52 Palestinians, including 12 children, killed by Israeli occupation forces in August, PLO report reveals 

Date: 05 / 09 / 2007 Time: 13:07

Nablus – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces killed fifty-two Palestinians in August, including twelve children and fifteen who were assassinated in targeted killing operations, the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) department of national relationships revealed on Wednesday.

According to the PLO report, five Palestinians died at military checkpoints, three due to the delay in arriving at hospitals and two were shot dead at the checkpoints.

102 Palestinians were injured during Israeli incursion into Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps, the report stated.

220 were abducted either from their homes or at checkpoints.

Nine Palestinian homes were demolished and nineteen were damaged.

The majority of the Israeli assaults took place in the Gaza Strip, which has suffered due to a crippling siege that has lasted almost two years.

The report said that Hamas is also responsible for a deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip in the wake of its "military coup".

The report says "Hamas has finalised the Israeli dream of geographical separation between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel has endeavoured to achieve for decades."

The PLO reported that the Israeli forces deliberately assassinated children, such as ten-year-olds Sara and Yayha Abu Ghazal, and twelve-year-old Mahmoud Abu Ghazal. The Israeli forces targeted the children with missiles while they played in fields near Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli forces also killed a mentally disabled man; 24-year-old Muhammad Abu Sha'ar, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The report related the increasing suffering of Palestinians in the West Bank that are forced to travel through Israeli checkpoints. Young men were ordered to undress in public at 'Atara checkpoint, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.

Israeli settlers continue to vandalize and destroy Palestinian land and property with the protection of the Israeli forces, particularly in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, the report noted.

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Note to Readers:

The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes and at checkpoints, on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

Note to Journalists:

Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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