Israeli paramilitary forces have reportedly been operating something they call "the lottery," in which they detain Palestinians and order them to choose from pieces of paper labeled with punishments such as "broken leg" and "smashed head."
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Cycle of Violence
Israel and Palestine
Israel and Palestine
Much of the violence is under-reported leaving a distorted picture of the cycle of violence. From the start of the roadmap process, this blog will try to catalog any violence resulting in deaths on either side, as well as the number of wounded with one entry per event. It also includes violence against peace activists and charitable volunteers. Prior violence is cataloged for context only.
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Khan Younis, Gaza: Israeli assault: 11 Pal dead, 40 wounded
Excite News: "Israel Pulls Out of Gaza Camp After Killing 11 | Dec 18, 5:48 PM (ET) | By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
The two-day assault on Khan Younis, the scene of many Israeli assaults, was the largest Israeli incursion since the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in November.
In the latest bloodshed, the Israeli army said troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen and a third died from tank fire after he had fired an anti-tank rocket toward soldiers. About 40 Palestinians were wounded in the raid, which began on Friday.
Excite News: "Israel Pulls Out of Gaza Camp After Killing 11 | Dec 18, 5:48 PM (ET) | By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
The two-day assault on Khan Younis, the scene of many Israeli assaults, was the largest Israeli incursion since the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in November.
In the latest bloodshed, the Israeli army said troops shot dead two Palestinian gunmen and a third died from tank fire after he had fired an anti-tank rocket toward soldiers. About 40 Palestinians were wounded in the raid, which began on Friday.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Of the 3,334 Palestinian deaths--- 82% were civilians. 621 (18%) were children under 17; 200 shot in head, neck, face
AxisofLogic/ Palestine: "Killing Palestinian Children is No Longer a Big Deal: An open letter | By Doris Cadigan | Dec 15, 2004, 13:21"
Regarding Gideon Levy's column--Killing Children is No Longer a Big Deal, Haaretz's, 10/17/ 04.
I disagree with Mr. Levy--killing Children is No Longer a Big Deal--indeed it is. But like Mr. Levy, I am appalled daily by the number of Palestinian children killed by the Israeli Army. I have read many reports in which eyewitnesses have described the Israeli army's use of fire as "reckless" and "random" in densely populated areas. Indeed, many of us have complained about the Israeli Army launching rockets from helicopter gunships into moving cars; onto crowded streets; and into large buildings--killing many innocent people---especially children. (Of course, this is the same army that complains about a handful of homemade rockets being fired into Sderot.)
While this army attempts to justify its actions on "self defense" the vital statistics released by the Palestinian Board of Health for the Second Intifada reveals who really should be defended. Of the 3,334 Palestinian deaths--- 82% were civilians. 621 were Palestinian children under the age of 17 years. Of these --411 children were killed by live ammunition while 200 children were shot in the head, or face or neck. Many medical personal have question why the army is shooting to kill and is targeting the upper body instead of the lower body to reduce casualties. ..
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I read in one report that an army tank shell tragically killed 7 teenagers outside their school. In other reports that soldiers were "knowingly and deliberately" targeting children and that the Air force was given orders "to liquidate" activists homes even though they knew their families would be home. These are atrocious. The army's murderous offensive left 150 people dead (35 were children), and injured 500 civilians.
AxisofLogic/ Palestine: "Killing Palestinian Children is No Longer a Big Deal: An open letter | By Doris Cadigan | Dec 15, 2004, 13:21"
Regarding Gideon Levy's column--Killing Children is No Longer a Big Deal, Haaretz's, 10/17/ 04.
I disagree with Mr. Levy--killing Children is No Longer a Big Deal--indeed it is. But like Mr. Levy, I am appalled daily by the number of Palestinian children killed by the Israeli Army. I have read many reports in which eyewitnesses have described the Israeli army's use of fire as "reckless" and "random" in densely populated areas. Indeed, many of us have complained about the Israeli Army launching rockets from helicopter gunships into moving cars; onto crowded streets; and into large buildings--killing many innocent people---especially children. (Of course, this is the same army that complains about a handful of homemade rockets being fired into Sderot.)
While this army attempts to justify its actions on "self defense" the vital statistics released by the Palestinian Board of Health for the Second Intifada reveals who really should be defended. Of the 3,334 Palestinian deaths--- 82% were civilians. 621 were Palestinian children under the age of 17 years. Of these --411 children were killed by live ammunition while 200 children were shot in the head, or face or neck. Many medical personal have question why the army is shooting to kill and is targeting the upper body instead of the lower body to reduce casualties. ..
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I read in one report that an army tank shell tragically killed 7 teenagers outside their school. In other reports that soldiers were "knowingly and deliberately" targeting children and that the Air force was given orders "to liquidate" activists homes even though they knew their families would be home. These are atrocious. The army's murderous offensive left 150 people dead (35 were children), and injured 500 civilians.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Rafah, Gaza: IDF shoots [at shadows]: 1 Pal dead (Security), 2 wounded
Excite News: "Palestinian Security Worker Killed in Gaza | Dec 14, 12:35 PM (ET)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A Palestinian security worker was shot and killed Tuesday by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Palestinian medical officials said.
Samir Khafaja, 27, was walking in the street when he was shot in the head and chest in the town on the Gaza border with Egypt, medical officials said. Two other Palestinian security personnel were wounded.
An Israeli military official said the army opened fire on three suspicious figures crawling in the area of the border. The official could not say if the figures were armed."
Excite News: "Palestinian Security Worker Killed in Gaza | Dec 14, 12:35 PM (ET)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A Palestinian security worker was shot and killed Tuesday by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Palestinian medical officials said.
Samir Khafaja, 27, was walking in the street when he was shot in the head and chest in the town on the Gaza border with Egypt, medical officials said. Two other Palestinian security personnel were wounded.
An Israeli military official said the army opened fire on three suspicious figures crawling in the area of the border. The official could not say if the figures were armed."
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Aljazeera.Net - Israeli soldiers 'shoot boy for fun'
Aljazeera.Net - Israeli soldiers 'shoot boy for fun': "By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank | Wednesday 08 December 2004, 16:12 Makka Time, 13:12 GMT
A group of Israeli soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip have reportedly admitted killing a 15-year-old Palestinian in Khan Yunus for sport.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth, the incident took place in March when a group of newly graduated soldiers were on a hike near the town of Khan Yunus.
According to the report, an undisclosed number of Givati brigade soldiers shot and killed Khalid Sulaiman Mahdi while he was working with his father on their farm.
The boy's father, Sulaiman Mahdi, told the paper the killing was "just for the sake of it".
"Seven bullets pierced my son's head, so you can't talk here about a mistake or random gunfire. This was an act of direct and clear sharp shooting," he said.
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According to human-rights groups operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army has killed hundreds of Palestinian minors, often without justification, in the course of its incursions into Palestinian population centres.
Rights activists say Israeli troops
do not abide by military ethics
The killing of innocent Palestinians by the Israeli army during the past four years has reached a worryingly frequent level, say the rights groups.
"I don't have the slightest doubt that it is a rampant phenomenon," says Basim Eid, a former field researcher for the Israeli human-rights group, BTselem and head of the East Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.
"The Israeli army is no longer an army that abides by military ethics ...
Aljazeera.Net - Israeli soldiers 'shoot boy for fun': "By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank | Wednesday 08 December 2004, 16:12 Makka Time, 13:12 GMT
A group of Israeli soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip have reportedly admitted killing a 15-year-old Palestinian in Khan Yunus for sport.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth, the incident took place in March when a group of newly graduated soldiers were on a hike near the town of Khan Yunus.
According to the report, an undisclosed number of Givati brigade soldiers shot and killed Khalid Sulaiman Mahdi while he was working with his father on their farm.
The boy's father, Sulaiman Mahdi, told the paper the killing was "just for the sake of it".
"Seven bullets pierced my son's head, so you can't talk here about a mistake or random gunfire. This was an act of direct and clear sharp shooting," he said.
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According to human-rights groups operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army has killed hundreds of Palestinian minors, often without justification, in the course of its incursions into Palestinian population centres.
Rights activists say Israeli troops
do not abide by military ethics
The killing of innocent Palestinians by the Israeli army during the past four years has reached a worryingly frequent level, say the rights groups.
"I don't have the slightest doubt that it is a rampant phenomenon," says Basim Eid, a former field researcher for the Israeli human-rights group, BTselem and head of the East Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.
"The Israeli army is no longer an army that abides by military ethics ...
Friday, December 03, 2004
Claims over 1,500 innocent Palestinians have been killed: almost no investigations
AxisofLogic/ Palestine: "Corridors Of Power/ Up In Arms Over Civilian Deaths | By Uzi Benziman | Nov 28, 2004, 20:00
Human rights groups claim over 1,500 innocent Palestinians have been killed in the past four years, and that the army must be brought to account. The IDF: The situation in the territories exempts it from investigation into such cases.
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B'Tselem has collected testimonies regarding the circumstances of the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians. ...
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The large number of unarmed Palestinians killed derives, in part, from the permissive punitive policy employed since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada: In the first intifada, the IDF investigated every incident in which a Palestinian was killed, unless that person was actually participating in an act of combat at the time. But since October 2000, the military advocate general ruled that the Investigating Military Police would only investigate incidents in which soldiers "seriously deviated from the rules of engagement and caused casualties."
AxisofLogic/ Palestine: "Corridors Of Power/ Up In Arms Over Civilian Deaths | By Uzi Benziman | Nov 28, 2004, 20:00
Human rights groups claim over 1,500 innocent Palestinians have been killed in the past four years, and that the army must be brought to account. The IDF: The situation in the territories exempts it from investigation into such cases.
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B'Tselem has collected testimonies regarding the circumstances of the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians. ...
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The large number of unarmed Palestinians killed derives, in part, from the permissive punitive policy employed since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada: In the first intifada, the IDF investigated every incident in which a Palestinian was killed, unless that person was actually participating in an act of combat at the time. But since October 2000, the military advocate general ruled that the Investigating Military Police would only investigate incidents in which soldiers "seriously deviated from the rules of engagement and caused casualties."
