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.
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.
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