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israeli War Crimes, 16 March 2005
This is a summary of israeli War Crimes in Palestien for the week ending 16 March 2005. 4mins (english)
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
http://www.pchrgaza.org
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
No. 10/2005
10- 16 Mar. 2005
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Launch More Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
· 2 Palestinians were killed by IOF.
· IOF shot one of the victims and bulldozed a house while he was inside.
· Construction of the “annexation wall” in the West Bank has continued; more areas of Palestinian land were confiscated for this purpose and Jerusalem has been isolated from the rest of the West Bank.
· IOF conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank. Houses were raided and at least 23 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, were arrested.
· 6 Palestinian civilians were arrested in the Gaza Strip.
· 5 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children in the Gaza Strip, were injured by IOF.
· Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the West Bank.
· IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF have continued to close a number of roads since the beginning of the current Intifada, IOF have used a new checking set at Rafah International Crossing Point, IOF positioned at checkpoints arrested a number of Palestinian civilians and IOF have imposed curfews on the old town of Hebron for the 2nd consecutive week.
Introduction
On the second anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie PCHR wishes to take this opportunity to extend our thoughts to the family of Rachel who continue to suffer in the face of the impunity granted to the soldiers responsible for her death. So, it is against this background that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched more attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). This week, human rights violations perpetrated by IOF included shooting at Palestinian civilians, conducting incursions into Palestinian areas, house raids and arbitrary arrests. In violation of international law and humanitarian law, IOF have also continued to construct the annexation wall inside the West Bank territory and confiscated more areas of Palestinian land for this purpose. They have continued to expand existing settlements at the expense of Palestinian land owners. Contrary to Israeli official claims, IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians.
This week, 2 Palestinians were killed by the IOF in the West Bank. On 10 March 2005, the IOF killed Mohammed Abu Khalil, 27, in al-Nazla village, north of Tulkarm, as he exchanged fire with them when they surrounded a house where he hid. They also demolished parts of the house while he was inside. On 14 March 2005, Adham al-Sha'lan, 22, from 'Ein Beit al-Maa' refugee camp, west of Nablus, died as a result of a previous injury he had sustained from the IOF. The IOF also conducted a series of incursions into Palestinian areas in the West Bank, especially in Tulkarm, during which they raided and searched houses and arrested 23 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children. In addition, three Palestinian civilians were wounded by the Israeli gunfire. The IOF have also continued to impose a curfew on the old town of Hebron for the 2nd consecutive week.
On 13 March 2005, the IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Jabalya fired at three Palestinian children who apparently attempted to infiltrate into Israel to search for jobs. One of the children was seriously wounded, another one was injured and arrested and the third one escaped. On 12 and 14 March 2005, the IOF arrested six Palestinian civilians in al-Qarara village, north of Khan Yunis, and al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The IOF have continued to construct the annexation wall inside the West Bank territory, especially around East Jerusalem. On Sunday, 13 March 2005, the IOF announced that the Israeli government authorized the construction of a temporary wall between East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the areas where the construction of the annexation wall is not possible due to legal limitations. Also on Sunday, the Israeli government approved the new route of the wall around Jerusalem, under which neighborhoods and villages located to the north of the city will be isolated and Shu'fat refugee camp would be surrounded by fences. The new route would also annex "Maale Adomomi" settlement, east of the city, and Bilal Ben Rabah mosque, north of Bethlehem, to the boundaries of Jerusalem. On Monday morning, 14 March 2005, IOF demolished a house in Samiramees area, south of Ramallah, near the wall.
Israeli settlers living in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law have launched a series of attacks against Palestinian civilians and property. IOF have continued to confiscate areas of Palestinian land for settlement activities.
The IOF have continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT, including Jerusalem. In the Gaza Strip, the IOF have continued to completely or partially close all border crossings of the Gaza Strip and impose severe restrictions on the internal movement of Palestinian civilians. They have also continued to close a number of roads and crossings in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the current Intifada. The IOF have continued to impose a strict siege on Palestinian communities near Israeli settlements, causing more suffering to Palestinian civilians. Furthermore, the IOF continue to occupy two Palestinian houses to the north of Khan Yunis since the beginning of the current Intifada.
In the West Bank, the IOF have continued to impose a strict siege on Palestinian communities. They have also imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. This week, they erected a number of military checkpoints. They stopped and checked Palestinian civilians and arrested 13 civilians. The IOF also imposed curfews on a number of Palestinian communities, the curfew especially strict the old town of Hebron.
The full report is available online at:
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2005/17-03-2005.htm
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We Won't Forget Rachel Corrie
Uprising on the Anniversary of a Death
By ALISON WEIR
T here is a quiet battle going on for the memory of a young woman who
could have been my daughter, or perhaps yours.
On one side are those who would like to erase her from history her actions, her beliefs, her murder. If they are unsuccessful at that, they will settle for posthumous slurs on her character, falsifications of her death.
On the other side are those who feel her shining principles should be
praised, her courage honored, her death grieved. On this side are those
who believe that heroism is noble, bravery admirable, and compassion for
others the most fundamental form of morality.
To those of us on this side, Rachel Corrie will never be forgotten. She
was 23 when she was killed.
We won't forget her young idealism, her sweet bravery, her needless
death. And we won't forget her beliefs, the third of which killed her:
that good would triumph, that justice would prevail, that Israel would
not kill her.
She was wrong on that last one. On March 16, 2003, two Israeli soldiers
drove a house-crushing bulldozer over her twice crushing her into the
Gaza dirt. With five other nonviolent human rights defenders, Rachel had
been sitting in front of a family home in Palestine, pleading with
Israeli soldiers not to demolish it. They didn't (until later); they
demolished her instead.
Her friends ran to her screaming. They dug her out of the dirt. One told
me that Rachel's eyes were open; her last words were, "My back is broken."
Far more, of course, was broken. The day was broken, the universe was
broken, her sister's world was broken, her brother's life was broken,
her parents' hearts were broken. All the things were broken that break
when someone is killed.
In the past five years, thousands of Palestinian lives, days, worlds
have been broken; hundreds of Israeli ones. We hear about the Israeli
tragedies; we rarely hear about the many times more Palestinian ones the mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, sisters and brothers who are killed and mutilated during all those wonderful periods of "relative calm" our news media lie to us about.
I wonder if we'll hear about Rachel Corrie on March 16th, the second
anniversary of her death. Israel, as with all those it kills, claims
that her death "was an accident" or "was necessary for security" or that
"she was a terrorist" or that "she was protecting terrorists!" As fast
as these Israeli fabrications are refuted, new ones are produced. Never
mind that they're self-contradictory our complicit media never question.
What Israel says, our media repeat. What Israel demands, our government gives. What Israel wants, its well-greased lobby delivers.
Change is coming, however, and it is gathering momentum. People across the United States remember Rachel, and grieve her death. While Congress is intimidated into denying her parents' right to an investigation of theAmerican "ally" who murdered their daughter, people in towns throughout the United States are planning commemorations and future actions.
From across the country, slowly but steadily, there is the start of an
American uprising. One by one, people are rising up community by
community and town by town. We are deathly tired of gratuitous cruelty
and rapacious creeds of violence, and we won't stand by any longer.
We are reclaiming our nation, our principles, and our souls. We are the
only ones who can do it.
We won't forget Rachel.
And we won't be stopped.
[Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew.]
The Freedom Archives
http://www.freedomarchives.org
Uprising on the Anniversary of a Death
By ALISON WEIR
T here is a quiet battle going on for the memory of a young woman who
could have been my daughter, or perhaps yours.
On one side are those who would like to erase her from history her actions, her beliefs, her murder. If they are unsuccessful at that, they will settle for posthumous slurs on her character, falsifications of her death.
On the other side are those who feel her shining principles should be
praised, her courage honored, her death grieved. On this side are those
who believe that heroism is noble, bravery admirable, and compassion for
others the most fundamental form of morality.
To those of us on this side, Rachel Corrie will never be forgotten. She
was 23 when she was killed.
We won't forget her young idealism, her sweet bravery, her needless
death. And we won't forget her beliefs, the third of which killed her:
that good would triumph, that justice would prevail, that Israel would
not kill her.
She was wrong on that last one. On March 16, 2003, two Israeli soldiers
drove a house-crushing bulldozer over her twice crushing her into the
Gaza dirt. With five other nonviolent human rights defenders, Rachel had
been sitting in front of a family home in Palestine, pleading with
Israeli soldiers not to demolish it. They didn't (until later); they
demolished her instead.
Her friends ran to her screaming. They dug her out of the dirt. One told
me that Rachel's eyes were open; her last words were, "My back is broken."
Far more, of course, was broken. The day was broken, the universe was
broken, her sister's world was broken, her brother's life was broken,
her parents' hearts were broken. All the things were broken that break
when someone is killed.
In the past five years, thousands of Palestinian lives, days, worlds
have been broken; hundreds of Israeli ones. We hear about the Israeli
tragedies; we rarely hear about the many times more Palestinian ones the mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, sisters and brothers who are killed and mutilated during all those wonderful periods of "relative calm" our news media lie to us about.
I wonder if we'll hear about Rachel Corrie on March 16th, the second
anniversary of her death. Israel, as with all those it kills, claims
that her death "was an accident" or "was necessary for security" or that
"she was a terrorist" or that "she was protecting terrorists!" As fast
as these Israeli fabrications are refuted, new ones are produced. Never
mind that they're self-contradictory our complicit media never question.
What Israel says, our media repeat. What Israel demands, our government gives. What Israel wants, its well-greased lobby delivers.
Change is coming, however, and it is gathering momentum. People across the United States remember Rachel, and grieve her death. While Congress is intimidated into denying her parents' right to an investigation of theAmerican "ally" who murdered their daughter, people in towns throughout the United States are planning commemorations and future actions.
From across the country, slowly but steadily, there is the start of an
American uprising. One by one, people are rising up community by
community and town by town. We are deathly tired of gratuitous cruelty
and rapacious creeds of violence, and we won't stand by any longer.
We are reclaiming our nation, our principles, and our souls. We are the
only ones who can do it.
We won't forget Rachel.
And we won't be stopped.
[Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew.]
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