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November 2002



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Palestinians rush around the burning rubble of a Palestinian car containing the remains of Hamas activist Hamad Sadder and another unknown person, minutes after it blew up on a street in the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, Nov. 4, 2002. Palestinian intelligence chief charged that Israeli occupation forces planted the bomb and targeted Sadder.

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Israeli army gurding number of Palestinian detained in the West Bank.

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The funeral of two-year-old Palestinian Nafez Meshal and Mohammad Abu al-Naja, 8, in Al Awdah mosque in Rafah refugee camp south of Gaza Strip, November 12 ,2002. Meshal was shot dead in his father's arms outside their house in what witnesses said was unprovoked gunfire from a nearby Israel army watching tower. Israeli army said soldiers responded after they were shot at. Al-Naja died of wounds he suffered last month during Israeli tank shelling into the camp which killed six Palestinians.

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The Israeli occupation army blows up the house of Islamic Jihad activist Dyab Alhaniny, who was one of three Palestinians who attacked and killed 12 Israeli occupation soldiers the week before, in the West Bank city of Hebron November 20, 2002.


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03.11.2002, The Israeli occupation army on Sunday dynamited at least two more Palestinian homes near Jenin in the northern West Bank. The two homes were located at the village of Borqin and belonged to the families of two Palestinian guerilla fighters, one affiliated with Hamas and the other with the Islamic Jihad.

04.11.2002, At least two people were killed and over 20 others injured Monday when a bomb went off inside a shop at the Israeli Jewish town of Kfar Saba north east of Tel Aviv. Police sources said a medium-size bomb exploded inside an electric appliances shop shortly after sunset. Hospital sources said as many 25 people were injured in the blast, some seriously.

06.11.2002, At least two Palestinians, one of them a guerilla, were killed in two separate shooting incidents in the southern and central parts of the Gaza Strip Wednesday. Two Jewish settlers were also killed at the Gush Katif settlement block south of Gaza, according to the Israeli occupation army. Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers manning armored personnel carriers opened fire indiscriminately on civilians in Rafah, killing at least one person and injuring fifteen others. An Israeli spokesman said a lone Palestinian guerilla attacked a Jewish settlement south of Gaza towns, killing two settlers and injuring two others. The guerilla subsequently died in an exchange of fire with soldiers.

10.11.2002, At least five Jewish settlers were killed and ten injured when Palestinian guerillas attacked a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank. An Israeli occupation army spokesman said the attack occurred around midnight Sunday and targeted the Metzer Kibbutz near the Palestinian town of Tulkarm, 130 kilometers north of Jerusalem. The army said at least one Palestinians fighter was involved in the attack which came hours after two Palestinian guerillas were killed in a car explosion in the area. The guerilla apparently fled the Kibbutz following the operation. Following the attack on the Kibbutz, Israeli helicopter gunships launched a missile attack on a foundry in the Gaza Strip, destroying the metal factory.

13.11.2002, The Israeli occupation army killed another three-year-old Palestinian toddler and seriously injured his mother during a machinegun shooting at a Rafah neighborhood at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said Hamed Asa’ad al Masri was killed when Israeli soldiers manning an armored personnel carriers strafed the Block-J section of the Rafah refugee camp with heavy machinegun fire. The child was instantly killed while his mother, Asma, 31, sustained life-threatening wounds.

16.11.2002, The Israeli occupation army has been attacking Palestinian civilians for the past few hours in retaliation for the killing of nine Israeli soldiers and three paramilitary Jewish settlers by Palestinian guerillas in Hebron last night. Israeli troops backed by helicopter gunships and tanks opened machinegun fire indiscriminately on Palestinian homes, causing an unspecified number of casualties and heavy material damage. Palestinian sources reported Saturday that three guerillas were killed when the Israeli occupation army rocketed the house in which they barricaded themselves. It is believed that the three were the guerillas who carried out the operation in which the Israeli army commander of the southern West Bank Maj. Gen. Dror Weinberg was killed.

21.11.2002, In what appears to be a retaliation for the killing by the Israeli army of 10 Palestinian civilians in the past 48 hours, a Palestinian guerilla on Thursday detonated a bomb aboard an Israeli bus in the heart of West Jerusalem, killing at least 10 Israeli settlers and injuring 30 others. The blast took place in early morning hours at the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood in West Jerusalem. Palestinian sources identified the guerilla who carried out the attack as 21-year-old Nael Abu Hilayel from the town of Dura, 10 kilometer south west of Hebron.

22.11.2002, A member of Qassam brigades surprised a military foot patrol in al-Barakah area in Deer al-Balah middle of Gaza Strip. He fired his machine gun at the soldiers and hurled hand grenades towards them killing all three.

26.11.2002, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers on Tuesday attacked the Palestinian town of Dier al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip amid intensive machinegun shooting. Palestinian sources said two or three Israeli helicopter gunships also took part in the rampageous operation which terrorized civilians and caused widespread damage to sidewalks, turnabouts and pavements. Before leaving the area, the Israeli army dynamited at least one home belonging to the family of a suspected Palestinian freedom fighter.

27.11.2002, The Israeli occupation army launched fresh attacks on Palestinian population centers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip overnight. Sources in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, said Israeli helicopter gunships rocketed a building at the Jenin refugee camp shortly before midnight Tuesday, killing two people. The two were identified as Ala’a Sabbagh and Imad Nastari.

28.11.2002, At least Seven people were killed and more than 15 others were injured Thursday when Palestinian guerillas opened fire on Israeli soldiers and settlers in the city of Bisan, 120 kilometers north West of Jerusalem. The Israeli state-run radio said 10 were injured, most of them seriously. Police sources said at least two Palestinian guerillas wearing explosive belts opened fire at two locations in the northeastern town, causing several casualties.

29.11.2002, Abbas Rajee Al-Atrash (3 years) was declared dead last night at al-Khaleel hospital as a result of being hit by an explosive bullet at his home during Iftar time (evening meal when Muslim break their fasting). The medical sources said that the child died in the hospital during an operation to save him. The explosive bullet, used intensively by the Israeli occupation army against Palestinians, went through the left hand side of his abdomen and tore through his body.