Ismail Abu-Elross funeral. (1-Dec-00)	Beit Jala attack. (5-Dec-00)

Israeli soldiers shot at least four Palestinians, including a child, dead. Muhammad Arja (12 years old), was deliberately murdered by an Israeli soldier near the Salahuddin Gate at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. Medhat Jadallah (17 years old) succumbed to the serious wounds he had sustained during clashes in Gaza strip. Ibrahim Muhammad Shehadeh from Qalandya refugee camp and Hamzeh Nadi Alhasis of the town of El-Sammou, 20 miles south west of Hebron both has been killed by Israeli army.

The Israeli army strafed several neighborhoods with machinegun rounds at night, causing substantial damage to residential houses and buildings. Israeli occupation gunners fired several artillery shells and heavy machine gun rounds at the Princess Alya hospital in downtown Hebron, inflicting heavy damage and forcing many terrorized patients to seek cover.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling Israel’s imposition of “its laws, jurisdiction and administration” on Jerusalem illegal.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian worker Shehadh Musa Al-Ja’afari as he was doing electric works at a building under construction in Al-Bireh north of Ramallah.

A report prepared by a team of doctors expedited by American human rights’ organization to the occupied lands revealed that more than one thousand Palestinians would suffer from permanent disability as a result of Israeli use of excessive force to quell the Palestinian intifada raging since last 29 September.

Over thirty Palestinians were injured, seven seriously when Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers attacked the village of Housan, a few miles west of Bethlehem. Several Israeli settlers opened fire on mosque-goers soon after sunset, injuring two people seriously.

Israeli helicopter gunships strafed two refugee camps near Bethlehem, injuring several refugees and causing substantial damage to property.

An Islamist Palestinian guerrilla Awadh Saleh Salmi (27 years old) was killed and his body was badly mutilated when an explosive device went off near the Mintar Crossing in the Gaza Strip.

The town of Beit Jala and the neighboring refugee camps of Ayda and al-Azza have been coming under heavy Israeli shelling from the Jewish settlement of Gilo. The civilian neighborhoods were shelled with heavy ammunition and bombs.

More than 150,000 people took part in the funeral procession of Awad Silmi including Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and all leaders of the Movement in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian court in Nablus has sentenced the killer of Hamas guerrilla Ibrahim Bani Odeh to death by firing squad.

Israeli occupation troops fired several tear gas shells at the Sharja School for Girls in Kalkilya, causing as many as fifty children to suffocate. The girls were taken to the main hospital in Kalkilya for treatment of gas-inhalation.

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Here are some photos of today :

Palestinian mourners shout Islamic slogans as they carry the body of 20-year-old Ismail Abu-Elross during his funeral along the streets of the Bureij refugee camp in southern Gaza city. (01-Dec-00)

Israeli small arms fire and small shells pour into the Palestinian town of Beit Jala near a church. (05-Dec-00)

Israeli soldiers check the identity papers of a Palestinian man crossing an Israeli checkpoint near the Israeli settlement of Gush-Katif in Khan-Younes south of the Gaza Strip. (07-Dec-00)
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Ismail Abu-Elross funeral. (01-Dec-00)
Beit Jala attack. (05-Dec-00)
Gaza closed boarders. (07-Dec-00)

Hebron clashes. (10-Dec-00)	Beit Jala damage. (12-Dec-00)

Israeli soldiers and settlers murdered eight Palestinians throughout the West Bank. Four of the murdered are members of the Palestinian Authority general security force who were just getting ready for their Ramadan meal. The bodies of the four, who were manning a roadblock near the village of Jalqamous near Jenin, were badly mutilated. Two more Palestinians were killed in Jerusalem and Bethlehem during marches protesting the Israeli army’s barring of Muslims from reaching Islamic holy places in Jerusalem for the Friday prayers. Another two Palestinians were hacked to death by marauding Jewish settlers around Jerusalem.

Two Jewish settlers living on occupied Arab land were shot dead. A third settler was later shot near Jericho.

The occupation army blockaded major Palestinian towns in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip preventing Palestinian from entering or leaving their immediate localities, even for an emergency.

A Hebron child Mansour Jaber (12 years old) who was shot and seriously injured by Jewish terrorists near the settlement of Kiryat Arb’a, was listed in critical condition. The child, underwent a five-hour surgery to stop a sever internal hemorrhage caused by three bullet injuries to his lung and liver. The group of armed Jewish settlers from the nearby settlements of Kiryat Arba and Kharsina seized the home of Ata Jaber at the Baka’a neighborhood. The settlers removed furniture and raised the Israeli flag atop the Palestinian home, which has been demolished twice and rebuilt in defiance of the Israeli occupiers. When the Jaber family refused to leave their home, the settlers opened fire on the family members, seriously injuring Mansour in the chest and the belly.

Three Palestinians fell martyrs in the West Bank at the hands of Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers. In Bethlehem Mahmoud Yousef Al Muhghrabi (24 year old) was killed in a resistance mission near Beit Jala, apparently while trying to plant a roadside charge near the tunnel route which bypasses the Arab town. Another Palestinian, a 19 years old, was reportedly killed near the village of Beit Furik near the northern West Bank town of Nablus. And in Hebron, Ahli hospital announced that Ahmed Kawasmi (14 year old) was clinically dead, having been severely injured by gunshot wounds inflicted by Israeli undercover soldiers. The soldiers reportedly captured the child outside the Ali Bakka Mosque in downtown Hebron , dragged him to the ground, and according to an eyewitness one soldier pressed his boot against the child neck and then shot him in the head. Another Hebron child is still fighting for his life in a Jerusalem hospital.

In the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were laid to rest today. Salim Hamaydeh (12 years old) and Muhammed Judeh (24 year old ) .

311 Palestinian martyrs have fallen since the outbreak of the Aqsa intifada ten weeks ago. The number of Injuries topped 11,000. Around 14 Israeli soldiers and settlers died in the same period.

Israeli premier Ehud Barak tabled his resignation to president Moshe Katzav after admitting that the Palestinian intifada was the reason for his resignation.

One Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in the West Bank town of Nablus. Anwar Ahmed Hamran (28 years old) studies at the Alqods Open University. was killed at the Dahiya neighborhood in Nablus as he was returning home from college.

Another Four Palestinians, including a child, were laid to rest in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Al-Khalil. Hilmat Hanani (20 years old) from the village of Beit Furik near Nablus, Hasan Shahin (40 years old) from Bitunya near Ramallah who was hacked to death by Jewish settlers in West Jerusalem on Friday, Mahmoud Al-Mughrabi from Dheishe refugee camp, and Ahmed Kawasmi (14 years old) from Hebron who was killed in a cold-blooded murder in downtown Al-Khalil on Friday.

Israeli troops assassinated Fatah activist at the village of Khader near Bethlehem.

Four Palestinians were killed, and as many as 25 others were injured when Israeli occupation troops bombarded the Khan Younis Refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Three Israeli tanks penetrated about 100 meters into the Camp. Palestinian civilians and lightly-armed Palestinian policemen sought to repulse the tanks, setting one tank on fire. At least six Palestinians were seriously injured in the bombardment and more than ten houses were partially damaged or completely destroyed.

The Israeli occupation army assassinated another Palestinian Islamist in Hebron. Undercover Israeli soldiers murdered Abbas Othman Iwewi (26 year old) a shopkeeper, while he was standing outside his store on the Wadi El-Tuffah Street.

Israeli occupation forces riddled a Fatah military cadre Yousef Ahmed Abu Sawwi (28 years old) with 22 bullets while standing in front of his house in the village of Artas near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

A Palestinian was murdered in cold blood in Gaza. Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at a minibus which was traveling between Khan Younis and Gaza Town, killing the driver Hani Abu Baker (31 year old). Five passengers in the car were injured, three seriously.

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Here are some photos of today :

An Israeli soldier lifts his rifle against an elderly Palestinian man during a brief scuffle in the market area in the Israeli-controlled sector of the West Bank city of Hebron. Scuffle broke out when members of a non-governmental international peace observer group and Palestinian journalists were harrassed by Jewish settlers and soldiers had to restore order. (10-Dec-00)

A Palestinian looks at damage caused by an Israeli rocket launched last night on the West Bank town of Beit Jala from Israeli positions in Gilo. At least 310 people have died since the start of the Palestinian uprising for independence in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. (12-Dec-00)

Israeli soldiers aim at Palestinian demostrators from behind a burning barricade during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron. (14-Dec-00)

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Hebron clashes. (10-Dec-00)
Beit Jala damage. (12-Dec-00)
Hebron clashes. (14-Dec-00)

Hebron clashes. (16-Dec-00)	Abdel Moutti Sabawi funeral. (19-Dec-00)

The Israeli occupation army has sealed with concrete and earth roads linking more than a hundred villages along the former armistice line between the West Bank and 1948-Palestine.

The Israeli occupation troops hot and killed an elderly Palestinian Muhammed Fahd Ma’ani (72 years old) near the northern West Bank town of Jenin. The elderly victim’s body was found laid on the ground Saturday morning.

In another Israeli crime , Hani Abu Bakra a member of the Qassam Brigades the military wing of Hamas while he was driving his taxicab, an Israeli military block intercepted his car and asked for his identity. The occupation soldiers then backed away and a nearby Israeli tank opened fire at the car, which also grouped six other passengers. Abu Bakra died on the spot while the remaining occupants were wounded one of them seriously.

Two Palestinians were killed and five others injured when an Israeli tank fired a shell at a Palestinian position near the Rafah border crossing at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. Iyad Mahmoud Dawoud (27 year old) and Muhammed Abdul Jalil al Qassas (30 year old) were killed instantly when a tanks hell rammed into the Palestinian position. Five other Palestinians were seriously injured in the incident.

Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada, the Israel occupation army has murdered 325 Palestinians, including some fifty children.

The Israeli occupation army assassinated another Fatah activist in the Jerusalem area. Samih Mal'abi (24 years old) from the Kalandia refugee camp was inthe refugee camp when a powerful explosive charge went off killing him immediately.

The settlers shot dead a sixteen years old Palestinian boy near Ramallah, and then fled away.

Palestinian police investigators have found the body of Fatah leader, who disappeared three days ago, buried near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank with knife stabbing on it. Rashid Abu Al-Hasan was apparently killed by Israeli agents.

Jewish settlers opened fire on a Palestinian primary school at a village near Nablus, injuring two students, one seriously. The settlers arrived in three cars at the secondary school in Huwara, south of Nablus, and opened fire.

Israeli and Palestinian sources have reported that the Israeli government, backed by the United States, are pressurizing Yasser Arafat to accept a new "peace deal" whereby the Israelis would offer new "concessions" on Jerusalem, in return for Arafat renouncing the right of some four million Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland. UN resolutions and international law guarantee the right of return.

Three Palestinians were killed and scores others were injured when Israeli occupation troops bombarded the city of Rafah at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. Hani Al-Sufi (13 years old) was killed when he was hit with a shrapnel from an Israeli shell that the child's home. Nedal Abu Oun (28 years old) and Rifa'at Abu Marzuk (32 years old) who worked for the Palestinian Civil Defense Force, were killed when Israeli troops deployed outside the Jewish settlement of Netzarim shelled their car as they were travelling from Rafah to Gaza. A fourth person identified as Awad Muhammed Zabbou was reported clinically dead. Palestinian sources said over sixty Palestinian civilians were injured, some seriously as a result of the bombardment of Rafah.

Clashes contiuned between the Palestinians demonstraters and the Israeli soldiers in parts of West Bank and Gaza Strip. (21-Dec-00)

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Here are some photos of today :

An Israeli soldier hurls a stun grenade towards Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron. (16-Dec-00)

Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat carries the coffin of police Brig. Gen. Abdel Moutti Sabawi during his funeral ceremony in Gaza City. Sabawi was a member of Arafat's Fatah Revolution Council. According to Palestinian authorities Sabawi was trying to dismantle an unexploded Israeli shell Monday that was fired in the southern Gaza strip last week. (19-Dec-00)

Palestinians take cover of fire by Israeli troops at Khan Younis in south Gaza Strip. (21-Dec-00)

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Hebron clashes. (16-Dec-00)
Abdel Moutti Sabawi funeral. (19-Dec-00)
Khan Younis clashes. (21-Dec-00)

A Palestinian arrested in Jerusalem. (22-Dec-00)	Abdalah Ganan funeral. (24-Dec-00)

A Palestinian youth strapped with explosives blew himself at an Israeli restaurant frequented by Israeli soldiers north of Jericho, killing himself and injuring ten Zionist, four seriously.

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip today buried four martyrs killed by occupation troops. The four are; Najib Ibedo (17 years old) from the village of Sa'ir near Hebron, Arafat Jabarin from the village of Sa'ir north east of Hebron, Nidal Oun from Khan Younis, The fourth Palestinian is the martyr who carried out the martyrdom operation at a restaurant frequented by occupation soldiers north of Jericho, his identity has not been disclosed.

Occupation troops raided the village of Asira el-Shamaliya near Nablus, attacking residential homes, vandalizing property and beating local residents. Fourteen local villagers were arrested for anti-Israeli activities and resistance.

Israeli occupation army is still withholding the body of Najib Ibedo (22 years old) who was murdered by Jewish settlers near the settlement of Haggay, on Hebron’s southern outskirts. Israeli army told the bereaved family that it will hand over the body for burial only if the family undertake not to sue the Jewish settlers for murder.

Israeli occupation authorities uprooted over 200 fully-grown olive trees near the Palestinian town of Nablus. Israeli army bulldozers extirpated the trees at the two villages of Salim and Jama’ain.

An opinion survey in Israel has shown that a majority of Israeli Jews are opposed to a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority based on the recent American proposals. The Israeli paper Yedeot Ahranot has shown that 48% of the respondents, who represent a random sample of the adult population, were opposed to "ceding sovereignty in Jerusalem to the Palestinians in the context of an agreement with the PA." Around 43% said they would support such an arrangement, while 9% expressed no opinion.

In response to a question on the proposed transfer of Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem to the Palestinians, 60% of the respondents said they supported the idea, while 39% per cent said they were opposed to it.

A staggering 72% of the respondents said they were firmly opposed to the repatriation of even a small number of Palestinian refugees to their historical homeland in what is now Israel. 27% of the respondents said they would support such an idea.

Mahmoud Nasser funeral. (30-Dec-00)	Thabet Thabet attck. (31-Dec-00)

A Palestinian youth pulls a burning tire for a barricade during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a march after the Friday Muslim prayers in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Palestinian women chant slogans during the funeral ceremony of Mahmoud Nasser at the Beit Hanoun refugee camp, northern Gaza strip. Palestinian policeman Nasser was killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers near the Erez crossing point on Friday.

A Palestinian policeman looks at bullet holes in a car in which Fatah official Thabet Thabet was shot dead in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Thabet, 49 years old, was shot in the chest and legs as he left his house. Palestinians have blamed Israeli undercover units for Thabet's death three hours after a Palestinian shooting attack killed Binyamin Kahane, settler-son of the anti-Arab Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Palestinian mourners carry the body of 11-year-old Muaath abu-Hadwan who was killed by shrapnel overnight in the divided West Bank city of Hebron.

Palestinians carry the body of Sabri Khader, 52, a farmer who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while tending his fields near the Jewish settlement of Dugit north of Gaza Strip during his funeral.

A Palestinian youth uses a sling-shot to throw a rock at Israeli soldiers guarding a bypass road on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah during clashes.