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Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . ====================================================================================== ====================== LeftNews Prague, Important Information from Embassy of Palestine in Prague ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LeftNews, Prague, Wed, 29 Aug 2001 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================================== ====================== Special Report: Intifada Update (No.21) Palestinian Human and Material Losses Inflicted by Israel during the Intifada (Uprising September 28th, 2000 until August 20th, 2001 1.Number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces and settlers: Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem: 602 Palestinians in Israel: 13 Palestinians in southern Lebanon (killed in clashes on Israeli northern borders): 2 Total (including 165 deaths inflicted among children aged 18 and below): 617 2.Gender Distribution of Deaths: Total number of Palestinian men killed (including 149 children aged 18 and below): 588 Total Number of Palestinian women killed (including two 3 year-olds, one 2 year-old, and one 4 month-old): 29 3.Number of Palestinians injured by Israeli security forces and settlers: Live ammunition: 3002 Rubber bullets: 5121 Tear gas: 4540 Miscellaneous: 2545 Total (including 6,000 injuries inflicted among children below the age of 18): 15208 Permanent Disabilities: (including 25 cases of complete blindness) 1,500 4.Palestinians arrested by Israeli authorities for political reasons: Within Israeli territories: (the vast majority have been released) 1,189 Within Palestinian territories: (1000 have been released) 1,387 Total: 2,576 5.Residential Palestinian buildings completely destroyed by Israeli attacks: Gaza Strip: 226 West Bank: 333 Total: 559 Total of residential buildings shelled: 3,669 6.Number of olive trees uprooted form Palestinian land: 26,570 7.Area of Palestinian cultivated land destroyed: 3,669,000 mē 8.Palestinian homes demolished by Israeli authorities since 28/9/2001: 500* *Since 1967, Israel has confiscated almost 750,000 acres of land from the 1.5 million acres comprising the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since 1967, almost 200,000 tress have been uprooted by Israeli forces from Palestinian land. Since 1967 only, more than 7,000 homes have been demolished on the basis that they were not supported by the required construction permits (permits for Palestinians are almost impossible to obtain from the Israeli authorities). Please refer to MIFTAH's fact sheet on Home Demolition and Land Confiscation at http://www.miftah.org/FactSheets/sheets/HouseDemolition.htm 9.Israeli attacks against doctors and ambulance drivers: 10.Number of ambulance drivers killed: 3 Number of doctors killed: 1 Number of doctors and ambulance drivers injured: >160 Number of ambulances hit: 135 11.Number of Palestinian schools shut down due to Israeli siege: 174 12.Number of Palestinian students deprived from attending school: 90,000 13.Impact of Israeli closures on Palestinian economic life: Number of Palestinians unemployed due to the closures: 257,000 Avg. unemployment rate in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: 57% Total income losses for Palestinian workers previously employed inside Israel: $ 3.6 million/day Actual losses: Shortfall in GNP between Sept.-Mar. $ 1.5 billion Decrease in per capita income: 47% Percentage of Palestinians living below poverty line: 53% Estimated loss if closures continue in 2001: $ 1.7 billion Daily overall economic losses (according to the Palestinain Central Bureau of Statistics) : $ 11 million Sources: *Palestine Red Crescent Society *The World Bank (West Bank and Gaza Strip) *Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator (UNSCO)-Gaza *Ramallah Hospital *Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza *PECDAR *UNICEF *B'Tselem Public Information Department Public Affairs Unit The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH Tel: 00972-2-585 1842 WWW.MIFTAH.ORG Taking Exception Israel's Version Of 'Ethnic Cleansing' By Arjan El Fassed August 18, 2001 JERUSALEM -- This week on The Washingtom Post's op-ed page, Michael Kelly [Aug. 15] Charles Krauthammer [Aug. 16] and George F. Will [Aug. 17] advocated what amounts to "ethnic cleansing" in the Mideast. Using such words as "strike and expel" and "destroy, kill, capture and expel," they seemed to be advocating a sort of "final solution" to the Palestinian problem. This kind of thinking embarrasses every Jew who believes in a just peace and universal values and norms. But columnists such as these simply make explicit what has long been clear to us in this region. They put into plain words Israel's cruel and discriminatory policy, practiced against Palestinians for the past 50 years. Discrimination against non-Jews is grounded in Israeli laws, regulations and practices, which have created a system similar to apartheid in South Africa -- but different from apartheid in that its goal is not to rule over but to remove or expel the indigenous Palestinian population. Will's column is particularly offensive. He urges Israel not just "to kill or capture those terrorists" and "destroy the Palestinian Authority's military [sic] infrastructure" but also "to destroy other physical infrastructure." Perhaps Will should be provided with a copy of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which clearly states that such acts are prohibited. Some of them even amount to war crimes. Israel's assassination policy constitutes willful killing, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which stipulates in Article 32: "The High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. "This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or by military agents." Moreover, the U.N. Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions emphasize that extrajudicial executions are never allowed, not even in time of war. Will suggests that "all of Jerusalem" should be within Israel's borders. In fact, East Jerusalem is occupied territory. According to international law, East Jerusalem is part of the Occupied Territories, from which Israel should withdraw. From 1947 through 1996 the U.N. Security Council issued 21 resolutions regarding Jerusalem. The General Assembly has also issued similar resolutions. These resolutions were issued either because of Israeli policies and measures regarding Jerusalem in particular or Jerusalem in the context of the occupied territories. They emphasize the illegitimacy of Israel's annexation of Jerusalem, based on the illegitimacy of its acquisition of territory by war. Additionally, these resolutions regard the city as an integral part of the occupied territories and emphasize the applicability of international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention. There has been a unique degree of international consensus on these resolutions. That Israel has acquired territorial sovereignty in those areas is not sustainable in international law. Conquest, aggressive or defensive does not confer title. Many of the world's nations have expressly and repeatedly declined to recognize Israel's title to Jerusalem. International humanitarian law prohibits confiscation of private property and allows the occupying power to take land but with compensation and only to meet its military needs (The Hague Regulations, 1907). Underlying all such limitations is the idea that the occupying power is not the sovereign in the territory. Consequently, the occupying power may not commit any act that constitutes unilateral annexation of all or part of the occupied territory. The writer is the international public advocacy officer the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights. *End* ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
