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September 2002


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Palestinians carry bodies during the funeral of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in Palestinian village of Bani Naim, in West Bank village of Shioukh near Hebron, September 1, 2002.

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Palestinian man stands in the rubble of his house after it was destroyed by Israeli occupation troops at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, September 17, 2002. Israeli occupation tanks and troops swept through the southern Gaza Strip, destroying metal workshops and arresting 23 Palestinians.

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Palestinian women walk next to a house destroyed by Israeli occupation soldiers, in East Jerusalem September 19, 2002. In the town of Abu Dis on the edge of East Jerusalem, the occupation army demolished the homes of two Palestinian youths.

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Palestinians gather in a mosque September 24, 2002 to pay their last respects for nine Palestinians, who were killed last night during a raid into Gaza by Israeli occupation tanks. Israeli occupation forces killed nine Palestinians on Tuesday in one of its biggest raids in the Gaza Strip and faced international isolation over its seige of Yasser Arafat's headquarters, after the United Nations Security Council said it must stop.


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03.09.2002, An Israeli army bulldozers bulldozed and nearly crushed an entire Palestinian family in Rafah at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the bulldozer bulldozed the home of a Palestinian family without any warning, causing a wall to collapse on them. All the nine members of the family were wounded, including a 3-year-old child who was injured seriously.

05.09.2002, The Israeli regime has rejected a peace plan prepared by the European Union and presented to Israeli and Palestinian leaders by visiting Danish Foreign Minister Pier Muller. The EU plan calls for establishing a tentative Palestinian state without recognized borders to be followed by intensive negotiations that would lead to full Palestinian statehood in three years. Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, described the plan as “unacceptable to Israel in its present form.”

10.09.2002, The Israeli occupation army responded to Yasser Arafat’s conciliatory speech in Ramallah yesterday with more killing, maiming and arrests of Palestinians. In Beitunia near Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces killed at least one Palestinian and injured two others. Earlier, two Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank fired an artillery shell at the car in which they were travelling.

12.09.2002, Israeli occupation tanks rolled into the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza, destroying and vandalizing civilian property. Palestinian sources said dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers rampaged through the crowded neighborhood in early morning hours and that Israeli occupation troops imposed curfew inhabitants. The sources said at least one home was completely demolished while other homes sustained serious damage.

16.09.2002, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip. The incident took place at the Abu-Holy checkpoint near Gaza City where Israeli occupation soldiers were stopping vehicles and randomly forcing taxis full of passengers to stop and exit their vehicles to be subjected to searches.

17.09.2002, At least five Palestinian kids were injured when a bomb planted by Jewish at their school in Yatt, 15 kilometers south west of Hebron, went off morning. According to Palestinian sources, Jewish placed the bomb inside one of the toilets and was timed to detonate during when the kids are having the mid-morning break. The blast shook the entire school building and paramedics expressed surprise that nobody was killed.

19.09.2002, In an apparent retaliation for the recent killing by the Israeli army of scores of Palestinian civilians, a Palestinian guerilla blew himself up inside a passenger bus in Tel Aviv killing himself and five other people. Hospital sources said ten of the injured were in serious to critical condition. The blast came less than 24 hours after another Palestinian guerilla blew himself up near the town of Um El-Fahm in northern Palestine. The bomber and an Israeli soldier were killed and two other soldiers injured.

21.09.2002, Israeli tanks and bulldozers have virtually destroyed the battered headquarters of Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. Israeli tanks, which had stormed the headquarters, carried out a sustained artillery bombardment of the three-story building and other adjacent buildings housing Palestinian security agencies.

24.09.2002, Israeli occupation forces last night killed nine more Palestinians in the latest bloody incursion into the Gaza Strip. This brings to 14 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in less than forty eight hours. The Israeli troops, backed by tanks, armed personnel carriers and apache helicopter gunships raided three densely populated neighborhoods in eastern and northern Gaza shortly after midnight. The forces, which also were accompanied by several bulldozers, dynamited and demolished several homes belonging to the families of Palestinian guerillas as well as 12 foundries the Israeli army alleged were being used for manufacturing weapons.

25.09.2002, Israeli occupation forces dynamited the family home of the former Mayor of Dura as a reprisal for his son’s involvement in attacks on Israeli troops. Nammoura said an Israeli soldiers gave him only five minutes to leave the home. Two of Nammoura’s sons are imprisoned in Israeli jails for taking parts in armed attacks on an Israeli military convoy last year.

28.09.2002, Thousands of Palestinians marched in the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on the second anniversary of the Palestinian intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation and apartheid. In the Gaza strip, Israeli troops mounting armored personnel carriers opened fire on stone-hurling school children, injuring six of them. Earlier, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a peaceful march in Dir al Balah, just south of Gaza, killing a 17-year-old boy. Reports from Gaza spoke of another Palestinian killed in Gaza City by Israeli bullets. In the West Bank, massive marches were organized in several towns, in defiance of the Israeli-imposed curfew. The marchers carried portraits of the beleaguered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

30.09.2002, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian school child at the Balata refugee camp while returning home from school. Palestinian sources said the crew of an armored personnel carrier opened fire on school children at the Balata refugee camp in an effort to enforce a curfew on the local inhabitants. Earlier, Israeli tanks bombarded residential neighborhoods in several parts of the Gaza Strip, killing a mother of six children and injuring six other civilians. A 43-year-old woman was hit in the head by a tank shell shrapnel. She was taken to an area clinic where she was pronounced brain dead.