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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1st Month: 28 boys, 140
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B'Tselem Fatalities
A Brutal Routine
Science of Suicide Bombing
Settler Violence
1st Month: 28 boys, 140
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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.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Israel Resumes Extra-judicial Executions, Six Palestinians Killed
PNA Warns: Israeli Military Escalation Endangers Truce
Israel Resumes Extra-judicial Executions, Six Palestinians Killed
PNA Warns: Israeli Military Escalation Endangers Truce: "Israel Resumes Extra-judicial Executions, Six Palestinians Killed |
08/06/2005 | Palestine Media Center – PMC
Israel’s officially adopted policy of extra-judicial killings claimed the lives of six Palestinians, including two laborers, and a Chinese worker on Tuesday, which the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) denounced as “a dangerous threat to the cool-down and Palestinian efforts to preserve it.”
President Mahmoud Abbas was expected in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for talks with anti-Israeli occupation factions in a bid to contain Palestinian retaliation to the military escalation by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Six Palestinians and a Chinese worker were killed in Palestinian – Israeli violence Tuesday after IOF troops extra-judicially executed anti-occupation activist Mraweh Khaled Tawfiq Ikmil during a 4-hour raid into the northern West Bank town of Qabatya.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei lashed out at Israel, saying the assassination of Ikmil “shows the (Israeli) policy of targeted killings has resumed,” and denouncing it as “a dangerous threat to the cool-down and Palestinian efforts to preserve it.”
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat warned the cease-fire was in jeopardy and urged international intervention. “The situation is deteriorating. The whole cease-fire may collapse,” he said."
PNA Warns: Israeli Military Escalation Endangers Truce
Israel Resumes Extra-judicial Executions, Six Palestinians Killed
PNA Warns: Israeli Military Escalation Endangers Truce: "Israel Resumes Extra-judicial Executions, Six Palestinians Killed |
08/06/2005 | Palestine Media Center – PMC
Israel’s officially adopted policy of extra-judicial killings claimed the lives of six Palestinians, including two laborers, and a Chinese worker on Tuesday, which the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) denounced as “a dangerous threat to the cool-down and Palestinian efforts to preserve it.”
President Mahmoud Abbas was expected in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for talks with anti-Israeli occupation factions in a bid to contain Palestinian retaliation to the military escalation by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Six Palestinians and a Chinese worker were killed in Palestinian – Israeli violence Tuesday after IOF troops extra-judicially executed anti-occupation activist Mraweh Khaled Tawfiq Ikmil during a 4-hour raid into the northern West Bank town of Qabatya.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei lashed out at Israel, saying the assassination of Ikmil “shows the (Israeli) policy of targeted killings has resumed,” and denouncing it as “a dangerous threat to the cool-down and Palestinian efforts to preserve it.”
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat warned the cease-fire was in jeopardy and urged international intervention. “The situation is deteriorating. The whole cease-fire may collapse,” he said."
Friday, June 03, 2005
Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree: "instructed by the political echelon to change the mode of operation and adjust it to the harsh real
Excite News: "Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree | Jun 3, 4:54 AM (ET) | By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed eight Palestinian policemen in 'eye for an eye' shootings three years ago that were ordered to avenge comrades slain in an ambush on an army checkpoint in the West Bank, a newspaper said on Friday.
The report in the Maariv daily, confirmed by senior Israeli security sources, was the latest public challenge to the Jewish state's official insistence that its forces have abided by a strict code of ethics in battling a Palestinian uprising.
After gunmen from the Palestinian faction Fatah killed six soldiers at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah on Feb. 19, 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved stepping up the scale and variety of retaliations.
'The feeling was that this would be 'an eye for an eye',' an ex-soldier who took part in the shooting spree three years ago told Maariv.
Eighteen Palestinians were killed in various retaliatory attacks, including eight policemen shot while manning their checkpoints near Ramallah and Nablus, another West Bank city.
''We are going to liquidate Palestinian policemen at a checkpoint in revenge for our six soldiers that they killed',' the ex-commando quoted his commander as ordering the troops."
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Reprisals have long loomed large in Israel's strategic planning, beginning in the 1950s when it answered cross-border raids by Arab irregulars in kind. After 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Israel sent agents to assassinate that attack's masterminds.
But while Israel has openly assassinated leading Palestinian militants during the current conflict, it rejected charges by human rights groups that this constituted illegal extra-judicial killing, saying the men targeted were planning imminent attacks.
In its statement, the army said that after it lost six soldiers in the 2002 ambush, it had been "instructed by the political echelon to change the mode of operation and adjust it to the harsh reality on the ground."
Soldiers were told to "hunt down all those involved in terror activities, including members of the Palestinian Authority security apparatus" until the PA prevented "terror attacks emanating from Palestinian towns and cities."
Excite News: "Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree | Jun 3, 4:54 AM (ET) | By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed eight Palestinian policemen in 'eye for an eye' shootings three years ago that were ordered to avenge comrades slain in an ambush on an army checkpoint in the West Bank, a newspaper said on Friday.
The report in the Maariv daily, confirmed by senior Israeli security sources, was the latest public challenge to the Jewish state's official insistence that its forces have abided by a strict code of ethics in battling a Palestinian uprising.
After gunmen from the Palestinian faction Fatah killed six soldiers at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah on Feb. 19, 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved stepping up the scale and variety of retaliations.
'The feeling was that this would be 'an eye for an eye',' an ex-soldier who took part in the shooting spree three years ago told Maariv.
Eighteen Palestinians were killed in various retaliatory attacks, including eight policemen shot while manning their checkpoints near Ramallah and Nablus, another West Bank city.
''We are going to liquidate Palestinian policemen at a checkpoint in revenge for our six soldiers that they killed',' the ex-commando quoted his commander as ordering the troops."
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Reprisals have long loomed large in Israel's strategic planning, beginning in the 1950s when it answered cross-border raids by Arab irregulars in kind. After 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Israel sent agents to assassinate that attack's masterminds.
But while Israel has openly assassinated leading Palestinian militants during the current conflict, it rejected charges by human rights groups that this constituted illegal extra-judicial killing, saying the men targeted were planning imminent attacks.
In its statement, the army said that after it lost six soldiers in the 2002 ambush, it had been "instructed by the political echelon to change the mode of operation and adjust it to the harsh reality on the ground."
Soldiers were told to "hunt down all those involved in terror activities, including members of the Palestinian Authority security apparatus" until the PA prevented "terror attacks emanating from Palestinian towns and cities."
