killed by Israeli forces. Read more about Weekly report on human rights violations
The hopelessness and anger of the witnesses before the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories had been directed not only against Israel, but also against the international community for its inability to provide relief, the Fourth Committee was told today. Read more about Fourth Committee: Disturbing humanitarian deterioration in Occupied Palestinian Territories focus
A recent human rights award given by an international cosmetics company, The Body Shop, has focused attention on the struggles of an oft-ignored group of Palestinian refugees: those who are living as exiles inside Israel, where they are officially classified as “Present Absentees.” Isabelle Humphries reports from Nazareth. Read more about Exiles within: Palestinian internal refugees get organized
Israel committed war crimes, including unlawful killings, in Jenin and Nablus during a military offensive in those and other West Bank cities earlier this year, the human rights group Amnesty International said today. In its report, Amnesty said there is “clear evidence that some of the acts committed by the Israel Defense Forces during Operation Defense Shield were war crimes.” Read more about AI: Israeli Defence Forces' war crimes must be investigated
