- 13 juli 2008
Hadeel Jawad al-Haddad, 19 months,
of Gaza City, Gaza, died of heart disease six months after undergoing open-heart surgery at a Gazan hospital, which was not equipped to provide necessary post-operative care, and after Israel denied her permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
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Maria 14 juli 2008
Latifa Kafina
Suhaila Abu Hweshel, 36
Ahmad Abu Ajwa
Death toll 208 as three more patients die in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege
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Maria 17 juli 2008
Wasim Iyad Hamdan, 10 months
Imad Ismail al-Oweini, 6
Wasim of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of an unspecified illness after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
Imad of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza, died of kidney disease after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
Death toll 209 as one more patient died in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege
Two sick children die on Thursday due to the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza
22 juli 2008
Mustafa Naeem AbbasKhalil Ibrahim Gindia
14 critically ill Palestinians blocked by Israel from leaving Gaza
Aimad Eweni
Imad Al Oweiny
Waseem Hamdan
The Israeli army threatens to assassinate Samir Qintar
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Maria 25 juli 2008
Nihad Ammar MisbahAyad Abdul MajeedOsama Saeed HelouNidal Khalil
26 juli 2008
Hassan Al-Helou
IOF killed a member the ‘Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) in Hebron.
IOF shelled the house where the victim was hiding and then demolished it over him.
During this operation, IOF troops used the victim’s parents as human shields.
IOF troops also wounded a Palestinian child in the same area.
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Maria 27 juli 2008
Shihab Ed Deen Al Natsha, 25
Qassam fighter killed in Hebron
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Maria 28 juli 2008
Ahmad Nabil al-Buhairi, 11,
Maher Al Mabhuh, 43
Ahmad of Beit Lahya, Gaza, died of heart disease after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
Death toll rises to 219 as one more patient dies due to the siege on the Gaza Strip
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Maria 29 juli 2008
Hidaya Issa, 55
Death toll reaches 221 as two more patients die in The Gaza Strip
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Maria 29 juli 2008
Ahmed Mousa 10
10 year old murdered in Ni'ilin
(1:54) Israel shoots dead nine-year-old boy - 30 Jul 08
Events in the village started this morning, when, joined by international and Israeli activists, the unarmed villagers set out towards the path of the wall, to try and defend their groves from the destruction the Israeli machinery was causing in them.
The villagers were met with brutal violence which included the arrest of Muhammed Amireh of the village's popular committee. When the demonstration started winding down and pushed from the groves to the village's last houses, at around 15:00, 18 injuries were counted, including a teenager who was shot with rubber-coated bullets from a distance of only a few meters and suffered penetration wounds.
Clashes had slowly moved from the groves and the village's last houses to the village's main entrance.
(6:53) Ni'lin village - Demonstration against the wall - 29-7-08
At around 17:30, a small group kids and teenagers, decided to go, on their own, towards the path of the wall, in order to dismantle a newly installed razor wire barricade. The barricade was laid to prevent demonstrator from reaching the path of the wall and disrupt construction.
After a few minutes, a border police jeep arrived at the scene and shot a few rounds of rubber-coated bullets. The group ran away, escaping towards the village, but ten year old Ahmad Mousa fell down in the rocky terrain and lost one of his shoes.
When he turned back to pick it up, a border policeman aimed his M-16 rifle towards him and fired a single shot of live ammunition. The bullet hit Ahmad in the forehead and exited from the back of his head, shattering his skull and killing him on the spot.
His two brothers and his friends that were there with him had to carry him back to the village, about a kilometer away, leaving a thick trail of blood behind them.
Ahmed Mousa (facing camera), pictured as a wounded man was evacuated from the demonstration earlier the day he was murdered
Ahmad was taken to the Ramallah hospital in an ambulance, but his father was barred from accompanying him by the soldiers posted at the entrance to the village. He had to leave the village through the groves, risking being shot at himself, in order to reach the main road and continue on to the hospital where his son was taken to.
The body of ten years old Ahmed Mousa at the Ramallah hospital
Despite this cold blooded murder, the army maintained presence at the entrance to the village, shooting teargas and rubber-coated bullets at the enraged villagers. One of the boys that was with Ahmad at the time of the murder said he identified the shooter among the forces standing at the entrance to the village.
The Israeli media mostly reported this event, just as they report any other event – a rewrite of the army's spokesperson press release. Haaretz newspaper focused its article on a mild injury of one of the soldiers, and the violence of the demonstrators. A senior military officer, hiding behind his anonymity, was even quoted saying that the army's restraint is taken advantage of by the villagers.
http://www.awalls.org/10_year_old_murdered_in_niilin
30 juli 2008
Transcript: Israeli military kills 10-year-old in Nilin
Ahmed Mousa photographed four hours before he was shot and killed by Israeli forces.
The following is a transcript of Flashpoints, hosted by Nora Barrows-Friedman, broadcast on 30 July 2008:
A member of the Israeli occupation military’s border police shot and killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy yesterday evening in the West Bank village of Nilin. Ahmed Mousa was shot in the head by live ammunition, according to eyewitnesses, as he turned and left an area that was being targeted with rubber-coated steel bullets by the Israeli military during a demonstration against the annexation wall built on the village land. Several soldiers were ordered to remove themselves from the demonstration by commanding officers, according to a report by the Palestine Solidarity Project, for their violent and “undisciplined” behavior.
Flashpoints spoke with two activists about what happened in Nilin yesterday as the ethnic cleansing project continues unabated in occupied Palestine. Bekah Wolf, speaking to us from Beit Ommar near Hebron, is with the Palestine Solidarity Project based in the West Bank, and Yonatan Pollack is with Anarchists Against the Wall. Yonatan spoke to Flashpoints from a demonstration outside Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s home in Tel Aviv. Last night he was at the hospital with Ahmed Mousa after the demonstration.
Nora Barrows-Friedman: Yonatan, let’s start with you. Right after 10-year-old Ahmed Mousa was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces, you were at the hospital and spent some time there — what did you see, what happens to a child who has just been shot in the head by the fourth largest military in the world?
Yonatan Pollack: His head was pretty much blown off. There was an entry wound in his forehead that completely destroyed his face, and the back of his head was just missing. His brain was not there. The exit wound just blew off the majority of the back of his head.
NBF: Was the family there? What was going on at the hospital?
YP: I arrived after the family had already left. I was at the village in the demonstration in the morning, until about 3pm I went home and at about 5pm I got the news that a ten-year-old kid was shot dead. I immediately went to the village again and stayed until it got dark, about 8:30 or 9pm, and stayed at the hospital, but the family wasn’t there anymore.
NBF: The Israeli military said that it is “investigating” the child’s death. What usually happens in these kinds of so-called investigations? We remember when 13-year-old Iman al-Hams in Gaza was killed a few years ago, 20 bullets pumped into her body, and the commanding officer who emptied his clip into her head and torso was not only not punished, but he was actually promoted. What does this say about the Israeli military policy toward shooting children and then “investigating” their deaths?
YP: You know, whatever this investigation yields, the problem is obviously not the specific soldier who shot the specific kid. I mean, this is a horrible crime and a horrible tragedy, but the issue at hand is the institutionalized violence by the army attempting to suppress demonstrations and attempting to suppress popular civilian uprising, people who have no arms to defend their land from annexation. This is the issue at hand; not what will be the consequences of a specific investigation. It could be that this investigation will yield nothing, which is what happens most of the time, and it could serve as a fig leaf to prove how democratic Israel is and how humane the Israeli army is. But the issue is not this specific soldier, the issue is how these demonstrations are being suppressed, how an occupation of civil society is allowed to continue and what measures are being used to perpetuate it.
NBF: Yonatan, you’re outside of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s home; why are you there and what are you demanding from him?
YP: We’re here to ask, “what about accountability?” He is directly in charge of the army. He is the head commander of the army. He is accountable. We are here to ask for accountability, to demand that what is happening [in Nilin] stops immediately. Not that the border policeman will be arrested, detained, expelled from the army — but that everything that happened in Nilin specifically, and in the West Bank generally, ceases immediately.
NBF: Bekah, let’s bring you into this conversation. Can you lay out the scene, what’s been happening in Nilin, up to this point?
Bekah Wolf: Nilin has been having demonstrations three, four, sometimes five times a week for several months now. But they’ve been having demonstrations as far back as 2003, one of which was the first demonstration I ever went to. And then there was a court case in which the path of the wall was changed by the Israeli high court, but it still is confiscating thousands of dunums of land. So when the construction started in May of this year, demonstrations began against the wall, against the construction and the bulldozers, and what is happening is just an increase in repression and violence. These demonstrations have been enormously successful — some of the most successful demonstrations that I’ve seen in the five years that I’ve worked in the West Bank.
Demonstrators have nonviolently blocked bulldozers again and again; have been able to sustain a four-day siege and curfew, have been able to sustain half of their popular committee being arrested at one point in time or another; dozens and dozens of injuries — and so, really what I think has been happening is that Nilin has become not only a symbol of Palestinian resistance, but a rebirth of the kind of popular resistance that has been successful in the past. And so it has become incredibly dangerous in some ways to the Israeli military and the Israeli government as a whole.
NBF: the Israeli military regularly states that it is acting in “self-defense” against children throwing stones during these types of protests. Can you talk about the discrepancies in this argument, when the children are met by live ammunition rounds, even rubber-coated steel bullets, percussion grenades, tear gas, used indiscriminately by the occupation military in occupied Palestinian land?
BW: Well, there are several layers to that. The first and foremost being that the idea that there is a defensive military in an occupied land is an oxymoron. You cannot have a defensive position while occupying a foreign country, which is exactly what is happening in the West Bank. So the entire premise is without merit. But then you get into the smaller details, which are, okay, if the youth are throwing stones, what we’re talking about much of the time are young boys — obviously Ahmed was 10 years old — so boys anywhere from 10 to 20, throwing rocks that are maybe tens of yards away, sometimes 100 yards away, at soldiers who have bulletproof vests, and helmets and M16s. Oftentimes the stones are thrown at armored vehicles. So the idea, again, that the kind of violent action that the Israeli military takes using this weaponry — teargas, rubber-coated steel bullets, and live ammunition — is obscene. It’s absurd to say that that is an even playing field.
To come to this particular situation with Ahmed, there was not, in fact, any stone-throwing happening at the time, at least none that we know of coming from Ahmed himself. So the idea that even if he was throwing stones, which we don’t believe he was, and eyewitnesses say that he wasn’t, but even if he was, we’re talking about a ten-year-old kid throwing a rock from dozens of yards away at an armored soldier. And the idea that Israel has continued to perpetuate this image that somehow that is an even playing field — that rocks against guns and armored personnel carriers — is somehow an even score, is ridiculous to any sensible human being.
NBF: Bekah Wolf, you’ve been involved in pro-justice, anti-occupation and anti-apartheid wall demonstrations for years. Do you think the response by the Israeli military is getting worse, and to what do you attribute that?
BW: It’s not getting worse, necessarily. The comparison that I make is that at the height of the anti-wall movement in 2003 and 2004, 11 people were killed in less than a year, in these demonstrations. So it is not the first time — though Ahmed is the youngest — that a young person has been killed in these demonstrations. But what I think it points to is that Nilin, like the anti-wall movement in 2003-2004, has the potential to build a wider movement throughout the West Bank. It’s an inspiring movement, and that is why the Israeli military is reacting to it in a way that is stronger than it has been reacting in recent years.
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Funeral Of Ahmad Mousa 30.07.2008
(1:33) Funeral Of Ahmad Mousa 30.07.2008-Ni'lin village-struggle against the apartheid wall 1 x viewed
Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinian youths, aged ten and seventeen, this week in a village known for its nonviolent resistance.
We speak with Hindi Mesleh, a resident of Ni’lin and an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall.
Hindi Mesleh, resident of Ni’lin and an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall. He was there when seventeen-year-old Yousif Amira was shot and visited him yesterday in the hospital.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: We begin with Israel and the Occupied Territories. Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinian youths, aged ten and seventeen, this week in a village known for its nonviolent resistance. Seventeen-year-old Yousif Amira has been pronounced clinically dead after Israeli troops shot him on Wednesday. Amira was among several youths who were fired upon after attending the funeral of a ten-year-old Palestinian boy killed by Israeli soldiers a day earlier. The boy, Ahmad Moussa, died instantly after being shot in the forehead.
The shootings took place in the village of Ni’lin, where residents have staged daily nonviolent actions against Israel’s wall through the West Bank. The village was recently the site of another controversial shooting. On July 7th, an Israeli soldier was captured on film shooting a rubber bullet at a handcuffed Palestinian man.
Hindi Mesleh is a resident of Ni’lin and an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall. He was there when seventeen-year-old Yousif Amira was shot and visited him yesterday in the hospital. Hindi Mesleh joins us now on the line from Ni’lin.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
HINDI MESLEH: Hi.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Hi. Thank you for joining us. You witnessed the shooting of Yousif Amira. Can you describe what happened?
HINDI MESLEH: Actually, yes. I was in the place when Yousif got shot. Actually, it was a protest or a demonstration; after Ahmad was — Ahmad’s funeral, the village went as a protest to condemn Ahmad’s killing. Yousif was shot by two rubber-coated steel bullets in his head. One has destroyed totally his head. Yousif now is brain-dead, and we’re expecting him, any second, to die.
ANJALI KAMAT: Can you talk about what happened to the nine-year-old boy the previous day? It was after his funeral that Ahmed Yousif Amira was shot.
HINDI MESLEH: Yeah. Ahmad is the nine-year-old that was killed. His funeral even was attacked by tear gas and rubber bullets. And after his funeral, Yusif was dead the same day, was killed — sorry, was shot, and now he’s in the hospital and brain-dead.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And villagers are taking daily
protests now against the building of the wall in the village. Can you describe what the demonstrations are like and the response of the soldiers?
HINDI MESLEH: Actually, I’m right now stuck in a house, because the Israeli army has invaded the village, because we had the Friday pray at the land. Israeli — Israel army — more than 100 soldiers now are invading the village, shooting tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at houses. The demonstrations, as usual, they are not violent and peaceful from the Palestinian side, but they’re always met by a heavy use of violence from the Israeli army, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and sometimes, as Ahmad’s case, live ammunition.
ANJALI KAMAT: Can you describe where Ni’lin is in the West Bank and how the apartheid wall affects Ni’lin and the residents of Ni’lin?
HINDI MESLEH: Ni’lin is a village that is located in the west of Ramallah in the West Bank, twenty-five kilometers in the west of Ramallah. The wall is going to confiscate more than 3,000 of the — from — of the land from the village. Historically, Ni’lin land, before 1948, used to own 58,000 dunams. During the war of ’48 and ’67, 1948 and 1967, the village lost 40,000 dunams. The settlements and bypass roads have confiscated more than 8,000 dunams. So now there are 10,000 dunams left for the village. The wall is confiscating more than 3,000 dunams. In addition to the tunnel that will — this tunnel, the villagers will exit and leave and go in the village from this tunnel, that will be controlled by the Israeli army. So, 6,700 left for the village, out from 58,000 dunams when they used to own it in 1948.
ANJALI KAMAT: And, Hindi, when did protests against the wall start? When did residents in Ni’lin start protesting the wall? Is this a recent thing? Has it been going on for a few years now? In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that the wall was illegal. The fourth anniversary was just earlier this month.
HINDI MESLEH: The wall started in Ni’lin in 2004, and there we had a court case. The court case recently end in April, decided that the Israeli army has the right to build the wall. Then the Israeli army starts building again the wall in May 2008 ’til now. Unfortunately, as the Israel — the International Court decided that the wall is illegal and should be dismantled, but Israel keeps building on, keeps going on in building the wall, building the settlements, tunnel, bypass roads, confiscating and stealing more land from Palestinians.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And what is the mood right now on the ground? I mean, two youths have been killed in the past few days, one a seventeen-year-old, one ten years old. Describe the scene for us right now on the ground.
HINDI MESLEH: The village has decided — is like determined to keep resisting, because there is no other way. This is the only choice that’s left for Palestinians, to resist and struggle in a peaceful and nonviolent way. Unfortunately, the Israeli army — like the reply and reaction of the Israeli army is way violent. And as you heard, one is ten — nine years old, has been killed, seventeen years old has been shot — now he’s in the hospital. He will pass away in any second. Hundreds of the villagers have been shot by rubber-coated steel bullets. Three of them have been shot by live ammunition, and they still went in in the hospital, getting treatment for more than three weeks. Houses have been invaded and shot by tear gas and break and destroyed.
ANJALI KAMAT: We’re talking to Hindi Mesleh, organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall. Hindi, I wanted to ask you, what has been the response of the Israeli army?
HINDI MESLEH: Sorry, I didn’t hear you.
ANJALI KAMAT: Hindi, what has been the response of the Israeli army to the killing of the nine-year-old youth and the almost fatal shooting of the seventeen-year-old? He’s now in a coma and pronounced clinically dead.
HINDI MESLEH: I don’t know the reply of the army. There is no reply. I don’t know what the excuse they will come up. There is no excuse. Whatever the child was doing, throwing stones or whatever, there is no excuse, and there is no right to kill a nine-years-old child or seventeen-years-old child when they are in a protest. The question is, like — the question is, why these children? They are in the protest because they’re aware of what’s happening and what’s going on in their village. They’re protesting against stealing their lands, killing their brothers, shooting at their houses, invading their village.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And finally, Hindi Mesleh, we’re broadcasting on almost 700 stations around the United States and some around the world, as well. What do you think is most important for people to know right now? What would you like people to understand about what’s going on right now?
HINDI MESLEH: I will say it in a very simple way, as Jimmy Carter said: what’s going on now in Ni’lin is ethnic cleansing. Palestine is — the Israeli army now is using the worst violence that has happened in the past. And it’s so shameful that we are in the twenty-first century and Palestine is still occupied. It’s the time that the whole — the international community and the world should say to Israel “Stop.” It’s the time that Israel should stop its occupation.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Well, Hindi Mesleh, I want to thank you very much for being with us. Hindi Mesleh is an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall, joining us from a demonstration on the ground there. Thank you for being with us, and stay safe.
http://fwd4.me/0jJi
4 aug 2008
Israeli Border Guard who killed 11-year old child placed under house arrest
31 aug 2012
Israeli soldier who shot dead a Palestinian child acquitted
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- An Israeli Court acquitted, Tuesday, an Israeli soldier who shot and killed Ahmad Mousa, 10, during a nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah in 2008, despite his confession that he fired two bullets at the child.
The incident took place in July of 2008, the soldier shot the child in the head leading to instant death. During his court testimony, the soldier said that “not firing back at those who hurl stones at the army is considered weakness; therefore, I opened fire”.
The Judge claimed that “There was no proof that the bullets fired by the soldier were the cause of the death of the child,” despite the fact that she acknowledged that the soldier opened fire using live ammunition while his life was not in danger.
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Maria 30 juli 2008
Youssef Ahmed Younes Amirah 18Ahmed Fathi Moussa Turk
Youssef Amireh, the second mortal victim of the military suppression of the Ni'ilin uprising, succumbed to his fatal wounds this morning after struggling for five days at the Ramallah hospital.
A crowd of thousands attended his funeral. Amireh was shot in the head with two rubber bullets just hours after the funeral of ten year old Ahmed Moussa last Wednesday.
Though Youssef was not taking part in the clashes that evolved after the funeral, he was shot from a distance of only a few meters from within an armored border police jeep. His wounds rendered him brain dead immediately.
(3:49) Shahid Yusuf Ahmad Amira's funeral - Ni'lin 4-8-08
Youssef Amireh was buried at the cemetery close to his family's home, and lies besides Ahmed Mousa's fresh grave.
Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinian youths, aged ten and seventeen, this week in a village known for its nonviolent resistance.
We speak with Hindi Mesleh, a resident of Ni’lin and an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall.
Hindi Mesleh, resident of Ni’lin and an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall. He was there when seventeen-year-old Yousif Amira was shot and visited him yesterday in the hospital.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: We begin with Israel and the Occupied Territories. Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinian youths, aged ten and seventeen, this week in a village known for its nonviolent resistance. Seventeen-year-old Yousif Amira has been pronounced clinically dead after Israeli troops shot him on Wednesday. Amira was among several youths who were fired upon after attending the funeral of a ten-year-old Palestinian boy killed by Israeli soldiers a day earlier. The boy, Ahmad Moussa, died instantly after being shot in the forehead.
The shootings took place in the village of Ni’lin, where residents have staged daily nonviolent actions against Israel’s wall through the West Bank. The village was recently the site of another controversial shooting. On July 7th, an Israeli soldier was captured on film shooting a rubber bullet at a handcuffed Palestinian man.
Hindi Mesleh is a resident of Ni’lin and an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall. He was there when seventeen-year-old Yousif Amira was shot and visited him yesterday in the hospital. Hindi Mesleh joins us now on the line from Ni’lin.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
HINDI MESLEH: Hi.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Hi. Thank you for joining us. You witnessed the shooting of Yousif Amira. Can you describe what happened?
HINDI MESLEH: Actually, yes. I was in the place when Yousif got shot. Actually, it was a protest or a demonstration; after Ahmad was — Ahmad’s funeral, the village went as a protest to condemn Ahmad’s killing. Yousif was shot by two rubber-coated steel bullets in his head. One has destroyed totally his head. Yousif now is brain-dead, and we’re expecting him, any second, to die.
ANJALI KAMAT: Can you talk about what happened to the nine-year-old boy the previous day? It was after his funeral that Ahmed Yousif Amira was shot.
HINDI MESLEH: Yeah. Ahmad is the nine-year-old that was killed. His funeral even was attacked by tear gas and rubber bullets. And after his funeral, Yusif was dead the same day, was killed — sorry, was shot, and now he’s in the hospital and brain-dead.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And villagers are taking daily
protests now against the building of the wall in the village. Can you describe what the demonstrations are like and the response of the soldiers?
HINDI MESLEH: Actually, I’m right now stuck in a house, because the Israeli army has invaded the village, because we had the Friday pray at the land. Israeli — Israel army — more than 100 soldiers now are invading the village, shooting tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at houses. The demonstrations, as usual, they are not violent and peaceful from the Palestinian side, but they’re always met by a heavy use of violence from the Israeli army, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and sometimes, as Ahmad’s case, live ammunition.
ANJALI KAMAT: Can you describe where Ni’lin is in the West Bank and how the apartheid wall affects Ni’lin and the residents of Ni’lin?
HINDI MESLEH: Ni’lin is a village that is located in the west of Ramallah in the West Bank, twenty-five kilometers in the west of Ramallah. The wall is going to confiscate more than 3,000 of the — from — of the land from the village. Historically, Ni’lin land, before 1948, used to own 58,000 dunams. During the war of ’48 and ’67, 1948 and 1967, the village lost 40,000 dunams. The settlements and bypass roads have confiscated more than 8,000 dunams. So now there are 10,000 dunams left for the village. The wall is confiscating more than 3,000 dunams. In addition to the tunnel that will — this tunnel, the villagers will exit and leave and go in the village from this tunnel, that will be controlled by the Israeli army. So, 6,700 left for the village, out from 58,000 dunams when they used to own it in 1948.
ANJALI KAMAT: And, Hindi, when did protests against the wall start? When did residents in Ni’lin start protesting the wall? Is this a recent thing? Has it been going on for a few years now? In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that the wall was illegal. The fourth anniversary was just earlier this month.
HINDI MESLEH: The wall started in Ni’lin in 2004, and there we had a court case. The court case recently end in April, decided that the Israeli army has the right to build the wall. Then the Israeli army starts building again the wall in May 2008 ’til now. Unfortunately, as the Israel — the International Court decided that the wall is illegal and should be dismantled, but Israel keeps building on, keeps going on in building the wall, building the settlements, tunnel, bypass roads, confiscating and stealing more land from Palestinians.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And what is the mood right now on the ground? I mean, two youths have been killed in the past few days, one a seventeen-year-old, one ten years old. Describe the scene for us right now on the ground.
HINDI MESLEH: The village has decided — is like determined to keep resisting, because there is no other way. This is the only choice that’s left for Palestinians, to resist and struggle in a peaceful and nonviolent way. Unfortunately, the Israeli army — like the reply and reaction of the Israeli army is way violent. And as you heard, one is ten — nine years old, has been killed, seventeen years old has been shot — now he’s in the hospital. He will pass away in any second. Hundreds of the villagers have been shot by rubber-coated steel bullets. Three of them have been shot by live ammunition, and they still went in in the hospital, getting treatment for more than three weeks. Houses have been invaded and shot by tear gas and break and destroyed.
ANJALI KAMAT: We’re talking to Hindi Mesleh, organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall. Hindi, I wanted to ask you, what has been the response of the Israeli army?
HINDI MESLEH: Sorry, I didn’t hear you.
ANJALI KAMAT: Hindi, what has been the response of the Israeli army to the killing of the nine-year-old youth and the almost fatal shooting of the seventeen-year-old? He’s now in a coma and pronounced clinically dead.
HINDI MESLEH: I don’t know the reply of the army. There is no reply. I don’t know what the excuse they will come up. There is no excuse. Whatever the child was doing, throwing stones or whatever, there is no excuse, and there is no right to kill a nine-years-old child or seventeen-years-old child when they are in a protest. The question is, like — the question is, why these children? They are in the protest because they’re aware of what’s happening and what’s going on in their village. They’re protesting against stealing their lands, killing their brothers, shooting at their houses, invading their village.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And finally, Hindi Mesleh, we’re broadcasting on almost 700 stations around the United States and some around the world, as well. What do you think is most important for people to know right now? What would you like people to understand about what’s going on right now?
HINDI MESLEH: I will say it in a very simple way, as Jimmy Carter said: what’s going on now in Ni’lin is ethnic cleansing. Palestine is — the Israeli army now is using the worst violence that has happened in the past. And it’s so shameful that we are in the twenty-first century and Palestine is still occupied. It’s the time that the whole — the international community and the world should say to Israel “Stop.” It’s the time that Israel should stop its occupation.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: Well, Hindi Mesleh, I want to thank you very much for being with us. Hindi Mesleh is an organizer with the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall, joining us from a demonstration on the ground there. Thank you for being with us, and stay safe.
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Maria 31 juli 2008
Ahmad Eid abu-Amra, 3 months
of Deir al-Balah, Gaza, died of heart disease after Israel denied him entry to receive medical treatment.
28 apr 2012, 13:27 , Respect -
Maria 1 aug 2008
Candidate who wants Olmert's job once 'sought deaths of 70 Palestinians a day'
A leading candidate to be Israel's next premier called for a death toll of 70 Palestinians a day when he was head of the military during the second intifada, according to a best-selling book by two Israeli journalists.
The account of a briefing given in May 2001 to senior West Bank army commanders reinforces the image of hawkishness enjoyed by Shaul Mofaz.
He has emerged as the main rival to the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, for the leadership of the Kadima party being vacated by Ehud Olmert.
Mr Mofaz is expected to stress his security credentials as a former chief of staff and defence minister in his campaign to defeat Ms Livni, the most popular among the Israeli public of the candidates to succeed Mr Olmert as party leader.
According to the book Boomerang, by Ofer Shelah, of Yedhiot Ahronot, and Raviv Drucker, of Channel Ten, Mr Mofaz convened a meeting of brigade and regimental commanders covering the occupied West Bank at Jerusalem's Ammunition Hill. It occurred early in the premiership of Ariel Sharon when the intifada was well under way.
The book, which was well reviewed, and was based on extensive interviews with officials and documentary research, chiefly made news when it was published in 2005 because of its contention that Mr Sharon had, in large part, dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza to deflect the threat of a corruption indictment.
The two prominent journalists say in the book that the chief of staff at one stage of the Jerusalem meeting – "in an exceptional act" – ordered the person customarily responsible for recording the pronouncements of the military's top officer on such occasions to stop doing so.
The general then warned, says the book, without placing his remarks in direct quotes, that there would be "no more messages to the Palestinian Authority so that it will act". The authors say that Mr Mofaz instead laid down that they call "a price to be set exactly".
The authors say that he said he wanted "10 slain Palestinians" in each territorial brigade area.
The book goes on to record that one senior officer then whispered to the Central Command commander, Yitzhak Eitan, that he would be well advised to ask for such an order in writing and added: "It comes to 70 killed a day".
It then says that General Eitan convened the same group of officers the following day and "made clear that what Mofaz said [was] not to be understood as an order and should not be treated as a directive for action."
But it adds that one officer, the brigade commander in the Hebron area, Colonel Yehuda Albek, "preferred the Mofaz version" to that of General Eitan.
The next day, he began an action near Dahariya against Palestinian police "who had not committed any hostile acts". A policeman was killed and several wounded. When the colonel was summoned to command HQ to explain the operation to his concerned superiors, he said that it was in line with the remarks made earlier by the chief of staff, says the book.
There was no immediate response from Mr Mofaz's office yesterday to inquiries about the book's account.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud, called for an immediate election, which the polls show he would win. "It doesn't make any difference who heads Kadima. They are all party to a string of failures by this government," he said.
Mr Netanyahu could get his way if the victor of the Kadima leadership contest fails to form a workable coalition to stay in office. In that case elections could be called for early next year – with the possibility that Mr Olmert could remain as caretaker prime minister until then.
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Maria 2 aug 2008
Sameh Mansour Abu AsiAhmed Khalil NakhalaAshraf Basheer Mahdi
4 aug 2008
Yousif Amira 17
17-year-old Yousif Amira, who was shot in the nearby Nil'in village on Wednesday evening, has been pronounced dead, Palestinian medical sources in the central West Bank city of Ramallah told IMEMC on Monday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/56345
Yousef Amira, 17, shot in the head by Israeli forces in Ni’lin, has died
A Palestinian teenager, aged 17, who was left brain-dead on the 30th July after being shot in the head by Israeli forces, died this morning.
His funeral will be held in Ni’lin later this afternoon.
Israeli forces shot Yousef Ahmad Younis Amera with two rubber coated steel bullets from close range, leaving him brain dead. Actual death occurred at approximately 10am today. Yousef is the second child killed in the village over the past week. On Tuesday (29th July) 10 year old Ahmed Husan Yousef Mousa was shot dead by an Israeli border policeman.
According to ISM volunteers staying in the village, confrontations broke out hours after Ahmed’s funeral. Villagers built five barricades of rubble and stones that blocked the main road into Ni’lin preventing Israeli forces entering the village. At about 5:30pm an Israeli bulldozer attempted to clear a path through the barricades.
About 50 Israeli soldiers then attacked with sound bombs, rubber coated steel bullets and tear gas. They shot Yousef twice in the head at close range at approximately 7:30pm. Two other men suffered head injuries from a rubber coated steel bullets, but these injuries were not life threatening. A total of 17 people were injured.
According to Israeli Human Rights organisation B’Tselem, “the minimum range for firing ‘rubber’ bullets is 40m… the regulations emphasise that the bullets must be fired only at the individuals legs and they are not to be fired at children…”.
For several months protests have been held at Nil’in against the illegal Apartheid wall that annexes approximately 2,500 Dunums of agricultural land. The people fear this latest land grab will make their village economically untenable.
Yousef is the 8th child and the 13th Palestinian killed protesting against the Apartheid Wall. The other 12 are:
Ahmed Husan Yousef Mousa, aged 10.
Mohammad Fadel Hashem Rayan, age 25.
Zakaria MaHmud Salem, age 28.
Abdal Rahman Abu Eid, age 62.
Mohammad Daud Badwan, age 21.
Diaa Abdel Karim Abu Eid, age 24.
Hussain mahmud Awwad Aliyan, age 17.
Islam Hashem Rizik Zhahran, age 14.
Alaa Mohammad Abdel Rahman Khalil, age 14.
Jamal Jaber Ibrahim Assi, age 15.
Odai Mofeed Mahmud Assi, age 14.
Mahayub Nimer Assi, age 15.
To date, no soldiers or border police have been prosecuted for killing demonstrators.
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Maria 4 aug 2008
Suad Abd Rabuh, 53
Death toll in Gaza Strip reaches 227
Medical sources reported on Monday midday that the number of patients who have died in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege has reached 227 as one more patient died today.
Medical sources reported the death 53 Suad Abd Rabuh who died of cancer. She wasn’t able to leave the Gaza Strip to get the needed medical treatment.
Hundreds of patients in Gaza are liable to die if they don’t get immediate life-saving treatment. As the seige wears on there continue to be serious shortages of medical supplies available in the strip.
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Maria 5 aug 2008
Barak: "If you miss Gaza raids, don't worry - they'll come"
Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak criticized his political rivals on Monday, equating them with hosts of reality television shows, and told his constituents that a military operation in the Gaza Strip was still very much on the agenda.
Speaking at a Labor Party event in Jerusalem on Monday evening, Barak said "anyone who misses the military operations in Gaza mustn't worry, they will come."
Addressing Israel's current restraint in the Gaza Strip, Barak said "we've never had cause to regret wars or a military operation that we didn't undertake from a position of strength and self assurance."
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Maria 8 aug 2008
Spie or die (6:06) Israelis Tell Palestinian Patients To Spy or Die
Death toll 233 due to the Israeli siege on the Gaza strip
Medical sources reported on Friday morning that the number of patients who have died in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli siege has reached 233 as six more patients died today at the Rafah crossing.
Locals in The Gaza Strip are calling on international communities for a quick intervention to end the imposed siege on the Gaza strip and open the Rafah crossing so that patients can leave the strip to seek medical care.
Hundreds of patients in Gaza are at risk if they don’t get immediate life-saving treatment. As the siege continues there are serious shortages of medical supplies available in the strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/56435
- 8 aug 2008
Ahmed Abed Al-Aziz MushtahaIbrahim Fathi Abu Ali
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Maria 10 aug 2008
Ahmad abu-Amsha, 15,
of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of heart disease after Israel denied him entry to receive medical treatment.
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Maria 14 aug 2008
Ali al-Dahdouh, 27 days
of Gaza City, Gaza, died of heart disease after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
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Maria 14 aug 2008
Fadel Shana, journalist
Army clears soldiers who killed Reuters cameraman
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Maria 17 aug 2008
Ali Juma'a
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Maria 18 aug 2008
Ramada Ghalayini
Death toll in Gaza reaches 237
The number of patients who have died in the Gaza Strip due to the year-long Israeli siege has reached 237, as one more patient dies today.
Medical sources reported that Ramada Ghalayini died of cancer as he was banned from leaving the Gaza strip to get the needed medical treatment.
Hundreds of patients in Gaza are liable to die if they do no get immediate life-saving treatment. As the siege continues there remains a serious shortage of medical supplies available.
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Maria 21 aug 2008
al-Mutasim Bila Muhammad Jundiya, 2
of Gaza City, Gaza, died of cerebral palsy after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
2-year-old infant died
Death toll in Gaza reaches 240
The number of patients who have died in the Gaza Strip due to the year-long Israeli siege has reached 240, as one more patient dies today.
Medical sources reported the death of a 2-year-old infant as his parents were banned to leave the Gaza strip to seek the needed medical treatment for their child.
Hundreds of patients in Gaza are liable to die if they do no get immediate life-saving treatment. As the siege continues there remains a serious shortage of medical supplies available.
Israel has blocked the Gaza Strip tight since Hamas won the elections in January 2006, yet some Palestinian patients and students were allowed to move between Gaza Strip and Egypt through the Rafah terminal, the only passage for Gazans to the outside world.
Since Hamas took over the government in the Gaza Strip in June 2007, Israel tightened the siege on the Gaza Strip and made it harder for Palestinians to move. The restrictions include movement of people and products to and from the Gaza Strip.
Since the unilateral disengagement plan in September 2005, Israel left the Rafah terminal however, it maintained control over it through European observers whose presence at the terminal became must for the terminal to be opened.
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Maria 24 aug 2008
Akram Shahid RaafatAhmed Raafat Qudeih
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Maria 25 aug 2008
Tariq Milhim, 22Mustafa 'Ateeq, 23
Alaa Surour, 25
8 Palestinians killed in 12 hours of occupation
Ma'an's correspondent in Jenin reported that Alaa Surour, 25, from the Al Quds Brigades, was killed, and four others injured, in Jenin.
One of those injured in the Jenin attack has subsequently died from his injuries.
Mustafa 'Ateeq, 23, also from the Al Quds Brigades, received a gunshot to his neck.
In the Gaza Strip, the National Resistance Brigades of the DFLP announced that two of their members were killed during a guerilla operation near the Erez Crossing on the northern borders of the Strip early on Saturday morning.
The PRC-affiliated An Nasser Salah Ad Din Brigades announced that armed clashes erupted between a group of their fighters, alongside other fighters from the Al Aqsa Brigades [Fatah], and Israeli military forces in an operation near Erez Crossing also on Saturday morning.
Medical sources in Gaza said that the two Palestinians, killed last night, have now been identified. Dr Muawiya Hasanein announced that the two men were: Humam Ahmad Nasir, 18, and Mustafa Adnan Nasir, 17, both from Jabalia in the north of the Strip.
Tariq Milhim, 22, from Islamic Jihad's Al Quds Brigades was killed, along with 11 year old Mahmoud Qarnawi, during an Israeli attack in Seida, north of Tulkarem.
The Al Quds Brigades have issued a statement, declaring, "The assassination policy will not stop the resistance, and will only motivate the fighters and strengthen them."
The statement avowed that this Israeli policy "reflects the real intentions of the Israeli occupation and shows that the amnesties which they announce are not genuine."
The statement called on Palestinian factions "to confront the Israeli escalation of violence".
The spokesperson of the Israeli army admitted that an Israeli soldier was injured in clashes with armed Palestinian fighters. He revealed that the injured soldier was transferred to Barzalai hospital in Ashkelon for treatment.
The Israeli army claimed that armed Palestinians had attempted to undertake a large operation against the Israeli forces stationed in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinians were allegedly disguised in Israeli military uniform.
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Maria 25 aug 2008
Mustafa Adnan Nasir, 17
Humam Ahmad Nasir, 18
an occupation military robot moves a Palestinian body before it is transported to a military jeep in the village of Netiv Haasara
the bodies of Humam and Mustafa are held in an occupation military jeep in the village of Netiv Haasara