Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the...

[tinnypriv]

Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the OPT
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)

After the Palestinian and Israeli sides had concluded a security deal at the beginning of the week, Israeli occupying forces redeployed in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, ending a 2-month military siege.

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In the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupying forces conducted 5 incursions into Palestinian areas. On 27 June 2003, Israeli occupying forces, reinforced with military vehicles and helicopters, invaded al-Mughraqa village, south of Gaza city. They destroyed 3 houses belonging to families of wanted Palestinians. Four Palestinians were killed in armed clashes with Israeli forces.

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In an apparent willful killing, on 1 July 2003, Israeli occupying forces shot dead a Palestinian civilian near a military checkpoint, south of Tulkram. An Israeli military spokesman claimed that the victim had fired at Israeli soldiers, but eyewitnesses denied this claim.

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http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2003/03-07-2003.htm

[acmavm]

1. I wish someone would explain to me why the Israelis

demolish the homes of relatives of suspected or known terrorists or "wanted" persons. I suppose this is supposed to be a deterrence to terrorism, but I can't see how it's working. This would seem to me to compound the problem.

"Hey, this guy is a terrorist so let's make his whole family homeless, destroy everything they have. Then they'll cooperate."

Or in this case, "wanted" Palestinians. Does the theory of punishing the entire family for the actions of one person really work? I don't see how. If my brother did something and my family home was destroyed, I'd probably do something they didn't like as well, just out of resentment.

edit: trying to get all of the first sentence to show up

[Darranar]

2. Agreed...

This strategy doesn't seem to be working. It seems to me that Sharon badly wants to stop terrorism without dismantling the settlements or working seriously towards peace, but he doesn't know how. This is one of the things he is trying to do that he hopes will stop it. It most certainly isn't working.

In other words, he's acting like Bush, and getting pretty much the same results.

[Herschel]

3. How are these human rights violations?

Destroying houses of wanted Palestinians? Shooting a man that first shot at Israeli soldiers? Stop to consider what actions laid the groundwork for these events.

[tinnypriv]

4. LOL

n/t

[Gimel]

5. Hudna is the Arabic word

Hudna means "cease-fire" in order to gather resources for another assault. The terror groups are demanding that Israel stops arresting their members. Like before the Intifada, the quiet time is preparation for more combat.

Experience shows that the Arabs have exploited cease-fires in the past to accumulate strength for the next round of conflict. In August 1970 Israel and Egypt accepted the cease-fire initiated by the United States after a three-year war of attrition. The Egyptians hastened to bring their anti-aircraft missiles closer to the canal to restrict the Israel Air Force's freedom of movement, and to prepare for the future crossing of the canal and getting Sinai back.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=312097&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y


Israel Defense Forces troops on Monday arrested six Islamic Jihad activists near the West Bank town of Jenin, said the militant group's West Bank leader, Sheik Bassam Saadi.

An IDF spokesman confirmed the claim and said the six were
part of a squad preparing explosives in the area.

Saadi said if arrests continued the group would abandon a cease-fire declared just over a week ago by Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Fatah. "We agreed on the truce based on conditions (including) to stop arresting our activists," he said.

In the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, armed Palestinians on Monday afternoon were firing light weapons and grenades at the Termit army
outpost, Israel Radio reported. The report said that IDF troops were not returning fire, although the Palestinian shooting had continued
for several hours.

<snip>

Israel has demanded that the Palestinian Authority crack down on militants before it moves forward on troop withdrawals from other
Palestinian areas under its control.

Israel withdrew from parts of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Bethlehem as part of a security agreement launching the implementation of the road map last week. It says further pull-backs depend on a Palestinian crackdown on militants.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/315196.html


(this killing is totally absent from the PCHR Palestinian Report.)

Gunmen kill foreign worker east of Jenin on first day of cease-fire http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=313128&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
IDF kills gunman at Tul Karm roadblock

Israeli soldiers killed an armed Palestinian near
Tul Karm yesterday after the man opened fire at
them.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=313548&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y