[Mb-civic] The Assault on Health | Israel in Gaza | Deteriorating Press Freedom

Thu Oct 21 13:07:02 PDT 2004

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Opinion/Editorial
PALESTINE: THE ASSAULT ON HEALTH AND OTHER WAR CRIMES
Derek Summerfield, The Electronic Intifada, 21 October 2004

Does the death of an Arab weigh the same as that of a US
or Israeli citizen? The Israeli army, with utter impunity,
has killed more unarmed Palestinian civilians since
September 2000 than the number of people who died on
September 11, 2001. In conducting 238 extrajudicial
executions the army has also killed 186 bystanders
(including 26 women and 39 children). Two thirds of the
621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at
checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their
homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of
cases to the head, neck and chest--the sniper's wound.
Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to
kill children in situations of minimal or no threat. These
statistics attract far less publicity than suicide
bombings, atrocious though these are too. Derek
Summerfield comments.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article3247.shtml

Diaries
GUAVA IN JABALIA: FIRST BITE, LAST BREATH
Sami Abu Salem, Live From Palestine, 20 October 2004

The seeds of guava were still between 13-year-old Saber
Assaliya's lips when an Israeli tank shot him in the
waist. The boy was playing in a nearby orchard at the
southern tip of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, in the north of
Gaza. Saber's father Ibrahim recalls, "After eight years
[of attempting to have children], Saber's first scream
filled the hospital. I was extremely happy; I distributed
sweets for all medical staff and patients in the hospital
and the to those in the neighbourhood. I followed all the
details of raising Saber. And in just seconds, the Israeli
tanks turned him into a memory."

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article3246.shtml

Human Rights
RAZING RAFAH: MASS HOME DEMOLITIONS IN THE GAZA STRIP
Press Release, Human Rights Watch, 18 October 2004

Over the past four years, the Israeli military has
demolished over 2,500 Palestinian houses in the occupied
Gaza Strip. Nearly two-thirds of these homes were in
Rafah, a densely populated refugee camp and city at the
southern end of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt.
Sixteen thousand people - more than ten percent of Rafah's
population - have lost their homes, most of them refugees,
many of whom were dispossessed for a second or third time.
It is difficult to reconcile the IDF's stated rationales
with the widespread destruction that has taken place,
according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. 

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article3243.shtml

Diaries
THE "DAYS OF PENITENCE": GAZA SINKS IN A SEA OF BLOOD
Mohammed Omer, Live from Palestine, 18 October 2004

It smells unbelievably bad here. To walk down any street,
if you dare to, you skirt, or sometimes unavoidably walk
through, pools of blood. There are shreds of human flesh,
some of them unrecognizable as human remains -- all over,
on rooftops, plastered to broken windows, on the street.
The stench of rotting blood mixes with the more acrid odor
of flesh burnt to black char by the rockets fired by the
Israeli Army's American-made Apache helicopters. Volunteer
crews are gathering these human fragments and bringing
them to Jabalya's two hospitals but the ambulances cannot
possibly keep up with the flood of newly dead and injured.

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article3242.shtml

Journalists in Danger
IPI INTIFADA REPORT SAYS PRESS FREEDOM DETERIORATING: 
HEAVY MEDIA CASUALTIES, PERPETRATORS GO UNPUNISHED
Press Release, International Press Institute, 20 October 2004

The International Press Institute (IPI) today published
the IPI Intifada Report, a chronicle and statistical
analysis of 562 press freedom violations during the first
four years of the Palestinian Uprising. At least 478 press
freedom violations were carried out by the Israeli state,
including the government, the judiciary, and even the
legislators. Sixteen violations were committed by Israeli
settlers and civilians. Three were perpetrated jointly by
Israeli soldiers and settlers. As a result, at least 497
abuses, or 88.4 per cent of all violations, were
perpetrated by Israelis. Another 29 violations were
carried out by the Palestinian authorities, 15 by
Palestinian militants, 7 by Palestinian civilians, and one
jointly by Palestinian authorities and civilians. 

http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article3245.shtml

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