01.04.2002, Israeli tanks and thousands of troops attacked the Palestinian town of Qaliqilya in the northern part of the West Bank. Palestinian sources in Qalqilya said more than 70 Israeli tanks and nearly 5000 soldiers stormed the defenseless city amid heavy indiscriminate firing on the streets and residential neighborhoods. The Israeli army said eight of its soldiers were wounded when an explosive roadside charge went off near a contingent of Israeli troops in the city. One soldier was reportedly seriously wounded in the blast.

02.04.2002, An Italian priest Jacques Amateis, 65 was killed and a number of nuns injured inside a church in Bethlehem when Israeli helicopter gunships and artillery bombarded Palestinian civilian neighborhoods in the birth place of Jesus. Earlier, an apache helicopters strafed the vicinity of the Church of the Nativity with heavy machine gun fire, injuring many people. In a similar incident, Israeli tanks fired artillery shells at a Mosque in the Palestinian town of Tulkarm, inflicting heavy damage.

05.04.2002, Israeli army assassinated six member of the military wing of Hamas at the village of Tubas near Nablus. Among the six was Qayes Odwan, a prominent member of Hamas military wing, the Izzidin Al Qassam Brigades. Palestinian medical sources said two people were killed as local Palestinian defendants sought to put up a resistance to the invading Israeli forces.

07.04.2002, The Israeli occupation army is reportedly carrying out acts of random killing at a Palestinian refugee camp near the northern West Bank town of Jenin. Refugees at the "Jenin camp," under siege for the fifth consecutive day, said Israeli tanks were bombarding the cottages of the camp while apache helicopters strafed it from above, inflicting heavy casualties among civilians. Hospital sources in Nablus reported that as many as 15 people were killed and scores others injured.

09.04.2002, Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres reportedly has admitted that the Israeli occupation army carried out a huge massacre of civilians at the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The Jerusalem Post, reported that Peres described the ongoing Israeli army rampage at the camp as "a massacre.' Survivors at the camp spoke of hundreds of people killed after Israeli tanks and warplanes blanket bombed the camp, pop. 20,000, killing hundreds of civilians, most of them still buried under the rubble. The Israeli army reportedly adamantly refused to allow medics and rescue teams to reach the camp to transfer the wounded to hospital.

11.04.2002, Thousands of Palestinians gathered from various towns and villages in al-khalil district to take part in the funeral of three martyrs. Martyr Akram al-Atrash, a Qassam commander who was murdered 10.04.2002 by the Israeli occupation army in Dura, Martyr Refat al-Jeba (21 years) who was killed in an explosion that took place this morning in Bab al-Zawya, and Martyr Abdel-Qader Dodeen, who was murdered by the Israeli occupation 3 days ago in Dura, but his family was not allowed to bury him because of the imposed curfew. The funeral, started from the community hospital where the bodies of the martyrs were kept, to a nearby mosque to offer prayers on the souls of the martyrs and then to Khalil-a-rrahman burial ground.

18.04.2002, Israeli occupation soldiers, riding in personnel carriers with their machineguns continued for the tenth consecutive day to imposed a strict curfew on Dura, 12 kilometers south west of al-Khalil, in the southern West Bank. On several occasions, Israeli soldiers opened fire on children venturing outside their homes, injuring fifteen of them. Moreover, the body of a sixth martyr was found in a valley north of Dura Thursday. Palestinian sources said the body is of 42-year-old Ibrahim Mahmoud Iwshah, who had been missing for a week. Five other Palestinians were killed, including two civilians who were leaving a mosque after performing the dawn prayer.

23.04.2002, The Israeli occupation army assassinated Marwan Zalloum, a prominent local resistance activist, and his aide, Samir Abu Rajab, by rocketing the car in which they were driving. Eyewitnesses said two apache helicopters fired several air-to-ground missiles at the car shortly after midnight Monday, ripping it off and incinerating Zalloum and abu Rajab beyond recognition.

28.04.2002, Israeli armey shoot and killed a Palestinian boy as he tried to circumvent a roadblock on his way back to his village. The Israeli occupation army has been imposing a tight "closure" on most Palestinian population centers, cutting them from each other and virtually isolating them from the rest of the world. Hospital sources said Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on Osama Jabarin, 16, as he tried to bypass an army roadblock outside the village of Sa'ir, 10 miles north West of al-Khalil (Hebron).

29.04.2002, More than a hundred Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers, backed by helicopter gunships, rampaged through al-Khalil (Hebron) and opened fire with heavy machineguns, killing and wounded scores of Palestinians, mostly innocent civilians. Hospital sources in al-Khalil said at least nine people, including seven civilians, were confirmed dead and more than 40 injured. Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops, who imposed curfew on the city, were shooting at everything moving and preventing medical rescuers from evacuating the wounded from the streets. Palestinians also reported that the Occupation forces destroyed several buildings and vandalized homes and businesses.