against the Palestinians

Ramallah April 23rd 2002 Wafa;

The Israeli occupation forces assassinated the teacher Jebreel Alawna, using the USA made gunship Apache helicopters that launched a rocket that killed him at the spot in the Village of Azmout near Nablus.

Medical sources in Nablus informed Wafa reporter that Israeli occupation forces have killed two Palestinian citizens in the village of Asera Alshamalia, near Nablus one of the victims was identified as Taher Jarar’a.

An Israeli occupation sniper opened automatic fire towards the Palestinian reporter Muhammad Manasra’s vehicle while he was with his family inside the vehicle. Furthermore the Israeli forces suspended the licenses and permissions of 24 journalists and photographers working for the international press and media.

Eyewitnesses said that fire was seen from one wing of the Nativity Church after a failing attempt of the occupation forces to invade the compound of the Church. The occupation forces attempted around 19.00 hours (Palestine time) to invade the Church but they failed.

In an another criminal act of assassination the Israeli occupation forces have launched, around midnight, three rockets from a USA made gunship Apache helicopter towards a vehicle in the Assalam Street in Hebron, killing the two passengers: Marwan Zaloum (38) and Sameer Abu Rajab (42).

The Israeli authorities using the occupation forces and the help of the extreme Jewish settlers, have drove out 50 Palestinians from their homes in A Sheikh Jarah, East Jerusalem, before dawn today, and threw them out in the open, even without enabling them to take some of their belongings, and gangs of Jewish settlers took over the houses and their contents. The houses belong to Hanoon and Ghawi families.

Two Palestinian militants have been killed in a missile strike on their car by an Israeli helicopter in the West Bank city of Hebron.

One of the dead was Marwan Zuloum, the local head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs brigade, a group that has claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks against Israelis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1945000/1945098.stm

Zaloum personally selects and trains suicide bombers who have been carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. A lifelong militant, Zaloum is currently on Israel's list of most wanted terrorists, and is committed to ending the Israeli occupation. Zaloum states, "Certainly, the goal of this operation is to destroy the morale of the Israeli soldier, and to destroy what is in the mind of the Israeli soldier -- that it is possible for the tank or the plane or the rifle or the intelligence services or the security forces to protect him."

http://www.kaet.asu.edu/bestbets/mar02.htm

... Some more reality: Israel is able to wield such an arsenal of weapons against the Palestinian people because-

Israel receives BILLIONS of $$$ in financial/military aid from the U.S. every year.

Palestinians are kept poor and destitute to serve Israel(and U.S. corporate interests) as a source of (very) cheap labor.

They have very little in the way of armaments with which to defend themselves against Israel's encroachments, so out of desperation, they resort to suicide bombings.

Should this be condoned? NO. But if you REALLY want to stop the suicide bombings, then Israel must stop attacking the Palestinian people and allow them to make a decent living and have their own sovereign state alongside Israel.