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August 2002


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Palestinians carry the body of Mohammed El Masri, 25, through the streets of Beit Hanoun northern Gaza Strip, during his funeral Sunday, Aug.11, 2002. Israeli troops killed El Masri as he was trying to infiltrate into Israel near the Niram kibbutz.

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A Palestinian gestures at Israeli soldiers after they arrested his son in the West Bank city of Hebron August 17, 2002. Israeli soldiers combed the streets of the West Bank city of Hebron for Palestinian militants, rounding up at least 100 people and injuring several more with stun grenades, witnesses said.

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Detained Palestinians pray while Israeli soldiers guard them in the West Bank city of Hebron, August 21, 2002. Israeli tanks and helicopters raided a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and destroyed buildings. A Palestinian civilian was killed when a house collapsed on him, residents said.

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A Palestinian doctor places a name tag onto the chest of the body of Palestinian Mohammed al-Hajeen, age 20, as his wounds are shown to family members and jouranlists, at a morgue, in Gaza City, Gaza, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002. al-Hajeen, and three family members which included a mother and her two adult sons, were killed late the previous night when an Israeli tank at a base south of Gaza fired shells at people approaching the base, and one of the shells went astray, landing on a house.


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10.08.2002, A Palestinian was killed by Israeli tank fire, as the two leaderships exchanged recriminations of murder and terror, casting a pall over the second day of high-level talks between a Palestinian delegation and US officials. A Palestinian civilian standing in front of his house was shot dead by Israeli troops imposing a curfew on the reoccupied northern West Bank town of Tulkarem.

20.08.2002, No sooner had Israeli tanks rolled out of the streets of Bethlehem, than a hundred Israeli armored personnel carriers and thousands of crack troops, backed by helicopter gunships, attacked the Tulkarm refugee camp in the northern West Bank, terrorizing inhabitants and killing two Palestinians. The invading forces began house-to-house searches for “wanted Palestinians” in the quiet hours before dawn, amid intensive and often indiscriminate firing in all directions in the heavily-populated camp.

21.08.2002, Israeli occupation troops, backed by armored personnel carriers and helicopter gunships, attacked a Palestinian refugee camp south of Gaza, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring five others. The forces were leaving the camp, having destroyed several homes, an Israeli tank fired an artillery shell on a group of onlookers, killing a man identified as Adnan Hasan.

22.08.2002, The Israeli occupation army has demolished over 21 homes in the past 24 hours. All of the demolitions took place in the Gaza Strip, especially in Khan Younis and Rafah. 450 Palestinian civilians were made homeless in a single Israeli army operation.

26.08.2002, Israeli occupation troops, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, attacked the northern West Bank town of Jenin and an adjacent refugee camp. The troops arrested Sheikh Jamal Abu Al-Haija, a prominent Hamas political activist in the Jenin camp. Israel and the PA reached a deal last week whereby the Israeli army was to withdraw gradually from erstwhile PA-rune towns in return for the restoration of PA security administration in the said towns.

27.08.2002, An Israeli occupation soldier was killed and others were injured in what an Israeli spokesman termed an “incident.” The spokesman said the soldier died when an armored personnel carriers turned upside down near the settlement of Betar south of Bethlehem. Several other soldiers were also injured in the incident.

31.08.2002, At least five Palestinians, including two children and two teenage boys, and other civilians were injured when Israeli apache helicopter gunship attacked a passenger car at a village of Tubas in the northern West Bank. Palestinian sources said two Israeli apache helicopters fired hell-fire missiles at a car in which Anwar Daraghmeh, a local resistance activist, was traveling, killing him and reducing the car to charred, twisted metal. With Daraghmeh, two teenage boys were also killed and completely incinerated. The same gunship then hit a home, killing two children, one aged five and the other ten.