Human rights situation in the OT - CHR - Letter from Palestine

QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE

OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

Letters dated 23 November and 13 December 2000 from the Permanent Observer

for Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to

the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

[23 November 2000]

The Israeli occupation forces and settlers continue their war against the Palestinian people, using all kinds of weapons, planes, artillery, rockets and heavy machine guns to kill Palestinians deliberately, thus causing the death until 19 November 2000 of 240 Palestinians and wounding more than 10,000 others. The Israeli occupation forces have also arrested 500 Palestinians whom they took to Israel and nobody knows what has become of them.

The Israeli forces are using all other aspects of war to kill Palestinians, such as tightening the siege on Palestinian towns and villages, isolating them from each other, forbidding any access or exit therefrom, including of foodstuffs and medicine and preventing ambulances from transporting the wounded to hospitals. Moreover, they have opened artillery fire on ambulances, thus killing a number of drivers and medical staff and wounding others.

These same forces have also attacked with artillery and rockets Palestinian houses, schools and hospitals. They launched a heavy missile bombardment against the Gaza Strip on the evening of 20 November 2000, striking from helicopter gunships and gunboats at residential locations; as a result, more than 20 children together with tens of civilians were killed and many others were injured.

In addition to all these means of killing, groups of Israeli settlers and occupation troops have gone so far as to uproot thousands of fruit trees that constitute the basic means of subsistence for hundreds of Palestinian families in their daily lives. By so doing, these Israeli troops and settlers emphasize even further their determination to go on tightening the strangulation of the already scarce means of living available for Palestinians and to expose this people to certain death.

The deliberate killing of Palestinians, causing serious corporal harm to the wounded, imposing collective punishments on Palestinians, so depriving them of food and medicine and preventing them from providing medical treatment to their wounded, destroying their sources of subsistence and the daily food of the great majority with the aim of destroying the society by hunger and disease, are all practices to which the definitions of the crime of genocide apply, as you certainly know. Moreover, they constitute grave violations of human rights, crimes of war and crimes against humanity according to the Convention on the Prevention and the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and the First Additional Protocol thereto of 1977.

I am enclosing herewith a list* with the names of Palestinian martyrs from 28 September to 19 November 2000.

I would be most obliged to you if you could have this letter as well as its enclosure distributed as an official document of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on Human Rights under agenda item 8.

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*Reproduced as received, in Arabic and English only.

[13 December 2000]

Israel continues its war against the Palestinian people using various kinds of direct and mass killing, as well as other techniques of killing, such as shooting at Palestinian civilians, residential areas and houses with heavy machine guns, artillery and rockets.

Israel continues tightening its military blockade on all Palestinian towns and villages, thus isolating these localities from their surroundings.

The Israeli military forces continue bulldozing fruit trees, destroying farms, demolishing houses in the areas under the Palestinian National Authority and, for the ninth consecutive Friday, these forces continue using military force to prevent Palestinians from having access to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to pay their Friday prayers there.

On the 12th and the evening of the 13th of this month, and after shelling with artillery and missiles from tanks at the town of Khan Younes for two consecutive days, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town, which is under the Palestinian National Authority, to demolish and bulldoze houses, thus causing the death of a number of Palestinians and wounding tens of others, in addition to causing grave material damage.

The occupation forces, along with groups of Israeli settlers, continue shooting and shelling unremittingly from Kfar Daroum settlement against the town of Deir Al-Balah and from Jalo settlement against Beit Jala, Aida Camp and Hebron, in daily aggressive acts, thus causing the destruction of the homes of Palestinians and drastic human and material losses.

On the other hand, operations of uprooting and bulldozing fruit trees, destroying farms that constitute the basic means of subsistence for thousands of families all over various occupied regions of the Palestinian National Authority continue unceasingly.

In addition to the daily random and deliberate killing of Palestinians, the Israeli army forces have killed the Palestinian Anwar Ahmed Hamran, 28 years old, from Jenin, in front of the gate of Al-Quds university in Nablus, by opening fire and firing six shots at his body, although there was no confrontation.

All Palestinian towns and villages are exposed to shooting, artillery and tank missiles from the Israeli settlements inside and on the outskirts of these regions. This way, Israel has turned its settlements established in the occupied Palestinian territory into military barracks, for launching their daily military attacks against the Palestinian people for more than 70 days now.

In addition to all these crimes, the Israeli occupation authorities also persist in tightening their military blockade of Palestinian towns and villages, isolating them from their surroundings, preventing access and exit therefrom, including of food, medicine and ambulances to transport the wounded, thus seriously endangering the region with famine, particularly after it has been officially declared that the stock of wheat has run out.

I am enclosing herewith a list Reproduced as received, in Arabic and English only. with the names of Palestinian martyrs who have been shot dead at the hands of Israeli troops and settlers during the period from 20 November to 9 December 2000, to be added to the previous one.

Signed: Nabil RAMLAWI

Ambassador

Permanent Observer

Annex

LIST OF PALESTINIAN MARTYRS

The first Day 29/9/2000
Ussama Mohammad Adam Mohammad Hussein Farrah Yahya Hassan Faraj Bilal Khalil Affaneh Haitham Uaidah Nael Yassini	23 years old 23 years old 23 years old 26 years old 45 years old 20 years old	Jerusalem Um Al-Fahem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Nablus-Assirah
The second Day 30/9/2000
Khaled Bazian Zakariah El Kilani Mohammed Amireh Mohammed Al-Qaleq Amjad Daraghmeh Nizar Eedeh Bassaam Bilbeissi Mohammad Al-Durrah Mahmoud Anbar Mohammad Abdel Razeq Imad Al-Asheh Mohammad Al-Uttol	15 years old 27 years old 20 years old 23 years old 22 years old 16 years old 50 years old 12 years old 24 years old 18 years old 20 years old 16 years old	Nablus Nablus Nablus Nablus Nablus Ramallah Gaza Gaza Nablus Nablus Nablus Gaza
Third Day 1/10/2000
Maher Ubeid Iyad Al-Khushashi Jihad Al-Aloul Mustafa Ramadan Hussam Bakhit Samer Tabanja Mohammad Al-Houms Imad Al-Anati Salah Al-Faqih Mohammad Hamadan Mohammad Ijbareen Mohammad Daoud Mohammad Raddi	22 years old 17 years old 23 years old 26 years old 19 years old 10 years old 15 years old 17 years old 25 years old 12 years old 24 years old 14 years old 15 years old	Gaza Gaza Nablus Nablus Nablus Nablus Rafah Ramallah Ramallah Ramallah Um El-Fahem Gaza Rafah
Fourth Day 2/10/2000
Rami Al-Ghurrah Ahmad Abou Siam Saraq Abdel Haq Imad Al-Nabih Walid Abou Saleh Salah Abou Qneiss Hatem Al-Najjar Iyad Allawabneh Hassan Al-Massri Imad Ghanayem Walid Bou Saalha Assil Assiah Misleh Abou Jarrad Alaa Faraj Nassar Ramez Abbas Mohammad Ghaleb Wael Qattawi	19 years old 18 years old 18 months 17 years old 21 years old 19 years old 20 years old 20 years old 22 years old 25 years old 24 years old 21 years old 16 years old 22 years old 25 years old 20 years old 14 years old	Um Al-Fahem Um Al-Fahem Nablus Gaza Um Al-Fahem Gaza Gaza Nazareth Ramallah Sakhnin Sakhnin Arrabah-Nablus Gaza Arrabah-Nablus Kufor Manda Kufor Manda Nablus
Fifth day 3/10/2000
Walid Abou Saleh Mohammad Zamaareh Fahmi Abou Ammouneh Khadra Salameh Imad Rifaaii Fahmi Abou Ubeid Omar Sulaiman Ahmad Al-Nabrissi Rami Ayyash Ismaeel Shamlakh Samih Barahmeh Mohammad Al-Sajdi Hussam Al-Hamshari Sharif Ashour	24 years old 17 years old 28 years old 57 years old 21 years old 23 years old 20 years old 22 years old 24 years old 22 years old 27 years old 19 years old 18 years old 30 years old	Sakhnin Al-Khalil Gaza Jinin Gaza Gaza Gaza Nablus Kufor Manda Ramallah Jericho Jericho Tulkarem Gaza
Sixth day 4/20/2000
Muhannad Fares Mohammad Fawzi Mohammad Al-Imwas Alaa Jaber Mohammad Abou Assi Ayman Theeb Al-Lawh Mohammad Khanayseh Mahmoud Massaad Arafat Al-Atrash	22 years old 21 years old 24 years old 22 years old 9 years old 25 years old 20 years old 21 years old 21 years old	Tulkarem Ramallah Ramallah Ramallah Gaza Gaza Kufor Kannah Jinin Al-Khalil
Seventh day 5/10/2000
Mustafa Fararja Mahmoud Sbeitah Salameh Zidat	19 years old 21 years old 20 years old	Jinin Gaza Jericho
Eighth day 6/10/2000
Marwan Shalmakh Luay Al-Muqayad Wajed Abou Awwad Rashad Alnajjar Saleh Al-Riyatti Majdi Al-Mislimani Diya' Issa Iyad Ishtayyeh Mohammad Tammam	23 years old 20 years old 21 years old 22 years old 18 years old 22 years old 19 years old 19 years old 18 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Jerusalem Nablus Nablus Tulkarem
Ninth day 7/10/2000
Hassan Hassanein Shadi Annas Ussama Abdel Karim Zuheir Rizeq Hisham Miqbel Fahed Abou Baker Mohammad Awwad	23 years old 22 years old 18 years old 20 years old 35 years old 22 years old 23 years old	Shatila Camp/Lebanon Shatila Camp/Lebanon Al-Baqa’a Camp/Jordan Gaza Gaza Jerusalem Nablus
Tenth day 8/10/2000
Mohammad Omar Akkawi Years oldussef Thiab Khalaf Abdel Hamid Taye’ Abdel Hamid Ali Sayel Sweidan	24 years old 18 years old 18 years old 25 years old	Nazareth Gaza Ramallah Qalqilia
Eleventh day 9/10/2000
Wissam Yazbek Issam Joudeh Hamad	26 years old 40 years old	Nazareth Ramallah
Thirteenth day 11/10/2000
Sami Hassan Sweirki Karam Omar Qanan Nathir Nayef Haj Hussein Maher Mutlaq Mohammad Bouzieh Khalil Sammour	17 years old 18 years old 23 years old 22 years old 38 years old 25 years old	Tulkarem Gaza Nablus Nablus Nablus Jerusalem
14th day 12/10/2000
Sami Abou Jazar	11 years old	Gaza
15th day 13/10/2000
Mansour Taha Ahmad Shadi Mohammad Al Wawi	22 years old 22 years old	Al-Khalil Al-Khalil
17th day 15/10/2000
Raed Yaaqoub Hammoudeh Alaa Ussama Abdel Aziz	30 years old 10 years old	Al-Bireh
18th day 16/10/2000
Mo’ayyad Usama Al-Jawareesh Mosbah Abdulqader Abu-Ateeq	13 years old 30 years old	Bethlehem Gaza
19th day 17/10/2000
Ashraf Habayeb Mohammad Hasan Al-Dakheel Fareed Mosa Nasasrah Nabil Saed Khater	14 years old 26 years old 28 years old 42 years old	Nablus Nablus Nablus Gaza
20th day 18/10/2000
Ibrahim Abdulrahman Al-Allami	25 years old	Hebron
21st day 19/10/20000
Zahi Fathi Al-Ardah Hasan Haron Abu Mahameed Mahdi Abu Shadouh	37 years old 24 years old 42 years old	Nablus Bethlehem Nablus
22nd day 20/10/2000
Firas Khalil Zeid Amjad Ahmad Abu Eisa Adnan Muhammad KherAldin Eisa Esteawi Fa’our Thaer Ali Daoud Nidal Bassam Abu Shaqra Samir Talal Ewisi Ala’ Bassam Bani Nimer Mohammad Abu Tahoon	26 years old 32 years old 20 years old 32 years old 18 years old 20 years old 16 years old 13 years old 17 years old	Nablus Nablus Nablus Nablus Al-Bireh Jenin Qalqilyah Salfit Tulkarem
23rd day 21/10/2000
Fayez Moh’d Al-Qeimary Tareq Ismail Al-Hantooli Omar Ismail Al-Buheisi Ismail Al-Najjar Majed Ibrahim Hawamdeh	33 years old 17 years old 15 years old 13 years old 15 years old	Hebron Jenin Gaza Gaza Ramallah
24th day 22/10/2000
Wael Moh’d Emad Salah Fawzi Najm Nael Ali Zama’reh Emad Ismael Hawamdeh	14 years old 15 years old 25 years old 23 years old	Gaza Gaza Hebron Hebron
25th day 23/10/2000
Abdulaziz Mahmoud Abu-Sneineh Ms. Nada As’ad Srouji	60 years old 54 years old	Hebron Tulkarem
26th day 24/10/2000
Eyad Osama Sha’ath Nidal Moh’d Dubeiki Nimer Yousif Merie	12 years old 16 years old 23 years old	Gaza Gaza Jenin
28th day 26/10/2000
Nabil Faraj Al-Ar’eer Ala’ Mahmoud Mahfouz Ahmad Abdulqader Sbitani	24 years old 14 years old 63 years old	Gaza Hebron Hebron
29th day 27/10/2000
Ghasan Yousif Awaysah Bashir Saleh Shalweet Jaber Ahmad Almeshal Ahmad Mohammad Qasim	27 years old 16 years old 23 years old 28 years old	Albireh Qalqilyah Gaza Tulkarem
31st day 29/10/2000
Hosni Ibrahim Najjar Bilal Jamal Salah (twin brother) Hilal Jamal Salah (twin brother) Fadi Amin Dabaya Esmat Khalil Al-Saber Shadi Abdullah Shouli Riyad Yousif Awwad Samir Mousa Eleiwa	15 years old 20 years old 20 years old 22 years old 34 years old 23 years old 26 years old 31 years old	Gaza Jenin Jenin Jenin Nablus Nablus Beit-Jala Gaza
33rd day 31/10/2000
Shadi Awad Odeh Hazem Mosa Abu-Dalf Mohammad Hallas Mahmoud Abu Jaber Tha’er Ibrahim Zeid	17 years old 22 years old 23 years old 20 years old 23 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Al-Bireh
34th day 1/11/2000
Ibrahim Reziq Omar Ahmad Salman Abu-Tayeh Mohammad Hajjaj Marwan Taye’ Jum’a Mohammad Hroub Marwan Assaf Wael Ghneim Salim Imtreyeh	15 years old 15 years old 15 years old 21 years old 27 years old 21 years old 26 years old 37 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Bethlehem Hebron Bethlehem Bethlehem Bethlehem
35th day 2/11/2000
Adli Ghazan Ebeid Yazan M. Halayqa	23 years old 16 years old	Gaza Gaza
36th day 3/11/2000
Rami A. Abdulfattah Mahmoud A. Saed Nahed F. Louh	20 years old 19 years old 21 years old	Jerusalem Jerusalem Gaza
37th day 4/11/2000
(Baby infant) Hind Abu Qweider	24 days young	Hebron
38th day 5/11/2000
Maher Saeedi Marwan Ghamri	16 years old 28 years old	Gaza Gaza
39th day 6/11/2000
Wajdi Allan Hattab Mohammad Mustafa Jazzar Mohammad Nawwaf Taban	14 years old 16 years old 18 years old	Tulkarem Gaza Gaza
40th day 7/11/2000
Ahmad Amin Khafash Abdullah Khaled Amarneh Saed Hamid Abu-Khalteh Mohammad A. Dereyyeh	6 years old 24 years old 25 years old 70 years old	Salfit Bethlehem Gaza Jenin
41st day 8/11/2000
Fares Fayeq Odeh Khalil Yousif Abu-Sa’d Ibrahim Foad Qassas Mohammad Abu Ghaly Mohammad Nimer Mahani Raed Abdulmajeed Khaled Abu Zahar	14 years old 14 years old 14 years old 16 years old 24 years old 14 years old 18 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Salfit Tulkarem
42nd day 9/11/2000
Hussein M. Ebayat Ms. Rahmeh Shaheen Ms. Azizah Dannon Kamel Mahmoud Sharab	37 years old 52 years old 56 years old 18 years old	Bethlehem Bethlehem Gaza Gaza
43rd day 10/11/2000
Osama Mazen Azoukah Iyad Fahmawi Osama Jerjawi Mohammad Ali Hamed Raed Sa’di Muhtasib	14 years old 25 years old 17 years old 23 years old 24 years old	Jenin Jenin Gaza Gaza Hebron
44th day 11/11/2000
Mosa Ibrahim Dibs Ayman Salah Wadi Mohammad Yasin Darwish Monzer Hamdi Yasin Osama Khalil El-Bawwab Majeb Hasan Abed Moneeb Abu Munshar Hani Qassim Abdullah Mahmoud Nafez Abu-Naji	15 years old 20 years old 24 years old 23 years old 28 years old 32 years old 18 years old 38 years old 15 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Al-Bireh Al-Bireh Hebon Jenin Gaza
46th day 13/11/2000
Yahya Abu Shamaleh Mohammad Naser Taweel Ahmad Hasan Dahlan Tawfik Saleh J’eidy	17 years old 18 years old 18 years old 32 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Qalqilyah
47th day 14/11/2000
Mohammad Al-Ejleh Saber Idris Ebrish Raed Fahmi Shakfeh Jamal Ibrahim Elwan Mustafa Mahmoud Elayan	13 years old 15 years old 19 years old 34 years old 50 years old	Gaza Al-Bireh Gaza Al-Bireh Nablus
48th day 15/11/2000
Khalil Atallah Jihad Khalil Abu Shahmeh Naser Mohammad Sharafi Ibrahim Al-Ja’bari Jaddou’ Abu Kubbash Fathi Odeh Salem Samer Khairi Khader Abdulhafez Ghrouf Dr. Hary Fisher	10 years old 14 years old 15 years old 15 years old 16 years old 18 years old 29 years old 20 years old 55 years old	Nablus Gaza Gaza Qalqilyah Hebron Tulkarem Tulkarem Jericho Beit-Jala
49th day 16/11/2000
Jihad Suhail Abu Shahmeh Samer Al-Khdoor Yousif Abu Awwad Samara Nimer Abdullah	12 years old 18 years old 25 years old 32 years old	Gaza Hebron Hebron Qalqilyah
50th day 17/11/2000
Rami Imad Yasin Mohammad Abu Rayan Hamzeh Abu Shkheidem Khaled Salameh Hasee Moh'd Farwan Mahmoud Zeit Samour	17 years old 14 years old 18 years old 35 years old 45 years old 38 years old	Gaza Hebron Hebron Jericho Jericho Qalqilyah
51st day 18/11/2000
Baha Aldin Saed	30 years old	Gaza
52nd day 19/11/2000
Abdulrahman Dahshan Naser Al-Najjar Ra'fat Muheeb Jodeh	14 years old 25 years old 30 years old	Gaza Gaza Nablus

The Health Minister Riyad Za'noun said that toll of Israeli shooting against the Palestinians since the beginning of the Intifada has reached the unprecedented number of (10,000) injured, out of whom 40% received head injuries, 20% injured in the eyes, 20% injured in the chest and 20% in the limbs.

Dr. Zanoun added that 25 children lost their eyes and another 17 were declared clinically dead while others are under continued coma following injuries by the Israeli sniper shots.

82% of the injured were hit by special bullets (domdom) that explode inside the human body. (This kind of bullets is prohibited by the international law.) The Israeli occupation forces also used tanks and air-born missiles to hit Palestinian residential areas and against Palestinian demonstrators.

53rd day 20/11/2000
Ibrahim Hasan Othman Abdulla Mahmoud Al-Farra Hamed Jaber Al-Qetati	16 years old 24 years old 69 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza
54th day 21/11/2000
Yaser Taleb Al-Nabtiti Mohammad Mahmoud Masad Hammad Al-Someiry Mohammad Abu Samra Hussein Mustafa Barathgheya	14 years old 22 years old 27 years old 23 years old 35 years old	Tulkarem Jenin Gaza Gaza Hebron
55th day 22/11/2000
Ibrahim Hasan Moqnen Jamal Abdulrazik Awny Ismail Duheir Nael Salem Leddawi Sami Naser Abu Laban Najib Mohammad Qeshta	14 years old 27 years old 37 years old 22 years old 28 years old 47 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza
56th day 23/11/2000
Maram Imad Hassoneh Ibrahim Bani Odeh	3 years young 22 years old	Al-Bireh Nablus
57th day 24/11/2000
Aysar Moh'd Hasees Firas Abu Hatab Sami Adel Sayel Nahed Adel Sayel Ghassan Qar'an Majdi Ali Aaded Ziyad Moh'd Abu Jazar	17 years old 25 years old 32 years old 26 years old 20 years old 15 years old 22 years old	Jenin Jenin Salfit Salfit Qalqilya Gaza Gaza
25/11/2000
Abdulmen'em Moh'd Ezzuldeen Amjad Azmi Mohammad Tayseer Adnan Abu Al-Araj Foad Adnan Dweikat	17 years old 20 years old 22 years old 30 years old	Jenin Jenin Gaza Nablus
26/11/2000
Mahdi Qasim Jaber Ziyad Ghaleb Salma Mohammad Mansor Odwan Qosay Faisal Zahran Mahmoud Yousif El-Adel As'ad Khalil Sharnoby	19 years old 22 years old 20 years old 22 years old 23 years old 20 years old	Qalqilya Qalqilya Qalqilya Qalqilya Qalqilya Gaza
27/11/2000
Ziyad Mahmoud Alkhour Walid Hasan Ja'afreh	17 years old 34 years old	Gaza Hebron
28/11/2000
Karam Fathi Kurd Imad Adeeb Eldayeh Ibrahim Abduljabbar Kahleh	14 years old 19 years old 34 years old	Gaza Gaza Ramallah
29/11/2000
Mohammad Mashharawi Ashraf Abdulkarim Bsoos Mosa Musbah Muwafi	14 years old 19 years old 34 years old	Gaza Gaza Gaza
30/11/2000
Shadi Al-Z'oul Walid AlBeden Ismail Abu Rawas	15 years old 17 years old 20 years old	Bethlehem Bethlehem Gaza
1/12/2000
Mohammad Al-Aoja Medhat Jadallah Yasin Shehadeh Hamza Al-Heiss	12 years old 14 years old 23 years old 27 years old	Gaza Gaza Jerusalem Hebron
2/12/2000
Shadi Abu Harbeet Shehada Al-Ja'fary Nayef Abu Dahoud	21 years old 27 years old 43 years old	Gaza Al-Bireh Hebron
4/12/2000
Awad Saleh Salem	27 years old	Gaza
5/12/2000
Ramzi Bayatneh Abdulqader Abu Laban	15 years old 22 years old	Al-Bireh Gaza
6/12/2000
Ahmad Abu Na'na	22 years old	Gaza
7/12/2000
Nizar Mahmoud Eideh Mustafa Hattab Mohammad Abu Asi	15 years old 16 years old 30 years old	Ramallah Gaza Gaza
8/12/2000
Mahmoud Abdullah Yahia Ala' Abu Jaber Mohammad Qassim Mohannad Abu Shadouf Ziad Sbeih Motaz Taylakh Ammar Samir Mashni Hasan Ali Shaheen	17 years old 17 years old 21 years old 31 years old 34 years old 16 years old 16 years old 40 years old	Jenin Jenin Jenin Jenin Jenin Bethlehem Jerusalem Jerusalem
9/12/2000
Salim Hamaideh	12 years old	Gaza

The Health Minister Riyad Za'noun said that toll of Israeli shooting against the Palestinians since the beginning of the Intifada has reached the unprecedented number of (11,000) injured, out of whom 40% received head injuries, 20% injured in the eyes, 20% injured in the chest and 20% in the limbs.

Dr. Za'noun added that 25 children lost their eyes and another 17 were declared clinically dead while others are under continued coma following injuries by the Israeli sniper shots. 82% of the injured were hit by special bullets (domdom) that explode inside the human body. (This kind of bullets is prohibited by the international law.)

The Israeli occupation forces also used tanks and air-born missiles to hit Palestinian residential areas and against Palestinian demonstrators.

The Israeli occupation forces also arrested more than 500 Palestinians since the beginning of the Intifada.

Ambulances and medics were also among the targets of the soldiers and the settlers. (Recalling the medic M. Al-Baleisi who was shot dead while trying to reach the child Moh'd Al-Durra and his father.)

26 ambulances have been attacked, 29 medics and medical volunteers in the Red Crescent were injured.

Moreover, 54 ambulances have been hindred by the Israeli military blockades, both from arriving to the injured and taking them to the hospitals.

The coordinator of the U.N. issued a report on the losses which the Palestinian economy has suffered as a result of the blockade on the Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps by the Israeli forces since the beginning of the Intifada till Oct. 18th, 2000. The report estimates the daily loss as ($186.2 million), i.e. ($9.8 million).

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Palestine Ministry of Information

Dec. 10, 2000

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