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.
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.
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