Research Guide
to the
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Part 3
A. Palestinian Lives
2. Children under the Occupation
a. Organizations
Al Malha Youth Group (Relatives, descendants, and friends of exiled inhabitants of Palestinian village of Al Malha)
Al Rowwad Center (Aida Camp)
Arab Youth
Children of Palestine (Yahoo! eGroup)
Defence For Children International: Palestine Section
Enlighten -- Enabling Palestinian Children
First Ramallah Group
Middle East Children's Alliance (Berkeley, CA)
Palestinian Child Arts Center (not updated since 2000?)
Palestine Children's Welfare Fund
Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation - PYALARA
Playgrounds for Palestine (Elkins Park, PA)
Spafford Children's Center (Jerusalem)
Teens for Palestine
b. Websites
The Childhood Voices
Pieces for Peace: Palestinian - Israeli Peace Art Mosaic
Unter der Besatzung: Children under the Siege
Operation S.I.C.K - Stop Inciting Children to Kill Anti-Palestinian.
c. Articles
"The Anne Franks of Palestine" (Yusuf Agha; YellowTimes.org; June 20, 2002)
"Teenage Stonethrower Nursed Long Hatred" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 11, 2002)
"In Growing Numbers, Palestinian Boys Are Choosing the Brief Life of a 'Martyr'" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; June 10, 2002)
"Images of War Force Children to Confront Their Nightmares" (Stephen Farrell and Ian Cobain; The Times (London); May 18, 2002)
"When 'Martyrs' Are Not Yet Men" (Edward Cody; Washington Post; May 10, 2002)
"Law Refutes Israeli Claims of Staged Jenin 'Burials'" (LAW; May 8, 2002)
"Israeli Practice Towards Palestinian Children, In Violation of the UN Convention on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" (Defence for Children International/Palestine Section; submitted on 8 May 2002 to the UN Committee Against Torture)
"When Your Baby's First Word Is 'Shooting'..." (Kristen Schurr; Media Monitors Network; May 1, 2002)
"Forces on Alert as 20 Child Bombers Thwarted" (Nidal Al-Mughrabi in Gaza; The Sun-Herald (Syndey, Aust.); April 28, 2002)
"Children Bear Scars of Mid-East Conflict" (Kathryn Westcott; BBC; April 27, 2002)
"Gaza's Angry Children" (Rachel Harvey; BBC; April 27, 2002)
"Teenagers Shot by Israelis, Then Run over with a Tank" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; April 26, 2002)
'They Took Our Land, So Why Shouldn't I Kill Them?' (Muhammad Muslih; International Herald Tribune; April 26, 2002)
"Children Become the New Martyrs of Gaza" (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; April 25, 2002)
"Passions Inflamed, Gaza Teenagers Die in Suicidal Attacks" (David Rohde; New York Times; April 25, 2002)
"Hamas Bans Children's 'Sacrifices'" (Rachel Harvey; BBC; April 24, 2002)
"Gaza City Glorifies Its Dead; Palestinian Parents Mark Children's Final Sacrifice in the Fight against Israel" (Anna Badkhen; San Francisco Chronicle; April 21, 2002)
"Diary of a Young Palestinian Recounts Ten Days of Terror in Jenin (Janine di Giovanni; The Times (London); April 20, 2002)
Violations of Palestinian Children's Rights, 29 March--19 April 2002" (Defence for Children International/Palestine Section; April 19, 2002)
"Young Bombers Nurtured by Despair" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; March 23, 2002)
"Violations of Palestinian Children's Rights Stemming from the Israeli Occupation" (Defence for Children International/Palestine Section: February 13, 2002)
"Child Deaths, 28 September 2000--28 September 2001" (Defence for Children International/Palestine Section; 2001)
Israel's Spin-Doctors Wage War of Images and Words Against Palestinian Rock Children, by Delinda Curtiss Hanley, Jan/Feb 2001
Violations of Palestinian Children's Rights, 28 September--11 November 2000" (Defence for Children International/Palestine Section; November 13, 2000)
"An Environment of Terror for Palestinian Children" (Defence for Children International/Palestine Section; November 2, 2000)
"The Stories of Palestinian Children: The YMCA Rehabilitation Program Responds" (October 26, 2000)
"DCI/PS Summary Report" Defence for Children International/Palestine Section; October 12, 2000)
"Who Will Protect the Children of Aida Refugee Camp? (Muna Hamzeh-Muhaisen; Palestine Report; November 20, 1997)
"Mary" (The Link; volume 22, issue 5 (December 1989))
"Inciting and Educating Children toward Hate, Anti-Semitism and Violence in the Palestinian Authority" (Israel's Office of the Prime Minister, undated) Anti-Palestinian.
3. Closures and Checkpoints
See also Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid.
For information on the proposal for unilateral separation favored by some Israeli Jews, see Israel's Political Strategy.
a. Websites
Checkpoints images (PRCS)
Closure Reports (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights)
Maps of Checkpoints (PECDAR)
Maps of Checkpoints and Bantustans in Palestine (Palestine Monitor)
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing Activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (joint project of the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem and the Land Research Center)
-----Eye on Palestine (Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem)
b. Articles
"Long-Term Sieges" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; June 12, 2002)
"At Checkpoint in Gaza, Travelers Wait and Wait" (Tim Golden; New York Times; June 12, 2002)
"Foreign Diplomats Ired by Army's Searches" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; June 7, 2002)
"Diary of a Trip to Palestine and Israel: Road Rage" (Judy Rebick; ZNet; June 5, 2002)
Resisting Closure: A Village Demands to be Heard (Richard Johnson; Palestine Chronicle; June 5, 2002)
"Today Was a Really Very Very Long Day" (Nizar Farsakh; June 3, 2002)
"Fenced Off in Gaza" (Caroline Hawley; BBC; June 2, 2002)
"Britain Attacks 'Reoccupation' of West Bank" (Peter Beaumont; The Observer; June 2, 2002)
"Palestinian Daily Life Completely Disrupted and Destroyed by the Unrelenting Closure and Invasions" (Palestine Monitor; May 30, 2002)
"New Barriers Widen Gulf on West Bank" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; May 26, 2002)
"Palestinian Enslavement Enters a New Phase" (Arab News; May 26, 2002)
"Israeli Fire Kills 2 Farm Workers" (AP: May 25, 2002) And another baby dies due to checkpoints.
"Israeli Restrictions Limit Travel by Palestinians" (AP; May 25, 2002)
"Closure and Prevention of Medical Treatment Continues to Kill Palestinians" (Palestine Monitor; May 24, 2002)
"Donors are Funding Cantonization" (Amira Hass; Arab News; May 24, 2002)
"West Bank Gloom Is Deeper Now That Zones Are Replacing Military Siege" (Paul Koring; The Globe and Mail [Toronto]; May 24, 2002)
"Israelis Weigh Response to Attacks" (Ben Lynfield; Christian Science Monitor; May 24, 2002)
| "South Africa's top diplomat in the West Bank, Hanlie Booysen, likened the permit requirement this week to the pass system and segregated ethnic homelands enforced under apartheid. 'A Bantustan situation has been going on for a while in the West Bank, with Palestinian pockets of control,' she said. 'If the West Bank is divided into eight areas, then one thinks in terms of Bantustans.'" |
"Israelis Consider New Limits on West Bank Palestinians" (John Kifner; New York Times; May 23, 2002)
"Israel Strengthens Apartheid Policies" (LAW; May 23, 2002)
"Israel's Pass Laws Will Wreck Peace Hopes: Apartheid in the Territories" (Marwan Bishara; International Herald Tribune; May 22, 2002)
"Israel Cuts Gaza Strip in Half" (AP; May 22, 2002)
"The New Apartheid Regime in Palestine" (Partricia Smith; Palestine Monitor; May 21, 2002)
"Diplomats Condemn West Bank 'Cantons'" (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); May 20, 2002)
"Israel Forces Internal Movement Permits on Palestinians" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; May 19, 2002)
"Israeli Checks Slow Gaza Traffic" (AP; May 17, 2002)
"Middle East Diary: At the Erez Crossing" (Paul Wood; BBC; May 14, 2002)
"The Chairman of the Irish Red Cross Concerned at Destruction and Health Hazards during Red Cross Visit to Bethlehem" (Michael Jansen; The Irish Times; May 7, 2002)
| "Since the Israeli offensive began at the end of March, 36 women have delivered babies at checkpoints, three died and four infants died, 21 babies have been delivered by telephone." (Dr. Yunis al-Khatib, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society) |
"Hundreds Held Up At Qalandiyah Checkpoint" (Amira Hass and Jonathan Lis; Ha'aretz; May 6?, 2002)
"Update from the Field: Curfews, Sieges Remain" (B'Tselem; May 2, 2002)
"Food Insecurity and Malnutrition on the Rise in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" (Food and Agriculture Organization (UN); April 15, 2002)
"How Pointless Checkpoints Humiliate the Lions of Palestine, Sending Them on the Road to Vengeance" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; April 14, 2001)
"The Checkpoints of Arrogance" (Meron Benvenisti; Ha'aretz; undated [early April 2002?])
"Analysis: Palestinians' Disrupted Journeys" (Martin Asser; BBC; April 6, 2002)
"Eyewitness: West Bank Commuter Odyssey" (Martin Asser; BBC; April 6, 2002)
"Bite of the Blockade" (Caroline Hawley; BBC; March 20, 2002)
"Fifteen Months: Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis: An Assessment" (World Bank; March 18, 2002)
"Checkpoints of Death" (Palestine Report; March 13, 2002 (Vol 8. No. 37))
"Checkpoint: A Short Story" (Tariq Shadid; Palestine Chronicle; Feb. 26, 2002)
"Siege, Closure and the Palestinian Judiciary" (LAW; February 26, 2001)
"Hated Checkpoints Top List of Palestinian Targets" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; February 22, 2002)
"Paying a Price: Coping with Closure in Jericho, Gaza City, and in Two Palestinian Villages" (UNSCO; Jan. 2002)
"Israel: Committee against Torture Says Israel's Policy of Closures and Demolitions of Palestinian Homes May Amount to Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment" (Amnesty International; Nov. 23, 2001)
"The Impact on the Palestinian Economy of the Recent Confrontations, Mobility Restrictions and Border Closures: 1 October 2000 - 30 September 2001" (UNSCO)
"Israel/Occupied Territories: The International Community Must Act to End Israel's Policy of Closures and House Demolitions" (Amnesty International; July 18, 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"Civilians Under Siege: Restrictions on Freedom of Movement as Collective Punishment" (B'Tselem; Jan. 2001)
"When I Tried to Go to the Airport ..." (Mitri Raheb; The Independent; January 12, 2001)
"Paying a Price: Coping with Closure in Gaza City" (Fafo, 2001)
"Paying a Price: Coping with Closure in Jericho" (Fafo, 2001)
"Paying a Price: Coping with Closure in Two Palestinian Villages" (Fafo, 2001)
"Closure and Apartheid: Seven Years of 'Peace' through Separation" (Allegra Pacheco; March 6, 2000)
"The Unsafe Road: A Special Report on the Safe Passage" (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; December 8, 1999)
"A Palestinian Mother Dies During Labor Because of the Israeli Closure" (The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees; October 12, 1998)
"The Israeli Blockade of Hebron" (LAW; August 27, 1998)
"Divide and Rule: Prohibition on Passage between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank" (B'Tselem; June 1998)
"Israel's Closure of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip" (Human Rights Watch; July 1996)
4. Curfews
For many more accounts of life under curfew, see the articles collected in Accounts of Daily Life.
"An Impossible Occupation" (Scott Anderson; New York Times Magazine; May 12, 2002)
"Update from the Field: Curfews, Sieges Remain" (B'Tselem; May 2, 2002)
"Two Paradises, Two Cemeteries" (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; May 1, 2002)
"17 Days of Curfew in Dura & Appeal about Tulkarem Area" (Gush Shalom; April 25, 2002)
"The Curse of the Curfew" (Khalid Amayreh; Media Monitors Network; April 20, 2002)
"Our Life under Curfew" (Tom Kay; BBC; April 16, 2002) (Ramallah)
"'Alive Dead People' Living in a Paralyzed Bethlehem" (Mary Curtius; Los Angeles Times; April 16, 2002)
"Settlers Free to Circulate as Palestinians Confined to Their Homes" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 11, 2002)
"Nablus under Siege: A Visit to a Ghost Town" (Svala Jonsdottir; Alternative Information Center; April 11, 2002)
"'We Won't Give Up': Trapped In Her Own House By Israel's Siege" (Suzanne Abu Tair; Socialist Workers; Apil 11, 2002)
"Ramallah Residents Use Brief Respite to Bury Dead (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 3, 2002)
5. Destruction of Palestinian Civil Society in the March 29 Invasion
"In Jenin, Hospital Officials Recount a Costly Operation: Israeli Troops Accused of Destruction" (John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore; Washington Post; June 21, 2002)
"Brutality in Nablus Defies Reason" (Ayman Aldahleh; Seattle Times; May 31, 2002)
"Ramallah Patches Itself Up, But Frets It May Be in Vain (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; May 30, 2002)
"Unnoticed Nablus May Have Taken West Bank's Worst Hit" (Edward Cody; Washington Post; May 21, 2002)
"The Real Aim of 'Operation Defensive Shield'" (Uri Avnery; Arab News; May 17, 2002)
"West Bank Damages Put at $361 Million" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; May 16, 2002)
"Rebuilding on W. Bank Rubble to Be Costly, Report Says" (Mark Magnier; Los Angeles Times; May 16, 2002)
"World Bank: IDF Strike Caused $360M in Damages to PA" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; May 15, 2002)
"Analysis: Rebuilding the Palestinian Authority" (Tarik Kafala ; BBC; May 10, 2002)
"The Impact of Israel's Ongoing Military Incursions into Palestinian 'Areas A' - A Naked Assault on the Rule of Law in Palestine" (Gail J. Bolding; Birzeit University Institute of Law; May 9, 2002)
"Targeting the Past" (Nevine El-Aref; Al-Ahram Weekly; May 9-15, 2002)
"The Chairman of the Irish Red Cross Concerned at Destruction And Health Hazards during Red Cross Visit to Bethlehem" (Michael Jansen; The Irish Times; May 7, 2002)
"West Bank's City of Broken Dreams: Incursion Took Physical and Psychological Toll on Ramallah" (John Lancaster; Washington Post; May 7, 2002)
"Palestinian Websites Knocked Offline" (Alfred Hermida; BBC; May 6, 2002)
"Someone Even Managed to Defecate into the Photocopier" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; May 6, 2002)
"UN Says Israel Caused $300M in Damage" (AP; May 6, 2002)
"Army Units Fight for Land Rovers Captured in Ramallah" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; early May?, 2002)
"IDF Admits `Ugly Vandalism' against Palestinian Property" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; May 1?, 2002)
"Dishonorable Conduct in War" (Ha'aretz; May 1?, 2002)
"The Bulldozer War" (Christian Salmon; Le Monde diplomatique; May 2002) Incredible piece.
"The Morning After: Nablus and Jenin Residents Talk about Their Devastation in the Wake of Israeli Incursions March-April 2002" (United Civilians for Peace and Christian Accompaniment Team; May 2002)
Reports of Damage and Vandalism (collection by Gush Shalom; late April, 2002)
Israel's War of Terror in March/April 2002 (Electronic Intifada)
"Palestinians Calculating Cost of War" (Charles A. Radin; Boston Globe; April 30, 2002)
"A Changed Landscape Lies Outside Arafat's Door" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; April 29, 2002)
"A Scarred Nablus (Mohammed Daraghmeh; Media Monitors Network; April 29, 2002)
"Schools, Banks and a Puppet Theatre Trashed" (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; April 26, 2002)
"Mustafa Barghouti: Attacks on Health System, Destruction of Palestinian Areas" (Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute; April 26, 2002)
"'Operation Defensive Shield' Devastates the West Bank" (Lucy Mair; Palestine Now; April 26, 2002)
"After the Assault" (The Economist; April 26, 2002)
"Ramallah Without Law, Order" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; April 25, 2002)
"Palestinians See Cruelty, Pettiness in Damage" (Paul Wiseman; USA Today; April 25, 2002)
"Cultural Genocide: The Destruction and Vandalism of the Offices of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees" (William J. Thomson; April 24, 2002)
"Operation Destroy the Data" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; April 24?, 2002)
---- Also available here.
"In All Corners of Ramallah, Big Footprints of Israel Army" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; April 23, 2002)
"Palestinian Schools Hit Hard by Conflict" (Catherine Taylor; Christian Science Monitor; April 23, 2002)
"Ramallah Sweeps Away Rubble of Israeli Reoccupation" (Reuters; April 23, 2002)
"Ransacked Ministries, Fears of Chaos in Ramallah" (Reuters; April 23, 2002) Same as above?
"Sharon 'Aimed to Destroy Palestinian Rule'" (Stephen Farrell and Janine Di Giovanni; The Times (London); April 23, 2002)
"Ramallah Diary: 'So Much Damage in Just One Hour'" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; April 23, 2002)
"Devastating Damage and Vandalism by Israeli soldiers in HDIP and the Palestine Monitor" (Palestine Monitor; April 22, 2002)
"Destruction Cripples Palestinian Ministries" (T. Christopher Miller; Los Angeles Times; April 22, 2002)
"Destruction to Palestinian Governmental Institutions in Ramallah" (Palestine Emergency NGO Initiative; April 22, 2002)
"Report on the Destruction to Palestinian Institutions in Nablus and Other Cities" (Palestine Emergency NGO Initiative; April 22, 2002)
"Lives in Ruins" (Zakaria Mohammed; The Guardian; April 22, 2002)
"Ramallah Emerges to Assess Damage" (Bill Glauber; Baltimore Sun; April 22, 2002)
"Ramallah's Misery: Residents Assess Damage, Trauma as Israelis Quit Most of West Bank" (Anna Badkhen; San Francisco Chronicle; April 22, 2002)
"Dazed Palestinians Emerge After Israeli Pullback" (Reuters; April 21, 2002)
"Israel Takes Inventory of Spoils of Incursions" (Bill Glauber; Baltimore Sun; April 21, 2002)
"Jenin Survivors Mine Ruins for Traces of Former Lives" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; April 21, 2002)
"A School System Without Memory: Palestinian Records, Computer Gear Seized in Israeli Raids" (Doug Struck; Washington Post; April 20, 2002)
"Wanton, Indiscriminate Destruction in Nablus" (Paul Larudee; Jordan Times; April 18, 2002)
"Trail of Destruction: Palestinians: Israel Trying to Undermine Our Society" (Gillian Findlay; ABC News; April 17, 2002)
"What's Happening to Palestinian Society" (Gershon Baskin and Zakaria al Qaq; Media Monitors Network; April 17, 2002)
"Israeli Army Deliberately Destroying State Structures Built by Palestinians" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 16, 2002)
"Palestinians Say Israeli Aim Was to Destroy Framework" (Serge Schmemann; The New York Times; April 16, 2002)
"Ramallah's Struggle for Survival" (Barbara Plett; BBC; April 16, 2002)
Ramallah Under Siege (about the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah; through April 15, 2002)
"A Trail of Destruction Scars Nablus' Old City" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; April 14, 2002)
"Counting The Dead In Nablus (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 14, 2002)
"Asphalt Turned into Dust" (Amanda White; Media Monitors Network: April 13, 2002)
Destruction of Palestinian Public Institutions: First Preliminary Report (Palestine Emergency Committee; April 13, 2002)
---- Also available here.
"Palestinian Society Lies in Ruins" (Barbara Plett; BBC; April 12, 2002)
"Emergency Briefing On Palestinian Education" (Palestinian NGO Emergency Initiative in Jerusalem; April 12, 2002)
"Nablus under Siege: A Visit to a Ghost Town" (Svala Jonsdottir; Alternative Information Center; April 11, 2002)
"'We Won't Give Up': Trapped In Her Own House By Israel's Siege" (Suzanne Abu Tair; Socialist Workers; April 11, 2002)
"Crimes against Culture" (Palestinian National Committee of ICOMOS in Palestine; April 11, 2002)
"Attacks Turn Palestinian Dream Into Bent Metal and Piles of Dust" (Serge Schmemann; New York Times; April 11, 2002)
"Troops and Terror Among the Ancients" (Edward A. Gargan; Newsday; April 9, 2002)
"Israel Destroys Palestinian Infrastructure" (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; April 9, 2002)
"Israeli Forces Inflict Widespread Damage in Bethlehem: Residents Describe Operation As Driven by Hatred, Revenge" (Keith B. Richburg; Washington Post; April 8, 2002)
"Institutions Targeted in Israeli Incursions" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; April 7, 2002)
"Sharon Tries to Destroy All Traces of Arafat Rule" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; April 6, 2002)
"Attacks Strip Away Foundation of Palestinian Rule" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 5, 2002)
"Israeli Operations Bring 'Wanton Destruction'" (Tarik Kafala; BBC; April 5, 2002)
"Joint Statement by Terje Roed Larsen, UN Special Coordinator and Nigel Roberts, the World Bank Director, West Bank & Gaza" (April 4, 2002)
6. -----Assault on Jenin
a. Human Rights Agencies' Reports
"Jenin: IDF Military Operations" (Human Rights Watch; May 2, 2002)
"Physicians for Human Rights Forensic Team Preliminary Assessment" (Physicians for Human Rights--USA; April 30, 2002)
"Jenin: Serious Breaches of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law" (Amnesty International; April 22, 2002)
b. Newspaper and Magazine Reports and Commentary
See also Accounts of daily life for daily newspaper stories.
For the attempted U.N. investigations of Jenin, see Israel and the U.N.
"Prosecute Israeli War Crimes at Jenin" (Francis Boyle; CounterPunch; June 6, 2002)
"I Made Them a Stadium in the Middle of the Camp" (originally published in Hebrew in Yediot Aharonot on May 31, 2002) The story of a bulldozer driver in Jenin. Important.
"How Do You Define a Massacre?" (Ramzy Baroud; Arab News; May 19, 2002)
"Inside the Battle of Jenin" (Time; May 13, 2002)
"My Team Should Have Investigated Jenin" (William Nash; Washinton Post; May 12, 2002)
"What Happened in Jenin?" (FAIR; May 10, 2002)
"Massacre Or Not? It Depends On Which Side Of Washington's Ledger You're On (Stephen Gowans; Swans; May 6, 2002)
"Jenin 2002: Don't say you didn't know!" (Arab News; May 3, 2002)
"Human Rights Group Finds Evidence of War Crimes in Jenin" (Justin Huggler and Phil Reeves; Independent; May 3, 2002)
Massacre at Jenin Doubted" (T. Christian Miller; Los Angeles Times; May 3, 2002)
"Rights Group Doubts Mass Deaths in Jenin, but Sees Signs of War Crimes" (David Rohde; New York Times; May 3, 2002)
"US Group Says Israelis Guilty of War Crimes in Jenin Camp" (James Bone; The Times (London); May 3, 2002)
"No Jenin Massacre, but Possibly Warcrimes-Watchdog" (Reuters; May 2, 2002)
"'No Jenin Massacre' Says Rights Group" (BBC; May 2, 2002)
"Facts in Dispute: What Really Happened at Jenin?" (John Yang; ABC News; May 1, 2002)
'No Massacre in Jenin' (Radio Netherlands; April 30, 2002)
"Expert Weighs up Jenin 'Massacre'" (BBC; April 29, 2002)
"What Happened in the Jenin Refugee Camp?" (David Chandler; April 27, 2002)
"Did Israel Perpetrate a 'Massacre' in the Jenin Refugee Camp?" (Mouin Rabbani; ZNet; April 26, 2002)
"Excavating the Crimes of War: What Really Happened in Jenin?" (Charmaine Seitz; In These Times; April 26, 2002)
"Israeli Order: 'Shoot at Each House'" (John Lancaster; Washington Post; April 26, 2002)
"Once Upon a Time in Jenin" (Justin Huggler and Phil Reeves; The Independent; April 25, 2002)
"Just Get Out" (Gabriel Ash; YellowTimes.org; April 25, 2002)
"Word Games and Body Bags" (Irit Katriel; AlterNet; April 23, 2002)
"Perspectives Vary After Jenin Raid" (AP; April 22, 2002)
"Brutal, Yes. Massacre, No" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian/Observer Worldview; April 21, 2002)
"Jenin: The Bloody Truth" (Marie Colvin; The Sunday Times (London); April 21, 2002)
"Jenin--The Propaganda War" (Tanya Reinhart; Yediot Aharonot; April 21, 2002)
"From the Ruins of Jenin, the Truth about an Atrocity" (Pil Reeves and Justin Huggler; The Independent; April 20, 2002)
"What Really Happened in Jenin?" (Cameron Barr; Christian Science Monitor; April 19, 2002)
"What Kind of War is This? It Is Still Impossible to Know How Many People Are Buried under the Ruins in the Jenin Refugee Camp, Where the Smell of Decomposing Bodies Mingles with the Stench of Garbage and the Scent of Geraniums and Mint" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; April 19, 2002)
"Practical Measures Are Required - Words Are Not Enough" (Amnesty International; April 19, 2002)
"Commissioner-General of UNRWA Declares Jenin Camp a Disaster Area, Describes Damage as 'Colossal'" (UNRWA; April 18, 2002)
"ICRC Calls on Israeli Authorities to Allow Foreign Rescue Teams into Jenin Camp" (ICRC; April 18, 2002)
"What Happened at Jenin?" (The Economist; April 18, 2002)
"The Battle for the Truth: What Really Happened in Jenin Camp?" (The Guardian; April 17, 2002)
"Jenin Refugee Camp: Amnesty International Calls for Immediate International Humanitarian Assistance" (Amnesty International; April 17, 2002)
"Amnesty International Calls on the UN Security Council to Immediately Deploy an Independent Investigation into Human Rights Abuses in Jenin" (Amnesty International; April 16, 2002)
"Jenin: Access Denied to Amnesty International Forensic Expert - Legal Action Considered" (Amnesty International; April 16, 2002)
"UN Relief Mission to Jenin Camp Reveals Monumental Destruction" (UN; Aug. 16, 2002)
"Destruction Everywhere, No Signs of a Massacre" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; April 15, 2002)
"After Granting UN Access to Jenin Camp, Israel Blocks Delivery of Aid" (UN; April 15, 2002)
"Amnesty International Delegates in Jenin" (Amnesty International; April 15, 2002)
"Israel: Allow Access to Jenin Camp" (Human Rights Watch; April 15, 2002)
"A Leading Forensic Expert to Visit Palestinian Refugee Camps" (Amnesty International; April 12, 2002)
"Catastrophic Conditions in Jenin Camp" (UNRWA; April 10, 2002)
Photographs from Jenin Warning: Corpses; very graphic.
c. Commentary Denying or Diminishing the Atrocities
"Analysis: Winners and Losers in Jenin" (Martin Sieff; UPI; May 23, 2002)
"Analysis: Why Europeans Bought Jenin Myth" (Martin Sieff; UPI; May 21, 2002)
"Part One: Documenting the Myth" (Martin Sieff; UPI; May 20, 2002)
"The Jenin Offensive: Beyond the TV Images" (Ruth Etzioni; Seattle Times; May 10, 2002)
"The Brutal Afghan Winter Hits Jenin: Announcing the First British Press Award For Total Fantasy" (Mark Steyn; National Post (Canada); May 6, 2002)
"How Jenin Battle Became a 'Massacre'" (Sharon Sadeh; The Guardian; May 6, 2002)
"Jack Kelly: The Non-Massacre" (Pittsburgh Post Gazette; April 29, 2002)
"There Was No Massacre in Jenin" (Ha'aretz; April 19, 2002)
"How the British Fought Terror in Jenin" (Rafael Medoff; Jerusalem Post; April 18, 2002)
"Israel Trashed with Jenin Rubble" (Chicago Sun-Times; April 18, 2002)
"The New Blood Libel" (The Washington Times; April 18, 2002)
See also:
"Law in the Fog of War: On Urban Battlefields, Principles Can Be Elusive" (Ruth Wedgwood; Time; May 13, 2002)
"When Letter of the Law Does Not Spell 'Clarity'" (Adam Liptak; New York Times; May 1, 2002)
7. Economy
For economic organizations, see Palestinian organizations.
See also Closures and Checkpoints, above, for more on the economic effects of those barriers.
"Push to Rebuild Palestinian Economy" (Charles Radin; Boston Globe; June 17, 2002)
"The Real Disaster Is the Closure: Half the Palestinians in the West Bank Are Unemployed, Half Are in Dire Poverty, and the Economy Is Sliding into Barter" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; June 12?, 2002)
"Palestinian Jobless Rate Soars" (BC; May 31, 2002)
"The Palestinian Economy: In the Red" (Samir Abdullah; Palestine Report; May 22, 2002)
"Palestinian Stock Market Triumphs by Staying Alive" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; May 16, 2002)
"Both Economies Drained. Palestinians' Is Worse" (David Rohde; New York Times; April 30, 2002)
"Israeli Conflict Destroys Dreams of Riches" (Emma Clark; BBC; April 5, 2002)
"Fifteen Months: Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis: An Assessment" (World Bank; March 18, 2002)
"Impact on the Palestinian Economy of Confrontation, Border Closures and Mobility Restrictions: 1 October 2000 to 30 June 2001" (UNSCO; 2001)
"Human Rights Accountability for Israel's Economic Policies in the Occupied Territories" (Roger Normand; The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; February 5, 2001)
8. Education
See also Colleges and Universities.
a. Websites and Organizations
Amjad Al-Masri's e-mail group
Human Rights Action Project, Birzeit University
b. Articles
"West Bank Students Fear for Their Future" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; June 4, 2002)
Bir-Zeit University Press Release (June 2, 2002)
"A Challenging Education" (Joharah Baker; Palestine Report; May 15, 2002)
"Emergency Briefing On Palestinian Education" (Palestinian NGO Emergency Initiative in Jerusalem; April 12, 2002)
Israel: Palestinian Academic Rights Violated (Human Rights Watch; July 14, 2001)
"A Human Rights Odyssey: In Search of Academic Freedom" (Michael C. Griffin; The Link; volume 14, issue 3 (April-May 1981))
9. Health Care
See also Obstruction of Medical Care Providers.
See also Health and Medical Organizations.
"UN Official Says Recent Violence Could Overwhelm Palestinian Health System" (UN; May 15, 2002)
Note: This section is forthcoming.
10. Judiciary
"Ruling over the Law" (Sherine Bahaa; Al-Ahram; June 20-29, 2002)
"PA Won't Free PFLP Leader Due to 'Israeli Threats'" (Amos Harel, Daniel Sobelman, and Gideon Alon; Ha'aretz; June 4, 2002)
"Court Orders Militant Freed; Palestinian Leaders Balk" (John Kifner; New York Times; June 4, 2002)
"Palestinians Ignore Court Call to Free Faction Leader" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 4, 2002)
"Palestinian Cabinet Blocks Release" (BBC; June 4, 2002)
"Palestinian Court Orders Release Of Top Militant Wanted by Israel" (Joel Greenberg with Terence Neilan; New York Times; June 3, 2002)
11. Resistance Movements
For Hizbollah, see Israel in Lebanon.
See also Palestinian Leadership.
See also Suicide bombers, just below.
a. Generally
Resource collections:
Yahoo! category: Palestinian Movements
Individual resources:
"Palestinian Chief: Let's End Militias" (AP; June 14, 2002)
"Origins and Aims of Groups Targeting Israel" (The Guardian; June 12, 2002)
"Palestinian Hardline Meets in Iran" (Jim Muir; BBC; June 2, 2002)
"In on the Tide, the Guns and Rockets That Fuel this Fight; As the Methods of Drug Smugglers Are Used to Bring Weapons to Gaza, Mystery Still Surrounds the 'Karin A' Arms Shipment" (Robert Fisk in Gaza City; The Independent; April 29, 2002)
"New Recruits Plot in Bedroom Bomb Factories" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; April 26, 2002)
"Inside a Palestinian Terror Factory" (Olivia Ward; Toronto Star; April 25, 2002)
"Analysts Say Mililants Will Heal, Regroup" (Charles A. Radin; Boston Globe; April 22, 2002)
"Palestine Militias Rising" (Graham Usher; The Nation; dated April 29 but posted prior to April 21, 2002)
"Returning to the Underground: Palestinian Militants Regroup to Resume Guerrilla Warfare" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 21, 2002)
"The 'engineer'" (Jonathan Cook; Al-Ahram Weekly; April 18-24, 2002)
"Potent Explosives Fortify Palestinian Arsenal" (Douglas Frantz; New York Times; April 7, 2002)
"Inside the 'Organization'" (Charmaine Seitz; Media Monitors Network; November 24, 2000)
b. al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade
"Fatah Military Wing Claims Bombing in Israel" (Reuters; June 13, 2002)
"For Al-Aqsa Brigades, a Change of Tactics" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; June 13, 2002)
Martyrs Brigades Member Mourned as Hero (C.J. Chivers; New York Tiems; April 28, 2002)
"Palestinian Militant Group Says It Will Limit Bombings" (C.J. Chivers; New York Times; April 23, 2002)
Designating the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (Matthew Levitt; Institute for Counter-Terrorism; March 26, 2002)
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades: A Political Tool with an Edge (Yael Shahar; Institute for Counter-Terrorism; March 24, 2002)
"Israel Cheers Palestinian Killer's Death" (St. Petersburg Times; Jan. 15, 2002)
"Israel's 'Opened Doors of Hell' - Radicals" (Jan. 14, 2002)
c. Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Al-Hourriah (official weekly magazine; in Arabic) Down 7/14/02
Description by the Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Description by the U.S. State Department
Yahoo Category: DFLP
d. Fatah; Tanzim
Official resources:
FatehMovement.org
Fateh.net
Other resources:
"Fatah Group Urges End to Suicide Attacks in Israel" (Reuters; May 29, 2002)
"Calling the Shots" (Khaled Abu Toameh and Isabel Kershner; The Jerusalem Report; April 8, 2002)
"Marwan Barghouti, Fatah-Tanzim, and the Escalation of the Intifada" (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Jan. 24, 2002)
Palestinian Militia Leader Killed in Explosion (Jan. 14, 2002)
"Enemies of Israel" (The Guardian; Dec. 5, 2001)
"Fatah: Cornerstone of Arafat's Power" (BBC; July 30, 2001)
"Fatah's Tanzim: Origins and Politics" (Graham Usher; Middle East Report 217; Winter 2000)
"Tanzim: Shock Troops of the Uprising" (Nick Childs; BBC; Oct. 17, 2000)
"The Tanzim: Fatah's Fighters on the Ground" (Ronni Shaked; Yediot Ahronot newspaper; Oct 3, 2000)
"Fatah Rules--Through the Tanzim (Danny Rubinstein; Ha'aretz newspaper; December 22, 1998)
Fatah Tanzim (Institute for Counter-Terrorism; undated)
Tanzim (Israel Defense Forces; undated)
Sidebar: The "Ramallah Six"
"PA Won't Free PFLP Leader Due to 'Israeli Threats'" (Amos Harel, Daniel Sobelman, and Gideon Alon; Ha'aretz; June 4, 2002)
"Court Orders Militant Freed; Palestinian Leaders Balk" (John Kifner; New York Times; June 4, 2002)
"Palestinians Ignore Court Call to Free Faction Leader" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 4, 2002)
"Palestinian Court Orders Release Of Top Militant Wanted by Israel" (Joel Greenberg with Terence Neilan; New York Times; June 3, 2002)
"Palestinian Cabinet Blocks Release" (BBC; June 4, 2002)
"Many Palestinians Angered by Jailings in Jericho" (Rebecca Trounson; Los Angeles Times; May 3, 2002)
"Palestinians Want 2 Detainees Freed" (AP; May 3, 2002)
"Ramallah Deal Hinges on Prisoners" (BBC; April 30, 2002)
"British 'Wardens' to Guard Killers in Jericho Jail" (Phil Reeves and Ben Russell; The Independent; April 30, 2002)
"Jericho's Courteous Jailer Prepares for Inmates" (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 30, 2002)
"Profile: Israel's Six Wanted" (BBC; April 30, 2002)
"UK 'Wardens' in New Bush Deal to End Arafat Siege" (Phil Reeves and David Usborne; The Independent; April 29, 2002)
e. Hamas
Official and semi-official resources; resource collections:
Islamic Resistance Support Association
The Palestinian Information Center (affiliated with Hamas) Site down 4/25
Palestine Times (London monthly affiliated with Hamas) Site down 4/25
Yahoo! category: Hamas
Other resources:
"Militants Mull Role Offered by Arafat" (Dan Ephron; Boston Globe; June 3, 2002)
"Fear and Rage in Gaza, and Threats by Hamas" (Tim Golden; New York Times; May 20, 2002)
"Hamas Vows More Suicide Attacks" (Reuters; May 11, 2002)
"Invasion Will Let Us Get at Israel, Says Hamas" (Ian Cobain; The Times (London); May 10, 2002)
"Atrocities Against Israelis Seem Also Aimed at Arafat" (Steve Erlanger; New York Times; May 10, 2002)
"Bomb Delivered Hamas Message: No Peace while Israel Exists" (Brian Whitaker; The Guardian; May 9, 2002)
'For Us, the Preferred Way of Ending Our Lives Would Be Martyrdom' (Robert Fisk; The Independent; April 28; 2002)
"Hamas Would Accept Saudi Peace Plan, Spokesman Says; Group Would Stop Attacks on Israelis if Occupation Ends" (Robert Plotkin; San Francisco Chronicle; April 28, 2002)
"Hamas Bans Children's 'Sacrifices'" (Rachel Harvey; BBC; April 24, 2002)
"Hamas Uses Website to Fund Suicide Bombings" (Said Ghazali; The Independent; April 19, 2002)
"Hamas Threatens Deadlier Attacks" (AP; April 19, 2002)
"Hamas" (Susan Taylor Martin; St. Petersburg Times; April 14, 2002)
"Enemies of Israel" (The Guardian; Dec. 5, 2001)
"Hamas Attempts to Take Control" (Ehud Ya’ari; The Jerusalem Report; August 27. 2001)
Hamas' Terrorism Strategy: Operational Limitations and Political Constraints (Ely Karmon; MERIA Journal; vol. 4, number 1 (March 2000))
Hamas Backgrounder from CBC News
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (August 18, 1988)
f. Islamic Jihad
"Militant's Claim that Arafat Can't End Attacks" (Tim Golden; New York Times; June 6, 2002)
"Enemies of Israel" (The Guardian; Dec. 5, 2001)
Islamic Jihad (the BBC)
Islamic Jihad (Institute for Counter-Terrorism)
g. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (official site)
Democratic Palestine (official newsletter)
Democratic Palestine (by individual supporter of PFLP)
Description by the Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Description by the U.S. State Department
Yahoo Category: PFLP
"'Inviting Hell to Break Loose:'PFLP Leader Assassinated Today" (several articles collected at Mid-East Realities; Aug. 27, 2001)
h. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command
"Ahmed Jibril's Son Kiled in Beirut Blast" (Arieh O'Sullivan; Jerusalem Post; May 21, 2002)
"Car Bomb Kills Son of Palestinian Militant in Beirut" (Howard Schneider; Washington Post; May 21, 2002)
"Israel Accused of Assassinating Palestinian Activist in Beirut" (David Horovitz; Irish Times; May 21, 2002)
Description by the Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Other organizations represented on the Palestine National Council:
Al-Sai'qa Movement
Arab Liberation Front
Democratic Union (FEDA)
Hizb Al Sha'ab (People's Party)
Palestine Liberation Front
Palestinian Arab Liberation Front
Popular Struggle Front
12. Suicide Bombers
See also Palestinian resistance, just above.
See also Resistance operations against settlements.
a. News and Analysis
"Mounting Violence Isolates Moderates" (Rebecca Trounson; Sydney Morning Herald; June 21, 2002)
"The New Suicide Bombers: Larger and More Varied Pool" (James Bennet; New York Times; June 21, 2002)
"More Palestinians Sign Anti-Terror Ad" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; June 21, 2002)
"Israelis Threaten to Drop CNN after Turner Comment" (Ewen MacAskill and Oliver Burkeman; The Guardian; June 21, 2002)
"Palestinian Intellectuals Decry Attacks in Israel" (Reuters; June 20, 2002)
"Arafat Appeals for an End of Suicide Attacks" (AP; June 20, 2002)
"In a Maze of Truths: What Matters Most in the Middle East" (The Guardian editorial; June 20, 2002)
"'It Is Nice to Be Killed while Killing': Palestinian Family Wonder Why Their Quiet Son Turned to Murder" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; June 20, 2002)
"What a Pity That Cherie Isn't PM: She Is only Saying What Most of Us Think about the Middle East" (David Clark; The Guardian; June 20, 2002)
"Turner's Terrorism Comments Criticized" (Howard Kurtz; Washington Post; June 19, 2002)
"UK's Straw Voices 'Compassion' for Suicide Bombers" (Ha'aretz; June 19, 2002)
"Cherie Blair's Suicide Bomb Blunder" (Phillip Webster, David Charter and Michael Gove; The Times (London); June 19, 2002)
"The Attacker's Final Note: 'How Beautiful It Is to Kill and to Be Killed" (AP; June 19, 2002)
"Cherie Blair Apologises in Row over Suicide Killers Comment" (Paul Waugh; The Independent; June 19, 2002)
"55 Palestinian Public Figures Appeal for Halt to Suicide Bombings" (Ha'aretz; June 19, 2002)
"CNN Chief Accuses Israel of Terror" (Oliver Burkeman and Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; June 18, 2002)
"Cherie Blair Forced to Apologise over Suicide Bombing Comments" (The Independent; Jon Smith and Rob Catherall; June 18, 2002)
"Saudi Official Defends Suicide Bombers" (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; June 15, 2002)
"Fatah Military Wing Claims Bombing in Israel" (Reuters; June 13, 2002)
"Suicide Bombers' Driver Meets the Press" (Amos Harel and Daniel Sobelman; Ha'aretz; June 12, 2002)
"Guide for Bombers Maps His Methods" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; June 12, 2002)
"The Men Behind the Suicide Bombers" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 12, 2002)
"A Mission to Murder: Inside the Minds of the Suicide Bombers" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 11, 2002)
"Social Pressures to Kill" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 11, 2002)
"Teenage Stonethrower Nursed Long Hatred" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 11, 2002)
"Violent Death Visited on Everyday Life" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 11, 2002)
"In Growing Numbers, Palestinian Boys Are Choosing the Brief Life of a 'Martyr'" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; June 10, 2002)
"Not What the Prophet Would Want" (Sohail H. Hashmi; Washington Post; June 9, 2002)
"Militant's Claim that Arafat Can't End Attacks" (Tim Golden; New York Times; June 6, 2002)
"Jewish Woman Falsely Accused of Terror" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 3, 2002)
"Israel Accused of Staging Bombing" (AP; June 3, 2002)
"Suspect Was Misidentified As Jewish, Israel Says" (AP; June 2, 2002)
"Jewish Woman Accused of Aiding Suicide Bomb Attack" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 1, 2002)
"Jewish Woman Suspected of Aiding Rishon Suicide Bomber" (Ha'aretz; May 31, 2002)
"Israeli Report Finds Link in Lebanon to Terror Attacks" (Mark Matthews; Baltimore Sun; May 30, 2002)
"Where Israelis Grieve, Some Arabs Are Proud" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; May 29, 2002)
"Fatah Group Urges End to Suicide Attacks in Israel" (Reuters; May 29, 2002)
"The Re-Occupation Routine: Vandalism at Beit Jalla and the Victim's Words" (Abdel Fatah Abu Srour; May 28, 2002)
"16-Year-Old Rishon Bomber Was Youngest to Strike in Israel" (Ha'aretz; May 26, 2002)
"Palestinian Attacks Signal Failure of Military Offensive" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; May 25, 2002)
"Looking Inwards" (Khaled Amayreh; Al-Ahram Weekly; May 23-29, 2002)
| "'If you can guarantee that Israel will not target Palestinian civilians, I guarantee that suicide bombings inside Israel will come to an end,' Hamas founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, told reporters early this week. Once justified by Hamas as a legitimate form of resistance against the Israeli occupation, martyrdom is now used by the militant group on a tit-for-tat basis to avenge Israeli killing of Palestinian civilians. 'If they [the Israelis] give themselves the right to attack and kill our civilians in Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin, I see no reason why our fighters can't operate in Netanya, Haifa and Tel Aviv. The blood of their civilians is not more precious than the blood of our civilians,' argued Al-Rantisi." |
"Terror Groups Keep Mum about Names of Suicide Strikers" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; May 22, 2002)
"It’s Time Israelis Woke Up & Faced Facts" (Kinda Balkhair; Arab News; May 22, 2002)
"Mubarak's `Secret Letter' to Arafat May Call for Halt to Terror" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; May 15, 2002)
"Suicide Bomber Elicits Sorrow, Pride" (Gwen Florio; Denver Post; May 14, 2002)
"Palestinians Sow Confusion and Doubt on Bombing" (C.J. Chivers; New York Times; May 13, 2002)
"Two Israeli Arab Sisters Held for Abetting Would-Be Bombers" (Uri Ash and Jalal Bana; Ha'aretz; May 13, 2002)
"Saudi Says Arabs Are Pressuring Palestinians" (Howard Schneider; Washington Post; May 11, 2002)
"Suicide Planner Expresses Joy Over His Missions" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; May 9, 2002)
| "'The indiscriminate killing of Palestinian women and children led people to think about martyrdom operations inside Israel that would have an impact on the Israeli public,' Mr. Aweis [Abdel Karim Aweis, 31, a leader of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades] said. 'We would respond by killing more people, pressuring the Israelis to take to the streets to demand a withdrawal' from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ... 'I asked him where he was going, and he said, 'To Paradise,'' Mr. Aweis said. 'He was not afraid.' 'People are walking to their deaths with their own two feet. Without freedom, this is not a life.'" |
"'Suicide Bombing' / Martyrdom Operations a Potent Weapon" (Firoz Osman; Media Monitors Network; May 8, 2002)
"Are Israelis Innocent While Palestinian Suicide Bombers Are Terrorists? - Some Uncomfortable Facts" (Falsafay Ghaalib; Media Monitors Network; May 1, 2002)
"Suicide Bombings: Morality in the Palestinian Struggle (Hisham al- Zoubeir; Media Monitors Network; April 29, 2002)
"Female Suicide Bombers: The New Factor in Mideast's Deadly Equation" (Libby Copeland; Washington Post; April 27, 2002)
"Teenagers Shot by Israelis, Then Run over with a Tank" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; April 26, 2002)
| "'When we got his body back yesterday, it was in a terrible state. Dogs had been at it in the night and his face was unrecognisable because it had been crushed by a heavy vehicle driving over it.' Adel Hamdona's 14-year-old son Anwar was returned to him in a similar condition. The father's description was cold, emotionless. 'He didn't have a face. His legs had been severed. He had been driven over several times and had been pretty well disembowelled.'" |
'They Took Our Land, So Why Shouldn't I Kill Them?' (Muhammad Muslih; International Herald Tribune; April 26, 2002)
"Young Egyptians Hearing Call of 'Martyrdom'" (Tim Golden; New York Times; April 26, 2002)
"Passions Inflamed, Gaza Teenagers Die in Suicidal Attacks" (David Rohde; New York Times; April 25, 2002)
"Crossing to Martyrdom" (Amira Howeidy; Al-Ahram; April 25-May 1, 2002)
"Children Become the New Martyrs of Gaza" (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; April 25, 2002)
| "Tawfiq Salman, a psychiatrist in Bethlehem who works with children and carried out a survey, said: 'Ninety per cent of Palestinian children suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome as a result of the Israeli closures and the shootings.' Fadel Abu Heen, a psychologist, said many children were severely traumatised by seeing and hearing of Palestinians, especially children their own age, being killed by the Israelis. 'It is despair, despair and more despair. Children are unable to cope with the sad reality,' he said, adding that child suicide attackers were motivated more by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness than surging nationalism. ... Zaqout's mother, asked if she understood his motives, said: 'Children are tormented by what they see on television. Israel has left all Palestinians, including children, with no choice but to die.'" |
"Hamas Bans Children's 'Sacrifices'" (Rachel Harvey; BBC; April 24, 2002)
"Where Rage Resides: For the Ordinary People Of Gaza City, Death Is a Way of Life" (Richard Leiby; Washington Post; April 24, 2002)
"Palestinian Militant Group Says It Will Limit Bombings" (C.J. Chivers; New York Times; April 23, 2002)
"Gaza City Glorifies Its Dead; Palestinian Parents Mark Children's Final Sacrifice in the Fight against Israel" (Anna Badkhen; San Francisco Chronicle; April 21, 2002)
"Martyrs on This Side of Paradise" (Amnon Barzila; Ha'aretz; April 21, 2002)
"Egypt Blames Israel for Suicide Bombing" (AFP; April 21, 2002)
"Claire Rayner: Jews Have No Right to Middle East Land" (Robert Mendick; The Independent; April 21, 2002)
"The Faces of Martyrs as a Calling in Demand" (Joel Brinkley; NY Times; April 20, 2002)
"The Link between Suicide Bombers and Israeli Policy" (James O. Goldsborough; San Diego Union; April 18, 2002) Excellent analysis.
"In Defense of Suicide Bombers" (Andy Martin; Media Monitors Network; April 18, 2002)
"Seamstress and Student Met in Accident of Hate" (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 17, 2002)
"Death Wish: Suicide Bombers Have Historic Links and Tactical Advantages" (Leela Jacinto; ABC News; April 16, 2002)
"Letter from a Palestinian to an Israeli" (Hakam Kanafani; The Independent; April 16, 2002)
"Inside Suicide, Inc." (Christopher Dickey; Newsweek; April 15, 2002)
"How Two Lives Met In Death" (Joshua Hammer; Newsweek; April 15, 2002)
"In Interview, Arafat's Wife Praises Suicide Bombings" (Judith Miller; New York Times; April 15, 2002)
"Homicide Bombers" (James T. Philips; CounterPunch; April 14, 2002)
"A Woman, a Bomb and a Beautiful Spring Day" (David Lamb; Los Angeles Times; April 14, 2002)
"A Gruesome Break From the Ordinary" (David Lamb; Los Angeles Times; April 14, 2002)
"The Soldier and the Bomber: The Tale of Two Grieving Families" (Paul Kelbie; The Independent; April 14, 2002)
"Counting The Dead In Nablus: Resistance Is Seen As Matter of History" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 14, 2002)
| "Like many Palestinians, Hinno [Arafat Hinno (affiliation not described)] recoils at the killing of civilians but justifies it nonetheless. 'For 35 years, no matter what we do, the Palestinians get no satisfaction. The world is disgusted with us, but we are on our own and the tools we have are limited,' he said. 'We have been suicidal for a long time. In the intifada we threw stones and hundreds were shot dead. No one cried over our dead. We don't cry either.'" |
"Bomber Unleashed Secret Rage (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 14, 2002)
| "'The more the Israelis try to hold onto us, the more people feel they have no option except to kill and be killed,' said Mahmoud Eliam, a neighbor of the Takafkas." |
"Neighbours Divided by Walls Are United in Bitterness" (Janine di Giovanni; The Times (London); April 11, 2002)
"Palestinians Say Israelis Sow Hatred in the Raids" (David Rohde; New York Times; April 10, 2002)
"Blaming the Victims: Hating the Palestinians" (M. Junaid Alam; CounterPunch; April 10, 2002)
"America's Phoniest Liberal? Thomas Friedman's Fabrications" (John Chuckman; CounterPunch; April 10, 2001)
"Arafat Has Condemned Terror in Arabic; Bush Must Condemn Israeli Actions" (Daoud Kuttab; Arabic Media Internet Network; April 9, 2002)
----Another copy of this analysis.
"Teenage Girl 'Willing to Die for My People'" (Rory Macmillan; The Scotsman; April 9, 2002)
"Detained and Humiliated, Palestinian Now Wants a Gun" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; April 9, 2002)
"Thomas Friedman, Another Wasted Pulitzer" (Matt Vidal; CounterPunch; April 9, 2002)
"Mission of Suicide Bombers Is Martyrdom, Retribution" (Joyce M. Davis; Detroit Free Press; April 8, 2002)
"2 Girls, Divided by War, Joined in Carnage" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; April 5, 2002)
'They are Nazis, Nazis, Nazis' (Khaled Amayreh; Al-Ahram Weekly; April 4-10, 2002)
| "Ahmed Hassan, a Hamas spokesman in Bethlehem, explained why, despite reservations from many Muslims and condemnation from the West, suicide bombs were increasingly necessary. 'We don't have an army, we don't have an air force, we don't have tanks. The Arab world is impotent, and the United States is urging Israel to kill more Palestinians. If you were in this situation, what would you do?' Hassan said. 'Martyr-bombings are not our strategy; they are not our goal. Our strategy is freedom from this diabolic military occupation. No nation on the face of earth can accept perpetual rape and domination by another nation... people fight and die for freedom, don't they?'" |
"The Suicide Bombers Lie" (Elijah Wald; AlterNet; April 3, 2002)
"Cleric Lauds Bombings by Women (Reuters; April 2, 2002)
"Girl Suicide Bombers" (Anne Applebaum; Slate; April 2, 2002)
"Palestinians Have Found a Weapon Israel Can't Counter" (Peter Preson; The Independent; April 1, 2002)
"Relatives and Neighbors Proud of Suicide Bomber" (Joel Brinkley; New York Times; April 1, 2002)
"Why a Palestinian Girl Now Wants to Be a Suicide Bomber" (Cameron Barr; Christian Science Monitor; April 1, 2002)
"Daughter's Hidden Truth: An Angry Martyr's Soul" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; March 31, 2002)
"At 18, Bomber became Martyr and Murderer" (Graham Usher; The Guardian; March 30, 2002)
" When Palestinians Have No Hope" (James Goldsbrough; Palestine Chronicle; March, 30; 2002)
"Student in the Morning, Then Suicide Bomber" (Serge Schmemann; New York Times; March 30, 2002)
"Rage Doesn't Obey Orders" (Khaled Amayreh; Al Ahram; March 29, 2002)
"Palestinian Group Says It Will Increase Bombings" (Joel Brinkley; New York Times; March 23, 2002)
| "Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, today condemned the latest suicide bombing by the group, on Thursday in Jerusalem, and called for an end to attacks on civilians. But Mr. Badawi (described as "a political leader of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades") said the Aksa Brigades would ignore that. 'He does not support what we are doing,' he said with a shrug, sitting on a sofa in his living room with a large-caliber pistol stuffed between the cushions just to his right. 'But we believe this is our national responsibility. We respect our leader, but the decisions to carry out attacks remains with the Aksa Brigades leadership.'" |
"Young Bombers Nurtured by Despair" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; March 23, 2002)
| "To every argument Khalili made against killing civilians and one's self, Abu Aisheh [female suicide bomber Dareen Abu Aisheh] answered with questions: Aren't we being shot down like dogs? Do you feel like a human being when the Israelis control your every move? Do you believe we have a future? If I'm going to die at their hands anyway, why shouldn't I take some of them with me?" |
"A Queue of Bombers" (Uri Avnery; Gush Shalom; March 23, 2002)
"Now, Bombers Often Don't Fit Familiar Profile" (AP; March 21, 2002)
"Alone in Their Cage, Palestinians Suffer The Illness of Despair" (Samah Jabr With Betsy Mayfield; WRMEA; Jan.-Feb. 2002)
"The Paramedic Who Became Another 'Martyr' for Palestine" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; Jan. 31, 2002)
"Shock Report: Inside the Minds of Suicide Bombers" (The Mirror; Aug. 22, 2001)
"A Suicide Bomber's World" (Cameron W. Barr; Christian Science Monitor; Aug. 14, 2001)
"What Drives a Bomber to Kill the Innocent Child?" (Robert Fisk, The Independent; Aug. 11, 2001)
"A Chronicle of Empty Graves" (Juliano Mer-Khamis; Gush Shalom; undated)
"Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers" (Eyad Sarraj; Middle East Realities; 1997?)
----- Also available here.
b. The "Arafat Papers"
"Israel Convinces Europeans Arafat Is Financing Terror" (Yair Ettinger; Ha'aretz; June 10, 2002)
"State Dept. Report Investigating Arafat's Links to Terror Is at Odds With Israeli Claims" (Todd Purdom; New York Times; May 17, 2002)
"Israel's Black Propaganda Bid Falters as Documents Reveal an Impotent Leader Not a Terrorist Mastermind: Israel's 'Book of Terror' Purporting to Show Arafat's Role in Suicide Attacks Is 'Riddled with Omissions and Falsehoods'" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; May 9, 2002)
"The Lowdown on Israel's Lowdown on Arafat" (Daniel Sobelman; Ha'aretz; May 6?, 2002)
"The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption and Crime" (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; May 6, 2002
"Sharon Says Prisoners Implicate Arafat in Financing of Terrorism" (James Benet; New York Times; May 3, 2002)
"Tenet's Mideast Role Again Brings Questions" (Walter Pincus; Washington Post; April 21, 2002) Critical information on disguises found in Palestinian Authority intelligence compound in Ramallah: They were from previous bust of militia cell.
"Israel's Case against Arafat: Sharon Team Says Papers Captured in Raids Detail Payments to Suicide Bomb Groups" (Dinah Shiloh; San Francisco Chronicle; April 12, 2002)
"Israel Says It Has Evidence of Saddam-Arafat Link; Records Also Said to Show Payments to Terror Suspects" (Matthew Kalman; USA Today; April 12, 2002)
"U.S. Is Given Papers That Israelis Assert Tie Arafat to Terror" (Michael R. Gordon; New York Times; April 12, 2002)
"Israel's 'Smoking Gun' a Damp Firecracker" (Ali Abunimah, Nigel Parry, and Laurie King-Irani; The Electronic Intifada; April 4, 2002)
"Israel Says Papers Show That Arafat Paid 15 Militants" (Richard Boudreaux; Los Angeles Times; April 5, 2002)
Translation of Documents from Palestinian Authority Office (CNN; April 2, 2002)
c. American Editorials
"Real Men Don't Blow Up Innocents" (Norah Vincent; Los Angeles Times; April 26, 2002)
"International 'Observers' Should Look Deeper" (Samantha M. Shapiro; Seattle Weekly; April 15, 2002) An absolutely insane piece, originally published by the weekly Seattle alternative paper and then web-posted by AlterNet. Is this what liberalism has to offer?
"The Hatred of Those Who Lurk in the Shadows" (Kathleen Durkan; Seattle Times; April 12, 2002)
"Why Suicide Terrorism Takes Root" (Shibley Telhami; New York Times; April 4, 2002)
"Suicidal Lies" (Thomas Friedman; New York Times; March 31, 2002)
-----"Lies of Desperation: Answering Thomas Friedman" (M. Shahid Alam; CounterPunch; April 3, 2002)
-----"Thomas Friedman, Another Wasted Pulitzer" (Matt Vidal; CounterPunch; April 9, 2002)
-----"America's Phoniest Liberal? Thomas Friedman's Fabrications" (John Chuckman; CounterPunch; April 10, 2002)
d. Information on the Bombings
Lists:
Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles in Sept. 1993 (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
"Israel's History of Bomb Blasts" (Justin Webb; BBC; June 11, 2002)
Particular bombings:
"More Tears in a Land of Mourning" (Ian Fisher; New York Times; June 21, 2002)
"Seven More Israelis Die in Rush-Hour Bomb at Bus Stop" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; June 20, 2002)
"Six Killed, 50 Wounded in French Hill Bombing" (Ha'aretz; June 20, 2002)
"Bus Bomb Leaves 20 Dead as Israel Asks: What Next?" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; June 19, 2002)
"The Force of a Death Wish Hits City Hard" (Megan K. Stack; Los Angeles Times; June 19, 2002)
"Bomber Boards Bus, Kills 19 in Jerusalem" (Mary Curtius; Los Angeles Times; June 18, 2002)
"Jerusalem Bus Bombing Leaves 20 Dead" (Washington Post; June 18, 2002)
"Palestinian Bomber Dies in Suicide Attack" (BBC; June 17, 2002)
"Israelis Bet on Site of Next Bombing" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; June 14, 2002)
"Suicide Bomber Kills Girl in Israeli Restaurant Attack" (Megan Stack; Los Angeles Times; June 12, 2002)
"Suicide Bomber Kills 16 on Bus Packed with Soldiers" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; June 6, 2002)
"Carnage at Armageddon Junction" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 6, 2002)
"On a Quiet Israel Road, a Bus Ride Ends in Carnage" (Megan K. Stack; Los Angeles Times; June 6, 2002)
"At Least 16 Die as Car Bomber Hits Israeli Bus" (Joel Greenberg and Tim Golden; New York Times; June 5, 2002)
"New Arab Bombing in Israel Deepens a Sense of Dismay" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; May 28, 2002)
"Israeli Ice Cream Parlour Bombed" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; May 28, 2002)
"Bomb Explodes at Israeli Fuel Depot, but Disaster Is Averted" (John Kifner; New York Times; May 24, 2002)
"Bomber Killed in Bid to Blow Up Israeli Nightclub" (Reuters; May 24, 2002)
"Bomber Disguised as Israeli Soldier Kills 3 in Market" (James Bennet; New York Times; May 20, 2002)
"3 Dead, 50 Hurt in Suicide Bombing" (Dan Ephron; Boston Globe; May 20, 2002)
"Bomber Blasts Israeli Market" (Brian Whitaker; The Guardian; May 20, 2002)
"How Hamas Bomber Brought Hell to Pool Club" (Ian Cobain; The Times (London); May 9, 2002)
13. Water Resources
Collections:
Water in the Middle East Conflict (MidEast Web)
Water in the Middle East (collection of resources by Columbia University)
Other resources:
"Water Report Warns of Impending Crisis" (Zvi Zrahiya; Ha'aretz; May 29, 2002)
"Making the Blooms Desert" (Jessica McCallin; Red Pepper; May 2002)
"Not Even A Drop - The Water Crisis in Palestinian Villages Without a Water Network" (B'Tselem; Aug. 5, 2001)
"Thirsty for a Solution: The Water Shortage in the Occupied Territories and its Solution in the Final Status Agreement" (B'Tselem; July 2000)
Palestine Monitor Fact Sheet on Water Resources
"Disputed Waters: Israel's Responsibility for the Water Shortage in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem; September 1998)
"Water Issues in the Arab-Palestinian Conflict" (David Paul)
Palestinian Water Issues Bibliography (David Paul)
"Israel's Drive for Water" (Leslie C. Schmida; The Link; volume 17, issue 4 (November 1984))
B. Israeli Lawlessness
1. Generally
a. Organizations
See also Organizations in Israel and Palestine.
Addameer: Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
Al-Haq: Law in the Service of Man
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Jabalia Refugee Camp)
Amnesty International USA
-----Home office of Amnesty International in London
B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Defence For Children International: Palestine Section
Human Rights Watch
International Committee of the Red Cross
-----The ICRC in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Autonomous Territories
LAW: The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment
MIFTAH: The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialog and Democracy
Palestine Red Crescent Society
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights
The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
UN Commission on Human Rights: News releases on Israel and the Palestinians
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
b. Websites
International Law and Human Rights (resources collected by the Coalition for Justice in Israel/Palestine)
Israel State Terrorism
Middle East Dead: Deaths During the Second Intifada
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing Activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (joint project of the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem and the Land Research Center)
-----Eye on Palestine (Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem)
Online Museum: Israeli Holocaust Against Arabs Warning: Site is by historical revisionist.
Open Directory: Israeli Occupation
Palestinian Pictures (photos) Down 7/14/02
c. Articles
"New World Criminal Court Could Indict Israelis, A-G Warns" (Gideon Alon; Ha'aretz; June 12, 2002)
"The Brutality Continues: Beatings and Degradation" (B'Tselem; May 28, 2002)
"A Wolf in Legal Clothing?" (Aryeh Dayan; Ha'aretz' May 15, 2002)
| "The senior legal-security echelons of the State of Israel have suddenly become concerned, perhaps even alarmed, by the possibility that prominent Israelis, members of the security services as well as politicians, will have to stand trial abroad in the near future, for committing war crimes." |
"Jenin: IDF Military Operations" (Human Rights Watch; May 2, 2002)
"Two Paradises, Two Cemeteries" (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; May 1, 2002)
"Across West Bank, Daily Tragedies Go Unseen" (Suzanne Goldenberg; Guardian; April 27, 2002)
"Report to the UN Commission on Human Rights" (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; April 18, 2002)
"Palestinians Mourn Deaths, Dignity Affonts" (AP; April 15, 2002)
"Israeli Military Action is Collective Punishment" (Amnesty International; April 12, 2002)
"Israel and the Occupied Territories: The Heavy Price of Israeli Incursions" (Amnesty International; April 12, 2002)
"Updated Overview of Israeli War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity" (LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment; April 2, 2002)
"Open Letter to the Commander of the Israeli Paratroopers" (Neve Gordon; Kol Ha'Ir; April 1?, 2002)
"Statement of Medical Delegation from PHR-USA on Health Dimensions of Human Rights Violations in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza" (Physicians for Human Rights--USA; March 22, 2002)
"We Risk Charges of War Crimes, Peres Tells Cabinet" (Paul Peachey; The Independent; March 7, 2002)
"The Arrogance of Occupation" (Lev Grinberg; Middle East Policy; volume IX, number 1 (March 2002))
"Israel on the Way to the Hague: War Crimes and Israel's Security" (Gush Shalom; Jan. 8, 2002)
"The Blood on Israel's Hands - When War Criminals Play The Victim, And The World Nods in Agreement" (Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed; Media Monitors Network; December 7, 2001)
"Bethlehem Region, 19 October to 28 October 2001" (B'Tselem; December 2001
"Broken Lives - A Year of Intifada" (Amnesty International; November 13, 2001)
"One Year al-Aqsa Intifada: Fact Sheets and Figures (Palestinian Human Rights Monitor; Oct. 2001)
"A Gaza Diary" (Chris Hedges; Harper's Magazine, October, 2001)
| "Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." |
"Israel's Brand of Apartheid: The Nakba Continues" (Dianne Luping and Rhys Johnson; LAW; August 2001)
"The Second Palestinian Intifada: Social and Psychological Implications for Palestinian Women Resulting from the Israeli Escalation of Violence" (Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas; Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling; Aug. 2001)
"Petition Submitted to High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention" (LAW; March 15, 2001)
"War Crimes: Report to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry; Grave Breaches and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law" (LAW; February 23, 2001)
"Human Rights Accountability for Israel's Economic Policies in the Occupied Territories" (Roger Normand; The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; February 5, 2001)
"Overkill: Israeli Bombardment and Destruction of Palestinian Civilian Homes and Infrastructure" (Palestinian Human Rights Monitor; Feb. 2001)
"The Al Aqsa Intifida and Israel's Apartheid: The U.S. Military and Economic Role in the Violation of Palestinian Human Rights" (Report of the Delegation of the National Lawyers Guild to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, January 2001)
"Illusions of Restraint: Human Rights Violations During the Events in the Occupied Territories, 29 Sept. - 2 Dec. 2000 (B'Tselem; Dec. 2000)
"Investigation into Unlawful Use of Force in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Northern Israel, October 4 through October 11" (Human Rights Watch, 2000)
Killing a POW is killing a POW (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; June 13, 1999)
"Israel's Record of Occupation: Violations of Civil and Political Rights" (Human Rights Watch; August 1998)
Analysis of Israel's Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (Human Rights Watch; June 1998)
"1987-1997: A Decade of Human Rights Violations" (B'Tselem; Jan. 1998)
"Legislating Impunity: The Draft Law to Halt Palestinian Tort Claims" (Human Rights Watch; 1997)
"Unequal Before the Law: Palestinians and Their Days in Court" (Linda Brayer; The Link; volume 29, issue 3 (July-August 1996))
"Israeli Commission Calls Occupation Policies 'A Systematic Miscarriage of Justice' (Donald Neff; WRMEA; Jan/Feb. 1995)
"Save the Musht--and the Land of Palestine" (Rosina Hasoun; The Link; volume 26, issue 4 (October-November 1993)) (ecological destruction in Palestine)
"The International Crimes of Israeli Officials" (John Quigley; The Link; volume 22, issue 3 (September-October 1989))
"Zionist Violence Against Palestinians" (Mohammad Hallaj; The Link; volume 21, issue 3 (September 1988))
"Israel and 'State Terrorism'" (WRMEA; April 30, 1984)
"Palestine--The Suppression of an Idea" (Muhammad Hallaj; The Link; volume 15, issue 1 (January-March 1982))
d. Human Rights Reports
For reports on harm to children, see Children living under the Occupation.
(1) Amnesty International: Annual Report on Israel and the Occupied Territories
Note: The date on a report is the date of its release; a report covers the prior calendar year. Thus the 2002 report covers 2001.
2002 Report
2001 Report
2000 Report
1999 Report
1998 Report
1997 Report
(2) Human Rights Watch: Annual Report on Israel and the Occupied Territories
Note: The date on a report is the date of its release; a report covers the prior calendar year. Thus the 2002 report covers 2001.
2002 Report
2001 Report
2000 Report
1999 Report
1998 Report
(3) U.S. State Department: Annual Report on Israel and the Occupied Territories--Section on the Occupied Territories
Note: The date on a report reflects the year covered, so that the 2001 report covers 2001 and was released in early 2002.
2001 Report
2000 Report
1999 Report
1998 Report
1997 Report
1996 Report
1995 Report
1994 Report
1993 Report
(4) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Weekly Reports on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
(5) LAW--The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment
June 13-19
June 6-12
May 30-June 5
May 23-29
May 16-22
May 9-15
May 2-8
April 25-May 1
April 18-24
April 11-17
April 4-10
March 28-April 3
March 21-27
March 14-20
March 7-13
Feb. 28-March 6
Feb. 21-27
Feb. 14-20
Feb. 7-13
Jan. 31-Feb. 6
Jan. 24-30
Jan. 17-23
Jan. 10-16
Jan. 3-9
Dec. 27-Jan. 2
Note: Earlier reports are also available on LAW's website, but there does not appear to be an index page through which they can all be accessed.
Sidebar: Crimes against Americans
See also Israel's Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.
See also resources on Suraida/Suraide (Susu) Abu Gharbiya in Sidebar: Two of the Victims under Attacks on Palestinian Civilians.
Organizations:
Partners For Peace
Other resources:
"Americans Tortured by Israel" (Barbara Ferguson; Arab News; June 14, 2002)
"'They just went...'; Two American Students Jailed" (Cairo Times; May 27?, 2002)
"American Held Captive by Armed Israeli Soldiers; US Consulate Fails to Act Again" (March?, 2002)
"Americans Tortured in Israeli Jails" (Jerri Bird; The Link; Volume 34, Issue 3 (June-July 2001))
"American Victims of Israeli Human Rights Abuses" (Albert Mokhiber; The Link; volume 23, issue 1 (January-March 1990))
2. Assassinations and Executions
Note: By "assassinations" I mean premeditated political killings, while by "executions" I mean all other intentional killings.
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Assassinations
Collections:
Open Directory: Assassination and Targeted Killing
Individual resources:
"IDF Kills Assassin of Hebron Observers" (Amos Harel and Jonathan Lis; Ha'aretz; June 19, 2002)
"Palestinian Militia Figure Slain" (AP; June 18, 2002)
"Palestinian Militant Leader Shot Dead" (BBC; June 17, 2002)
"Palestinian Militants Vow to Avenge Assassinations" (Brian Whitaker; The Guardian; May 24, 2002)
"IDF Kills Leading Militant, Two Others Near Nablus" (Ha'aretz; May 23, 2002)
"Extra Judicial Execution in Balata Refugee Camp" (LAW; May 23, 2002)
"Letter to a Fallen Friend" (Emad J. Fraitekh; Arab News; May 22, 2002)
"Israel Pursues Focused Attacks: In Killing of West Bank Intelligence Agents, a Pattern Resumes" (Edward Cody; Washington Post; May 16, 2002)
"Extra Judicial Execution in Ramallah" (Law; May 16, 2002)
"Extra-Judicial Execution in Halhoul" (LAW: May 14, 2002)
"Israeli Occupation Forces Assassinates Marwan Zaloom" (LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment; April 23, 2002)
"Report on Assassinations" (Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group; Feb. 2002)
"Israel Cheers Palestinian Killer's Death" (St. Petersburg Times; Jan. 15, 2002)
"Assassinations: One Year Al-Aqsa Intifada" (Palestinian Human Rights Monitor; Oct. 2001)
Assassination of Palestinians: An Israeli Official Policy; Report on Extra-Judicial killings Committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces, September 29, 2000--September 28, 2001 (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights)
"Extra-Judicial Executions September 2000-September 2001" (LAW)
"Jury, Judge and Executioner" (Saleh Abdel-Jawad; Media Monitors Network; August 31, 2001)
"'Inviting Hell to Break Loose:'PFLP Leader Assassinated Today" (several articles collected at Mid-East Realities; Aug. 27, 2001)
"Israel/Occupied Territories: State Assassination Policy Must Stop" (Amnesty International; July 4, 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"Israel and the Occupied Territories: State Assassinations and Other Unlawful Killings" (Amnesty International; Feb. 21, 2001)
"Israel and the Occupied Territories: AI Condemns State Assassinations" (Amnesty International; Feb. 20, 2001)
"Israel: End 'Liquidations' of Palestinian Suspects (Human Rights Watch; January 29, 2001)
---Text of letter sent to Ehud Barak
"Israel's Assassination Policy: Extra-judicial Executions" (B'Tselem; Jan. 2001)
b. Executions
"Letter to a Fallen Friend" (Emad J. Fraitekh; Arab News; May 22, 2002) Scroll down to "An Earlier Execution"
'I Saw Three Men Shot. They Surrendered But Were Still Killed' (Chris McGreal; The Guardian; April 20, 2002)
"Extra-judicial Executions in Jenin Refugee Camp" (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; April 11, 2002)
"Palestinians: Israelis Kill 5 Cops (AP; March 31, 2002)
"Killings Raise Questions About Israeli Tactics" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; March 31, 2002)
"Without Mercy: Israelis Execute Arafat's Elite Guards" (Peter Beaumont; The Observer; March 31, 2002)
"I Saw the Bodies, Killed by a Shot to the Head" (Peter Beaumont; Observer; March 31, 2002) This is the same story as the preceding article, but with a different title.
"Five Palestinians Executed in Ramallah" (LAW Society; March 30, 2002)
"Checkpoints of Death" (Palestine Report; March 13, 2002 (Vol 8. No. 37))
"Images of an Execution: The Killing of Mohammed Salah by Israeli Police on 8 March 2002" (The Electronic Intifada; March 12, 2002)
"Controversy Over 'Execution' Pictures" (BBC; March 12, 2002)
Images of an Execution" (March 8, 2002)
"A Policy of Field Executing Detainees During the First Fifteen Months of the Al-Aqsa Intifada" (Palestinian Prisoner Society; February 15, 2002)
3. Attacks on, and Obstruction of, Journalists
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Organizations
Committee to Protect Journalists (New York)
Foreign Press Association (Jerusalem) has no website.
International Federation of Journalists (Brussels)
International Press Institute (Vienna)
Reporters without Borders (Paris)
b. Websites
Postcards From Hell (Website for A. Raffaele Ciriello, killed in Ramallah, March 13)
c. Organizational Statements and Reports
Collections:
Silencing the Press: Reports on Israeli Attacks against Journalists (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights) An ongoing series of reports.
Individual resources:
"One Jordanian Journalist Expelled and Five Palestinian Journalists Still Held" (Reporters without Borders; June 7, 2002)
"Reporters Without Borders Demands Immediate Release of Five Palestinian Journalists" (May 23, 2002)
"Reporters Without Borders Demands Release of Seven Palestinian Journalists" (May 3, 2002)
"RSF Calls for Release of Three Palestinian Journalists" (Reporters without Borders; April 25, 2002)
"IDF Troops Continue to Harass Journalists in West Bank" (Committee to Protect Journalists; April 24, 2002)
"Press Freedom Violations in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Areas, September 28, 2000--28, 2000 - April 20, 2002" (International Press Institute; April 24, 2002) Exhaustive report.
"The grim toll of attacks on press freedom" (Reporters without Borders; April 18, 2002)
"RSF Calls for Release of Three Palestinian Journalists" (Reporters without Borders; April 12, 2002)
"NGOs Call for Press Freedom to be Respected" (Reporters without Borders; April 9, 2002)
"Journalists Say Israel Should be Punished for 'Reckless War on Media'" (International Federation of Journalists; April 9, 2002)
"Attacks on the Press Continue in West Bank" (Committee to Protect Journalists; April 9, 2002) Also has links to CPJ's earlier press releases.
"Occupation of Palestinian Towns and Cities: Unprecedented Deterioration in Press Freedom" (Reportrers without Borders; April 7, 2002)
"World Journalists Condemn Israeli 'Media Targeting' After Troops Open Fire on Reporters (International Federation of Journalists; April 5, 2002)
"Protest Over Ten Palestinian Journalists Arrested in Bethlehem" (International Federation of Journalists; April 5, 2002)
"A Dozen Journalists under Gunfire in Ramallah" (Reporters without Borders; April 2, 2002)
"IFJ Emergency Appeal to Aid Colleagues Under Fire" (International Federation of Journalists; April 2, 2002)
"Attacks Against Journalists in the West Bank and Gaza since September 2000) (Committee to Protect Journalists; April 2, 2002)
"Journalists Launch Global Campaign for Ceasefire in Media War as More Reporters Are Injured" (International Federation of Journalists; April 2, 2002)
"IFJ Protest As Reporters Are Injured; Israeli Media Ban Promotes 'Ignorance, Rumour and Fear'" (International Federation of Journalists; April 1, 2002)
"Palestinian Cameraman Seriously Wounded in Ramallah" (Reporters without Borders; March 29, 2002)
"CPJ Urges Israel to Investigate Shooting Death of Journalist, Other Attacks" (Committee to Protect Journalists; March 18, 2002)
"RSF Appalled by Death of Italian Journalist in Ramallah" (Reporters without Borders; March 13, 2002)
"Israel Army Destroys Palestinian Radio and TV Headquarter in Ramallah" (Reporters without Borders; Dec. 13, 2001)
"Israeli Raid on Beit Rima: Ban on Filming" (Reporters without Borders; Oct. 25, 2001)
"Testimony of Jacques-Marie Bourget" (Reporters without Borders; Sept. 14, 2001)
"A Week of Violence against the Press" (Reporters without Borders; August 3, 2001)
"Case Study of 40 Journalists Injured by Bullets in the Occupied Territories" (Reporters without Borders; July 6, 2001)
"At Risk: Covering the Intifada" (Committee to Protect Journalists; May 2001?)
"Israel and the Occupied Territories: 2000 Annual Report" (Committee to Protect Journalist, early 2001)
"Israel and the Occupied Territories: 1999 Annual Report" (Committee to Protect Journalist, early 2000)
d. Newspaper Stories and Other Accounts
"They Shoot Reporters, Don't They?" (Yusuf Agha; YellowTimes.org; June 4, 2002)
"Reuters Journalist Held in Israel Almost Two Weeks" (Reuters; May 12, 2002)
"Israeli Army Detains Journalist for Fourth Day" (Reuters; May 4, 2002)
'Something to Hide' (Michael Jansen; Al-Ahram Weekly; May 2-8, 2002)
"In the Eye of the Beholder" (Sara Leibovich-Dar; Ha'aretz; April 26?, 2002)
"A War of Words in Mideast" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; April 24, 2002)
"Israeli Army Confiscates Journalists' Cards" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; April 22, 2002)
"Journalists Lambast Israel" (Jessica Hodgson; The Guardian; April 22, 2002)
"Israeli Army Detains Reuters Photographer" (Reuters; April 20, 2002)
"Reporter Recounts Israeli Detention" (AP; April 18, 2002)
"Israel Releases Journalist" (AP; April 16, 2002)
"Blood on the Boundaries: In the Mideast, the Red Lines that Shielded Civilians, Medical Workers, and Journalists Have Been Ignored" (Anthony Shadid; Boston Globe; April 12, 2002)
"Concerns Are Voiced on Force, Intimidation to Bar Media" (Mark Jurkowitz; Boston Globe; April 11, 2002)
"People Get Shot All the Time. This Time a Cameraman" (James Bennet; New York Times; April 10, 2002)
'I Am Going to Die' 'No You Are not' 'Are You Sure?' (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 10, 2002)
"French Cameraman Shot in West Bank" (AP; April 9, 2002)
"Israeli Soldiers Raid Arab Television Newsrooms (AP; April 9, 2002)
"Media Watchdogs Decry Israeli Attacks on Press" (OneWorld.net; April 8, 2002)
"Sledgehammer Treatment for Palestinian Media" (Wasim Abdellah; Arabic Media Internet Network; April 8, 2002)
"Journalists Are Kept at Bay by Israeli Bullets" (Richard Boudreaux; Los Angeles Times; April 8, 2002)
"Israel Expels Arab Reporter Whose Stance Reflected Elsewhere in Region's Media" (AP; April 7, 2002)
"Reporters Become Targets Of Israeli Army Firepower" (Lee Hockstader and Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 6, 2002)
"Foreign Journalists Flee as Soldiers Use Stun Grenades to Block Access" (Katherine Butler; Independent; April 6, 2002)
"Forced Off the Air in Ramallah" (Daoud Kuttab; New York Times; April 6, 2002)
"Working to Keep Pictures Coming" (Elizabeth Jensen; Los Angeles Times; April 4, 2002)
"BBC News Chief Condemns Israeli Actions" (Jessica Hodgson; The Guardian; April 3, 2002)
"BBC Protests after Crew Caught in Violence" (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; April 3, 2002)
"Keep Out, Israel Warns US Broadcasters" (Jason Deans; The Guardian; April 3, 2002)
"Journalists Protest at Israeli Press Ban" (Jessica Hodgson; The Guardian; April 3, 2002)
"Israelis Act Against Reporters in Ramallah" (AP; April 3, 2002)
"Israeli Forces Free Turkish Reporters Held in Ramallah" (AFP; March 31, 2002)
"Reporter Wounded by Gunshot; Israel Asks Journalists to Leave Ramallah" (AP; March 31, 2002)
"Israeli Troops Gun Down Cameraman From Egyptian TV" (March 30, 2002) Video available.
"Photographer Killed in Hail of Israeli Tank Fire" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; March 14, 2002)
"Italian Journalist Dies in Mideast" (CNN; March 13, 2002)
4. Attacks on, and Obstruction of, Medical Care Providers
For deaths due to Israeli roadblocks, see also Closures and Checkpoints.
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
For general health care issues, see Health Care.
a. Organizations
International Committee of the Red Cross
-----The ICRC in Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Autonomous Territories
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)
Palestine Red Crescent Society (Al-Bireh)
Physicians for Human Rights--Israel
Physicians for Human Rights---USA
The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
b. Organizational Statements and Reports
"Israeli Forces Invade Ramallah, Obstruct Medical Treatment" (LAW; June 10, 2002)
"MSF Starts Work in Jenin and Ramallah" (Médecins Sans Frontières; April 23, 2002)
"Israeli Military Action is Collective Punishment" (Amnesty International; April 12, 2002)
"Movement Expresses Deep Concern about Humanitarian Situation on West Bank" (ICRC; April 12, 2002)
"Israel and the Occupied/Autonomous Territories: Latest ICRC Activities in the West Bank (ICRC; April 11, 2002)
"Impeding Medical Care and Harm to Medical Personnel by the IDF" (B'Tselem; April 2002 update)
"MSF Team Blocked from Providing Care for Over Five Hours" (Médecins Sans Frontières; April 9, 2002)
"Open Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell" (Médecins Sans Frontières; April 9, 2002)
"Accompanying Ambulances in Bethlehem" (Beth Daoud; CounterPunch; April 7, 2002)
"UN: End the Horror in the Camps" (UNRWA; April 7, 2002)
"Israel and the Occupied/Autonomous Territories: ICRC Restricts Its Movements in the West Bank" (ICRC; April 5, 2002)
"Israel and the Occupied/Autonomous Territories: Alarming Situation in the West Bank" (ICRC; April 5, 2002)
"Update on Attacks on Health Personnel and Disrupted Health Care" (Amnesty International; April 5, 2002)
"MSF Medical Teams in the Palestinian Occupied Territories Protest against Illegal Controls by Armed Militias" (Médecins Sans Frontières; April 4, 2002)
"UNRWA Warns of a Humanitarian Crisis in West Bank Cities, Towns and Refugee Camps" (UNRWA; April 3, 2002)
"Middle East: A Solemn Appeal by the International Committee of the Red Cross & the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies" (April 2, 2002)
"The ICRC Urges Respect for Medical Services" (ICRC; April 2, 2002)
"UN Expresses Deep Concern at Worsening Humanitarian Situation in West Bank" (UN; April 2, 2002)
"PRCS Expresses Concern About Israeli Accusation" (Palestine Media Center; March 27, 2002) Palestine Red Crescent Society denies Israeli claim that an ambulance was carrying a "wanted militant" wearing an explosive belt.
"Statement of Medical Delegation from PHR-USA on Health Dimensions of Human Rights Violations in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza" (Physicians for Human Rights--USA; March 22, 2002)
"Impeding Medical Treatment and Firing at Ambulances by IDF Soldiers in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem; March 14, 2002)
"Israel/Occupied Territories: Attacks on Health Personnel and Disrupted Health Care" (Amnesty International; March 14, 2002)
"Middle East Conflict: Call for Recognition of Right to Medical Care And for Medical Staff to Not Be Targeted" (Médecins Sans Frontières; March 12, 2002)
"Attacks on Palestinian Medical Personnel by Israeli Occupation Forces" (LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment; March 11, 2002)
"MSF Strongly Condemns the Recent Israeli Attacks on Medical Services in the Occupied Autonomous Palestinian Territories" (Médecins Sans Frontières; March 10, 2002)
"Israeli Forces Assault Medical Personnel" (LAW Society; March 9, 2002)
"Israel: Cease Attacking Medical Personnel (Human Rights Watch; March 8, 2002)
"Another Stillborn Baby, after Soldiers Deny Mother Passage" (B'Tselem; Feb. 27, 2002)
"Deaths of Palestinians following Delay in Obtaining Medical Treatment because of Restrictions on Movement during the al-Aqsa Intifada" (B'tselem; Feb. 2002)
"Beit Rima, October 24, 2001: Unjustified Killing, Denial of Medical Treatment and Punitive House Demolitions" (B'Tselem; Nov. 6, 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"MSF Notes Worrisome Health Situation and Obstacles to Providing Medical Care" (Médecins Sans Frontières; December 7, 2001)
"Death Following Restrictions on Movement" (B'Tselem; Oct. 2000?)
"Disregard for and Targeting of Medical Personnel" (Human Rights Watch; 2000)
Palestinian Medical Personnel: Between Fire and Their Work; Reports on Attacks Against Palestinian Medical Personnel by Israeli Forces (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights)
c. Newspaper Stories and Other Accounts
"In Jenin, Hospital Officials Recount a Costly Operation: Israeli Troops Accused of Destruction" (John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore; Washington Post; June 21, 2002)
"Closure and Prevention of Medical Treatment Continues to Kill Palestinians" (Palestine Monitor; May 24, 2002)
"At the Hospitals, They Wait and Worry" (C.J. Chivers; New York Times; May 12, 2002)
"The Chairman of the Irish Red Cross Concerned at Destruction and Health Hazards during Red Cross Visit to Bethlehem" (Michael Jansen; The Irish Times; May 7, 2002) QUOTE
"A Bridge Too far" (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; early May?, 2002) About the death of Hassan Barghouti, hospitalized for cancer, after permission to bring his medications into Israel was delayed.
"Tanks and Ambulances" (BBC; April 23, 2002)
"UN Health Agency Complains About West Bank Access" (Reuters; April 23, 2002)
"Madness of War Traumatises Patients" (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; April 22, 2002)
"West Bank: Broken Lives, Fractured Care" (David Lamb; Los Angeles Times; April 22, 2002)
"Hospital Ringed by Guns" (Michael Jansen; Al-Ahram Weekly; April 18-24, 2002)
"Arab Israelis Snub Holiday to Treat West Bank Victims: Doctors, Nurses Sneak Behind Lines to Aid the Helpless" (Anna Badkhen; S.F. Chronicle; April 18, 2002)
"Infant, Mother Saved Amid Health Disaster; Doctors Struggle To Go 1 Mile to Reach Woman in Childbirth (Gregg Zoroya; USA Today; April 18, 2002)
"Irish Nurse in Clash with Israeli Soldiers" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 18, 2002)
"Israel's Stranglehold on Jenin" (Tarik Kafala; BBC; April 17, 2002)
"Refusal of Access to Medical Aid 'Flouts International Law'" (Rory Watson; The Times (London); April 17, 2002)
"Crimes Without Proof" (Amanda White; Media Monitors Network; April 15, 2002)
"Blood on the Boundaries: In the Mideast, the Red Lines that Shielded Civilians, Medical Workers, and Journalists Have Been Ignored" (Anthony Shadid; Boston Globe; April 12, 2002)
"Nablus under Siege: A Visit to a Ghost Town" (Svala Jonsdottir; Alternative Information Center; April 11, 2002)
"U.N. Official Decries Israeli Troops' Conduct" (InterPress Service; April 9, 2002)
"Risking All to Reach a Doctor" (Susan Taylor Martin; St. Petersburg Times; April 9, 2002)
"Medics Move Wounded Palestinians Through Battle Zone" (James Bennet; New York Times; April 9, 2002)
"'We Lost Our Baby Boy'" (Jonathan Cook; The Guardian; April 7, 2002)
"Group: Israel Curbed Our Operations" (AP; April 6, 2002)
'We Are Losing Them. There Is No Blood, No Electricity' (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 6, 2002) (Nablus)
"Doctors Guide Births by Telephone: No Medical Aid for Mothers under Siege" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; April 6, 2002)
"Siege Can't Halt Life and Death in Ramallah" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; April 6, 2002)
"Death and Destruction Spread across West Bank" (Justin Huggler; Independent; April 6, 2002)
"Smuggled into Hospital in an Ambulance under a Pile of Corpses (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; April 5, 2002)
"Israelis Extend Crackdown through West Bank Towns" (Stephen Farrell and Daniel McGrory; The Times (London); April 5, 2002)
"West Bank Hospitals Gasping as Supplies Wane (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 5, 2002)
"'He Kept Bleeding': Wounded Die as Israelis Restrict Ambulances in Bethlehem" (Keith Richburg; Washington Post; April 4, 2002)
"Sick and Injured Being Denied Care amid Israeli Offensive, Palestinians Say" (AP; April 4, 2002)
"Ambulances at Bay, Wounded Unrescued" (Susan Taylor Martin; St. Petersburg Times; April 4, 2002)
"Palestinians: Treatment Being Denied" (AP; April 4, 2002)
"Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees Attacked in Ramallah" (Palestine Now; April 2, 2002)
"UN, Red Cross Protest Israeli Attacks on Ambulances" (Palestine Chronicle; March 20, 2002)
"For the Record" (Palestine Report; March 13, 2002)
5. Attacks on Palestinian Civilians
For news stories describing the ongoing killing and injuring of Palestinians; see Accounts of Daily Life.
For instances of execution-style killings of Palestinian civilians (as well as militants), see Executions under Assassinations and Executions.
For articles on the devastation of Jenin Camp, see Assault on Jenin.
For resources on earlier killings by Israeli (and, before that, Zionist) forces, see Deir Yassin Massacre and Sidebar: Other Israeli Massacres.
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Generally
Collections:
Open Directory: Civilian Victims
Individual resources:
"Jenin Deaths Video Implicates Army" (BBC; July 5, 2002)
| The BBC has obtained video footage which appears to show an incident in the West Bank city of Jenin two weeks ago in which two Palestinian children were killed by Israeli tank fire. The Israeli army has apologised for causing the deaths of six-year-old Ahmad Abu Aziz and his 13-year-old brother Jamil, but said the tank crew opened fire to deter Palestinians breaking a curfew and approaching them. However, the footage shows a tank firing the first of two shells, at close range, at a group of civilians who are running away. |
"Israeli Troops Kill 10 Palestinians" (Phil Reeves; Arab News; June 22, 2002)
"IDF Kills 2--Including Pregnant Woman--in West Bank" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; June 21, 2002)
"Palestinian Killed during Clashes with IDF Troops in Jenin" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; June 17, 2002)
"Israel Accused of Staging Bombing" (AP; June 3, 2002)
"Palestinian Killed at Mosque" (Megan K. Stack; Los Angels Times; June 2, 2002)
"Envoys Say They Saw IDF Fire at Children" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; May?, 2002)
"Death in Custody: The Killing of Murad 'Awaisa" (B'Tselem; May 30, 2002)
"Palestinians Mourn Killing of Mother and Daughter" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; May 27, 2002)
"Two Palestinians Killed by IDF in Gaza Strip" (Ha'aretz; May 26, 2002)
"Israeli Doctors Call for Ban on Rubber Bullets" (Reuters; May 24, 2002)
"Two Israeli Arabs Killed by IDF in Separate West Bank Incidents" (Amos Harel, Tamara Traubman and Jalal Bana; Ha'aretz; May 19, 2002)
"Twilight Zone - 'I'm Sorry for Your Loss,' the Officer Said" (Ha'aretz; Gideon Levy; May 15, 2002)
"Updates from the Field: Death of Innocent Civilians" (B'Tselem; May 9, 2002)
"IDF Fire Kills Palestinian Woman and Three Children in West Bank" (Amos Harel and Anat Cygielman; Ha'aretz; May 6?, 2002)
"Tank Crew under Fire for Children's Deaths in Jenin" (Ha'aretz; May 6?, 2002)
"Random Shooting from a Tank: Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fatma Zakarneh and Her Two Young Children" (B'Tselem; after May 5, 2002)
"3 Children among 8 Palestinians Killed by IDF" (Amos Harel and Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; May 2, 2002)
"Ten More Dead after Israeli Onslaught" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; April 30, 2002)
"Israeli Order: 'Shoot at Each House'" (John Lancaster; Washington Post; April 26, 2002)
"Israeli Snipers Playing Cat to Palestinians' Mouse" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; April 24, 2002) (Bethlehem)
"The Soldier Shouted, 'Kill Them, Kill Them!'" (Justin Huggler & Phil Reeves; Arab News [originally from the Guardian?]; April 21, 2002)
"Death Toll in Week-Long Nablus Operation Put at 75" (AFP; April 20, 2002)
"This Was Not a Battle between Two Armies; This Was Mass Murder--Notes from an International Civilian in Palestine" (Jordan Flaherty; April 20, 2002)
"What Kind of War is This? It Is Still Impossible to Know How Many People Are Buried under the Ruins in the Jenin Refugee Camp, Where the Smell of Decomposing Bodies Mingles with the Stench of Garbage and the Scent of Geraniums and Mint" (Amira Hass; Ha'aretz; April 19, 2002)
"Counting The Dead In Nablus (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 14, 2002)
"Trails of Destruction, Tales of Loss" (Lee Hockstader; Washington Post; April 12, 2002)
"Eight Bullets, and a Family Is Devastated" (Paul McGeough; Syndey Morning Herald; April 12, 2002)
"The Unholy War: The Bethlehem Bellringer, the Doctor, the Mother; The Innocent Keep on Dying" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; April 7, 2002)
"Joint Statement in the Name Of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists" (April 7, 2002)
"Both Sides Deny Killing Bethlehem's Bell Ringer Shot outside Nativity" (Katherine Butler; Independent; April 6, 2002)
"Death and Destruction Spread across West Bank" (Justin Huggler; Independent; April 6, 2002)
"Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill a US Citizen as She Holds Her 9-Month-Old Baby in Her Lap" (Democracy Now!; April 3, 2002
"Details Emerge About American Woman Shot Dead By Israeli Soldiers" (Raeed N. Tayeh; American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice; April 1, 2002)
"A State of Denial: Israel" (Baha Abushaqra; nileMedia; March 18, 2002)
"Conspiracy of Silence: Why Do Britain and the EU Do Nothing about Israeli Attacks on Palestinian Civilians?" (Khader Shkirat; The Guardian; March 15, 2002)
"The Minimum Requirements" (Mustafa Barghouthi; Al-Ahram Weekly; March 14-20, 2002)
"Waging War on the Camps, Once Again" (Andrea Becker; The Electronic Intifada; March 13, 2002)
"Gaza Shattered by Ferocious Land, Sea and Air Strikes" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; March 7, 2002)
"Trigger Happy - Unjustified Gunfire and the IDF's Open-Fire Regulations during the al-Aqsa Intifada" (B'Tselem; March 2002)
"Israeli Attacks Leave Twenty-Three Palestinians Dead" (Al-Haq ; Feb. 20, 2002)
"Stories Behind the Violations: A Hard Lesson in Human Rights" (LAW: Feb. 11, 2002)
"Twilight Zone: Tell the Truth, Shimon" (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; Jan. 24, 2002)
"Israel on the Way to the Hague: War Crimes and Israel's Security" (Gush Shalom; Jan. 8, 2002)
"Muhammad's Killer" (Neta Golan; Media Monitors Network; January 7, 2002)
"Bethlehem Region, 19 October to 28 October 2001" (B'Tselem; December 2001)
"When Peace Died" (Jane Corbin; BBC; November 17, 2001)
"Deliberate Israeli Killing of Children Uncovered" (Palestine Media Watch; November 16, 2001)
"Broken Lives - A Year of Intifada" (Amnesty International; Nov. 13, 2001)
"Whitewash: Office of the Military Advocate General's Investigation into the Death of Khalil al-Mughrabi, Age 11, on July 7, 2001" (B'Tselem; Nov. 13, 2001)
"Beit Rima, October 24, 2001: Unjustified Killing, Denial of Medical Treatment and Punitive House Demolitions" (B'Tselem; Nov. 6, 2001)
"Stop Israel!" (Tanya Reinhart; Mid-East Realities; Oct. 26, 2001)
"Israel / Occupied Territories: Amnesty International Urges Israel to Stop Attacks on Palestinian Areas" (Amnesty International; Oct. 23, 2001)
"A Gaza Diary" (Chris Hedges; Harper's Magazine, October, 2001)
| "Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." |
"In Broad Daylight: Abuse of Palestinian by IDF Soldiers on July 23, 2001" (B'Tselem; July 2001)
"Addiction to Kill" (Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, together with the Women's Studies Centre; July 2001)
"Excessive Force: Analysis of the Events of 6 May 2001 in Beit Jala" (B'Tselem; June 2001)
"On Human Rights in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem Journal, June 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
Israeli Army Brutally Attacks Peaceful Civilian Protest March (collection of articles at Mid-East Realities; March 24, 2001)
"Overkill: Israeli Bombardment and Destruction of Palestinian Civilian Homes and Infrastructure" (Palestinian Human Rights Monitor; Feb. 2001)
"Israel Must Investigate Minibus Killing" (Human Rights Watch; February 14, 2001)
"Israel's Anti-Civilian Weapons" (John Mahoney; The Link; Volume 34, Issue 1 (January--March, 2001))
"Illusions of Restraint: Human Rights Violations During the Events in the Occupied Territories, 29 Sept. - 2 Dec. 2000 (B'Tselem; Dec. 2000)
"Evaluation of the Use of Force in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank: Medical and Forensic Investigation" (Physicians for Human Rights; Nov. 3, 2000)
"Amnesty International USA Calls for Cessation of all Attack Helicopter Trasfers to Israel" (Oct. 19, 2000)
"Living among the Headlines" (Helen Schary Motro; Salon.com; October 7, 2000)
Israel and the Occupied Territories: Excessive Use of Lethal Force" (Amnesty International; October 2000)
"Israel's Use of Military Force Against Palestinian Demonstrators" (LAW: The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment; October 2000)
"Investigation into the Unlawful Use of Force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority Territories" (Human Rights Watch; Oct. 2000)
"Research Shows Israeli Pattern of Excessive Force" (Human Rights Watch; October 7, 2000)
"A Death Foretold: Firing of 'Rubber' Bullets to Disperse Demonstrations in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem; Nov. 1998)
"Palestinian Victims of Israeli Violence Since Oslo" (Ali Abunimah; September 1997)
"Lethal Training: The Killing of Muhammad Al-Hilu by Undercover Soldiers in Hizmeh Village" (B'Tselem; March 1997)
September 1996 Memorial
Sidebar: Two of the Victims
-----Mohammed Jamal Aldura, 12 years old
In memory of Mohammed Jamal Aldura
"The Killing of the Child Mohammed al-Durrah by Israeli Occupying Forces Was Intentional and Happened in Cold Blood" (Talal Hassan Abu Rahma; October 3, 2000; statement taken by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights)
"Palestinian Child's Final Terrified Moments Captured on Camera" (AP; October 1, 2000)
Last moments of Mohammed Aldurah (September 30, 2000; video clip)
----Still images from this video.
-----Suraida/Suraide (Susu) Abu Gharbiya, 21 years old
Susu's Story (Washington Post; April 22, 2002; video)
"Details Emerge About American Woman Shot Dead By Israeli Soldiers" (Raeed N. Tayeh; American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice; April 1, 2002)
"Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill a US Citizen as She Holds Her 9-Month-Old Baby in Her Lap" (Democracy Now!; April 3, 2002
b. Use as Human Shields
"Israel: Decision to Stop Use of 'Human Shields' Welcomed" (Human Rights Watch Press release, May 10, 2002)
"Seven Human Rights Organizations Petition Supreme Court to Stop Israeli Army's Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields" (Adalah; May 6, 2002)
"Use of 'Human Shields' Prohibited following Petition by Human Rights Organizations to the Israeli High Court of Justice" (B'Tselem; after May 5, 2002)
"Hail of Criticism Hits Israeli Army" (Ben Lynfield; Christian Science Monitor; April 26, 2002) "'According to custom, we grabbed one of the Palestinian neighbors to comb the area,'" Sgt. Nati Aharoni recalled.
"Jenin: The Bloody Truth" (Marie Colvin; The Sunday Times (London); April 21, 2002)
"A School System Without Memory: Palestinian Records, Computer Gear Seized in Israeli Raids" (Doug Struck; Washington Post; April 20, 2002) A school administrator recounts how he was used as a human shield.
"Israeli Army Using Civilians as Human Shield: US Rights Report" (AFP; April 18, 2002)
"In a Dark Hour: The Use of Civilians During IDF Arrest Operations" (Human Rights Watch; April 18, 2002)
-----Press release
"Refugees Flee Camp with Reports of Israeli Abuses" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; April 12, 2002) Ali Mustafa Abu Siria, 43, recounts how he was shot while being used as a human shield.
"Witnesses Tell How Elderly Were Used as Human Shields for Tank Forces" (Justin Huggler and Said Ghazali; Independent; April 9, 2002)
"A Human 'Defensive Shield': IDF Uses Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields" (B'Tselem; April 8, 2002)
'I Was Used as a Human Shield' (Jonathan Cook; The Guardian (Observer Worldview); April 7, 2002)
6. Deportation
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
Expulsions after the Church of the Nativity militants:
"Lawmen Examining Expulsion for Terror Leaders" (Gideon Alon; Ha'aretz; June 21, 2002)
The "Bethlehem 13":
Note: For articles on the siege of the Church of the Nativity leading up to the deportations, see Accounts of Daily Life.
"Exiled Palestinians Recall Bethlehem Siege" (BC; June 14, 2002)
"Palestinian Tragedy with a Greek Ending" (Iason Athanasiadis; Al-Ahram Weekly; June 13-19; 2002)
"Europeans Not Very Happy as Hosts of the Bethlehem Exiles" (Yossi Melman; Ha'aretz; June 7, 2002)
"Bethlehem Exile Defends Arafat" (Tabitha Morgan; BBC; May 24, 2002)
"Red Cross Attacks Exile of Palestinians" (Robert Fisk; The Independent; May 23, 2002)
"New Beginnings for Bethlehem 12" (Rory Carroll and Helena Smith; the Guardian; May 23, 2002)
"Red Cross Discusses Militant Exile" (AP: May 24, 2002)
"Palestinians to Leave Cyprus" (Keith B. Richburg; Washington Post; May 22, 2002)
"Bethlehem Militants Begin Europe Exile" (BBC; May 22, 2002)
"From Siege to Exile" (Michael Jansen; Al-Ahram Weekly; May 16-22, 2002)
"U.S. Wants Probe in American Death" (AP; May 13, 2002)
"Between Homes, Exiles Welcomed in Cyprus" (Russell Working; Boston Globe; May 13, 2002)
"Europe Considers Status of Militants From Church" (Melinda Henneberger; New York Times; May 13, 2002)
"Most Wanted: How Israel Sees the Exiles" (BBC; May 11, 2002)
"PCHR Condemns Deal Ending Siege of the Church of the Nativity" (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; May 11, 2002)
"Next Stop: The Flamingo Beach" (Helena Smith; The Guardian; May 11, 2002)
"The 13 Men on Israel's 'Most Wanted' List: Affiliations and Accusations" (AP; May 11, 2002)
"EU Envoy: Palestinians Deported from Bethlehem Not Prisoners" (Anat Cygielman and Anshel Pfeffer; Ha'aretz; May 11, 2002)
"Militant Palestinians Slam Bethlehem Exile Deal" (Reuters; May 11, 2002)
"LAW Condemns Deportation of Palestinians" (LAW; May 10, 2002)
"Beginning Exile on Holiday Island" (Gerald Butt; BBC; May 10, 2002)
"Bethlehem Militants Fly into Exile" (Tamar Shiloh; BBC; May 10, 2002)
"Palestinian Fighters Leave Church, Start Exile" (Reuters; May 10, 2002)
Prior deportations:
"The Exiles" (Ann Lesch; The Link; volume 26, issue 5 (December 1993)
"The Deeper Significance of the Mass Expulsions" (Israel Shahak; Middle East Policy; volume II, number 1 (1993))
7. Eviction from Homes
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
'Yes, This Is a Transfer' (Barbara Ferguson; Arab News; May 2, 2002)
"Palestinians Evicted From Homes in Dispute With Israeli Rightists" (Joel Greenberg; New York Times; April 25, 2002)
Palestinians Evicted From Homes" (AP; April 22, 2002)
"No Sleep, No Rest, No Home: Israeli Police Evict Palestinian Family" (William Thompson; April 23, 2002)
8. Home Demolition
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Organizations
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
b. Websites
Destruction of Palestinian Homes (photos)
Home Demolition (PRCS)
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing Activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (joint project of the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem and the Land Research Center)
-----Eye on Palestine (Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem)
Open Directory: Home Demolitions
c. Articles
"UN Expert Says Settlements, House Demolitions Are War Crimes" (AP; June 15, 2002)
Court Rejects Gazans' Plea to Halt Home Demolitions" (Ha'aretz; May 24, 2002)
"Israel Demolished Three Palestinians Homes in Jerusalem" (LAW; May 21, 2002)
"Israel's Policy of House Demolitions and Destruction of Agricultural Land in the Gaza Strip" (B'Tselem; February 2002)
"Israel's Especially Cruel Sanction" (John K. Cooley; Christian Science Monitor; Jamuary 31, 2002)
"Demolition of Houses is an Act of Collective Punishment" (Amnesty International; Jan. 14, 2002)
"Israel: Committee against Torture Says Israel's Policy of Closures and Demolitions of Palestinian Homes May Amount to Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment" (Amnesty International; Nov. 23, 2001)
"Beit Rima, October 24, 2001: Unjustified Killing, Denial of Medical Treatment and Punitive House Demolitions" (B'Tselem; Nov. 6, 2001)
"The International Community Must Act to End Israel's Policy of Closures and House Demolitions" (Amnesty International; July 18, 2001)
"Surveying the Ruins of a Palestinian Compound Destroyed on July 3rd Near Susiya (Alternative Information Center; July 3, 2001; photographs) Both sets of photos are in left-side column.
----Second set of photos (Sept. 30, 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"Israel Demolishes 226 Palestinian Homes in 6 Months of Uprising" (LAW; April 2001)
"Eyewitness Gaza" (Mid-East Realities; Jan. 22, 2001)
"Demolition and Dispossession: The Destruction of Palestinian Homes (Amnesty International; December 8, 1999)
"Demolition and Dispossession: The Destruction of Palestinian Homes" (Amnesty International; August 12, 1999)
"Israeli Military Demolishes Shawamreh House for Second Time" (Mark Frey; August 3, 1998)
"Lena Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (Gila Svirsky; July 10, 1998)
"Israel's Mass Demolition Policy in the West Bank" (B'Tselem; September 24, 1997)
List of Palestinian Home Demolitions, Aug. 1997 to March 1998 (Hebron.com)
"Demolishing Peace: Israel's Policy of Mass Demolition of Palestinian Houses in the West Bank" (B'Tselem; Sept. 1997) (RTF download)
Sidebar: Destruction of Palestinians' Livelihood
"An Old Man and No Sea" (Jessica Azulay; Arab News; June 22, 2002)
"The Donkeys of the Holy Land" (Minerva Wright; CounterPunch; June 11, 2002)
9. Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
See also Closures and Checkpoints.
"Arab-American Doctor Recounts His Ordeal in Israel" (Riad Z. Abdelkarim; Arab News; June 13, 2002)
"Israel Frees Briton Arrested in Canada Embassy Car" (Reuters; May 24, 2002)
"Anaheim Doctor Freed by Israel, on Way Home" (Teresa Watanabe; Los Angeles Times; May 20, 2002)
"U.S. Relief Worker Accuses Israel" (AP; May 16, 2002)
"UN Official Concerned over New Movement Restrictions Being Prepared by Israel" (UN; May 14, 2002)
"UNRWA: Israeli Travel Restrictions Will Cripple Aid Distribution" (AP; May 14, 2002)
"The Long, Strange Trip Into Beit Jalla" (Yigal Bronner; AlterNet; May 9, 2002)
"200 Humanitarian Aid Workers Barred from Entering Country" (Mazal Mualem; Ha'aretz; early May, 2002)
"Israeli Blockages Still Hampering Aid Delivery to Palestinians, UN Agencies Say" (UN; April 30, 2002)
"Humanitarian Crisis for Palestinians" (AP; April 30, 2002)
"Greek Rescue Team Denied Entry to Jenin to Search for Bodies" (Amira Hass, Ha'aretz; April 24, 2002)
"Hadash MKs Defy Roadblocks to View Jenin Damage" (Jalal Bana; Ha'aretz; April 24, 2002)
"Israeli Military Prevents 75 Tons of Humanitarian Aid from Reaching Qalqilya" (UNRWA; April 23, 2002)
"Barring Aid to Jenin is 'a War Crime'" (Justin Huggler and Phil Reeves; The Independent; April 21, 2002)
"UN Concern at Gaza Food Shortages" (UNRWA; April 18, 2002)
"ICRC Calls on Israeli Authorities to Allow Foreign Rescue Teams into Jenin Camp" (ICRC; April 18, 2002)
"The Guns Are Silent But Cries for Help Go Unheard" (Paul McGeough; Syndey Morning Herlad; April 18, 2002)
"Internationals Attempt to Deliver Bread to Church of Nativity" (Allyn and Holly Dhynes in Bethlehem; April 18, 2002)
"Shock at Lack of Rescue Efforts in Jenin" (Brian Whitaker; The Guardian; April 18, 2002)
"Aid Groups Criticize Israel Over Rescue Effort in Jenin" (David Rhode; New York Times; April 17, 2002)
"Jenin Refugee Camp: Amnesty International Calls for Immediate International Humanitarian Assistance" (Amnesty International; April 17, 2002)
"After Granting UN Access to Jenin Camp, Israel Blocks Delivery of Aid" (UN; April 15, 2002)
"Food Insecurity and Malnutrition on the Rise in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" Food and Agriculture Organization (UN); April 15, 2002)
"UN Aid Workers Still Unable to Reach Jenin Camp, Despite Israeli Assurances" (U.N.; April 13, 2002)
"UN Agency Denied Entry to Jenin Refugee Camp" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 12, 2002)
"Annan Demands Israel Avoid Humanitarian Crisis by Opening Access for Aid" (Giles Tremlett; The Guardian; April 11, 2002)
"Assault Leaves Camp Cut Off From Aid" (Richard Boudreaux; Los Angles Times; April 11, 2002)
"Aid Held up outside Jenin" (BBC; April 10, 2002)
"Bringing Badly Needed Aid into Shattered Nablus with the First Relief Convoy" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 10, 2002)
"Two Irish Try to Aid Those in Church Siege" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 8, 2002)
"Israel Accused of Blocking Palestinian Aid" (Kate McGeown; BBC; April 7, 2002)
"UN: End the Horror in the Camps" (UNRWA; April 7, 2002)
"UNRWA Warns of a Humanitarian Crisis in West Bank Cities, Towns and Refugee Camps" (UNRWA; April 3, 2002)
"UN Expresses Deep Concern at Worsening Humanitarian Situation in West Bank" (UN; April 2, 2002)
"Fears Grow of Humanitarian Crisis" (Kathryn Westcott; BBC; April 5, 2002)
10. Prisons and Prisoners; Torture
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Generally
Organizations:
Addameer: Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
Palestinian Prisoners' Society
Other resources:
"8000 Palestinians Detained By Israeli Soldiers In The Past Few Months" (Palestine Chronicle; June 11, 2002)
"IDF Detains 100 Palestinians in Raid on Balata Refugee Camp" (Ha'aretz; May 31, 2002)
"Death in Custody: The Killing of Murad 'Awaisa" (B'Tselem; May 30, 2002)
"Why Tell The Court" (Uri Blau; Kol Ha'ir; May 24, 2002)
"Mass Detention in Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Conditions" (Amnesty International; May 23, 2002)
-----Press Release announcing report
'Hummus, Tehina, Let's Screw Palestinians' (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; May 22, 2002)
"LAW Calls for Release of Five Internationals from Ramle" (LAW; May 20, 2002)
"Israel Detains And Beats Civillians And International Observers" (Kristin Schurr; ZNet; April 17, 2002)
"Palestinian Captives 'Tortured and Humiliated' at Israeli Army Base" (Justin Huggler; The Independent; April 15, 2002)
"Racism, Violence and Humiliation: Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel Concerning the Behavior of the Security Forces toward Persons Detained during the Events of September-October 2000" (Public Committee Against Torture in Israel; April 2001)
Prisoners Report (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; June 27, 1997)
Detention Facilities (Resources from Physicians for Human Rights--Israel)
b. Administrative Detention
Protest Israeli Use of Administrative Orders Against Palestinian Citizens of the State (Ittijah: Union of Arab Community Based Associations)
Free Abed
Human Rights Activists in Administrative Detention (B'Tselem)
"Israel: Opportunistic Law Condemned" (Human Rights Watch; March 7, 2002)
"Israel's Proposed 'Imprisonment of Combatants not Entitled to Prisoner of War Status Law'" (Human Rights Watch; June 2000)
"Israel Seeks to Legalize War Crimes: Hostage Law Strips Civilians of Rights Guaranteed by Laws of War" (Human Rights Watch; June 22, 2000)
"UN Should Condemn Israeli Torture and Hostage-Taking" (Human Rights Watch; July 15, 1998)
"Administrative Detainees in Israel" (Imad S. Sabi; May 1997?)
c. Prison Conditions; Particular Prisons
"Ansar III; Auschwitz II?" (Michael Jansen; Al-Ahram Weekly; May 2-8, 2002)
"Israeli Prison an Emblem of Shriveled Hope" (Mary Curtius; Los Angeles Times; April 27, 2002)
"Israeli Criticism of Conditions for Palestinian Prisoners Mounts" (Amira Hass and Moshe Reinfeld; Ha'aretz; April 26?, 2002)
"Israel in Prisoner Transfer Row" (BBC; April 21, 2002)
Conditions at Negev Prison in which Palestinian Prisoners Are Being Held Are Disgusting (April 21, 2002)
"A Shameful Legacy Returns" (Jonathan Cook; Al-Ahram Weekly; April 18-24, 2002)
"Desert Camp Is Reopened for Hundreds of Prisoners" (Ross Dunn; The Times (London); April 17, 2002)
"Palestinians to Be Held in Desert" (AP; April 16, 2002)
"Prisoners of Israel" (Edward Dillon; The Link; volume 16, issue 3 (August-September 1983))
d. Torture
(1) Organizations
B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
OMCT: World Organisation Against Torture
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
(2) Websites
Torture and Widespread Arrest Campaigns (Addameer)
(3) Articles
"Palestinian Leader Accuses Israel of Torture" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; June 13, 2002)
"Torture Distorts Hope For Palestinians" (Arjan El Fassed; Electronic Intifadah; May 25, 2002)
Petition to the Israeli Supreme Court (Public Committee against Torture in Israel; May 2002)
"Torture and Ill-Treatment of PLC Member Marwan Barghouti" (LAW; May 21, 2002)
"Update: Palestinian Detainees, Torture and Ill-Treatment" (LAW; May 15, 2002)
"Israel: Briefing for the Committee Against Torture" (Amnesty International; May 13, 2002)
"Palestinian Detainees Complain about Ill-Treatment" (LAW; May 11, 2002)
"Torture en Masse" (Jonathan Cook; Al-Ahram; April 25-May 1, 2002)
"Palestinian Detainees Decry Treatment" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; April 7, 2002)
"Rights Group Accuses Israel Of Torturing Palestinians" (Keith Richburg; Washington Post; April 6, 2002)
"Fear for Safety and Torture: Urgent Action Neded" (Amnesty International; April 5, 2002)
"Why the Blindfolds?" (Hani Shukrallah; Al-Ahram Weekly; April 4-10, 2002)
"Torture and Total Communication Ban in Ofer Detention Camp" (B'Tselem; April 2002)
"Israel/Occupied Territories: Detention and Beatings Underline Degradation of Respect for Human Rights" (Amnesty International; Jan. 3, 2002)
"Israel / Occupied Territories: Israel Fails to Address Increasing Use of Torture" (Amnesty International; Nov. 20. 2001)
"Flawed Defense: Torture and Ill-treatment in GSS Interrogations Following the Supreme Court Ruling, 6 September 1999 - 6 September 2001" (Public Committee against Torture in Israel; September 2001)
"Reports of Torture by Israelis Emerge: Rights Groups Document Frequent Police Abuses Against Palestinians"(Lee Hockstader; Washington Post; August 18, 2001)
"Amnesty International Calls on Denmark to Fulfill Its Obligations under the UN Convention against Torture" (Amnesty International; Aug. 14, 2001)
"Torture of Palestinian Minors at the Gush Etzion Police Station" (B'Tselem; July 2001)
"Standard Routine: Beatings and Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Security Forces during the Al-Aqsa Intifada" (B'Tselem; May 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"Israel and the Occupied Territories: Mass Arests and Police Brutality" (Amnesty International; Nov. 2000)
"Israel's Torture Ban" (Alexander Cockburn; The Nation; September 27, 1999)
Decision of the Israeli Supreme Court Forbidding Torture (September 6, 1999)
"The Case Against Torture in Israel: A Compilation of Petitions, Briefs and Other Documents Submitted to the Israeli High Court of Justice" (Public Committee Against Torture in Israel; May 1999)
"Why Position Abuse? How Israeli Torture of Palestinians Makes Sense" (Lori Allen; Feb. 26, 1999)
"UN Should Condemn Israeli Torture and Hostage-Taking" (Human Rights Watch; July 15, 1998)
Analysis of Israel's Submission to the United Nations Committee against Torture (Human Rights Watch; May 1998)
"Routine Tortore: Interrogation Methods of the General Security Service Comprehensive Report, February 1998" (B'Tselem)
"Sheer Brutality - The Beatings Continue" (B'Tselem; Aug. 1997)
"Legitimizing Torture: The Israeli High Court of Justice Rulings in the Bilbeisi, Hamdan and Mubarak Cases" (B'Tselem; January 1997)
"Under Constant Medical Supervision: Torture, Ill-treatment and the Health Professions in Israel and the Occupied Territories" (Amnesty International; Aug. 14, 1996)
"Torture During Interrogations: Testimony of Palestinian Detainees and Israeli Interrogators" (B'Tselem; November 1994)
"Torture and Ill-Treatment: Israel's Interrogation of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories" (Human Rights Watch; June 1994)
"Israeli Interrogation Methods Under Fire After Death of Detained Palestinian" (Human Rights Watch; March 1992)
11. Settlements
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Generally
(1) Websites
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing Activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (joint project of the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem and the Land Research Center)
-----Eye on Palestine (Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem)
Palestine Monitor Fact Sheet on Settlements
Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories (Foundation for Middle East Peace)
Open Directory: Settlements
(2) Maps
Maps collected by the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine Scroll down for maps of settlements.
"Settlements in the West Bank - The Authoritative Map" (Eyal Weizman; May 14, 2002)
Map: Israeli Settlements in East Jerusalem
Map of Israeli Settlements (UN)
Map of New Settlements
(3) Articles
"Settlers Lobbying for Fence around Area A, not Green Line" (Nadav Shragai; Ha'aretz; June 15, 2002)
"UN Expert Says Settlements, House Demolitions Are War Crimes" (AP; June 15, 2002)
"Open Season on Outposts" (Daniel Ben Simon; Ha'aretz; June 15, 2002)
"Report: WZO Bringing Immigrant Communities to Territories" (Yair Sheleg; Ha'aretz; June 10, 2002)
"Fences May Not Mean More Security for Settlers" (Nadav Shragai and Amos Hare; Ha'aretz; June 10, 2002)
"Yesha Council Divided over Plan for Green Line Security Fence" (Nadav Shragai; Ha'aretz; June 7, 2002)
"Israel Beginning Land Seizures" (AP; June 3, 2002)
"Settlements Expanding Under Sharon" (Daniel Williams; Wsshington Post; May 31, 2002)
"As Usual, Policy Is Set by the Settlers" (Akiva Eldar; Ha'aretz; May 30, 2002)
"Middle East: The Sky's the Limit" (Dan Ephron; Newsweek; May 27, 2002 issue)
"A Settler Stakes Claim for Himself, for Israel" (Peter Hermann; Baltimore Sun; May 22, 2002)
"How the Settler Suburbs Grew" (David Newman; New York Times; May 21, 2002)
"No Blueprint for Peace Seen in West Bank Map" (Davan Maharaj; Los Angeles Times; May 14, 2002)
"Land Grab: Israel's Settlement Policy in the West Bank" (B'Tselem; May 13, 2002)
"Israeli Settlers a Key Question in West Bank" (Michael Matza; Philadelphia Inquirer; May 13, 2002)
'It's the Settlements, Stupid!' (Yusuf Agha; Yellow Times; May 10, 2002)
"Jewish Settlements Sore Spot in Talks" (AP; May 7, 2002)
"Giving up the Settlements Is Cheaper Than You Think" (Akiva Eldar; Ha'aretz; May 6?, 2002)
"Settlers Are Defiant Island in Sea of Hostility" (Paul Wiseman; USA Today; May 1, 2002)
"Despite Violence, Settlers Survive and Spread" (James Bennet; New York Times; April 28, 2002)
"In Crisis, Israel Rallies Behind Settlers" (Danna Harman; Christian Science Monitor; April 26, 2002)
"Israel Begins West Bank Construction" (AP; April 24, 2002)
"Sharon: My Government Will Never Evacuate the Settlements" (Gideon Alon; Ha'aretz; April 21, 2002)
"Settlers Free to Circulate as Palestinians Confined to Their Homes" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 11, 2002)
"Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories: A Guide" (Foundation for Middle East Peace; March 2002)
"Israel's Settler Warlords" (Doron Rosenblum; CounterPunch; March 15, 2002)
"Settlers: Claiming the 'Promised Land'" (Kathryn Westcott; BBC; Dec. 12, 2001)
"The Pivotal Role of Israel's Colonization Policy in the Failure of the Peace Process" (Jad Isaac; Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem; Nov. 2001)
"Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories" (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; August 2000)
"On The Way To Annexation: Human Rights Violations Resulting from the Establishment and Expansion of the Ma'aleh Adumim Settlement" (B'Tselem; July 1999) (Word download)
"Eating Away at Palestine" (Geoffrey Aronson; Le Monde diplomatique; November 1998)
"Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories as a Violation of Human Rights: Legal and Conceptual Aspects" (B'Tselem; March 1997) (RTF download)
The Struggle for Land (Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture; vol. IV, no. 2, 1997)
"The Religious Settlers: An Instrument of Israeli Domination" (Israel Shahak; Middle Esat Policy; volume III, number 1 (1994))
"Settler Opposition to Rabin's Policies" (Israel Shahak; Middle East Policy; volume I, number 4 (1992))
"Israeli Land Seizure in the Occupied Territories" (Israel Shahak; Middle East Policy; volume I, number 2 (1992))
b. Particular Settlements
(1) Hebron
Organizations:
Christian Peacemaker Teams
TIPH - Temporary International Presence in Hebron
Other resources:
"We Say No to Expulsion" (Ta'ayush; June 10, 2002)
"The Lurking Shadow of Expulsion" (Oren Yiftachel and Neve Gordon; Ta'ayush; May 2002)
"Ben Eliezer Authorizes 16 Permanent Structures in Hebron" (Akiva Eldar; Ha'aretz; April 18, 2002)
"The Hostility of Hebron" (Fiona Symon; BBC; Dec. 3. 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"A History of Hebron" (Kathy Kern; Christian Peacemaker Teams; December 6, 1996)
"Descendents of Hebron's Jewish Community Call for Peace" (undated)
The Expulsion of the Palestinian Population in South Hebron
"Hebron's Theater of the Absurd" (Kathleen Kern; The Link; volume 29, issue 1 (January-March 1996)
(2) Jerusalem area
"Homes Built in the Way of Division of Jerusalem; Palestinians Fear Hopes for Capital Being Bulldozed" (Vivienne Walt; USA Today; June 12, 2002)
"Settlers Strategically Split East Jerusalem" (Ben Lynfield; Christian Science Monitor; May 13, 2002)
"Elon Plan Would Encircle Old City with Jewish Outposts" (Nadav Shragai; Ha'aretz; April 24, 2002)
"Has Israel Annexed East Jerusalem?" (Ian S. Lustick; Middle East Policy; volume V, number 1 (January 1997))
"Jerusalem's Final Status: What Will Be Left To Negotiate?" (Michael Dumper; The Link; volume 28, issue 3 (July-August 1995))
"Shrine Under Siege" (Grace Halsell; The Link; volume 17, issue 3 (August-September 1984))
(3) Other particular settlements
"Digging in at Dugit" (Daniel Ben Simon; Ha'aretz; May 31, 2002)
"The View from Beit El" (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; March 4, 2002)
"Eyewitness from Kiryat Arba Settlment" (Denise Lekowski; undated)
"Abu Ghneim Mountain--Har Homa Settlement" (al-Haq; undated)
Sidebar: Resistance Operations
"Palestinians Kill 5 Israeli Settlers in Raid on a Home" (John Kifner; New York Times; June 21, 2002)
"Gunmen Burst Into Home, Kill 5 Israeli Settlers" (Mary Curtius and Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; June 21, 2002)
"Two Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gun Battle" (Reuters; June 16, 2002)
"Israelis Shot in Gaza Attack" (BBC; June 15, 2002)
"Palestinian Gunman's Body Burned by Yitzhar Youths" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; June 10, 2002)
"Inside the Crucible: Outpouring of Grief; West Bank Village Mourns Man Killed by Palestinians" (Matthew McAllester; Newsday; June 10, 2002)
"Three Israelis Killed in Dawn Shooting at Jewish Settlement" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; June 9, 2002)
"West Bank Couple Were Shot to Death on Their Doorstep" (Tracy Wilkinson; Los Angeles Times; June 9, 2002)
3 Dead in Israeli Settlement Attack" (AP; May 7, 2002)
"Palestinian Shoots Three Teenagers in Jewish Settlement" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; May 29, 2002)
"Arab Rakes Israeli Yeshiva With Gunfire; 3 Students Die" (John Kifner; Washington Post; May 29, 2002)
"Four Israelis Killed in West Bank; Calls Grow to Erect Protective Fence" (Daniel Williams; Washington Post; May 29, 2002)
"Israeli Teens Killed By Palestinian" (AP; May 28, 2002)
"Israeli Stabbed at Settlement of Beit El, Kills Palestinian Attacker" (Ha'aretz; May 18, 2002)
"Arabs in Disguise Kill Four Jewish Settlers in the West Bank" (James Bennet; New York Times; April 28, 2002)
"Four Israelis Die in West Bank Raid" (BBC; April 27, 2002)
12. Settler Violence
See also General resources on Israeli lawlessness, above.
a. Websites
Settler Violence and Occupation Watch (Alternative Information Center)
Settle Violence Hotline (The Palestinian Human Right Monitoring Group)
b. Articles
"Israeli Settlers Rampage after Blood-Soaked Week" (Phil Reeves; The Independent; June 22, 2002)
"Israel Arrests Settlers It Says Tried to Bomb Palestinians" (John Kifner; New York Times; May 19, 2002)
"Israelis Probed for 'Targeting Arabs'" (BBC; May 12, 2002)
"Two Settlers Caught Planting Bomb near East J'lem Hospital" (Jonathan Liss and Amit Ben-Aroya; Ha'aretz; May 11, 2002)
"Militant Jewish Group Claims Responsibility for Killing Eight Palestinians" (AP; May 9, 2002)
"Israel 'Tolerates Settler Violence'" (BBC; March 22, 2002)
"Settler Violence Escalates" (The Palestinian Human Right Monitoring Group; March 20, 2002)
"Israeli Settler Crimes" (LAW; November 2001)
"Free Rein: Vigilante Settlers and Israel's Non-Enforcement of the Law" (B'Tselem; Oct. 2001)
"Vigilantes Take Up Arms, Vow To Expel 'Muslim Filth'" (Jack Kelly; USA Today; Sept. 4, 2001)
"Tacit Consent: Law Enforcement towards Israeli Settlers in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem; March 2001)
"Center of the Storm: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District" (Human Rights Watch; April 2001)
"Criminal Negligence? Settler Violence and State Inaction during the Al-Aqsa Intifada" (Palestinian Human Rights Monitor; April 2001)
"Tacit Consent: Law Enforcement towards Israeli Settlers in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem; March 2001)
"The Hebron Massacre - 7 Long Years Ago" (Mid-East Realities; Feb. 24, 2001)
"Israel/ Occupied Territories: Impunity for Killers of Palestinians" (Amnesty International; Jan. 24, 2001)
"Settlers' Strikes Create Cold Fury" (Kathleen Kern; Baltimore Sun; January 3, 2001)
"Jewish Terrorists Try to Assassinate Three Palestinian Mayors" (Donal Neff; WRMEA; June 1999)
"Israeli Settlers, Soldiers Attack and Trash East Jerusalem Orphanage" (Pat McDonnell Twair; WRMEA; March 1997)
"Law Enforcement vis-a-vis Israeli Civilians in the Occupied Territories" (B'Tselem; March 1994)
"The Role of Israeli Settler Violence in the Current Crisis" (MADRE: undated)
C. Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse to Serve in the Occupied Territories
1. Organizations
Courage to Refuse
Yesh Gvul
2. Articles
"Officer Sentenced for 2nd Refusal to Serve in Occupied Territories" (Amos Harel; H'aretz; June 7, 2002)
"Why Israel's 'Seruvniks' Say Enough Is Enough" (Michael Sfard; May 24, 2002)
"Why Israel's 'Seruvniks' Say Enough Is Enough" (Michael Sfard; The Guardian/Observer Worldview; May 19, 2002)
"Soldiers Imprisoned for Refusing To Take Part in Human Rights Violations" (Amnesty International; May 14, 2002)
"Why I Refuse to Fight for Sharon's Settlements" (David Zonsheine; Washington Post; May 11, 2002)
"Israel Leans on Supporters of Objectors" (Ben Lynfield; Christian Science Monitor; May 7, 2002)
"A Mission Too Far" (Haim Weiss; The Guardian; May 6, 2002)
"430 Heroes in Israel" (Boston Globe editorial; April 27, 2002)
"Five More Israeli Refusinks Jailed Today" (Peretz Kidron; Yesh Gvul; April 25 2002)
"Refuseniks Provide a Glimmer of Hope" (Faisal Kutty; Media Monitors Network; April 25, 2002)
"Israeli 'Refusenik' Brings Case to US" (Corey Dade; Boston Globe; April 23, 2002)
"Some Israelis Refuse to Serve as the Only Honorable Option" (Shamai Leibowitz; Arab News; April 21, 2002)
"Taking Sides: The Green Line Between Israel and the Occupied Territories Divides Israelis, Too" (Richard Leiby; Washington Post; April 19, 2002)
"Israel's Reluctant Reservists Torn; 'Brutal Campaign' Weighs Heavily" (Anna Badkhen; S.F. Chronicle; April 18, 2002)
"Helicopter Pilot 'Refused Order to Blast Palestinian House'" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; April 18, 2002)
"Some Israelis Refuse to Serve as the Only Honorable Option" (Shamai Leibowitz; Chicago Tribune; April 14, 2002)
"Why Every Jewish Soldier Should Refuse" (Shamai Leibowitz; Gush Shalom; undated)
"Israel's Army of Peace" (Jonathan Freedland; The Guardian; March 6, 2002)
"An Antiwar Movement Grows in Israel" (Neve Gordon; The Nation; Feb. 25, 2002)
"Personal Testimony of an Israeli Refusenik" (Asaf Oron; Jewish Peace News; Feb. 24, 2002)
"Shooting and Handing Out Candy" (Gideon Levy; Ha'aretz; Feb. 17, 2002)
"Israeli Reservists Show Uncommon Bravery" (Amy Pagnozzi; Hartford Courant; Feb. 12, 2002)
"Reservists' Rebellion Highlights Cracks" (Barbara Plett; BBC; Feb. 2, 2002)
"Reservist Jailed for Refusing to Serve in Territories" (Yair Sheleg; Ha'aretz; June 15, 2001)
Israel: The Price of Principles; The Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors" (Amnesty International; Sept. 1999)
Sidebar: The Israeli Military
"Israel Has Sub-Based Atomic Arms Capability" (Walter Pincus; Washington Post; June 15, 2002)
"Our Son, the Rebel" (Suzanne Goldenberg; The Guardian; June 5, 2002) (on Mordechai Vanunu)
"UK Equipment Being Used in Israeli Attacks" (Richard Norton-Taylor; The Guardian; May 29, 2002)
"An Impossible Occupation" (Scott Anderson; New York Times Magazine; May 12, 2002)
"Army Units Fight for Land Rovers Captured in Ramallah" (Amos Harel; Ha'aretz; early May?, 2002)
"Secret UK Ban on Weapons for Israel" (The Guardian; April 13, 2002)
"Israel's Teenage Recruits" (Raffi Berg; BBC; April 29, 2002)
"Ill-Prepared For a Battle Unexpected" (John Lancaster; Washington Post; April 26, 2002)
'Bad Things Did Happen - We Had No Choice' (Philip Jacobson; The Telegraph; April 21, 2002)
'Terrorists Used Women and Children to Get Close to Us' (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 20, 2002)
'We Fight Like Girls And We Are Accused of a Massacre' (Ewen MacAskill; The Guardian; April 20, 2002)
"Helicopter Pilot 'Refused Order to Blast Palestinian House'" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; April 18, 2002)
"From Honeymoon to the Gates of Hell" (David Blair; The Telegraph; April 17, 2002)
"Arms Buildup in the Middle East" (Greg Orfalea; The Link; volume 14, issue 4 (September-October 1981))
| "The Arabs are not humans, they are animals." |
"Israel's Firepower Challenged" (Paul Adams; BBC; April 5, 2002)
"'I Don't Want to Be Here... But What Would You Do?'" (Peter Beaumont; The Guardian; April 7, 2002)
"Israeli Forces Command Devastating Range of Fire-Power (Tom Clonan; Irish Times; April 6, 2002)
"Israel's Culture of Reservists" (Kathryn Westcott; BBC; Feb. 1, 2002)
"Israel's Defense Budget: The Business Side of War" (Charmaine Seitz; Media Monitors Network; January 31, 2001)
"Israel's Arms Industry Produces Environmentally-Clean Weapons, Lead-Free Shells" (November 19, 1997)
Nuclear Proliferation: Israel (collection of articles)
D. International Peace Activists
1. Organizations
Main organization:
The International Solidarity Movement
Local organizations affiliated with ISM:
Colorado Campaign For Middle East Peace
Direct Action for Justice in Palestine (New York)
New Brunswick Solidarity Movement (Canada)
Philly ISM (Philadelphia)
More information on ISM:
Campaign Palestine
The Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People
Groups other than ISM:
Christian Peacemaker Teams (Chicago and Toronto)
Fellowship of Reconciliation--Interfaith Peacebuilders Program (Nyack, NY)
Grassroots International Protection For The Palestinian People (Ramallah)
United Civilians for Peace (Netherlands)
2. Articles
Collections:
Dispatches from Palestine (Trevor Baumgartner)
Other resources:
"Co-opting Solidarity: Privilege in the Palestine Solidarity Movement" (Nicole Solomon; Onward; 2002?)
Life in Palestine (Georgina Reeves 2002)
"Three Volunteers in Limbo" (Tom Segev; Ha'aretz; June 15, 2002)
"British Aid Worker Goes on Hunger Strike in Israeli Jail" (Terri Judd; The Independent; June 6, 2002)
"Activists Put Themselves in Firing Line" (Nao Shimoyachi; Japan Times; June 4, 2002)
"2 Students Defend Actions in Bethlehem" (Rebecca Trounson; Los Angeles Times; May 30, 2002)
"'They just went...'; Two American Students Jailed" (Cairo Times; May 27?, 2002)
"LAW Calls for Release of Five Internationals from Ramle" (LAW; May 20, 2002)
"From Bristol to Bethlehem" (Guardian; May 16, 2002)
"Bethlehem Protesters on Hunger Strike" (BBC; May 15, 2002)
"Shielded From Reality" (Herbert Gold; Los Angeles Times; May 12, 2002) Negative opinion piece.
"Ten Internationals Arrested by Israeli Army Inside Nativity Church in Bethlehem" (ISM; May 10, 2002)
"Briton in Hunger Strike Protest" (Ian Cobain; The Times (London); May 7, 2002)
"ISM Members Enter Church of Nativity and [Are] Brutally Assaulted" (Huwaida Arraf and Dennis B. Warner; ISM; May 5, 2002)
"Britons in Manger Square Aid Effort" (David Pallister; The Guardian; May 4, 2002)
"British Parents Beg 'Human Shield' Son to Come Home" (Ian Cobain; The Times (London); May 4, 2002)
"Irish Nurse Is Among 10 Peace Activists in Church: (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; May 3, 2002)
"For Activists With Arafat, a Whiff of Relief: Deal to End Siege Is Hailed As Success for Their Tactics" (Doug Struck; Washington Post; May 1, 2002)
"Bethlehem Diary: A Worker for Peace Gets a Taste of War" (Ribhi Mustafa; Philadelphia Inquirer; April 29, 2002)
"Internationals and Palestinians: 'We Showed Them. They Know Now. We Are in Solidarity'" (Kristen Schurr; April 16, 2002)
"International Solidarity Movement Enters Jenin Refugee Camp" (ISM; April 15, 2002)
"International 'Observers' Should Look Deeper" (Samantha M. Shapiro; Seattle Weekly; April 15, 2002) An absolutely insane piece, originally published by the weekly Seattle alternative paper and then web-posted by AlterNet. Is this what liberalism has to offer?
"The World Is Watching: An Interview With Neta Golan" (Ian Urbina; In These Times; April 12, 2002)
"International Nonviolence and Inner Disarmament" (Nancy Stohlman; CounterPunch; April 12, 2002)
"Bethlehem Diary" (Paul Stockley; Guardian; April 12, 2002)
"World Bank to West Bank" (George Monbiot; The Guardian; April 9, 2002)
"Bethlehem Diary" (Paul Stockley; Guardian ; April 8, 2002)
"Front Line Life of an Irish Peace Crusader" (Michael McCaughan; The Guardian; April 7, 2002)
"British Woman Tells of Bethlehem Shootings" (Robert Mendick; The Independent; April 7, 2002)
"New York City: Witness To The Israeli Military -- Is Adam Shapiro A Traitor?" (Laura Flanders; TomPaine.com; April 5, 2002)
"Britons Taunted for Peace Protest" (Chris Johnston; The Times (London); April 5, 2002)
"Traitors? Not--Internationals Risk Their Lives to Shield Civilians in the West Bank" (Laura Flanders; WorkingforChange.com; April 4, 2002)
"Hatred Runs Rampant in the Land of the Free" (Eric Alterman; MSNBC; April 4, 2002)
"Adam Shapiro Ranks As a Mideast Hero" (Sheryl McCarthy; Newsday; April 4, 2002)
"Bringing Non-Violence to the West Bank" (Eve Pell and Will Evans; AlterNet; April 4, 2002)
"As Long as the Tank Doesn't Roll into the Camp, I'm Safe..." (Elizabeth Zuckerman; Union News; April 4, 2002)
"Under Fire in Bethlehem" (Nicholas Blincoe; The Guardian; April 3, 2002)
"'I Never Thought They Would Fire Live Rounds'" (Peter Beaumont and Martin Wainwright; The Guardian; April 3, 2002)
"Cowen Calls for Access to Irish Peace Activist" (Alison Healy; Irish Times; April 3, 2002)
"Israelis Wound 5 Peace Activists" (Michael Jansen; Irish Times; April 2, 2002)
"Irishwoman to Remain inside Arafat Compound Despite Warnings from Israeli Army" (Kitty Holland; Irish Times; April 1, 2002)
"British Students Act as Shields" (Stephen Farrell; The Times (London); April 1, 2002)
"American Held Captive by Armed Israeli Soldiers; US Consulate Fails to Act Again" (March?, 2002)