Pictures of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and the 1948 Expulsions

How can anyone in his right mind aim an m-16 assault rifle at school girls?








Palestinian doctors wheel a seriously wounded girl, Sawsan el Salaq, to the emergency room at Al-Najar hospital in Rafah southern Gaza Strip, Sunday Dec. 15, 2002. Seven houses were demolished and two teenage sisters seriously injured when tanks and bulldozers moved into the outskirts of Rafah, a few hundred meters (yards) from the Jewish settlement of Morag, southern Gaza Strip.


Two Palestinian teenagers hurl stones towards Israeli occupation army tanks during clashes in the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus December 15, 2002.


A Palestinian schoolgirl falls while running to cross a street as Israeli occupation army tanks patrol the center of the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus Sunday Dec. 15, 2002. Clashes between demonstrators and Israeli forces took place in this West Bank's largest city which has been under almost continuous curfew since mid-June when Israel reoccupied most the Palestinian West Bank towns.


Palestinian believers light candles in the Church of Nativity, Palestinian town of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, December 15, 2002, after the Third advent mass before Christmas.


An Israeli occuption soldier holds out his arms as he prevents a group of Palestinian schoolgirls from passing through the central part of the Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron, December 14, 2002.


Family members of slain Palestinian Hassan Shalloula, who was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, carry his body during his funeral, December 16, 2002. Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday.


Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip on Friday took over a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance and used it to kill more Palestinians. According to eyewitnesses, five Israeli soldiers took over the ambulance, after they forced its team of paramedics to disembark at gunpoint, and then drove off into the village of Abasan Khan Younis, where they killed a number of unsuspecting Palestinians. The Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam reported on Friday that scores of civilians were killed and injured in the operation. The Israeli army began as of last week to target Palestinian ambulances and rescue teams in an effort to get as many wounded Palestinians as possible to die of their wounds. At least four Palestinian paramedics were killed and many injured by Israeli bullets during the past few days. In addition, two ambulance vehicles in Tulkarm were crushed by Israeli tanks which overran the several refugee camps in the West Bank.








Israeli flags fly in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's most holy site, as the Dome of the Rock mosque, located on the Temple Mount, revered by Muslims as the Haram as-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), is seen in the background, Tuesday, Dec. 26 2000.





A Palestinian boy looks at an Israeli soldiers as he and his family are stopped as the soldiers block the main road to Jerusalem, north of Halhoul, November 30, 2001.








At a hospital in Tyre, an Arab mother comforts her infant child who had been badly burned during the Israeli massacre of Lebanese civilians at the U.N. compound at Qana, Lebanon, April 18, 1996.


Fatmeh Dakik, age 5 , had her leg blown off when the Israeli air force carpet-bombed downtown Beirut in the summer of 1982. The Israeli holocaust against Beirut involved the indiscriminate bombing of clearly marked schools, hospitals and old people's homes on orders from Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Rafael Eitan and Yitzhak Shamir.


Sixteen month old Wa'el Hijazi, shot in the eye, Sept. 10, 1989 by an Israeli soldier who shot at the baby's mother while other soldiers beat the infant's 16year old brother. The mother said soldiers then shot at her older son when he tried to help her pick up the wounded child, laughed at her as she ran with her bleeding baby to a hospital, and in her absence broke into her house and forced her teenage daughters to clean up the trail of blood left by the bleeding child.


8 year old Lena Rizk was walking up the street holding up her identity card. Eight rubber bullets and thirty centimeters of intestine were removed from this child - what threat to the security of Israel could she have been?


Mansour Abu Sneineh lost both legs, his right hand and right eye when a passing Israeli patrol threw an anti-tank grenade at his house while he and his family were having lunch in Hebron, the West Bank, in November, 1989. His sister Sabah, 13, was also severely injured.





"A 14-year-old Palestinian boy Moayad Jawareesh, is carried away by paramedics after he was shot in the head in the West Bank city of Bethlehem October 16, 2000. Moayad died on the spot. he died carrying his school bag on his back, ..."


Palestinian policemen carry the body of their friend Mahmoud Nasser, 22, after he was killed by Israeli tank fire near the Erez crossing in the Gaza Strip.


Lebanese boy Mohammed Dowaik, 13, right, studies with his friend Hisham for the mid-finals in his house that was damaged by Israeli shelling in the past at the southern Lebanese village of Jarjoua in Iqlim al-Tuffah.


Anwar Munir Rhumi, 5, stands on the ledge of her bedroom window that faces the Israeli Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, next to the spot where a tank shell hit her home in the West Bank town of Beit Jalla Thursday


George Nazal, 3-years-old, sits in his bedroom window, which was hit by an Israeli rocket, in the West Bank town of Beit Jalla.


Palestinian school children peer out from the damaged wall of their kindergarten following an Israeli rocket attack on an adjacent factory in Jebalya, north of Gaza City, Monday, Feb. 11, 2002. Israeli warplanes and helicopters struck the main Palestinian security installation in Gaza City and what local residents said was a metal shop in the nearby Jebalya refugee camp. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


An Israeli tank is parked next to a demolished Palestinian house during an incursion in el-Bourrej, south of Gaza City, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2002. Three Palestinians were killed in a gun battle with Israeli troops Saturday after Israeli tanks and bulldozers destroyed a Palestinian security post near a refugee camp, witnesses and hospital officials said.


Homeless children from Palestinian Wael al-Hassan's family sit January 16, 2002 on the remains of their home which was destroyed by Israeli troops last week in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. European diplomats and U.N. officials toured the area where Israeli had demolished up to 60 houses, leaving 93 families homeless.


A homeless Palestinian refugee child warms her hands by an outdoor fire in the rubble-strewn area where her home once stood, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 14, 2002, after Israeli bulldozers destroyed about 60 other homes last week. International aid and interest groups came to the rescue of the more than 90 homeless families.


Israeli soldiers tear down a water well and a Palestinian house.


A Palestinian boy holds bottles of water in front of a destroyed house in Khan Younis refugee camp, which suffers a shortage in water resources, December 26, 2001. Palestinian officials said at least 100 houses were destroyed by Israeli army forces during incursions into the self-ruled area of Khan Younis, home to 80,000 Palestinian refugees.


A Palestinian girl hangs out clothes in front of a hole made by an Israeli tank rocket in the Rafah district of the Gaza strip, near the Palestinian-Egyptian border December 19, 2000. At least 279 people, mostly Palestinians, have died in unrest which first erupted on September 28, 2000 after a visit by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to a Jerusalem site sacred to Jews and Muslims.


Eleven-year-old Palestinian boy Jehid Abu Shekhah is examined by doctors upon his arrival at the main hospital in Gaza November 15, 2000. Jehid was shot through the head with a high velocity bullet by Israeli snipers which caused a "brain contusion", the medical term for a crushed brain. Doctors said there was no more hope for Jehid and would die in the next 24 hours.


Norwegian consultant neuro surgeon Ostein Nygaard from the University of Trondheim (R) talks with the head of Gaza's main hospital neurosurgery unit Basel Becker during the brain operation on 11-year-old Palestinian boy Jehid Abu Shehmah November 15, 2000. Nygaard works with other Norwegian doctors as consultants to Palestinian brain surgeons and assists during operations in the hospital and in a field hospital. Jehid was shot through the head with a high velocity bullet by Israeli snipers which caused a " brain contusion."


A Palestinian school boy is carried into Shifa hospital in Gaza City after being wounded in an Israeli army missile attack on a security building in Gaza City Tuesday Dec. 4, 2001. The rockets, which targeted the Palestinian security installation, sent hundreds running for cover. One boy was killed and local doctors said more than 100 people were injured.


A Palestinian youth is carried to an ambulance after being shot in the head during clashes with Israeli soldiers guarding Gush Katif settlements near Khan Yunis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip


A Palestinian receives medical treatment on the floor of Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after being wounded in an Israeli army missile attack on a Preventitive Security building, in Gaza City Tuesday Dec. 4, 2001. The rockets, which targeted the Palestinian security installation, sent hundreds running for cover. One boy was killed and local doctors said more than 100 people were injured.


A wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli forces in east Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Dec. 8, 2000. Marking the anniversary of their first uprising against Israel, Palestinians pouring out of mosques after Ramadan prayers threw rocks in the West Bank and Jerusalem.


Doctors tend to a Palestinian boy who was wounded in the head during clashes with Israeli forces, November 17, 2000, near the West Bank town of Hebron.


A Palestinian youth, injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers, is carried into an ambulance November 17, 2000 in the West Bank town of Ramallah.


A Palestinian man is rushed to an ambulance after Israeli soldiers shot him with a rubber bullet in Ramallah on October 27, 2000.


Palestinians carry an injured man during clashes between Paletinian stone throwers and Israeli soldiers at a Israeli post, at the entrance of Israeli Netzarim settlement crossing in southern Gaza City








A Palestinian cleans blood from a gravestone in a cemetery heavily damaged in an Israeli army missile attack on a nearby Preventitive Security building in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2001. The blood was from a boy who was killed in the attack. An Israeli F-16 fighter plane fired rockets at the security compound in a residential neighborhood of Gaza City, killing two people, injuring more than 100 and sending screaming school children running for cover.




















Undercover masked Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian man, center,during clashes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel MukaberWednesday, Oct. 4, 2000. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinianleader Yasser Arafat traveled to Paris Wednesday for U.S.-arranged talksaimed at halting the carnage in the Mideast. (AP Photo/Eyal Warshavsky)


An undercover Israeli security man beats a Palestinian during clashes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat traveled to Paris Wednesday for U.S. arranged talks aimed at halting the carnage in the Mideast. (AP Photo/Eyal Warshavsky)


An undercover masked Israeli security man detains a Palestinian boy, duringclashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber Wednesday, Oct.4, 2000. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader YasserArafat traveled to Paris Wednesday for U.S. arranged talks aimed at haltingthe carnage in the Mideast. (AP Photo/Eyal Warshavsky)


An Israeli undercover police officer punches a Palestinian stone thrower as another policeman holds him during his arrest, during clashes in east Jerusalem's Old City following noon prayers Friday Dec. 22, 2000. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)








Israeli police arrest a Palestinian suspect during clashes in east Jerusalem's Old City after Friday prayers, Dec. 15, 2000. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)


An Israeli soldier holds a Palestinian boy at a checkpoint in the West Bank town of Qalandia, north of Ramallah December 3, 2001.


An Israeli soldier pushes a Palestinian boy at a checkpoint in the West Bank town of Qalandia, north of Ramallah December 3, 2001.


A Palestinian, with his shirt torn off, is arrested by Israeli border policemen during clashes in Jerusalem's Old City.

1948

Arab refugees stream from what was then Palestine on the road to Lebanon in northern Israel to flee fighting in the Galilee region in the Arab-Israeli war on Nov.4,1948. Palestinians exiled in 1948 and Jews exiled after the Romans sacked the Jewish Temple in A.D.70, both suffer from ancient wounds that obstruct the Mideast peace process.(AP Photo)








Barricaded out of their own homes by the invading Zionist forces. A Palestinian woman drapes cloth over herself to escape the heat. 1948.





The old city of Jerusalem in flames following a battle during the 1948 war.


A family of refugees in Lebanon, 1959. ~UNRWA photo.





Tent camp in Jordan in 1967. ~UNRWA photo


UNRWA emergency camp in Baqa'a Jordan, which housed more than 40,000 refugees, in 1970. ~UNRWA photo.


Kufr Qadum, West Bank. Palestinians in the occupied territories risk arrest or worse if they try to exercise their democratic tight to free speech. Here an Israeli soldier takes aim at Palestinians demonstrating against Israeli confiscation of their land.


Palestinians who remained in Israel after the wars found themselves subject to discrimination and military law. The demonstrator's banner reads, " No to Racism, Yes to Equality" ~Dave Clark


During the occupation, Israeli soldiers routinely imposed curfews on Palestinian towns and villages. They literally became prisoners in their own homes.


Palestinian refugees fleeing across the Jordan river in 1967. ~UNRWA photo


Dheisheh refugee camp, West Bank. The refugee issue is one of the most divisive in the Palestinian - Israeli conflict. Israel insists that the Palestinians who fled the wars cannot return, while the Palestinians maintain their right to return to their own homes. the tent camps of 1948, and 1967 have given way to more sheltered, but still temporary huts.








The Intifada, or Palestinian popular uprising against the occupation was met by Yitzhak Rabin's policy of " Iron Fist" treatment -- long before the peace agreements signed in Washington. Nearly every family had at least one member in prison, wounded or killed by the Israel Defense Forces, who countered the children's stones with deadly force.


East Jerusalem, Palestinians gather to mourn the death of one of the many killed during the Intifada. Not a single family escaped the suffering and grief endured by Palestinians during the uprising.


Gaza, A young man being taken away by Israeli soldiers


Two young boys in front of their home, which was demolished for lack of an Israeli-issued building permit.























An explosion is seen in the building which houses the Palestinian Public Security Directorate as it takes a hit from a missile fired from an Israeli F-16 fighter jet in Gaza City, Monday, Feb. 11, 2002. Israeli helicopters and warplanes used missiles as they continued a second day of strikes in Gaza. (AP Photo / Charles Dharapak)








An Israeli policeman struggles with a Palestinian who was denied entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem August 3, 2001. Ranks of Israeli police were deployed in Jerusalem to prepare for possible clashes at an Old City holy site where a Palestinian uprising erupted 10 months ago. (Mahfouz Abu Turk/Reuters)


Israeli artillery rounds explode on houses in the West Bank town of Beit Jala December 4, 2000. Two Palestinians were wounded in the town when Israeli troops fired heavy machineguns, hospital officials said. An Israeli commander said the army was responding to Palestinian gunfire at an Israeli army position in Gilo, a Jewish settlement built on West Bank land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war but annexed along with Arab East Jerusalem. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan