Real Photo Fakers
Real War Crimes

By JONATHAN COOK

Nazareth.

During Israel's war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the fragile truce that is currently holding while Lebanon waits for Israel to withdraw, we are simply getting more of the same.

One example of the many distractions during the war that neatly reveals their true purpose is the "faked Reuters photograph" affair. The supposed scandal of a Lebanese photographer tampering with a picture to add and darken smoke from an Israeli missile attack -- to little or no effect, it should be noted -- has not only been decried by activists on Zionist websites but amplified by mainstream commentators into a debate about whether we can trust the images of this war.

Who benefits from these doubts? If we cannot be sure that this one photograph is genuine, then maybe many more that purportedly show some of the 1,000 Lebanese civilians killed by Israel's bombardment are fake too. Maybe the dead have been airbrushed in as easily as a puff of smoke. Maybe too, were the smoke removed, we would still be able to see that Israel has "the most moral army in the world".

The far worse photography scandal, which is not talked about, is that the images of the war we saw over the past month in our Western media were constantly doctored, day in, day out. Not by ordinary photographers who risk their lives, and hope to make their fortunes, conveying the reality of war, but by the senior executives of newspapers and TV stations who ensure we are never presented with that reality. Pictures were binned or cropped if they hinted at what suffering and death truly looked like. Western audiences were not shown the row of charred corpses lying in the street, or the agony of a son pressing a scrap of cloth to the severed arm of his mother as she bled to death, or the crushed baby pulled from the rubble.

Our news and picture editors say this is about good taste. They justify their decisions on the grounds that we should not exploit the victims of war by showing pornographic images of their death -- a useful excuse as we can never know what the dead would have chosen. More significantly, however, the exclusion of meaningful images of the human cost of war protects us from understanding the appalling consequences of Israel's military actions, an onslaught sanctioned and supported by our Western media, politicians and diplomats, and indirectly by our taxes.

How long would Israel's war have been allowed to continue if American audiences had seen those charred bodies or dead babies? How long would most Western viewers have remained silent if they were exposed to the kind of images shown daily on the Arabic satellite channels? Might we then start to understand why they hate us -- and more usefully why we should hate ourselves?

Much the same purpose has been satisfied in the diplomatic arena by the endless debates about whether Israel's offensive was "disproportionate" -- a word that raises a yawn almost the second it is uttered -- rather than whether it was necessary. And by the controversy initiated by the United Nations' Jan Egeland about the "cowardly blending" of Hizbullah fighters among Lebanese civilians, a comment he made while in Jerusalem, not Beirut, based on evidence he has never divulged. It is truly astonishing that the world's representative on humanitarian affairs made most impact in this war -- one in which more than 1,000 Lebanese were killed and in which hundreds of thousands more were made homeless -- trying to hold Hizbullah to account for the thousands of Israeli air strikes on civilian areas of Lebanon. Such is the upside-down logic and morality of our leaders.

And we are in the same territory again with the current discussions about how Lebanon and Israel will be rebuilt after the fighting. Reconstruction -- another word that provokes instant boredom -- fits the bill perfectly: both nations, we are told, will need billions of dollars to repair the damage done to their infrastructure. The story of astronomical losses conveys reassuringly to us a sense both of technical problems that will eventually be solved and of the ultimate symmetry and justice in the suffering of these two nations. Both peoples face a terrible financial burden imposed by war, both are equally deserving of our sympathy.

But let us pause. How precisely are these two nations' material losses equivalent? Israel's derive mostly from the enormous costs of its attacks on Lebanon, the tens of thousands of missiles fired into its towns and villages, that killed mostly civilians, and damage to the tanks, helicopters and warships that were the machinery needed to invade another sovereign country. Most of the rest of the cost will follow from losses in tourism revenue and investment, the consequences of a fall in confidence caused by Israel waging an unnecessary war for the return of two soldiers captured by Hizbullah rather than engage in negotiations. A small share of Israel's lost billions has been inflicted by the aggression of Hizbullah.

The material damage done to Lebanon is in a different category altogether. The bombed roads and bridges, the tens of thousands of homes in ruins, the destroyed power stations, factories and petrol stations, the oil slick across much of the Lebanese coast are the direct result of Israel's campaign of precision bombing of Lebanese civilian infrastructure.

Think of how your local court might consider the respective claims of these two nations if this were a domestic dispute between neighbors. Would a judge view with any sympathy a claim from a man demanding compensation from his neighbour for the damage done to his expensive sledgehammer after a destructive rampage through the neighbor's home, as well as for the loss of his reputation that followed the attack, as he found himself cast as the neighborhood pariah? Would it make any difference if it could be proved that his neighbor had sworn provocatively at him before he went on his rampage?

Incredibly, a similar claim may yet be heard -- and possibly sympathetically -- by the US civil courts if Israeli lawyers succeed in bringing a case for damages against the Lebanese government.

But all of this, like the "faked photograph affair", is another layer of distraction. The real issue that should be the most pressing matter at the top of the world's agenda is not an assessment of the mutual crimes against property but the mostly one-sided crimes against human beings -- the massive Israeli war crimes that have been committed throughout the past month in Lebanon, whose effects will continue as cluster bombs blow up returning refugees, and are still being committed every day against the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank.

This urgent moral case is being quietly overlooked in favor of the material damages story, and for reasons not hard to discern. Because if we concentrated on the tally of war crimes, Israel would come out the undoubted winner in both Lebanon and Gaza.

Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He is the author of the forthcoming "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" published by Pluto Press, and available in the United States from the University of Michigan Press. His website is www.jkcook.net

This really puts a perspective on how zio-freaks abused the photo issue to make isinuations that it all was "fake" and distract from the real issues of Israeli terror and collective punishment.
You don't see this perspective in the mainstream media.

This list is subject to amendments. B'Tselem's authoritative casualty list is the Hebrew language one.
Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in the Occupied Territories

Hani 'Odeh
22 year-old resident of Ramallah, killed on 18.01.2002 in Ramallah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during a demonstration.

Muhammad 'Ali Judeh
20 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 17.01.2002 in Erez Checkpoint, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while trying to enter into Israel, apparently looking for work.

Khamis Ahmad 'Ali 'Abdallah
45 year-old resident of 'Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus district, killed on 17.01.2002 in 'Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Ra'id Muhammad Ra'if Carmi
28 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 14.01.2002 in Tulkarm by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed by explosives planted by Israel.

Shadi Mesalem
24 year-old, injured on 15.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire and died on 09.01.2002. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into the village.

Na'il Tahsin Ramadan
23 year-old, killed on 04.01.2002 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during IDF operation to locate wanted persons.

Muhammad Mahmoud Saleh
19 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 30.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Muhammad 'Abd a-Rahman Ahmad al-Madhun
16 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 30.12.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire from a tank.

Muhammad Ahmad Mahmoud Lubad
17 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 30.12.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire from a tank.

'Ali Ass'ad Muhana
21 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 30.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Isma'il Ahmad Abu al-Qusman
31 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 30.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Ahmad Muhammad Hassan Banat
15 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 30.12.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire from a tank.

Mahmoud Rajeb 'Abd a-Rahim Bu'ari
24 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 28.12.2001 in Netzarim, Deir al-Balah district, by explosion . Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed when he detonated an explosion aimed at killing soldiers.

Walid a-S'adi
53 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 26.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire from a helicopter. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while standing about a kilometer from his home and waiting for the gunfire near his home to cease.

Wisam Majdi Mahareb
27 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, injured on 12.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire from a helicopter and died on 22.12.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in the a-Namsawi neighborhood.

Dib a-Sarawi
37 year-old resident of Tell, Nablus district, killed on 20.12.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on the terrace of his home while talking on his cellular phone.

Muhammad Sa'id Hawash
resident of Tell, Nablus district, killed on 20.12.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during IDF incursion into the village.

Ya'qub Fathi Rabi' a-Daqideq
27 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 17.12.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed near his home. Marks indicating he was beaten were found on his body in addition to the bullet holes.

Ahmad Mahmoud al-Bassiuni
28 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed on 17.12.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire.

Muhammad Jam'an Mahmoud Haneideq
15 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 17.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while playing with his friend in the sand areas near Khan Yunis. He had a plastic toy gun in his hand.

Munjed Muhammad Khaled Suleiman
22 year-old resident of Qusin, Nablus district, killed on 17.12.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed when he was shot near the entrance to the village.

Yasser al-Qasbeh
12 year-old resident of Qalandiya Camp, al-Quds district, killed on 16.12.2001 in Qalandiya, al-Quds district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by being shot while taking part in stone throwing.

Yusef Shauqi a-Najar
11 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed on 15.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into the village.

Mas'ad 'Abd Rabo Dawad
21 year-old resident of Tall a-Sultan Camp, Rafah district, killed on 15.12.2001 in Gush Katif by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

'Amer Muhammad al-Jaliz
18 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed on 15.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into the village.

Mahmoud Muhammad Ahmad
17 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed on 15.12.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into the village.

Ass'ad 'Atiyya
22 year-old resident of Salfit, killed on 14.12.2001 in Salfit by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

'Abd al-Basset Abu Snineh
28 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 14.12.2001 in Beit Kahil, Hebron district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Jawad 'Abd a-Latif a-Dams
25 year-old resident of Salfit, killed on 14.12.2001 in Salfit by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

Khaled Abu Y'aqub
27 year-old resident of Haris, Salfit district, killed on 14.12.2001 in Salfit by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

Razeq Sha'ban Muhammad Harzallah
32 year-old resident of Salfit, killed on 14.12.2001 in Salfit by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

Diaa' Nadi Ibda
19 year-old resident of Salfit, killed on 14.12.2001 in Salfit by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

Muhammad Muhammad 'Ashur
19 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 14.12.2001 in Salfit by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

Ass'ad Abu Turki Abu Snineh
21 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 14.12.2001 in Beit Kahil, Hebron district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Rami Khamis Zo'arub
13 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 13.12.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while playing in the yard of his house.

Ahmad Damisi
26 year-old resident of Ramallah, killed on 13.12.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire after Israeli security forces took control of the house of Marwan Barghouti.

Mussa al-Fara
24 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 13.12.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire after Israeli security forces took control of the house of Marwan Barghouti.

Name unknown to B'Tselem
, killed on 13.12.2001 in Netzarim, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire.

Ahmad Khamis al-Masri
17 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 13.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during a confrontation that included stone-throwing, which followed a funeral.

Sa'id Abu Sitah
20 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 12.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire from a helicopter. Additional information: Killed in the cemetery in Khan Yunis.

Ass'ad 'Abd al-Karim Abu Sitah
24 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 12.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire from a helicopter. Additional information: Killed in the cemetery in Khan Yunis.

Yasser Hassan Abu Namus
21 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 12.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire from a helicopter. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in the cemetery in Khan Yunis.

Fadel Muhammad Abu 'Obeidah
25 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 12.12.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire from a helicopter. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed at the cemetery in Khan Yunis.

'Issam Ritan
resident of Tell, Nablus district, killed on 12.12.2001 in Emmanuel, Tulkarm district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed after activating an explosive device and opening fire at an Israeli bus.

Khalil 'Abd al-Fatah Abu Shawish
24 year-old resident of Rafah, injured on 09.12.2001 in Rafah by gunfire and died on 12.12.2001. Additional information: Died of his wounds after being injured during an IDF incursion into Rafah

Muhammad 'Abd al-Quader Jami'an
25 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 11.12.2001 in Iktaba, Tulkarm district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed with another man after soldiers opened fire on them claiming they had not stopped for a security check.

Muhammad Khalil Abu Marahil
26 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 11.12.2001 in Iktaba, Tulkarm district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed with another man after soldiers opened fire on them claiming they had not stopped for a security check.

Burhan al-Himuni
3 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 10.12.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a helicopter during the course of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while with his brother in a car near a car that contained a target for assassination and was struck.

Shadi Ahmad 'Arfa
13 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 10.12.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a helicopter during the course of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while with his brother in a car near a car that contained a target for assassination and was struck.

Sa'id a-Daridi
resident of Beit Lid, Tulkarm district, killed on 09.12.2001 in 'Anabta, Tulkarm district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF operation in Anita

Ahmad Samir al-Qu'a
resident of Beit Lid, Tulkarm district, killed on 09.12.2001 in 'Anabta, Tulkarm district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF operation in Anita

Munif Helmi Hamadeh
resident of Beit Lid, Tulkarm district, killed on 09.12.2001 in 'Anabta, Tulkarm district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF operation in Anabta

Subhi Jamil Rateb Abu Munis
36 year-old resident of 'Araba, Jenin district, killed on 09.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire from a tank. Additional information: Killed while driving his taxi.

'Adnan Suleiman Jum'ah
resident of Beit Lid, Tulkarm district, killed on 09.12.2001 in 'Anabta, Tulkarm district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF operation in Anabta

Louie Salim Mashel
24 year-old resident of Deir Ghasana, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed on 07.12.2001 in Kafr a-Dik, Salfit district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while on his way to carry out an attack.

'Ayid Ahmad 'Alian
23 year-old resident of Deir Ghasana, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed on 07.12.2001 in Kafr a-Dik, Salfit district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while on his way to carry out an attack.

taj a-Din Rajeb al-Masri
29 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 06.12.2001 in Gaza city by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed when he fired at the Dugit settlement.

Saqer Ahmad Hamed a-Dabri
21 year-old resident of Rafah, injured on 28.11.2001 in Rafah by gunfire and died on 05.12.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Muhammad Abu Marseh
15 year-old resident of a-Shati' Camp, Gaza district, killed on 04.12.2001 in Gaza city by gunfire from a fighter jet. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on his way home from school.

Muhammad Ahmad Mahmoud Siyam
23 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 04.12.2001 in Gaza city by shelling from a fighter jet. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in bombing of the Palestinian Preventive Security building.

Amjad 'Abd a-Rahim Tubasi
26 year-old resident of Tell, Nablus district, killed on 03.12.2001 in Nablus by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Name unknown to B'Tselem
, killed on 02.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire.

Yihya Abu 'Abed
35 year-old resident of Kabatiya, Jenin district, killed on 02.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Mesalmeh al-'Araj
resident of Gaza city, killed on 02.12.2001 in Alei Sinai, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed after shooting at Israeli settlers.

Name unknown to B'Tselem
, killed on 02.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire.

Name unknown to B'Tselem
, killed on 02.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire.

Name unknown to B'Tselem
, killed on 02.12.2001 in Jenin by gunfire.

Muhammad Subhi Sunjuq
19 year-old resident of Ramin, Tulkarm district, killed on 02.12.2001 in Tulkarm Checkpoint by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed after opening fire at Border Police officers at the Kalanswa checkpoint.

Jihad al-Masri
17 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 02.12.2001 in Alei Sinai, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed after shooting at Israeli settlers.

Rashid Shahaleh
10 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 01.12.2001 in Brukin, Salfit district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when IDF forces fired at a Palestinian who was standing next to him.

Rami Mahmoud 'Asisi
18 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 01.12.2001 in Brukin, Salfit district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed after opening fire at IDF soldiers.

Rashad Muhana
37 year-old resident of 'Attil, Tulkarm district, killed on 29.11.2001 in Tammun, Tubas district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Hassan Teysir Zabdeh
25 year-old resident of Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus district, killed on 29.11.2001 in Tammun, Tubas district, by gunfire .

Rami Muhammad Mansur
23 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 28.11.2001 in Netzarim, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while throwing stones at a tank on the Karni Nitzarim road.

Osama Muhammad 'Abdallah Hils
25 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 27.11.2001 in Gush Katif by gunfire . Additional information: Killed in Gush Katif junction.

Kifah Khaled 'Obeid
13 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 25.11.2001 in Bethlehem by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed before he managed to throw a petrol bomb he was holding.

Mahmoud a-Shuli (Abu Hanud)
34 year-old resident of 'Asira a-Shamaliya, Nablus district, killed on 23.11.2001 in al-Far'a Camp, Tubas district, by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while traveling in a taxi.

Aiman 'Awaisa
34 year-old resident of Talluza, Nablus district, killed on 23.11.2001 in al-Far'a Camp, Tubas district, by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while traveling in a taxi.

Wa'il 'Ali Radwan
15 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 23.11.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while he was with a group of youths throwing stones.

Ma'amun 'Awaisa
28 year-old resident of Talluza, Nablus district, killed on 23.11.2001 in al-Far'a Camp, Tubas district, by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while traveling in a taxi.

Ahmad Muhammad al-hinawi
25 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 23.11.2001 in Rafah by gunfire . Additional information: Killed while driving in a car.

'Omar Edris al-Astel
13 year-old resident of Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, killed on 22.11.2001 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp by explosion . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on his was to school.

Muhammad Salim al-Astel
11 year-old resident of Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, killed on 22.11.2001 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp by explosion . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on his was to school.

Anis Edris al-Astel
11 year-old resident of Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, killed on 22.11.2001 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp by explosion . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on his was to school.

Muhammad Na'im 'Abd al-Karim al-Astel
14 year-old resident of Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, killed on 22.11.2001 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp by explosion . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on his was to school.

Akram Na'im 'Abd al-Karim al-Astel
6 year-old resident of Khan Yunis Refugee Camp, killed on 22.11.2001 in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp by explosion . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on his was to school.

Ibrahim Suleiman Sa'id
70 year-old resident of al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, Deir al-Balah district, injured on 16.09.2001 in al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire and died on 19.11.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed near the eastern border of Gaza.

Maher Dughlas
21 year-old resident of Burka, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed on 19.11.2001 in Burka, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire .

Taher Zeid
17 year-old resident of Ya'bad, Jenin district, injured on 07.11.2001 in Ya'bad, Jenin district, by gunfire and died on 18.11.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Died of his wounds two weeks after being injured by gunfire during an IDF operation in Yabed.

'Izu Abu Dalal
32 year-old resident of a-Nuseirat Camp, Deir al-Balah district, killed on 18.11.2001 in Dugit, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while trying to infiltrate into the Dugit settlement, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Muhammad Hussein Ibrahim
35 year-old resident of a-Nuseirat Camp, Deir al-Balah district, killed on 18.11.2001 in Dugit, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while trying to infiltrate into the Dugit settlement, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Soheil 'Abd a-Rahman Abu Saleh
27 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 14.11.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire . Additional information: Killed during an IDF action in Khan Yunis.

wafa Muhammad Ass'ad Nasif
28 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 13.11.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in his home during an IDF action.

Ahmad Abu Mustafa
13 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 12.11.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Died of his wounds three days after being injured by gunfire from the direction of Neve Dekalim.

Muhammad Yusef Hamed
25 year-old resident of Tell, Nablus district, killed on 12.11.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the village.

Mahmoud Humeidan Abu Halib
36 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 09.11.2001 in Kissufim, Gaza district, by gunfire .

Muhammad Abu 'Iya
57 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 08.11.2001 in Rafah by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Muhammad Taskin
23 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 08.11.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire.

'Issa Dababseh
48 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 08.11.2001 in Yatta, Hebron district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during a Border Police action in his village.

'Ali Ibrahim Abu Hajleh
22 year-old resident of Deir Istiya, Salfit district, killed on 06.11.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Jamal Malawah
27 year-old resident of Deir Istiya, Salfit district, killed on 06.11.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Iyad 'Odeh al-Khatib
28 year-old resident of Deir Istiya, Salfit district, killed on 06.11.2001 in Tell, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Sa'id Mahmoud Abu Shamis
26 year-old, injured on 21.10.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire and died on 05.11.2001.

Iyad Yaqin 'Ey Shweiqi
24 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 04.11.2001 in East Jerusalem by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed by Israeli security force gunfire after carrying out an attack in the French Hill neighborhood.

Yasser 'Asira
25 year-old resident of Tell, Nablus district, killed on 02.11.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a gun. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while driving in his car.

Fahmi Abu 'Iyyasha
28 year-old resident of Nablus, killed on 02.11.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a gun. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while driving in a car.

Salah a-Razal
45 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 02.11.2001 in Kfar Darom, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire .

Jamil Jadallah
25 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 31.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed in his house.

'Abdallah Jerushi
42 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 31.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while getting out of his car.

Muhammad 'Abd al-Fatah Jamil
40 year-old resident of Jericho, killed on 31.10.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire.

Ra'id Jamil el-Akhras
25 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 31.10.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire.

Rabi' Ghanem
22 year-old resident of Jaba', Jenin district, killed on 31.10.2001 in Bizzariya, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Muhammad Ghanem
30 year-old resident of Jaba', Jenin district, killed on 31.10.2001 in Bizzariya, Nablus district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities.

'Eid Zaid Abu Shrekh
25 year-old resident of a-Shati' Camp, Gaza district, injured on 08.10.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire and died on 27.10.2001.

Fares Jaber
26 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 27.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire.

Iyad Rabi' Muhammad al-Batsh
22 year-old resident of Jabalya, North Gaza district, killed on 26.10.2001 in Dugit, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while he was trying to sneak into a settlement.

Fuad Mustafa Fuad a-Dashan
17 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 26.10.2001 in Dugit, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while he was trying to sneak into a settlement.

'Othman Thib a-Razineh
22 year-old resident of Jabalya, North Gaza district, killed on 26.10.2001 in Dugit, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while he was trying to sneak into a settlement.

Wa'el 'Abiyat
22 year-old resident of al-'Aza Camp, Bethlehem district, killed on 25.10.2001 in al-'Aza Camp, Bethlehem district, by gunfire from a sniper. Additional information: Killed by sniper fire.

Hassan Abu Sorayah
43 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 25.10.2001 in Nur Shams Refugee Camp, Tulkarm district, by gunfire.

Salameh Hamdan
39 year-old resident of A'yda Refugee Camp, Bethlehem district, killed on 25.10.2001 in A'yda Refugee Camp, Bethlehem district, by gunfire from a sniper. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in his house.

Firas Salahat
29 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 25.10.2001 in Bethlehem by gunfire from a sniper.

Mahmoud al-Jalad
25 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 24.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire.

'Issa Jereys Jalil
55 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 24.10.2001 in Bethlehem by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while driving in his car.

Rafiq Saqer
24 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 24.10.2001 in Beit Rima, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during IDF operations in the village.

Marwan Halbiya
20 year-old resident of Abu Dis, al-Quds district, killed on 24.10.2001 in Abu Dis, al-Quds district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed while on the street when Palestinians threw stones at a jeep and soldiers in the jeep opened fire.

Aiman al-Jalad
20 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 24.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire.

Kamel Barghouti
20 year-old resident of Deir Ghasana, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed on 24.10.2001 in Beit Rima, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during IDF operations in the village.

Hassem al-Mughrabi
26 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 24.10.2001 in Beit Rima, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during IDF operations in the village.

Haris Haju
29 year-old resident of Beit Rima, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed on 24.10.2001 in Beit Rima, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during IDF operations in the village.

'Abd al-Mu'ati Zawaweh
22 year-old resident of Qarawat Bani Zeid, Ramallah and al-Bira district, killed on 24.10.2001 in Beit Rima, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during IDF operations in the village.

Saleh Rushdi 'Asi
19 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 24.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire.

Tal'at Jaber
19 year-old, killed on 23.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a tank.

Muhammad Thiab Sama'aneh
24 year-old resident of Ramallah, injured on 20.10.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire and died on 23.10.2001. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Badr a-Sha'ar
50 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 23.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a tank.

Nasr Qur'an
13 year-old resident of Qalqiliya, killed on 23.10.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Nidal 'Alian
19 year-old resident of Bethlehem, injured on 20.10.2001 in Bethlehem by gunfire and died on 22.10.2001. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire.

Aiman Halaweh
26 year-old resident of Nablus, killed on 22.10.2001 in Nablus by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while riding in a car.

Yusef Sheikh
60 year-old resident of Nur Shams Refugee Camp, Tulkarm district, killed on 22.10.2001 in Nur Shams Refugee Camp, Tulkarm district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while summoning aid for his wounded daughters.

Muhammad Salman Hamdan al-Barq'a
26 year-old resident of al-'Aza Camp, Bethlehem district, killed on 21.10.2001 in al-'Aza Camp, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when he left his house.

Nahed Hussein
40 year-old, killed on 21.10.2001 in al-'Aza Camp, Bethlehem district, by gunfire.

'Issa Fawzi Abu Halayl
28 year-old resident of Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, killed on 21.10.2001 in Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in Hussein Hospital, where he worked as a guard, following prolonged gunfire at the hospital.

Ahmad Abu Mandil
15 year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, killed on 21.10.2001 in Deir al-Balah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Died of his wounds over three weeks after being shot.

Radeh 'Iyesha
18 year-old resident of Sanur, Jenin district, killed on 21.10.2001 in Jenin by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while harvesting olives.

Juni Yusef George Thaljiya
16 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 20.10.2001 in Bethlehem by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in the area in front of the Church of the Nativity.

Samer Shawahneh
22 year-old resident of Qalqiliya, killed on 20.10.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire. Additional information: Killed while standing near his home.

Mustafa Zitawi
53 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 20.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed at his army post.

Maher Abu Hasnah
24 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 20.10.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire. Additional information: Killed at his army post.

'Aiseh Mahmoud 'Abd al-Fatah 'Odeh
39 year-old resident of A'yda Refugee Camp, Bethlehem district, killed on 20.10.2001 in A'yda Refugee Camp, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while in her home.

Mustafa 'Abd a-Rahim Nufel
34 year-old resident of Qalqiliya, killed on 20.10.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire from a helicopter. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while standing near his home.

Yusef Muhammad 'Abayit
15 year-old resident of Beit Sahur, Bethlehem district, killed on 20.10.2001 in Beit Sahur, Bethlehem district, by gunfire.

Rania Kharuf
22 year-old resident of Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, killed on 20.10.2001 in Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while shopping.

Jawad'at 'Abd al-Hadi Jum'ah
21 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed on 19.10.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire.

Basel Salim Muhammad al-Mubshir
13 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 19.10.2001 in Khan Yunis by explosion . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when he went into the yard.

Maryam Suleiman 'Othman Sabih
36 year-old resident of al-Khader, Bethlehem district, killed on 19.10.2001 in al-Khader, Bethlehem district, by gunfire from a armored personnel carrier. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while in the street, trying to flee from an armored personnel carrier.

Mussa George Abu 'Eid
19 year-old resident of Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, killed on 19.10.2001 in Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, by gunfire from a sniper. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while looking out of his window.

'Abd al-Quader Jamil Abu Sarur
25 year-old resident of A'yda Refugee Camp, Bethlehem district, killed on 19.10.2001 in A'yda Refugee Camp, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed on the staircase in his cousin's house.

Sa'ad 'Abd al-Quader al-Aqr'a
22 year-old resident of Salfit, killed on 19.10.2001 in al-Birah, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Muhammad Ziad Abu Ras
18 year-old, killed on 18.10.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF action near the house of Abu Mazzen and the Best Eastern Hotel.

'Atef Ahmad 'Abayit
26 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 18.10.2001 in Beit Sahur, Bethlehem district, by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while driving in a jeep with two relatives, who were also killed.

Marwan Ibrahim Halifa
25 year-old resident of al-Far'a Camp, Tubas district, killed on 18.10.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF action near the house of Abu Mazzen and the Best Eastern Hotel.

'Issa 'Ataf Hatib 'Abayit
28 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 18.10.2001 in Beit Sahur, Bethlehem district, by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while driving in a jeep with two relatives, who were also killed.

Jamal 'Abdallah 'Abayit
35 year-old resident of Bethlehem, killed on 18.10.2001 in Beit Sahur, Bethlehem district, by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed while driving in a jeep with two relatives, who were also killed.

Riham Nabil Yunes Ward
10 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 18.10.2001 in Jenin by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by IDF gunfire at a school for girls during its incursion into Jenin following the assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi.

Iyad Lafi al-Hares
resident of Rafah, killed on 16.10.2001 in Rafah by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination.

Ahmad Hassan Marshud
29 year-old resident of Nablus, killed on 15.10.2001 in Nablus by explosion from a bomb. He was the target of an assasination.

'Abd a-Rahman Sa'id Hamed
33 year-old resident of Qalqiliya, killed on 14.10.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire from a sniper. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed at the entrance to his house.

Hani Mustafa Rawajbeh
24 year-old resident of 'Asira a-Shamaliya, Nablus district, killed on 11.10.2001 in 'Asira a-Shamaliya, Nablus district, by gunfire.

'Abd a-Rahman Ahmad Abu 'Oriban
34 year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, killed on 08.10.2001 in Netzarim Junction, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Jum'ah Jum'ayn a-Sawarqeh
27 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 08.10.2001 in Karni Checkpoint, Gaza district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed near the Gaza perimeter fence in an incident in which two other Palestinians were also killed.

Saleh Hussein Abu Dib
21 year-old resident of al-Bureij Refugee Camp, Deir al-Balah district, killed on 08.10.2001 in Karni Checkpoint, Gaza district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed near the Gaza perimeter fence in an incident in which two other Palestinians were also killed.

Ahmad 'Obeid Abu 'Otawi
28 year-old resident of a-Nuseirat Camp, Deir al-Balah district, killed on 08.10.2001 in Karni Checkpoint, Gaza district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed near the Gaza perimeter fence in an incident in which two other Palestinians were also killed.

Riad a-Sharif
32 year-old, killed on 07.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in his taxi while driving in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood during a long IDF operation.

Hamzah Ibrahim Salem al-Qawasmeh
23 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 06.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Amjad Muhammad al-Asmer al-Qawasmeh
25 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 06.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Nidal Fiad Qafisheh
25 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 05.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a helicopter. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Hazem 'Amru
27 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 05.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Hassem Abu 'Afifi
48 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 05.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Ra'id Abu Daud
23 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 05.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Iyad Samir Qafishah
28 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 05.10.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a helicopter. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Hebron.

Muhammad Sharbati
28 year-old resident of Hebron, injured on 10.04.2001 in Hebron by gunfire and died on 04.10.2001. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu Hani
19 year-old resident of a-Shati' Camp, Gaza district, killed on 03.10.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF incursion into Beit Lahiya following the attack on the Eli Sinai settlement.

Seyd Salim Mahmoud Ziyareh
34 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 03.10.2001 in Gaza city by gunfire . Additional information: Injured in the head.

Nur a-Din Muhammad Salim Qweidar
24 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 03.10.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF incursion into Beit Lahiya following the attack on the Eli Sinai settlement.

Wa'el Fuad 'Awad
25 year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, killed on 03.10.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF incursion into Beit Lahiya following the attack on the Eli Sinai settlement.

Mahmoud Muhammad a-Shurafa
25 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 03.10.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF incursion into Beit Lahiya following the attack on the Eli Sinai settlement.

Maher Edris Ahmad Hodiri
23 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 03.10.2001 in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an IDF incursion into Beit Lahiya following the attack on the Eli Sinai settlement.

Ibrahim Nizar Ian
20 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 02.10.2001 in Alei Sinai, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed when he infiltrated into a settlement and shot to death an Israeli soldier and a civilian.

'Abdallah Udi
20 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 02.10.2001 in Alei Sinai, North Gaza district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed when he infiltrated into a settlement and shot to death an Israeli soldier and a civilian.

Husseini Abu Lil
19 year-old resident of Balata, Nablus district, killed on 30.09.2001 in Silat a-Dhahr, Jenin district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in a taxi with other Palestinians on their way to work in Israel, when soldiers at a checkpoint suddenly opened fire at the taxi.

Khalil a-Srafandi
52 year-old resident of 'Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus district, killed on 30.09.2001 in Silat a-Dhahr, Jenin district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in a taxi with other Palestinians on their way to work in Israel, when soldiers at a checkpoint suddenly opened fire at the taxi.

Nidal al-Fakhuri
28 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 30.09.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during a demonstration.

Rabhi Mahmoud Ahmad al-Beydeh
51 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 29.09.2001 in Har Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

Khalil Yusef Ibrahim Fiad
17 year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, killed on 29.09.2001 in Kfar Darom, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by IDF gunfire at demonstrators.

Mahmoud Khalil Suaf
14 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 29.09.2001 in Karni Checkpoint, Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by IDF gunfire at demonstrators.

Muhsein Fahed 'Arafat
17 year-old resident of Bani Zeid, Ramallah and al-Bira district, injured on 21.09.2001 in al-Birah, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire and died on 29.09.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during a demonstration.

Ahmad Muhammad 'Awajeh
25 year-old resident of Rafah, injured on 26.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire and died on 29.09.2001. Additional information: Killed in IDF gunfire on the city in response to the bombing of the Termit post that day.

Ahmad Mahdi
27 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 28.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Additional information: Killed along the "Philidelphi Route" by the Termit army post, in an incident in which two additional Palestinians were killed.

Muhammad 'Ali Sukar
17 year-old, killed on 28.09.2001 in al-Khader, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed when shot to death by Border Police.

Muhammad Drayereh
10 year-old resident of Bani Na'im, Hebron district, killed on 28.09.2001 in Bani Na'im, Hebron district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire.

Muhammad Zuhod
23 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 28.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Additional information: Killed along the "Philidelphi Route" by the Termit army post, in an incident in which two additional Palestinians were killed.

'Imad a-Sharif
25 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 28.09.2001 in Hebron by gunfire.

Shadi Lafi
20 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 28.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Additional information: Killed along the "Philidelphi Route" by the Termit army post, in an incident in which two additional Palestinians were killed.

'Ali Abu Balima
30 year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, killed on 27.09.2001 in Kfar Darom, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by eight bullets that hit him in the legs and hip. Each time he tried to get up, soldiers shot him again.

Mu'awiyeh 'Ali Ahmad a-Nahal
14 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 27.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed near the Egyptian border.

Akram 'Abd al-Majed Abu Libdeh
24 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 26.09.2001 in Rafah. Additional information: Killed in IDF gunfire on the city in response to the bombing of the Termit post that day.

Mahmoud Fathi Haddan a-Sha'er
24 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 26.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Additional information: Killed in IDF gunfire on the city in response to the bombing of the Termit post that day.

Khaled Mahmoud Muhammad Abu Habib
25 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 26.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Additional information: Killed in IDF gunfire on the city in response to the bombing of the Termit post that day.

Mahmoud Jalal Sa'id Qishta
16 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 26.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when the IDF fired at houses in the town in response to an explosion in the Tarmit army post earlier in the day.

'Emad 'Awad
23 year-old resident of Gaza city, injured on 17.09.2001 in Bitunya, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire and died on 23.09.2001. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Nasrallah Muhammad Jar'un
21 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, injured on 23.08.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire and died on 23.09.2001.

'Issa Sweity
23 year-old resident of Dura, Hebron district, killed on 20.09.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Injured in an exchange of gunfire.

Mustafa Abu Musa
34 year-old, killed on 20.09.2001 in Kfar Darom, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed after he opened fire on an IDF post in a drive-by shooting.

Malek 'Abd al-Jabber Tamim Salem
25 year-old resident of Bizzariya, Nablus district, injured on 13.09.2001 in Qalqiliya by gunfire and died on 19.09.2001. Additional information: Killed at the Qalqiliya checkpoint.

Isma'il 'Abd al-Hadi a-Duda
30 year-old resident of Halhul, Hebron district, killed on 17.09.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Taxi driver, killed in an exchange of fire in response to gunfire at the Avraham Avinu settlement.

Mu'ataz 'Abd al-Majid Daghalus
26 year-old resident of Burqa, Nablus district, killed on 17.09.2001 in Bizzariya, Nablus district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when soldiers fired at the tractor he was riding. Another Palestinian was hit by the gunfire and treated at Tel Hashomer Hospital.

Muhammad Ramadan al-Kafraneh
25 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, injured on 14.09.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire and died on 17.09.2001. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Beit Hanun.

Muhammad Ghazi Hashem a-Salwani
29 year-old resident of Jericho, injured on 13.09.2001 in Jericho by gunfire and died on 17.09.2001. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Jericho

'Abd a-Salam Muhammad 'Alian
35 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 17.09.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in the area of Salah a-Din Gate, near the Egyptian border, by retaliatory fire following attack on army post.

'Ali Khader Jaber Yasin
25 year-old resident of Ramallah, killed on 16.09.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in his house in the Umm a-Sharit neighborhood, during an IDF incursion into the city.

Yihya Nasr Hassan Sabahiya
20 year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed on 15.09.2001 in Beit Sahur, Bethlehem district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: A member of the Palestinian Rescue and Aid Forces.

'Imad 'Ata Hassem Zo'arub
14 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 15.09.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during a clash following the funeral of two Palestinians.

Ramzi Khalil Hasuna
16 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 14.09.2001 in Karni Checkpoint, Gaza district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed.

'Imad Heysham Halef
20 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 14.09.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when he approached an area in which an IDF bulldozer was clearing the land.

Muhammad Walid a-Dijani
21 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 14.09.2001 in Khan Yunis by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed when he approached an area in which an IDF bulldozer was clearing the land.

Khatab Jabarin
33 year-old resident of Jenin Refugee Camp, killed on 13.09.2001 in Jenin Refugee Camp by gunfire . Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an ongoing IDF operation in the city.

Raja Frihat
24 year-old resident of Jenin Refugee Camp, killed on 13.09.2001 in Jenin Refugee Camp by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during the IDF's continuing activity in the city.

Raf'at al-Malhi
25 year-old resident of Shu'afat R.c, East Jerusalem district, killed on 13.09.2001 in Beit Liqya, Ramallah and al-Bira district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while trying to move a physical roadblock.

Fakhri Frihat
32 year-old resident of Jenin Refugee Camp, killed on 13.09.2001 in Jenin Refugee Camp by gunfire . Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an ongoing IDF operation in the city.

Muhand Raja al-Hijeh
25 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 12.09.2001 in Jenin by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in his home during an IDF incursion into Jenin.

Sufian Ahmad Tawfiq 'Ardeh
20 year-old resident of 'Araba, Jenin district, killed on 12.09.2001 in 'Araba, Jenin district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an IDF operation in the village.

Tawfiq Ibrahim Hussein Jaber
42 year-old resident of Qalqiliya, killed on 12.09.2001 in Tammun, Tubas district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Tamun.

Shaher Ahmad 'Abd a-Razeq Bani 'Odeh
28 year-old resident of Tammun, Tubas district, killed on 12.09.2001 in Tammun, Tubas district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Tamun

Ass'ad 'Abd a-Rahman Daqa
25 year-old resident of 'Araba, Jenin district, killed on 12.09.2001 in 'Araba, Jenin district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an IDF operation in the village.

Wa'el Mutleq Muhammad 'Assaf
20 year-old resident of 'Araba, Jenin district, killed on 12.09.2001 in 'Araba, Jenin district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an IDF operation in the village.

'Amer Hamdi Ziyadeh
21 year-old resident of al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, Deir al-Balah district, injured on 09.12.2001 in Gush Katif by gunfire and died on 12.09.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while traveling in a taxi that crossed the checkpoint in Gush Katif intersection and was fired at without warning.

Taher Muhsein Madawi
28 year-old resident of al-Far'a Camp, Tubas district, killed on 12.09.2001 in Tammun, Tubas district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Tamun.

Belkis Ahmad Tawfiq 'Ardeh
14 year-old resident of 'Araba, Jenin district, killed on 12.09.2001 in 'Araba, Jenin district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed during an IDF action in the village, during which three Islamic Jihad members were killed.

Ibrahim 'Ali Fiad
22 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 11.09.2001 in Jenin by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an IDF incursion into Jenin.

Iyad Suleiman al-Masri
18 year-old resident of Jenin, killed on 11.09.2001 in Jenin by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire during an IDF incursion into Jenin.

Muhammad Dib Mahmoud Abu Shaqfeh
28 year-old resident of Khan Yunis, killed on 11.09.2001 in Deir al-Balah by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: The taxi in which he was traveling passed by an army post and soldiers opened fire at it. Palestinian vehicles were allowed to travel in the area.

Fahed Abu Muhammad Abu Siam
30 year-old, killed on 09.09.2001 in Tammun, Tubas district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by IDF gunfire at a Palestinian checkpoint, in response to attacks that had taken place earlier in the day.

Nasim Ahmad 'Odeh Abu 'Aasi
21 year-old resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed on 08.09.2001 in Gaza city by gunfire from a tank. Killed when participating in hostilities.

Samir Abu Lebdeh
15 year-old resident of Rafah Refugee Camp, killed on 08.09.2001 in Rafah Refugee Camp by gunfire from a sniper. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed near his house in "Block O."

Mustafa 'Ahed Hassan 'Anbas
19 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 06.09.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed in an assassination attempt on four Palestinians in which two were killed.

'Omar Mahmoud Dib Subuh
22 year-old resident of Tulkarm, killed on 06.09.2001 in Tulkarm by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed in an assassination attempt on four Palestinians in which two were killed.

Khaled Mustafa 'Ojeh
26 year-old resident of Rafah, injured on 31.08.2001 in Rafah by gunfire and died on 03.09.2001. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire while the IDF was demolishing houses along the Rafah border.

Amjad Majed Mustafa al-Jamal
25 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 03.09.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed on the roof of his house.

'Imad 'Issam Mahmoud al-Batash
17 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 03.09.2001 in Hebron by gunfire from a tank. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed while trying to rescue a man trapped in a house that had been shelled.

Muhammad Edris Fa'iz 'Ashur
21 year-old resident of Hebron, injured on 02.09.2002 in Hebron by gunfire and died on 02.09.2001. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire while on his way to carry out a shooting attack on settlers' houses in the city.

Mussa Safi Qadmat
47 year-old resident of Kharas, Hebron district, killed on 30.08.2001 in Hebron by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: A doctor. Killed in an exchange of gunfire.

Sami Brod
25 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 30.08.2001 in Netzarim, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire. Additional information: A member of Force 17.

Da'ud 'Abd a-Nabi Fahmawi
32 year-old resident of Nur Shams, Tulkarm district, killed on 30.08.2001 in Nur Shams, Tulkarm district, by gunfire. Additional information: Killed during an action by an undercover unit.

'Imad Hazazeh
19 year-old resident of Far'on, Tulkarm district, killed on 29.08.2001 in Far'on, Tulkarm district, by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed near a sheep pen owned by his family.

Muhammad al-Hamrani
24 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 29.08.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF operation in the south Gaza Strip.

'Abud Dababseh
32 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 29.08.2001 in Hebron by gunfire. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while traveling in his car.

Samer Zo'arub
17 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 29.08.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Additional information: Killed near the border with Egypt.

Muhammad Samur
26 year-old resident of Gaza city, killed on 28.08.2001 in Beit Jala, Bethlehem district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF incursion into Beit Jala.

Riad Abu Zeineh
29 year-old resident of Hebron, killed on 28.08.2001 in Khurisa, Hebron district, by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an exchange of gunfire.

Mustafa 'Ali a-Zibri Abu 'Ali Mustafa
63 year-old resident of Ramallah, killed on 27.08.2001 in Ramallah by gunfire from a helicopter. He was the target of an assasination. Additional information: Killed when he was in the office of the Popular Front, and other apartments in the building were hit by the shelling.

Ibrahim Muhammad Sherf
15 year-old resident of Jabalya Refugee Camp, North Gaza district, killed on 26.08.2001 in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed while trying to cross the Gaza perimeter fence.

'Alaa Abu Bakry
23 year-old resident of Rafah, killed on 26.08.2001 in Rafah by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed during an IDF action in Gaza in response to an attack on the Maganit IDF post.

Heysham Abu Jammus
, killed on 24.08.2001 in Gush Katif by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire after he opened fire at the Marganit encampment. Another Palestinian who was with him was also killed.

Amin Abu Hateb
, killed on 24.08.2001 in Gush Katif by gunfire. Killed when participating in hostilities. Additional information: Killed in an exchange of gunfire after he opened fire at the Marganit encampment. Another Palestinian who was with him was also killed.

Fadi Sama'aneh
25 year-old resident of Beit Iba, Nablus district, killed on 22.08.2001 in Beit Iba, Nablus district, by gunfire . Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Additional information: Killed by gunfire coming from an ambush by the Egoz unit on the road between the settlement Shevi Shomeron and the army base on Mt. Eyval.

Bilal 'Adnan al-Ghul
23 year-old resident of al-Mughraqa (Abu Midein), Gaza district, killed on 22.08.2001 in al-Bureij Refugee Camp, Deir al-Balah district, by gunfire from a helicopter during the course of an assasination.

The Birds Outside the Cage
Terror and Freedom on the West Bank

By ELIZA ERNSHIRE

Ramallah, West Bank.

The Israeli army arrived in our street at 2 am yesterday morning.

For the past two weeks they have been in Ramallah every night and we knew it was only a matter of time before we would directly experience their invasion tactics. Every morning we had discussed where they had been the night before and how much damage they had inflicted. We had discussed whom they had arrested and who had managed to escape. We had listened with utmost sympathy to the stories of those caught in the apartment blocks that were being searched: to the women who had no time to cover themselves decently, to their husbands taken in nightdress and without shoes.

We had listened to the explosions from neighboring areas of Ramallah and had wondered not if but when our street would be targeted.

It was on August 14 at 2 am.

The only warning we received was a phone-call 10 seconds before the army arrived, telling us that the Israelis were at the Legislative Council, 5 minutes away.

We were still up as my flat-mate was traveling at 5:30 am and we were packing and talking about visa issues and what to do if her visa was denied.

The phone call and then the horrible sound of 10 jeeps and 2 tanks and an arrest-van.

And instant spotlights and shooting and explosions.

Then rocks hurled at our door (aren't Palestinian youths imprisoned for years for throwing rocks?), and four Israeli soldiers at the door with their faces painted and all pointing M-16's at our heads. They were shouting at us in Hebrew, ordering us outside.

We decided that we would distract them if we could to give any poor hunted man as much time as possible to escape.

We also gave the neighbors some relief by giving voice to their anger; a privilege for which they would have been shot.

The soldiers of the two jeeps at our doorstep got sick of dealing with us after 10 minutes and as flares exploded over our heads and heavy gun-fire filled the open paddock next to our house, they began to shout at us to get inside.

We went in and sat on the verandah overlooking the paddock in the spotlight of three other jeeps while soldiers raked the field with bullets. They were shouting at the empty field in the vain and arrogant belief that some wanted man would suddenly appear and they would receive the promotion for his capture. We were shouting back.

They said "come out!" so we did.

We went back down the stairs and told the jeep stationed outside that we were being called by the soldiers in the next street. They started to shout at us that the soldiers were not telling us to come out but we assured them that it must be us they were shouting at, because if any person had been hiding in the empty field he would long since have been murdered.

The soldiers were furious at our interruption and for this we were glad.

When we knew that we had pushed them as far as we could in the circumstances and realized that our knees were shaking so much that they were about to give way beneath us, we went back inside to collapse on the lounge in tears, wondering if there was actually some man bleeding to death in the field that we could not reach.

For another hour the jeeps and tanks circled round and round our block. Shooting barrages of machine-gun fire and throwing explosives into every shrub and bush.

And then they departed.

They had not caught anyone and for that we were also glad.

The next hour passed in deathly quiet. It was strange to sit in the dark and know that everyone else in the street was doing exactly the same as us. Sitting up, sleepless and silent, afraid, waiting for the daylight to bring some normalcy back into a night-marish situation.

An hour passed. In a half sleep I heard a sound outside the window and rushed to see what was there. It was a strange sound and I couldn't work out what sort of devise Israel was using to produce such a singular noise.

As I stood perplexed at the window I suddenly realized that the sound was a bird singing; welcoming the first light of the day. It was sitting in the tree outside the window, hoping from branch to branch, and singing. Actually singing!

I wondered then at how I was becoming conditioned to the inhuman situation here, I was actually mistaking the singing of a bird for some strange weapon of Israel's. And I realized how much I missed the simple joy of listening to the Australian "morning chorus" as we call it; the great cacophony of sound that no one can sleep through, that you curse every morning but love none-the-less. The sound of the freest creatures on earth celebrating that freedom.

There is no freedom in Ramallah. The West Bank and Gaza are prisons, and this is the reason many people have given for the inability of the Palestinian resistance movement to achieve even the sort of uncertain cease-fire that Hezbollah has managed to achieve in Lebanon.

People here are talking about this and are asking how Hezbollah has been able to enforce this cessation of hostilities when Palestine has been unable to do it for half a century.

Last night I talked with two Palestinian friends about this and they described to me in geographical terms the main difference between the Hezbollah resistance and that of Palestine.

"Here" one said "is Palestine" and he placed on the table two cigarette packets and two lighters forming a square, "in the center. Here" and he pointed to one packet at the edge of the square "is Hezbollah. What is behind Hezbollah? Nothing. They are fighting Israel and America face to face and behind them is open fields, and Syria and other Arab States.

But here is Palestine. Surrounded on all sides. They are not fighting only in front of them, but on every side, the enemy is behind them and even among them. This feeling of imprisonment and lack of support has ground away at the resistance movement here until it has become nothing more than isolated cells of militants who are not even supported by their own families.

Have you seen the wanted men, our freedom fighters, who are homeless?

Even their families are afraid to associate with them.

Have you seen them when they are alone, and the full weight of their situation hits them?

I have seen them, crying like a child.

This is how Israel has been winning the war against Palestine.

Dividing the people and terrorizing them so much that they can not even trust their cousins; half the population of Palestine are collaborators; they are collaborators because they have been broken by Israeli forces.

So while there were celebrations in Al-Minara on the day of the cease-fire there was also a very clear awareness that Hezbollah's victory will not serve the Palestinian struggle in any way except to assure them again that without the backing of Arab States this struggle is doomed to continue in the insidious and bloody way that it has been continuing for many years.

And not just the backing of Arab States will help them. As my friend concluded; "Hezbollah is indirectly supported by France and Palestinian resistance is not supported by any western nation."

So a certain sadness envelops the city of Ramallah. A city that has been caught on the edge of a crisis which has been in the international spotlight, while experiencing nightly crisis' on a smaller scale that fail to register on any international screen.

The people of the West Bank are still prisoners, as they have been for a long time.

The only thing the Palestinians have to counter the nightly invasions and terror tactics of the Israeli forces is their song of freedom.

Still to be heard if you remember to listen for it.

Despite the humiliation and the mistrust and the tangled web of conspiracy that exists in the West Bank and Gaza, there is still absolute dignity in the resistance of individuals here. I do not agree with my friend who says that the resistance has been reduced to little cells of desperate militants always looking over their shoulders; the resistance is also to be found among musicians who hold weekly concerts for free to sing the traditional heart-breaking songs of Palestine, it is also to be found among the teachers of the fatherless or motherless children who work to daily bring some joy and learning into their lives, it is even among the bus drivers who will drive impossible roads to help some passenger avoid a flying checkpoint.

And those little pure messengers of freedom have not forgotten these people. They still wake and sing at dawn to remind of the world existing beyond war and oppression and man-made instruments of torture.

Eliza Ernshire can be reached at eliza_ernshire@yahoo.co.uk

If you want to post the list of those killed in the PA, please do it under your own name.

NOTE TO LA.IMC MONITOR--Sat. Aug 19 2006 @ about 10AM:

I asked you to remove the forged post--listed under my name in violation of LA.IMC's editorial guidelines.

You came thru, left up the forged post, and removed my complaint.

You are showing yourself to be a ROGUE MONITOR who is not following the consensed guidelines of the LA.IMC and is showing extreme prejudice on this issue.

What did you say about spelling, skippy?
"elementray"?
LMFAO!
Anyway, I would want to join the US armed forces about as much as I'd want to join the IDF.
I'd be ashamed to join both as they are for dumbass, order following sheep, being trained as murderers for the state. See, skippy, I think critically and I will never blindly follow orders in the name of "patriotism". I don't flag worship, an I question governments--especially the ones that claim to be "democratic". Unlike you, I don't go "rah rah rah" like a good little cheerleader for my country. So why the fuck would I join here? Without going into my history, I know of being in life or death/violent situations and that those who talk all the 'rah-rah' shit don't usually bust a grape when it comes down to it. You're the little cheerleader, but, alas, you can't join due to your.....ahem.....problems.
It's OK, skippy. At least you have your little pretend war in cyberspace where you are safe, mmmm-kay?

Possible, but unlikely.
The person who posted the article did it to use my name and now they are claiming I am a narcissist because I want a forged post removed according to LA.IMC guidelines.

There are rules for reasons.
If they are differentially enforced, its the same as corruption.

Dear Umpire,

I have been A MEMBER of the LA.IMC since Aug 2000.
I live in California and I am an activist. Why would you think that I DON'T have a right to post a comment here like any other person?

As for the "humiliation" which some folks feel motivated to direct against me. I am of the opinion that the name-caller brings disgrace back upon themselves.

As for the censorship, I am of the belief that the Censor knows they are shutting off speech. ALL know they are no longer Free Speech advocates.

Hence, the name-calling and the censorship really rebuke those who do it.

I continue to raise questions, bring forth censored information, and condemn those who engage in Jew-hatred and Israel-bashing due to extreme prejudice.

I do this in the name of truth and justice.
Aren't those the values of a good activist?

---Becky Johnson of HUFF, DAFKA, and former 10 year writer for Street Spirit in Oakland, Ca. , former longtime member of Free Radio Santa Cruz, and successful litigant against the LAPD for a beating I suffered at the DNC 2000.

Author "Becky J" on the post, removed.

A Palestinian gunman has shot dead an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint in the northern West Bank.

The Israeli army said on Saturday that the shooting occurred near the Jewish settlement of Beqaot.

An Israeli ambulance service said the soldier was killed in a drive-by shooting.

According to army radio, the attacker was killed by Israeli troops, but there was no immediate confirmation from Palestinian security or medical sources.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which took place east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The latest death brings to at least 5,336 the number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, most of them Palestinians.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C1924538-68E3-4E53-8CE8-3E20070A4B10.htm

I've made some effort to do this with you before, Tia. You have a blindness that interferes, meaning that your pro-Israel advocacy, like Becky's, is often *intrinsically* dishonest and/or disgusting to the point of being *highly* offensive, but you never understand this. Probably the best example is dishonesty regarding Israel's obscene slaughter of children. There is **SOME** legitimacy to the point that many of the Palestinian teen victims are indeed functional combatants, but you make WAAAAY too much of this. Throwing rocks at tanks or at grown men in body armor carrying machine guns doesn't count, I don't give a fuck what you think. After factoring in every bit of legitimacy you can summon here, there is still NO COMPARISON: Israel remains far and away the greater villain. And yet you always seem to believe you've succeeded in tipping the moral scales in Israel's favor. This is DISGUSTING and OFFENSIVELY ARROGANT. You can't see it because what you're really doing is reciting DISGUSTING and OFFENSIVELY ARROGANT canned PR talking points you've absorbed from Israel's propaganda machine, which you devoutly accept as literally true.

Zionism, after all, is your religion, and zionist PR bullhorns your high priests.

The all-time most DISGUSTING and OFFENSIVELY ARROGANT example here is Becky's absolutely vile apologetics for the death of Iman al Hams. Don't even fucking start. Iman al Hams had no explosives, no weapons of any sort, on her person, which decisively blows that whole line of bullshit straight back into the hell it was conceived in (aka Jabotinsky Bullshit Central in Tel Aviv). The glib "polite" language Becky uses when saying this stuff does not diminish the vileness of her position one tiny bit. It is so fucking foul as to be analogous to a physical assault. It is the unveiled face of raw evil.

Whichever zionist's nose it was that I wanted to grind shit into, I remember it was to retaliate for some position fully as foul as this, the stench of which was like shit shoved up my own nose

So when you say on the one hand that you want to engage in "reasonable discourse," but on the other reserve your right to "do so" in a way that is inherently obscene (because you WILL go there; you obviously don't even get it when you do that) what you're really doing is trying to STACK THE MORAL DECK in your favor, which is what your side is constantly striving to do in a thousand other ways as well. This in itself is intrinsically DISGUSTING and OFFENSIVELY ARROGANT. There's a fried-out hole in your brains like a cigar burn where the comprehension of Justice should be

I've been down this road with you before, Tia. I know where you'll try to take it

What does this word mean?

don't even have the posting while drinking excuse

Define terms. Stop using meaningless labels.
Since when does Zionism represent all Semitic people.

Sloppy and deliberately so.

If you go to Pilar Rahola's site and look at what she's been writing lately, it looks like she's turncoated, ala Crisco Hitchens, into another pro-Israel anti-Islam shill

http://www.pilarrahola.com/

She writes in Spanish. This "translation" is a creation of the pro-Israel PR batshit legions. There's no telling what they did to it

You're proving yourself so intellectually impaired as to be unable to use a good free online translator from Spanish to English. Such is the idiocy of ranting pro-Israel trolls - they rather bitch like the obsessed fuckwits they are instead of finding out the truth even when this entails little effort. I suspect you know there's a good chance you'd lose the pretext to moan abut what you percieve as a doctoring of the text.

...that Babelfish etc. mangles beyond recognition. Babelfish's "translations" convey an understanding of the original piece that I would call 'semi-fluent.' Meanwhile there is definitely a coherent idiom in the zionist PR machine's English "translation" of Rahola's article. The question is, is it faithful to the original? It takes years of using a language to achieve the fluency needed to assess such a thing for oneself. You don't entrust this to some obviously inept computer program. Or has the translation of Rahola's original been used as an opportunity to impart an extra little, you know, *spin*? How would I know? Should I just blindly trust that it hasn't?

Get this through your thick skull: I would never trust a zionist psychotic's "translation" of ANYTHING of this political nature.

Finklestein nailed it on Democracy Now!:

http://www.democracynow.org/finkelstein-benami.shtml

(snip)

Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate: Complete Transcript

(snip)

The problem is when you get to the United States. In the United States among those people who call themselves supporters of Israel, we enter the area of unreason. We enter a twilight zone. American Jewish organizations, they're not only not up to speed yet with Steven Spielberg, they're still in the Leon Uris exodus version of history: the “this land is mine, God gave this land to me," and anybody who dissents from this, you can call it, lunatic version of history is then immediately branded an anti-Semite, and whenever Israel comes under international pressure to settle the conflict diplomatically, or when it is subjected to a public relations debacle, such as it was with the Second Intifada, a campaign is launched claiming there is a new anti-Semitism afoot in the world.

There is no evidence of a new anti-Semitism. If you go through all the literature, as I have, the evidence is actually in Europe, which is Dr. Ben-Ami's half-home ground, Spain, but throughout Europe, the evidence is, if you look at like the Pew Charitable Trust surveys, anti-Semitism has actually declined since the last time they did the surveys. They did it in 1991 and 2002. They said the evidence is that it's declined. And the same thing in the United States. What's called the “new anti-Semitism” is anyone who criticizes any official Israeli policies. In fact, my guess is had people not known who wrote *Scars of War, Wounds of Peace*, that book would immediately be put on the A.D.L.'s list of verboten books, an example of anti-Semitism, because he says things like the Zionists wanted to transfer the Arabs out. That's anti-Semitism. It has nothing to do with the real world. It's a public relations extravaganza production to deflect attention from the facts, from the realities, and I think this afternoon in our exchange, there were some areas of disagreement for sure, but I think a lot of what Dr. Ben-Ami said would not go down well with most of American Jewry, and that's when they'll soon be charging him with being an anti-Semite.

(snip)

how is he
'wrong"?
Because you say so?

Lurch-shuffle, yuh, dese really arnda droids we're loogin forr, yuh (wringing slobber out of shirt)

Uh, ever heard of an A*R*G*U*M*E*N*T Yidsky-buns? Sorry, but I'm just not quite weak-minded enough for your bald announcement to work

3Ds
Don't ever admit that israel is in occupation of Palestine
Don't ever admit any israeli crimes
Don't ever stop bleating ANTI-SEMITISM

And that means the entire thread.

And there it is just as plain as the nose on your face, the very intent they always scramble to hide when it won't fly: the idee fixe that ALL land west of Jordan and north of Egypt is rightfully theirs, and therefore they have every right to clear it of Arab "squatters," by extermination if necessary. But just try accusing them sometime of intentionally conniving to drive Arabs out of the West Bank and Gaza. They'll deny the shit out of it. And yet to anyone with a brain this has obviously been the Jabotinskyite psychos' grand design all along, and here they are admitting they think it's their right

they have nothing in their bucket but mindless 'bot zionazi replies and no grasp on the truth.
Here are three 'U's
Unable to acknowledge any israeli crimes
Unable to offer any compromise
Unable to justify murder aggression and ethnic cleansing upon unarmed populations.
Doesn't trop them from swarming this board.

And if it hadn't been nailed to its perch...
Maybe it's pineing for the walls of israel.

what's to know besides the fact that zionism means 'a homeland for zionists'.
And Jews are being dragged into the furnace by them - again.

All you are is a psycho 'bot.
No real input. Just a echo noise chamber as evidenced by the originality of your 'comments'
Show all of us just how bankrupt is, the ideology you espouse...

And who exactly owns the security that keeps the 'Big Arab Oil money' in power?
The CIA.
That's like blaming your right hand for a shooting.

And your 'Big Arab Oil money' is actually Big Rockefeller money.
You have a problem with that?