H i s t o r y
o f P a l e s t i n e - 2004
2004 - Current year events
January 2004
3 January 2004, Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians
Saturday in one of the bloodiest days in at least two weeks in the
West Bank city of Nablus while a fourth Palestinian was killed in
the Gaza Strip. A fifth Palestinian, a 17-year-old pallbearer, was
pronounced clinically dead in Nablus, after soldiers shot him in the
head as he helped carry the coffin of his 15-year-old cousin, one of
the three killed by the army.
8 January 2004, The Israel Army stepped up its raids in the West
Bank yesterday, killing three Palestinians and arresting 19.
Israel’s nightly sweeps through West Bank towns and villages,
together with a concentrated three-week series of raids in Nablus,
the largest West Bank city, have raised tensions. Palestinians
charged that Israel was trying to sabotage peace efforts. Soldiers
have killed 14 Palestinians in West Bank raids in the past three
weeks.
12 January 2004, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei yesterday
urged the international community to put pressure on Israel to halt
construction of its West Bank separation wall, saying that time is
running out on chances for a negotiated peace settlement.
14 January 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead three
Palestinians since Sunday, wounded six others, detained at least 85
and demolished eleven houses in the past week while a Jewish settler
and four Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded in
Palestinian attacks in the last 24 hours. Suicide bombing in Erez
Separately, four Israeli soldiers were killed early Wednesday when a
Palestinian female bomber blew herself at the Gaza Strip’s main
crossing terminal to Israel (Erez), injuring 10 more troops.
21 January 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces on Tuesday went on
rampage to demolish a mosque and at least 30 Palestinian houses,
wound 38 Palestinian workers and a “deaf” woman at a military
roadblock, detain more anti-Israeli occupation Palestinians in the
ongoing arrests spree and deport an activist detainee from the West
Bank to the Gaza Strip.
25 January 2004, Around 400 Palestinian detainees in the jails of
the Israeli Occupation Forces will be among more than hundreds of
Arab prisoners to be freed within days in a German-brokered deal
between Hizbullah and Israel, Lebanese, Israeli and German sources
confirmed late Saturday.
The exchange is expected to take place Wednesday or Thursday, when
an Israeli plane will take the Arab prisoners to Germany at the same
time a Lebanese plane from Beirut arrives there with an Israeli
intelligence officer and the bodies of the soldiers. The Palestinian
prisoners will be released in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
28 Jaunary 2004, Four days ahead of the holy Islamic festivity of
Eid Al-Ahda, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead at least eight
Palestinians, most of them by sporadic machine gunfire, in a
military invasion of Al-Zaitoun neighborhood, south east of the Gaza
City.
31 January 2004, Israeli forces briefly raided the West Bank town of
Bethlehem yesterday and dynamited the home of a Palestinian who blew
up a Jerusalem bus.
About 7,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli custody.
February 2004
02 February 2004, In early Monday, Israeli occupation forces raided
the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza strip, killing four
Palestinians and injuring several others. A special force of Israeli
occupation soldiers allegedly came to arrest a Palestinian member of
the resistance, Yasser Abu Al-Ayish, who lost his legs and an arm to
an Israeli tank shell a year ago. However, they killed him with
three other Palestinians in the refugee camp.
07 February 2004, An Israeli helicopter gunship slammed a missile
into a car in Gaza City on Saturday, killing a top Islamic Jihad
commander and a 12-year-old bystander and drawing vows of revenge by
Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli army confirmed it had targeted the vehicle carrying Aziz
al-Shami, who was a top commander in Islamic Jihad's "Jerusalem
Brigades" armed wing and a brother-in-law and bodyguard of Islamic
Jihad leader Abdallah al-Shami.
08 February 2004, An eleven-year old boy and a teenager were among
six Palestinians killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza
Strip within the last twenty-four hours while another five year old
boy was critically wounded and at least 14 bystanders injured, as
the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Israel against
resuming its policy of extra-judicial killings.
Israeli Occupation Forces backed by tanks and US-made Apache
helicopters stormed into Al-Salam neighborhood of the southern Gaza
Strip town of Rafah and surrounded the house of Ashraf Adnan Abu
Libdah early Sunday, opening sporadic machine gunfire.
11 February 2004, Israeli troops killed at least 13 Palestinians in
the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in gunbattles during what Israel called
raids to root out militants behind attacks on Jewish settlements,
Israeli Occupation Forces stormed into Al-Shajae’iyeh neighborhood.
Israel launched its deadliest strike into Gaza for months amid signs
of unease among the military over a shock announcement by Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon last week that he planned to pull all the
settlers out of the Gaza Strip.
22 February 2004, A Palestinian bomber killed seven people on a
crowded Jerusalem bus Sunday on the eve of World Court hearings into
a controversial barrier Israel says will ensure its security against
such attacks. Around 60 people were wounded in the blast, which
turned the green number 14 bus into a charred skeleton at a busy
intersection near the Inbal Hotel, where leaders of major U.S.
Jewish organizations were meeting.
25 February 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces on Wednesday morning
raided Palestinian bank branches in Ramallah amid escalating
military invasion of West Bank cities, villages and refugee camps.
Israeli Occupation Forces troops, backed by military vehicles,
stormed into Ramallah early Wednesday and declared by loudspeakers
that curfew is imposed on the city center, closing the main streets
down town with barbed wire.
28 February 2004, Israeli police yesterday stormed Al-Haram
Al-Sharif, one of Islam’s holiest sites, to confront Palestinian
protesters.
The storming coincided with another spate of protests in the West
Bank against the barrier, now under World Court review for cutting
into occupied territory that Palestinians want for a state. Four
Palestinian demonstrators and three police officers were lightly
injured.
29 February 2004, An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a car
in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing three people, including an
Islamic Jihad member, and wounding 15 others. One of the dead was
identified as Islamic Jihad member Ayman Dahdouh. The body of the
other victim was so badly disfigured that it couldn’t be immediately
identified.
March 2004
03 March 2004, Israel assassinated three members of the Hamas
resistance group in an air strike that tore apart their car in the
Gaza Strip Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. The
Israeli military confirmed that operatives of the powerful Islamist
faction had been targeted in a missile attack not far from the
illegal Israeli settlement of Netzarim in Gaza. Hamas leaders vowed
revenge attacks.
06 March 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead a 19-year-old
Palestinian policeman early Saturday as two Palestinian children
died and a third was critically wounded by a bullet in the head
since Thursday. Meanwhile, Israel sealed off the Occupied Territory,
tightened its siege of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and besieged
President Yaser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah.
10 March 2004, The Israeli army staged its deadliest West Bank raid
in months Wednesday, killing five Palestinians in violence that
overshadowed a new round of international diplomacy. The latest
bloodshed came amid conflicting signals on whether Israeli and
Palestinian leaders were preparing to meet next week in their first
summit in eight months. Israeli occupation troops operating
undercover shot dead five members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,
in an ambush in the town of Jenin.
14 March 2004, Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least seven
other people Sunday in a double-attack at Israel's port of Isdood (Ashdod)
that scuttled efforts to set up an Israeli-Palestinian peace summit.
Another 10 people were wounded in blasts that ripped through
warehouses at Israel's second busiest port.
17 March 2004, Israeli occupying forces launched Tuesday morning a
wide scale military onslaught on Rafah City, killing four
Palestinian citizens, demolishing five houses and wounding nine, one
critically.
21 March 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces killed three Palestinian
activists and three bystanders, including a mother and a wife, in
A’basan village east of the central Gaza Strip of Khan Younis early
Sunday, a teenager in the West Bank on Saturday, while a 7-year-old
girl and three civilians died of wounds sustained during earlier
Israeli raids, to raise the Palestinian death toll to 17 since
Wednesday.
21 March 2004, Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at Hamas'
spiritual leader, Shaikh Ahmed Yassin, as he left a mosque after
performing the Monday dawn prayers, killing the Hamas leader and six
other worshippers. A reporter who rushed to the scene after hearing
three loud explosions found the blown-up remains of Yassin's
blood-soaked wheel-chair.
Witnesses at the mosque said Yassin's body had been evacuated to
Al-Shifa Hospital.
With the assassination of Shaikh Yassin a new cycle of violence is
inevitable as Hamas is going to avenge the assassination with
suicide bombing, as it did before, then Israelis are going to
retaliate with more assassinations and raids, as they did before.
Al-Manar TV reported that the Israeli Prime Minister, Sharon,
personally supervised the assassination of Shaikh Yassin, whose
death may be an attempt by Sharon to distract public attention from
his personal scandals.
24 March 2004, Abdelaziz Rantissi was chosen Tuesday as the new
supreme head of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas to succeed
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel, as the Jewish
state vowed to continue targeting faction leaders. Shortly after the
announcement, Rantissi vowed that Israelis “will not know security”
and called on the Hamas armed wing to “teach Israel a lesson.”
30 March 2004, Palestinians in Israel, the Israeli-occupied
Palestinian Territory and the Diaspora were set to mark the 28th
“Land Day” on Tuesday, as they have done each year on March 30 since
1976, to protest Israel’s ongoing expropriation of Palestinian land
on which it continues to build new illegal Jewish colonies, and
expand existing settlements and cities, which were created since
1948 and after 1967.
April 2004
02 April 2004, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday
threatened his long-time foe Yasser Arafat with assassination in
barbed comments in which he called the veteran Palestinian president
a poor insurance risk.
In Jerusalem's Old City, Israeli occupation police stormed the
square outside al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites. After
Friday Muslim prayers, officers used rubber bullets and stun
grenades to disperse Palestinian worhsippers and arrested 14.
05 April 2004, The Israeli occupying forces escalated its onslaught
on the occupied Palestinian territories, killing five citizens,
demolishing a house and arresting tens. Three Palestinians were
instantly killed today morning in Juhor Al Deek area, close to Deir
Al Balah, in the heart of Gaza Strip by several Israeli missiles,
Palestinian security services said.
10 April 2004, A 12-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead in the
southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. They said Iman Tulba was killed
when Israeli occupation soldiers at the Ganei Tal Jewish settlement
opened fire at a nearby three-storey building in Khan Younis.
Tulba's cousin, Alaa, said he saw a bullet fly through the family's
kitchen window, ricochet off a wall and hit her. He added there were
no clashes in the area at the time.
12 April 2004, Palestinian security sources reported today morning
that the Israeli occupying forces spotted and shot dead there
Palestinians, northwest of the illegitimate Jewish settlement of
“Nitzarim” that is established on Palestinian-owned lands in Al
Mughraqa area, south of Gaza city.
17 April 2004, An Israeli helicopter missile strike on a car in Gaza
City killed top Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi. Witnesses said
two of Rantissi's bodyguards were also killed in the attack in which
two missiles were fired.
Medics said Rantissi, 56, Hamas's leader in the Palestinian
resistance group's Gaza Strip stronghold, had been rushed to a Gaza
City hospital in critical condition after the attack. Sources said
he had been wounded in the head with shrapnel.
Hundreds of Hamas members and supporters flooded to the hospital
after news of the Israeli raid.
20 April 2004, Palestinian Medics said five Palestinians were killed
by Israeli occupation gunfire during an Israeli occupation raid on
northern Gaza. At least 25 other Palestinians were wounded.
22 April 2004, At least nine Palestinians, including a 13-year-old
boy, were killed as Israeli troops backed by Apache helicopters
raided the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya for a second day yesterday.
The raid came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
promised to continue targeting Palestinian leaders, following the
weekend assassination of Hamas leader Abdelaziz Al-Rantisi.
27 April 2004, The Israeli occupying forces killed five citizens
throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, including a child.
29 April 2004, A Hamas fighter was killed and four Israeli
occupation soldiers wounded in a car bombing on a Gaza Strip
settlement yesterday, while a leading Palestinian peace campaigner
was briefly arrested in East Jerusalem.
The Israeli occupation forces continued their campaign of house to
house search across the West Bank yesterday, witnesses said. Beit
Sahour has been under curfew for the third day yesterday with all
the entrances to the city were blocked by military checkpoints.
May 2004
02 May 2004,
Israeli missiles killed four members of the Palestinian resistance
in a strike on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. The
men belonged to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction.
The strike took place hours after two Palestinians shot dead an
Israeli settler and her four children in the Gaza Strip and as
members of Sharon's Likud party voted on his plan to pull out of the
area and evacuate four of 120 settlements in the West Bank.
04 May 2004, In a fresh incursion today morning into the refugee
camp of Khan Younis, two citizens were killed and 22 others wounded
besides 30 houses were demolished. In Hebron, fives citizens were
arrested and seven others arrested during an Israeli onslaught into
the city, when the Israeli soldiers fired a tear gas canisters fired
in the morning , that is within the strict curfew imposed on the
city. Meanwhile seven other citizens were arrested in halhoul town,
north of Hebron city, WAFA reported.
10 May 2004, The Israeli occupying forces shot dead two Palestinian
citizens in the Al-Qarara town of khan Younis and the Abu Dis town
of the occupied east Jerusalem.
Additionally, 30 houses were knocked down after the Israeli troops
incurred into the Abu Hadaf area, close to the road leading to the
illegitimate settlement of Kosofim that was illegitimately built on
the lands of al Qarara town.
13 May 2004, A powerful explosion ripped apart an Israeli armored
personnel carrier yesterday, reportedly killing five soldiers, in
the second such attack by Palestinian fighters in Gaza in two days —
as Israel waged its biggest offensive there in nearly a decade.
14 May 2004, Israel killed 12 Palestinians yesterday in revenge
raids on the Gaza Strip as President Yasser Arafat called for global
intervention to help prevent “Israeli crimes”. Eleven Palestinians
were killed in helicopter missile strikes in Rafah refugee camp.
16 May 2004, After a brief halt to the orgy of demolitions being
perpetrated by Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza Strip, an
Israeli court has given the go-ahead for the Israeli army to further
demolish homes in a poverty-stricken Gaza Strip refugee camp.
The Israeli Supreme Court of Justice on Sunday rejected a petition
made by residents of the largely-destroyed Rafah refugee camp in the
southern Gaza Strip for a ban on further Israeli Occupation Forces
demolitions of their homes.
18 May 2004, Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians Tuesday in the
biggest raid on the Gaza Strip for years as tanks and infantry
thrust into a the 130,000 refugee camp town despite an international
outcry.
The assault on the Rafah refugee camp, by one of the largest Israeli
forces in action since the start of a Palestinian uprising in 2000,
drew condemnation because of threats to destroy hundreds of
Palestinian homes in the occupied territory.
19 May 2004, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a protest
march in a besieged Gaza refugee camp on Wednesday, killing at least
10 Palestinians and raising the death toll to 33 in Israel's
bloodiest raid in Gaza in years.
Israeli media said at least 50 bodies, most of them school children,
had been counted after the strike in the Rafah camp, which some
witnesses said was carried out by helicopter gunships and others
blamed on firing by tanks.
20 May 2004, The Israeli occupying forces continue its onslaught on
Rafah city and its refugee camp, killing six citizens and massing
its military escalation in the Al-Salam and Al-Barzeil and Juneina
neighborhoods and two others in Tal al Sultan neighborhood at a time
a strangulated siege is still imposed on Tal sultan neighborhood for
the third day consecutively.
27 May 2004, A Palestinian man was killed yesterday by Israeli fire
in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, site of a devastating
weeklong Israeli raid that ended earlier this week.
Mohammed Zurob, 42, was hit in the chest by fire originating from an
Israeli army position near the border between the Gaza Strip and
Egypt.
29 May 2004, A fourth Palestinian citizen of the northern Gaza Strip
city of Beit Hanoun, joined on Saturday morning the three others who
were killed yesterday night by the Israeli occupying forces in
different parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, IPC correspondent
reported.
June 2004
02 June 2004, Two Palestinian civilians have been shot dead by the
Israeli occupying forces in eastern Gaza City, close to the Karni
commercial crossing.
Dr. Mu’wia Abu Hussanien, Chief of the emergency department of the
health ministry stated that Tareq Subhi Temraz, 22, and Hussam Ahmed
Hamad, 22 were killed by the Israeli firing at Karni- Nitzareem road,
east of Gaza city.
06 Jun 2004, An Israeli court Sunday jailed Palestinian leader
Marwan Al-Barghouthi for life for resisting the Israeli occupation
of Palestine but he said his people's statehood quest would not be
broken.
"The (Israeli) occupation is going to end one day. It is dying,"
Al-Barghouthi, 45, said just before the Tel Aviv court handed down
five consecutive life sentences against him. The court based its
sentence on the killings of five people by Palestinians in his Fatah
faction, thus holding him responsible for actions of others.
Al-Barghouthi, who denied involvement in actual resistance to the
Israeli occupation of his country, received another 20 years for
attempted murder and a further 20 for activity in a resistance group
that Israelis and their supporters call "terrorist" group - 165
years in total - in a high-profile case that Palestinians denounced
as a show trial.
The articulate Palestinian lawmaker, Marwan Al-Barghouthi, did not
recognize the jurisdiction of the Israeli occupation court.
Supporters said Al-Barghouthi had no intention of appealing the
verdict or asking the court for a reduced sentence.
07 June 2004, The Israeli occupying forces shot and killed two
citizens and wounded five others, including four children, in
different parts of the occupied Palestinian territories.
17-years-old Mohammed Nabhan was killed when the Israeli forces,
stationed near the illegitimate Israeli settlement of "Neveh Dekalim",
west of Khan Younis opened heavy gunfire at him. His body was found
early this morning. Meanwhile, another citizen was shot and killed
in the Qalandia refugee camp.
15 June 2004, Israel’s military killed two Palestinians, including a
leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in a missile attack on a car
in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday.
Palestinian security officials recovered fragments of what they said
was a missile from the charred remains of a car in which Khalil
Marshoud, an Al-Aqsa Brigades leader, and another two Palestinian
who were driving. Both men were killed in the blast.
23 June 2004, Three Palestinian civilians were killed Monday and
several others were wounded, by Israeli Occupation Forces in the
northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun.
Al-Shifa Hospital sources, in Gaza, said that Khaled al-Shinbari 21,
and Ibrahem Salha 21, were instantly killed after having been shot
with Israeli gunshot in Beit Hanoun. Three other civilians were
wounded. Ahmed al-Masri suffer critical wounds as he was shot with
several bullets, medical sources said. .
24 June 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces stormed into and imposed
curfew on the old cities of Nablus and Hebron in the northern and
southern West Bank respectively and shot dead three Palestinians in
the Gaza Strip early Thursday, raising the Palestinian death toll
since Tuesday to eight, and to 3,353 since the outbreak of the
Intifada, or uprising against Israel’s 37-year old occupation, on 28
September 2000.
28 June 2004, Palestinian rockets slammed into a town in southern
Israel on Monday, killing two people, rescue officials said, hours
after members of Palestinian resistance groups blew up an army post
in the Gaza Strip, causing the death of one soldier.
It was the first time makeshift rockets fired from Gaza, which
usually cause no serious injuries, had claimed lives in Israel and a
strong Israeli military response appeared likely.
28 June 2004, The Israeli occupying forces firings killed today
three citizens and wounding others in two separate incidents in khan
Younis city of the Gaza Strip.
The 50-year-old Musleh Salem Abed Al Aal was shot and killed today
morning by the several live bullets targeted him by the Israeli
occupying soldiers manning Al matahen military checkpoint, north of
khan Younis city and wounding the teen Tareq Abu Sursar, 16, with
two live bullets in the left foot.
July 2004
01 July 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces stormed into Jericho and
Nablus early Thursday, sealed off and imposed curfew on both West
Bank cities, continued their siege of the northern Gaza Strip town
of Beit Hanoun, where they began bulldozing a five-kilometer deep
“security zone,” and shot dead a nine-year old boy in Rafah raising
the Palestinian death toll to three in the past twenty-four hours
and to 3,371 since September 2000.
02 July 2004, Israeli occupation forces ending a two-day terrorist
raid on Rafah, under the pretext of searching for weapons-smuggling
tunnels, shot dead a Palestinian civilian on Friday, and Israeli
occupation troops killed two other Palestinian civilians in Gaza
Strip.
05 July 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead on Sunday night a
Palestinian public security officer as he was walking down a main
road about 500 meters away in the town of Rafah, raising the
Palestinian death toll to 12 since Thursday and to 3,383 since the
Intifada against the 37-year old Israeli occupation of the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip broke out in 2000.
06 July 2004, The Israeli occupying forces killed four citizens
early this morning in the city of Nablus, including a professor at
the Al Najah University, during a wide military invasion of the city
that spread destruction everywhere.
Dr. Khaled Salah, 52, a professor at the electrical engineering
department of the Al Najah University, along with his son Mohammed,
16, were shot dead by the Israeli soldiers during an invasion into
the city.
09 July 2004, Members of an Israeli undercover unit broke into
several houses in Beit Hanun yesterday and killed seven
Palestinians. The commandos were supported by snipers, who occupied
the roofs of nearby houses, and two Apache helicopters.
Of the seven dead, six belonged to the resistance while the seventh
was a woman on-looker. The dead were identified as Jamila Hamad,
Hamed Abu Oda, Ahmed Zanin, Naim Al-Kafarna, Naser Abu Harbid, Zuhir
Abu Harbid and Nahed Abu Oda. Four belonged to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, while two were senior fighters in the Hamas and Islamic
Jihad movements.
11 July 2004, A Palestinian bomb killed a woman at a bus stop in
Israel on Sunday in an attack proving that the Israeli barrier built
inside Palestinian territories does not stop attacks. However, Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon still insisted that it proved the need to
continue building a West Bank barrier declared illegal by the World
Court.
14 July 2004, 110 Palestinian children, taking part in a summer camp
in the West Bank city of Hebron, survived death on Tuesday after
drinking poisoned water taken from a well apparently spoiled by a
mob of Israeli settlers who were usurped Palestinian-owned lands in
the Yatta Town, south of the city.
Altewani village’s mayor, Saber Alhareeny, stressed he witnessed
four armed Israeli illegal settlers roaming around the spoiled well,
then it was clear that the water was poisoned with strange chemical
substances and dead chickens. After that an Israeli police force
came and cordoned off the area, IPC correspondent reported.
15 July 2004, The Jordanian ambassador at the United Nations has
requested holding an emergency session of the UN General Assembly to
vote for a resolution adopting the ruling made by the International
Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning the illegality of the Apartheid
Wall.
21 July 2004, The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted Tuesday
a resolution by 150-6 votes with 10 abstentions demanding that
Israel comply with the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
“advisory opinion” on the Apartheid Wall Israel is building on
occupied Palestinian land, with the 25-member European Union voting
“yes.”
Palestinian UN observer Nasser Al-Kidwa said the ICJ’s opinion and
Tuesday’s resolution could be “the most important” UN action since
the General Assembly adopted resolution 181 in 1947, which
partitioned Palestine to allow the creation of the state of Israel.
Israel and the United States voted against, along with Australia,
the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. All 25 members of the
European Union voted in favor.
25 July 2004, Israeli helicopters struck a suspected militant target
in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, wounding at least four people and
adding to tension in the territory at the heart of a Palestinian
leadership crisis.
A helicopter fired at least two missiles into a building in Gaza
City's Zeitoun neighborhood that residents said was the home of an
activist from the Hamas resistance group.
27 July 2004, The 7,500 Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli
jails and concentration camps have moved health care to the top of
their priorities, before going through an open hunger strike.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) asserted that the prisoners
inside the Israeli jails have been preparing for a complete hunger
strike, to protest the maltreatment and medical negligence of about
800 sick prisoners.
31 July 2004, An 11-year-old boy was among eight Palestinians killed
within 48 hours by the Israeli Occupation Forces , who also
extra-judicially executed three activists, as a 16-year-old girl was
critically wounded with a bullet in the head.
August 2004
03 August 2004, Israeli occupation helicopter missiles took the
lives of three Palestinian civilians and wounded 16 others today
morning in Yebna refugee camp of Rafah, south of Gaza Strip.
Medics identified them as Mohammed Abu Al Nada, 18, Akram Al Habibi,
30, and Maysara Abu Selmyia, 19. Two of the bodies were torn into
shreds and 16 others were wounded.
05 August 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead five
Palestinians Wednesday, including two boys and a bystander, as they
expanded their reoccupation and thrust deeper into the densely
populated northern Gaza Strip, using tanks and military helicopters,
which forced the UNRWA to pull out its foreign staff and the United
States to warn its citizens against travel to the area.
11 August 2004, A car bomb exploded between two Israeli army
checkpoints on a busy transit route outside Jerusalem Wednesday,
killing two Palestinians and wounding 16 people in the first such
attack for six months.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility and apologized for
the Palestinian causalities, saying their target was Israeli
soldiers.
17 August 2004, The Israeli occupation troops, tightened their grip,
austere measures, and control on Nablus city of the West Bank
particularly in the old town, killing a child and wounding several,
in addition to the scouring of the civilians’ houses.
The 8- old- year child khaled Al Astta from the old town of Nablus
was shot dead with a live bullet in the heart, killing him instantly
and wounding eight civilians including children during Israeli
indiscriminate shootings towards the civilian’s houses.
18 August 2004, A Hamas leading anti-occupation activist survived an
Israeli Occupation Forces failed extra-judicial assassination in an
Israeli air strike that killed five Palestinian bystanders and
wounded 12 others in eastern Gaza City late Tuesday, to raise the
Palestinian death toll in five days since Friday to 13 including two
boys, and to more than 3,469 since the Intifada (uprising) against
the 37-year old Israeli occupation broke out some four years ago.
Sheikh Ahmad Sae’ed Al-Ja’bari, a leading Hamas activist, survived
an Israeli failed extra-judicial assassination in an air strike late
Tuesday, when an Israeli Occupation Forces’ unmanned aircraft
hovering overhead fired an internationally-prohibited explosive
device, which witnesses believe was triggered by remote control.
22 August 2004, Among the unwavering attempts by the Israeli
prisoners’ service to break the open hunger strike the Palestinian
prisoners are embarking on for the eight day in row, the Al Ramlah
and Hasharoon female prisons were brutally attacked by the Israeli
jailers and as the personal belongings of the detainees were seized
in the notorious Israeli desert jail of Nafha.
The prisoners further threatened that they would even refrain from
taking medicines in the case the Israeli prisons authority went
ahead with the atrocious and racist measures against the striking
prisoners.
24 August 2004, At least 30 Israeli tanks stormed yesterday night
the West Bank city of Nablus, blockaded its old town and broke into
Askar refugee camp.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, an Israeli military contingent broke
into the Askar refugee camp, an outskirt of Nablus, and searched a
local medical center, detaining its staff and messing up with its
furniture.
26 August 2004, As the Palestinian political prisoners' open-ended
hunger strike entered the 12th day, the Israeli occupation Prison
Service used coercive measures by against the hunger-strikers,
including threats, psychological and physical pressures.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) lawyer quoted hunger-striker
Ahmed Yousef from Bethlehem, as saying that the prisoners who need
medications due to the strike were informed to drink water and then
transferred to ward (7) in the notorious desert prison Bier Shiva,
and then rumored that those hunger-strikers broke their strike.
30 August 2004, Aisha Al-Zaban, 55, died last night after suffering
a severe heart attack a two days ago in Nablus City.
Family members said that Aisha was participating in sit-ins
organized by families of prisoners at the tent pitched for that
purpose in downtown Nablus. Aisha is a mother of two; Ammar, who is
serving 26 life sentences in Israeli jails, and Bashar, who was
killed in 1994.
In a separate incident, the civilian Hassna Abu Faradh, 60, was
crushed to death by an Israeli settler before he fled the scene in
Qulqelia.
31 August 2004, Medics’ sources and eyewitnesses said that the
Israeli troops started shooting heavily towards an ambulance close
to one the Israeli military checkpoints, south of Gaza Strip
wounding two of the medical crew.
The Israeli soldiers manning the military checkpoint at Al Matahen
checkpoint, north of khan Younis city with a well-intent and no
previous alarm opened gun fire towards an ambulance of the medical
relief and the passing vehicles along the road wounding moderately
Dr. Rafeeq Abadal, 37, and Subhi Maddi,50, witnesses said.
September 2004
02 September 2004, Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli
occupation jails Thursday have effectively ended an 18-day-old
hunger strike after most of their demands for better conditions were
met.
"We announce to you all that all prisoners in all prisons have ended
today their open hunger strike," said Hisham Abdel-Razek, the
Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs.
04 September 2004, The Israeli occupation forces killed on Friday
two civilians in Gaza and Rafah cities in two separate two separate
occupation raids as a third succumbed to his critical wounds he
sustained a couple of weeks ago in Khan Younis city , south of Gaza
Strip.
07 September 2004, Israeli occupation forces killed 14 Palestinians
and wounded dozens others in an fresh overnight carnage in the city
of Gaza. An Israeli combat helicopter fired several missiles at a
soccer field, east of Gaza City, where a group of Hamas supporters
were gathering.
Israeli military sources claimed the attack targeted a training camp
for Hamas' military wing, Ezzeddin Al Qassam Brigades, claims that
Hamas officials denied.
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