- 19 mei 2004
Imad Al Moghary 30Mahmoud Abu Tuaq 33
Two Palestinians were slaughtered by the Israeli soldiers in Tal Al Sultan area in Rafah Refugee Camp. Those are Imad Al Moghary (30) and Mahmoud Abu Tuaq (33). They leave behind 12 children
Collective genocide at this moment. No food and no water. People are getting slaughtered, the numbers of the dead is increasing from one minute to the next, and people are getting slaughtered at this moment. Water supplies have been demolished, no water, no food, and tens of people are yelling for ambulances, but the ambulances can't move anymore to bring the injured or the dead bodies because the medical team is surrounded by tanks and bulldozers at this moment.
A children's orphanage!!!! No food, no water………90 orphan are surrounded in one of the orphanages and there is shelling in the building where they are living..
There is no milk for babies in Rafah. The screams are increasing now, many yelling - pregnant women who are about to give birth but don’t have the ability to go to the hospital because many bodies are still spread in the streets and ambulances can't get them into the hospital because the Apaches warplanes are targeting the ambulances..
There is no oxygen tanks in the hospital and all things have run out here, even water and basic needs for the people. Thousands are gathering at these moments in the hospital asking for help, but no one is listening to them.. The apaches are shelling more and more right now and 21 bodies have no place in the hospital refrigerators..
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Maria 19 mei 2004
Unidentified dead youths, four of the 10 Palestinian civilians killed when an Israeli tank shelled a protest march in Tel Sultan, near Rafah
Seven of the 10 Palestinian civilians (including six children) killed when the IDF shelled a protest march in Tel Sultan, near Rafah, 19 May 2004.
The IDF initially claimed that the ten were killed when a makeshift bomb they were carrying detonated prematurely.
It then acknowledged that it had fired tank shells in the vicinity of the dead, but insisted it had hit only empty buildings and open fields.
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, then falsely told the Security Council that, even if the IDF had killed the eight Palestinians, "four to five were armed terrorists".
The IDF later scaled back its claim, asserting that there was only one gunman among the dead (and Israeli officials acknowledged to the Guardian that even that one was doubtful).
Footage captured by an AP camera crew (featured in Fox News: Attack on Rafah Camp), showed that the ten were killed when the IDF fired four tank shells and a helicopter missile into a crowd of protestors, none of whom - on review of the video footage - turned out to be armed.
The protestors were demonstrating against the IDF invasion of nearby Rafah refugee camp and, according to Israeli journalist Amira Hass, were trying to deliver food and medecine to residents trapped there.
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Maria 19 mei 2004
Hussein Sadeq Hussein Sabihat, 33
Ahmad Hussein Ahmad Turkman, 18
'Issam Kazem Kamel 'Arafat, 26
Hussein: resident of Rummana, Jenin district, killed next to 'Einav, Tulkarm district, by live ammunition. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while walking near the 'Inbata checkpoint.
Ahmad: resident of Jenin R.C., killed on in Jenin. Killed during an IDF invasion into the Jenin refugee camp after he shot at the soldiers.
'Issam: resident of Nablus, killed in Nablus, by live ammunition. Killed during an exchange of gunfire.
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twenty two killed
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Photostory: Israel’s Rafah operation and its May 19th attack on a peaceful march (graphic content)
17 May 2004. Rafah residents in Block ‘O’ rush to save their belongings before an expected Israeli incursion in the refugee camp. Their fears were well founded. Writing in the Washington Post yesterday, Molly Moore noted that, since the beginning of the Second Palestinian Intifada in September 2000, “Israeli military bulldozers have crushed 1,218 houses along the northern edge of the border between Gaza and Egypt, pushing back the city of Rafah and the adjacent refugee camp. A mile-long swath of broken concrete, splintered wood and twisted metal is all that remains of what Azizah Abu Anzah and others say was a close-knit community built by families and neighbors who gathered here a half-century ago in a cluster of U.N. tents.”
18 May 2004. Palestinian women mourning in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Rafah
Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem reported today that: “IDF forces launched an incursion into the Rafah Refugee Camp early this morning. Israeli officials describe the incursion as the largest military operation since Operation Defensive Shield in the Spring of 2002. Throughout the day B’Tselem has received reports of severe harm to the civilian population, including deaths, injury to medical teams, obstruction of medical care, house demolitions, and damage to infrastructure including roads, water and electricity. […]
“Early this morning, the Red Crescent was called to evacuate the body of a man killed in the Tel a-Sultan neighborhood. Ashraf al-Khatib, the ambulance driver, told B’Tselem that soldiers who had taken over a nearby house shot at the ambulance team as they tried to reach the body. A man assisting with the evacuation was killed.
[media id=1482304011ya-X size=large][b][i]18 May 2004. A Palestinian killed by an Israeli missile near Block ‘O’ in Rafah, surrounded by mourning relatives[/i][/b]
“According to al-Khatib, the IDF has dug trenches around Tel a-Sultan, preventing ambulances from entering the neighborhood. The Red Crescent received calls to treat 15 wounded and four dead in the area shelled by the IDF, however they are unable to evacuate them.
“According to reports given to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, at least one ambulance was hit by IDF gunfire during the night. According to a doctor that was in the ambulance, ‘at 3:00 am, we received a call that a person was injured in the Tel a-Sultan area. We went into the camp with lights flashing and our siren. We wore Red Crescent vests and did not see any soldiers as we went in. The army started shooting at us suddenly and wildly. The car was hit and we couldn’t continue. We left the ambulance and went into one of the houses.’
“Muhammad Qamise, a local radio journalist, told B’Tselem that the IDF has surrounded the Tel a-Sultan clinic and destroyed one of its walls. The IDF forbade the 18 clinic staff from leaving. According to Qamise, many residents report dead and injured who cannot be evacuated.”
19 May 2004. Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza reported today that since the beginning of the Israeli incursion on 18 May 2004, 99 children and 18 female teachers and workers were detained in the orphanage run by the SOS association in the Tel Al-Sultan district of Rafah. The manager of the orphanage, who lives in the premises with his family, confirmed that Israeli troops opened fire on the orphanage at several occasions. Loudspeakers were heard in Tel Al-Sultan calling all men over the age of 16 to gather in a neighborhood school. Sources in Tel Al-Sultan reported that Israeli troops fired on men who left their homes to comply with the instructions, killing 4. Above, Palestinian residents of Rafah march to Tel Al-Sultan to protest the Israeli measures. This image was taken a few minutes before Israel fired tank shells and helicopter missiles at the unarmed demonstrators.
19 May 2004. With haze from the Israeli helicopter missiles and tank shells in the background, Palestinians flee the scene of the attack carrying an injured young man towards nearby medical centers.
19 May 2004. Covered with blood, a man places an injured demonstrator in the back of a pickup truck.
19 May 2004. A grieving relative is comforted as he weeps in Najjar Hospital.
In an affadavit to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza about the 19 May 2004 attack on the demonstration, photographer Johannes Abeling stated that: “I was in the demonstration as thousands of people started to gather near the Al Awda Mosque in Rafah at around 2 pm. All the time I was in the middle of the demonstration. I noticed two armed Palestinians in the beginning of the demonstration, but saw them leave as the demonstrators marched within a few kilometers from where Israeli troops were positioned. I heard and saw no firing at the Israelis from within the demonstration. I heard flares of gunfire from Israeli troops as the mass of civilians continued to march. The first explosion I heard was a huge, and it targeted the front of the demonstration. There were numerous casualties. The Israelis fired no warning missiles near the demonstration before this. Then, I heard several explosions and saw people running everywhere. I saw what looked to be about 50 casualties (dead and wounded); many of them children. I do not understand why an army has fired missiles into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators. This was a horrible experience.”
Warning: Graphic images below
19 May 2004. Palestinian men and children killed by the Israeli attack on the demonstration lie on the floor of a makeshift morgue located in the freezer of a florist in north west Rafah.
Amnesty International reported on 21 May 2004 that “Demonstrators and eyewitnesses claim that the loss of life and injuries were caused by shelling from Israeli army helicopters and tanks stationed nearby. According to Israeli army officials, tanks shelled an empty building in order to deter the demonstrators from proceeding towards Israeli army positions; they also state that Israeli helicopters fired a missile at a nearby open space.
“The Israeli shelling hit a built-up area on Sea Street, the main east-west road in Rafah, where the Palestinian demonstrators were walking. An Israeli army aerial photograph published in the Israeli media shows that the building at which the tank shelling was aimed is located in a built-up area on the street where the demonstrators were marching. Israeli officials have alleged that the demonstrators were led by gunmen.
19 May 2004. A child killed by the Israeli missile attack lies on the floor of a makeshift morgue.
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Maria 20 mei 2004
Hamed Yasin Hamed Bahlul 16
Wael Muhammad Ahmad abu-Jizer 16
Hamed of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near the zoo.
Wael of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF helicopter fire near al-Quds Open University.
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Maria 20 mei 2004
Tamer Younis al-Arja 3
Iyad Muhammad Afana 13
Islam Muhammad Mahmoud Husniya 13
Tamer of Rafah, Gaza, died of a heart attack from IDF shelling.
Iyad of Gaza City, died of head wounds sustained May 11 from IDF gunfire during an incursion.
Islam of Fawwar refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his head while throwing stones during a demonstration against the Israeli incursion in Rafah.
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Maria 20 mei 2004
Khalid Abdul Hakim Abu Anza 40
Atrocities committed in the name of security
Some of the bodies of 29 Palestinians killed during the ongoing Israeli army operations in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip Thursday May 20, 2004.
Many of the children were at a protest march demonstrating at the demolition of homes taking place.
They were attacked by missiles and helicopters in the sky above them, by the Israeli army, and by the people of the United States of America who provided the money, the missiles, the helicopters, all the weapons.
Now they lie in a refrigerator-container turned into a makeshift morgue.
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Maria 21 mei 2004
Hussein Ibrahim Hussein al-Ladah, 17,
of Gaza City, died of head wounds sustained mei 11 from IDF gunfire during an incursion.
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Maria 21 mei 2004
Mazen Mahmoud Ibrahim Yasin, 42
resident of Qalqiliya, killed in Qalqiliya, by live ammunition. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while trying to flee from the Khilat Yassin area in the city following an incursion by the IDF. He was not armed.
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Maria 22 mei 2004
Rawan Muhammad Said abu-Zid, 4
Muhammad Sami Subih al-Hams, 17
Rawan of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to her head and neck while going to the store with her big sister to buy candy. (Rawan abu Zeid)
Muhammad of Rafah, Gaza, died of head wounds sustained Oct. 1, 2000 from IDF gunfire while throwing stones.
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Maria 22 mei 2004
Sami Ziad Said Salameh
23 mei 2004
Said Mahmoud Qutb
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Maria 24 mei 2004
16 killed in rafah refugee camp