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ONE DAY'S SAD HARVEST OF 4 ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
Following, is a report of some of the human rights violations carried out today in the Occupied Territories.The incidents listed represent only a MINUTE PORTION of the human rights violations being committed throughout the West Bank.This report paints ONLY a partial picture and does not necessarily reflect the worst of the human rights violations being perpetrated.
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B'Tselem, ACRI, HaMoked and PHR-Israel: Daily Briefing
Following, is a report of some of the human rights violations carried out today in the Occupied Territories. The events included in this report are only those about which human rights organizations have been able to obtain information. The incidents listed represent only a minute portion of the human rights violations being committed throughout the West Bank. This report paints only a partial picture and does not necessarily reflect the worst of the human rights violations being perpetrated. Most of the information below was received by telephone, since fieldworkers are unable to reach the victims and eyewitnesses in order to collect testimonies in person. The information has been verified to the greatest extent possible given the current circumstances.
1. 60-year-old ‘Ali Faraj, resident of Bethlehem, left his house yesterday at around 3:00 PM to buy food in Beit Jala. In his house, where nine people live, food has run out. Even though the curfew in Bethlehem had not been lifted, Faraj took advantage of the fact that the curfew in Beit Jala was lifted for a few hours. After he had bought some food supplies, he returned to Bethlehem. On the way back, soldiers stationed near Bab a-Zaqaq junction in the city noticed him.
They shot him dead. A Red Crescent crew which was passing by was stopped by the soldiers who told them to go to Faraj's body and fetch his identification card.
After having done so, the crew took the body to the morgue. (Source: B'Tselem)
2. Yesterday morning, a tank shelled a house located across the street from the house of A.A, resident of Hebron District, in his early 40’s. After the shelling, soldiers entered A.A.’s house, took position on the roof and fired at the house across the street using their personal weapons. As a result of the intensive shooting, a fire broke out in the house. The soldiers asked a Palestinian man to enter the house, put the fire out and remove a scorched body that was inside it. The soldiers who were on A.A.’s roof ordered A.A. and his 32-year-old cousin I.A to carry the body for a distance of about 100 meters.
After interrogating the two men as to the identity of the deceased and the residents of the house where he was found, the soldiers let them go.
In the afternoon, the soldiers returned to A.A.’s home, searched it, and locked the family members in one of the rooms. After the search was conducted, the soldiers ordered A.A. to go out into the street with them. One of the soldiers pointed his gun at A.A’s back. He was forced to walk in front of them and serve as a “human shield”. A.A. was ordered to knock on doors and order the residents to get out. At the end of the “patrol” he was allowed to return to his home. (Source: B'Tselem)
3. At present, 3,353 Palestinians who have been detained since the beginning of operation “Defensive Wall” are held in various holding facilities throughout the Occupied Territories and Israel. 281 of these men are held in administrative detention at Ofer military camp. Before operation “Defensive Wall” began, 60 Palestinians were held in administrative detention. Information received since yesterday about Ofer camp reveals difficult holding conditions and severe violations of detainees’ dignity. During the first three days, detainees did not
receive any food at all and only small quantities of drinking water. Access to bathrooms depended on the mood of the soldiers. The detainees are held in open sheds in groups of about 150 detainees per shed. They sleep on the ground in crowded conditions. During their entire detention, detainees’ hands are cuffed behind their backs. (Source: HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual)
4. On April 3, 2002, over the course of the second day of the IDF’s incursion into Bethlehem, an 80-year-old resident of the city, Yussef Hizboun, had a stroke. As a result of the curfew and intensive gunfire, medical crews could not reach the house to evacuate him. On April 9, Hizboun died. Only last night, did his family manage to get his body to the hospital in Beit Jala. (Source: B'Tselem)
5. 12 kidney patients, who reside in the city of Jenin, have been unable to reach hospital for dialysis treatment. Most of them have gone without treatment for about a week. Prevention of this vital treatment poses a severe danger to their lives. (Source: Physicians for Human Rights Israel)
6. 68-year-old Fahima Najajra, from Bethlehem is a cancer patient who is receiving chemotherapy. Her medication ran out on April 8, 2002. Her family has been unable to get her more medication due to the curfew. Two days ago, on April 9, 2002, she felt severe pain. Her family contacted the Red Crescent in the afternoon and asked that she be taken to hospital. At 4:00 PM, the Red Crescent informed the family that they had managed to coordinate her evacuation to hospital with the military and that an ambulance was on its way. 15 minutes later, the Red Crescent informed them that the soldiers were not letting the ambulance through. At around 10:00 PM, Najajra passed away. Her body was taken to hospital only today at noon. (Source: B'Tselem)
7. Between April 3 and 6, 2002, some 130 released detainees were transported by bus from Ofer camp to Qalandiya checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramallah. The detainees who live in the vicinity of the checkpoint made it home on foot. The others, who live further away, cannot return home because of the curfews imposed
in many parts of the Occupied Territories. They are currently housed at the community center in Qalandiya. Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq has been trying to arrange private buses to take them home, so far without success. (Source: HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual)
8. 22-year-old Shinhaz Shatara lives at ‘Askar refugee camp in Nablus District.
Over the last few days soldiers have taken position on the roofs of two houses near hers. Yesterday evening, her three-year-old son ‘Alaa, left the house to play on the street. Shatara ran after him quickly, but the soldiers shot both of them before she could reach him. Shatara and her son were injured. For three
hours, relatives pleaded with the soldiers to be allowed take the two to hospital, but the soldiers refused. Farouq Shatara, a relative, whose roof was overtaken by the soldiers, went up asked the soldiers again to evacuate the injured. A short while after that, the IDF evacuated Shatara and her son.
Relatives have not been told where the two were taken. At the time of writing, over 24 hours after their evacuation, relatives do not know their whereabouts.
B'Tselem and HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual are trying to locate them. (Source: B'Tselem)
9. M.H., from Ramallah, was detained on March 30, 2002 and taken to Ofer military camp. On April 6, 2002, he was released, but the soldiers did not return his identification card, which had been taken upon detention. Yesterday, M.H. was again detained by soldiers because he did not have his identification card. Other detainees have told HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual that after their release personal possessions such as identification cards, cell phones and money were not returned to them. (Source: HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual)
10. Last night, at around 11:00 PM, B'Tselem received a call from a representative of the last group of armed Palestinians remaining in Jenin refugee camp. According to the caller, the group wished to surrender, but in
light of rumors of the IDF shooting Palestinians who have surrendered, they requested to have a representative of B'Tselem present when they turn themselves in. The group included three wounded Palestinians, of whom one was a 13-year-old boy. After lengthy overnight negotiations between the armed Palestinian and the IDF, brokered by B'Tselem, the 29 Palestinians left the house where they had been holed up. The soldiers arrested them. (Source: B'Tselem)
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B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories is the leading Israeli organization monitoring, documenting and advocating to improve human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Founded in 1989, B'Tselem publishes reports, engages in advocacy and serves as a resource center.
8 HaTa'asiya St. (4th Floor),
Talpiot, Jerusalem 93420, Israel
Telephone: 02-6735599, Fax: 02-6749111
listserve [at] btselem.org
http://www.btselem.org
email addresses of the other three human rights organizations:
HaMoked (Center for rights of the individual) <mail [at] hamoked.org.il>
Association for Civil Rights in Israel <mail [at] acri.org.il>
Physicians for Human Rights <phr [at] netvision.net.il>
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The Other Israel - bi-monthly peace movement magazine
pob 2542, Holon 58125, Israel; ph/fx: +972-3-5565804;
for free sample hardcopy mailto: otherisr [at] actcom.co.il
http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
SUBSCRIBE YOURSELF to email updates:
by sending a blank mail to: Gush-Shalom-subscribe [at] topica.com
B'Tselem, ACRI, HaMoked and PHR-Israel: Daily Briefing
Following, is a report of some of the human rights violations carried out today in the Occupied Territories. The events included in this report are only those about which human rights organizations have been able to obtain information. The incidents listed represent only a minute portion of the human rights violations being committed throughout the West Bank. This report paints only a partial picture and does not necessarily reflect the worst of the human rights violations being perpetrated. Most of the information below was received by telephone, since fieldworkers are unable to reach the victims and eyewitnesses in order to collect testimonies in person. The information has been verified to the greatest extent possible given the current circumstances.
1. 60-year-old ‘Ali Faraj, resident of Bethlehem, left his house yesterday at around 3:00 PM to buy food in Beit Jala. In his house, where nine people live, food has run out. Even though the curfew in Bethlehem had not been lifted, Faraj took advantage of the fact that the curfew in Beit Jala was lifted for a few hours. After he had bought some food supplies, he returned to Bethlehem. On the way back, soldiers stationed near Bab a-Zaqaq junction in the city noticed him.
They shot him dead. A Red Crescent crew which was passing by was stopped by the soldiers who told them to go to Faraj's body and fetch his identification card.
After having done so, the crew took the body to the morgue. (Source: B'Tselem)
2. Yesterday morning, a tank shelled a house located across the street from the house of A.A, resident of Hebron District, in his early 40’s. After the shelling, soldiers entered A.A.’s house, took position on the roof and fired at the house across the street using their personal weapons. As a result of the intensive shooting, a fire broke out in the house. The soldiers asked a Palestinian man to enter the house, put the fire out and remove a scorched body that was inside it. The soldiers who were on A.A.’s roof ordered A.A. and his 32-year-old cousin I.A to carry the body for a distance of about 100 meters.
After interrogating the two men as to the identity of the deceased and the residents of the house where he was found, the soldiers let them go.
In the afternoon, the soldiers returned to A.A.’s home, searched it, and locked the family members in one of the rooms. After the search was conducted, the soldiers ordered A.A. to go out into the street with them. One of the soldiers pointed his gun at A.A’s back. He was forced to walk in front of them and serve as a “human shield”. A.A. was ordered to knock on doors and order the residents to get out. At the end of the “patrol” he was allowed to return to his home. (Source: B'Tselem)
3. At present, 3,353 Palestinians who have been detained since the beginning of operation “Defensive Wall” are held in various holding facilities throughout the Occupied Territories and Israel. 281 of these men are held in administrative detention at Ofer military camp. Before operation “Defensive Wall” began, 60 Palestinians were held in administrative detention. Information received since yesterday about Ofer camp reveals difficult holding conditions and severe violations of detainees’ dignity. During the first three days, detainees did not
receive any food at all and only small quantities of drinking water. Access to bathrooms depended on the mood of the soldiers. The detainees are held in open sheds in groups of about 150 detainees per shed. They sleep on the ground in crowded conditions. During their entire detention, detainees’ hands are cuffed behind their backs. (Source: HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual)
4. On April 3, 2002, over the course of the second day of the IDF’s incursion into Bethlehem, an 80-year-old resident of the city, Yussef Hizboun, had a stroke. As a result of the curfew and intensive gunfire, medical crews could not reach the house to evacuate him. On April 9, Hizboun died. Only last night, did his family manage to get his body to the hospital in Beit Jala. (Source: B'Tselem)
5. 12 kidney patients, who reside in the city of Jenin, have been unable to reach hospital for dialysis treatment. Most of them have gone without treatment for about a week. Prevention of this vital treatment poses a severe danger to their lives. (Source: Physicians for Human Rights Israel)
6. 68-year-old Fahima Najajra, from Bethlehem is a cancer patient who is receiving chemotherapy. Her medication ran out on April 8, 2002. Her family has been unable to get her more medication due to the curfew. Two days ago, on April 9, 2002, she felt severe pain. Her family contacted the Red Crescent in the afternoon and asked that she be taken to hospital. At 4:00 PM, the Red Crescent informed the family that they had managed to coordinate her evacuation to hospital with the military and that an ambulance was on its way. 15 minutes later, the Red Crescent informed them that the soldiers were not letting the ambulance through. At around 10:00 PM, Najajra passed away. Her body was taken to hospital only today at noon. (Source: B'Tselem)
7. Between April 3 and 6, 2002, some 130 released detainees were transported by bus from Ofer camp to Qalandiya checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramallah. The detainees who live in the vicinity of the checkpoint made it home on foot. The others, who live further away, cannot return home because of the curfews imposed
in many parts of the Occupied Territories. They are currently housed at the community center in Qalandiya. Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq has been trying to arrange private buses to take them home, so far without success. (Source: HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual)
8. 22-year-old Shinhaz Shatara lives at ‘Askar refugee camp in Nablus District.
Over the last few days soldiers have taken position on the roofs of two houses near hers. Yesterday evening, her three-year-old son ‘Alaa, left the house to play on the street. Shatara ran after him quickly, but the soldiers shot both of them before she could reach him. Shatara and her son were injured. For three
hours, relatives pleaded with the soldiers to be allowed take the two to hospital, but the soldiers refused. Farouq Shatara, a relative, whose roof was overtaken by the soldiers, went up asked the soldiers again to evacuate the injured. A short while after that, the IDF evacuated Shatara and her son.
Relatives have not been told where the two were taken. At the time of writing, over 24 hours after their evacuation, relatives do not know their whereabouts.
B'Tselem and HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual are trying to locate them. (Source: B'Tselem)
9. M.H., from Ramallah, was detained on March 30, 2002 and taken to Ofer military camp. On April 6, 2002, he was released, but the soldiers did not return his identification card, which had been taken upon detention. Yesterday, M.H. was again detained by soldiers because he did not have his identification card. Other detainees have told HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual that after their release personal possessions such as identification cards, cell phones and money were not returned to them. (Source: HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual)
10. Last night, at around 11:00 PM, B'Tselem received a call from a representative of the last group of armed Palestinians remaining in Jenin refugee camp. According to the caller, the group wished to surrender, but in
light of rumors of the IDF shooting Palestinians who have surrendered, they requested to have a representative of B'Tselem present when they turn themselves in. The group included three wounded Palestinians, of whom one was a 13-year-old boy. After lengthy overnight negotiations between the armed Palestinian and the IDF, brokered by B'Tselem, the 29 Palestinians left the house where they had been holed up. The soldiers arrested them. (Source: B'Tselem)
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B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories is the leading Israeli organization monitoring, documenting and advocating to improve human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Founded in 1989, B'Tselem publishes reports, engages in advocacy and serves as a resource center.
8 HaTa'asiya St. (4th Floor),
Talpiot, Jerusalem 93420, Israel
Telephone: 02-6735599, Fax: 02-6749111
listserve [at] btselem.org
http://www.btselem.org
email addresses of the other three human rights organizations:
HaMoked (Center for rights of the individual) <mail [at] hamoked.org.il>
Association for Civil Rights in Israel <mail [at] acri.org.il>
Physicians for Human Rights <phr [at] netvision.net.il>
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The Other Israel - bi-monthly peace movement magazine
pob 2542, Holon 58125, Israel; ph/fx: +972-3-5565804;
for free sample hardcopy mailto: otherisr [at] actcom.co.il
http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
SUBSCRIBE YOURSELF to email updates:
by sending a blank mail to: Gush-Shalom-subscribe [at] topica.com
For more information:
http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
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