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, April 24, 2004
Nur-a-Shams, West Bank: Isreali [ambush?]: 3 Pal dead
CNN.com - Israeli military kills 3 wanted militants - Apr 22, 2004: "Bush says world should thank Sharon for pullout | Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 5:25 AM EDT (0925 GMT)
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops early Thursday killed three wanted Palestinian militants near the Nur-a-Shams refugee camp in the West Bank, Israeli military sources said.
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Palestinian security sources described the encounter as an ambush by Israeli troops. They said Amshe, 29, and Ghanem, 31, were members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, but identified the third man as Ayman Barahmeh, 25.
Palestinian security said he was a friend of the other two men, but not a member of the militant group. Barahmeh's 5-year-old son was killed by Israel seven months ago, the security sources said.
CNN.com - Israeli military kills 3 wanted militants - Apr 22, 2004: "Bush says world should thank Sharon for pullout | Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 5:25 AM EDT (0925 GMT)
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops early Thursday killed three wanted Palestinian militants near the Nur-a-Shams refugee camp in the West Bank, Israeli military sources said.
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Palestinian security sources described the encounter as an ambush by Israeli troops. They said Amshe, 29, and Ghanem, 31, were members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, but identified the third man as Ayman Barahmeh, 25.
Palestinian security said he was a friend of the other two men, but not a member of the militant group. Barahmeh's 5-year-old son was killed by Israel seven months ago, the security sources said.
Beit Lahiya, Gaza: Israeli attacks: 9 Pal dead, incl teen-age boy, 27 wounded
CNN.com - Palestinian officials:�Israeli raid kills 9 - Apr 21, 2004: "Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 2:11 PM EDT (1811 GMT)
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza (AP) -- Israeli forces backed by tanks and bulldozers raided the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya early Wednesday, killing nine Palestinians, including four militants, in fighting with gunmen, Palestinian officials said ...
... Nine Palestinians, including a teen-age boy, were killed, hospital officials said. Twenty-seven others were wounded.
Israeli Apache helicopters periodically fired on the area, which is often used by militants as a launching ground for homemade missiles they lob at nearby Jewish settlements. ...
CNN.com - Palestinian officials:�Israeli raid kills 9 - Apr 21, 2004: "Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 2:11 PM EDT (1811 GMT)
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza (AP) -- Israeli forces backed by tanks and bulldozers raided the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya early Wednesday, killing nine Palestinians, including four militants, in fighting with gunmen, Palestinian officials said ...
... Nine Palestinians, including a teen-age boy, were killed, hospital officials said. Twenty-seven others were wounded.
Israeli Apache helicopters periodically fired on the area, which is often used by militants as a launching ground for homemade missiles they lob at nearby Jewish settlements. ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Gaza: gun battles: 5 Pal dead, 33 wounded; 1 Israeli wounded
CNN.com - Palestinians: Five killed in Gaza gunbattle - Apr 20, 2004: "Palestinians: Five killed in Gaza gunbattle | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Posted: 6:12 PM EDT (2212 GMT)
GAZA CITY (AP) -- Palestinians fired a barrage of homemade rockets and mortar shells at Gaza settlements and towns inside Israel, sparking a gunbattle Tuesday with Israeli forces.
Five Palestinians were killed and 33 others wounded, Palestinian hospital officials said.
The Palestinian rocket attacks have intensified since Israel's killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi on Saturday.
Over two days, 15 Qassam rockets hit Israeli targets, wounding one Israeli and damaging at least five structures, the Israeli army said. ...
CNN.com - Palestinians: Five killed in Gaza gunbattle - Apr 20, 2004: "Palestinians: Five killed in Gaza gunbattle | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Posted: 6:12 PM EDT (2212 GMT)
GAZA CITY (AP) -- Palestinians fired a barrage of homemade rockets and mortar shells at Gaza settlements and towns inside Israel, sparking a gunbattle Tuesday with Israeli forces.
Five Palestinians were killed and 33 others wounded, Palestinian hospital officials said.
The Palestinian rocket attacks have intensified since Israel's killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi on Saturday.
Over two days, 15 Qassam rockets hit Israeli targets, wounding one Israeli and damaging at least five structures, the Israeli army said. ...
Monday, April 19, 2004
Beit Rimon, Israel: exchange of fire: 1 Israeli Arab dead, 1 wounded
Haaretz - Israel News: "20/04/2004 04:29 | Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire near Hebron | By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and the Associated Press
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The attacks followed a Sunday night incident in which one Israeli Arab was killed and another wounded when they opened fire on Israeli security forces in the north of the country.
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An Israeli Arab was killed and another sustained moderate injuries Sunday night during an exchange of fire with Border Patrol troops near the Beit Rimon Junction in the Lower Galilee.
The dead man is a resident of Kafr Kana and the other is from Kafr Manda, both in the Lower Galilee
Haaretz - Israel News: "20/04/2004 04:29 | Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire near Hebron | By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and the Associated Press
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The attacks followed a Sunday night incident in which one Israeli Arab was killed and another wounded when they opened fire on Israeli security forces in the north of the country.
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An Israeli Arab was killed and another sustained moderate injuries Sunday night during an exchange of fire with Border Patrol troops near the Beit Rimon Junction in the Lower Galilee.
The dead man is a resident of Kafr Kana and the other is from Kafr Manda, both in the Lower Galilee
Hebron: IDF kills: 1 Pal dead
Haaretz - Israel News: "20/04/2004 04:29 | Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire near Hebron | By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and the Associated Press
A Palestinian man was killed by Border Police gunfire south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday night during a search for a militant suspected of possessing an explosives belt.
The officers surrounded the building in which the suspect was located and called on the residents to evacuate it. When a Palestinian man tried to run out a side door, officers went into 'suspect-arresting' mode, shooting and killing him, military sources said.
The man was not armed and was not carrying identifying papers. It has become clear that the man who was killed was not the suspect the officers sought."
Haaretz - Israel News: "20/04/2004 04:29 | Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire near Hebron | By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and the Associated Press
A Palestinian man was killed by Border Police gunfire south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday night during a search for a militant suspected of possessing an explosives belt.
The officers surrounded the building in which the suspect was located and called on the residents to evacuate it. When a Palestinian man tried to run out a side door, officers went into 'suspect-arresting' mode, shooting and killing him, military sources said.
The man was not armed and was not carrying identifying papers. It has become clear that the man who was killed was not the suspect the officers sought."
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Gaza Mourns Slain Hamas Leader with Anger, Grief
Yahoo! News - Gaza Mourns Slain Hamas Leader with Anger, Grief: "Sun Apr 18,10:43 AM ETAdd World - Reuters to My Yahoo! | By Matt Spetalnick
GAZA (Reuters) - Even in death, the voice of slain Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, the Palestinian militant group's most outspoken hard-liner, could not be silenced.
His defiant words recorded just days before his assassination Saturday in an Israeli missile strike boomed from loudspeakers at Gaza's Martyrs Cemetery as he was buried amid cries of revenge from hundreds of thousands of mourners.
'Hamas will not die,' Rantissi said, no matter how many of its leaders Israel killed.
Rantissi, 56, was killed in his car less than a month after Israel assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas's wheelchair-bound founder, as he left prayers at a Gaza mosque. "
Yahoo! News - Gaza Mourns Slain Hamas Leader with Anger, Grief: "Sun Apr 18,10:43 AM ETAdd World - Reuters to My Yahoo! | By Matt Spetalnick
GAZA (Reuters) - Even in death, the voice of slain Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, the Palestinian militant group's most outspoken hard-liner, could not be silenced.
His defiant words recorded just days before his assassination Saturday in an Israeli missile strike boomed from loudspeakers at Gaza's Martyrs Cemetery as he was buried amid cries of revenge from hundreds of thousands of mourners.
'Hamas will not die,' Rantissi said, no matter how many of its leaders Israel killed.
Rantissi, 56, was killed in his car less than a month after Israel assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas's wheelchair-bound founder, as he left prayers at a Gaza mosque. "
Saturday, April 10, 2004
15 Palestinians wounded in protests against the wall
Shaath visits Washington on April 21; 15 Palestinians wounded in protests against the wall: "Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/8/2004
A Palestinian official said that the foreign affairs minister Nabil Shaath will visit the USA on April 21st to meet with officials in the American administration, while 15 Palestinians were wounded during acts of protests against building the seperation apartheid wall in a town near Jerusalem."
Shaath visits Washington on April 21; 15 Palestinians wounded in protests against the wall: "Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/8/2004
A Palestinian official said that the foreign affairs minister Nabil Shaath will visit the USA on April 21st to meet with officials in the American administration, while 15 Palestinians were wounded during acts of protests against building the seperation apartheid wall in a town near Jerusalem."
Gaza: random Israeli shots: 12 yr-old Pal girl dead
Excite - News: "Palestinian Girl Shot Dead in Gaza Strip-Medics | Apr 10, 9:40 am ET
GAZA (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medics said. They said Iman Tulba was killed when Israeli soldiers at the Ganei Tal Jewish settlement opened fire at a nearby three-storey building in Khan Younis. The Israeli army said it was checking the report.
Tulba's cousin, Alaa, said he saw a bullet fly through the family's kitchen window, ricochet off a wall and hit her. He added there were no clashes in the area at the time.
"Iman had returned from school and was going to the kitchen to ask her mother about lunch," he said. "While she was getting a plate, a bullet suddenly came through the window and she was shot in her head, with her blood spilling on the floor." ...
Excite - News: "Palestinian Girl Shot Dead in Gaza Strip-Medics | Apr 10, 9:40 am ET
GAZA (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medics said. They said Iman Tulba was killed when Israeli soldiers at the Ganei Tal Jewish settlement opened fire at a nearby three-storey building in Khan Younis. The Israeli army said it was checking the report.
Tulba's cousin, Alaa, said he saw a bullet fly through the family's kitchen window, ricochet off a wall and hit her. He added there were no clashes in the area at the time.
"Iman had returned from school and was going to the kitchen to ask her mother about lunch," he said. "While she was getting a plate, a bullet suddenly came through the window and she was shot in her head, with her blood spilling on the floor." ...
Friday, April 02, 2004
Rafah, Gaza: shot by IDF: 1 Pal
Haaretz - Israel News: "02/04/2004 13:51 | Armed Palestinian man shot dead by IDF troops in Gaza | By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
A Palestinian man armed with a Kalachnikov rifle and grenades was killed by Israel Defense Forces gunfire Friday when he approached the Karni-Netzarim Road in the Gaza Strip, a short time after a 19-year-old Palestinian man was killed, Palestinians said, in heavy exchanges of gunfire with IDF troops on the Gaza-Egypt border. "
Haaretz - Israel News: "02/04/2004 13:51 | Armed Palestinian man shot dead by IDF troops in Gaza | By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
A Palestinian man armed with a Kalachnikov rifle and grenades was killed by Israel Defense Forces gunfire Friday when he approached the Karni-Netzarim Road in the Gaza Strip, a short time after a 19-year-old Palestinian man was killed, Palestinians said, in heavy exchanges of gunfire with IDF troops on the Gaza-Egypt border. "
