arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Ramallah June 5th 2002 Wafa;

Below is a brief of the major events and developments on the Palestinian arena:

· Due to the brutality of the Israeli military investigators, the Palestinian citizen Housni Ali Fayed (40) from Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank died under the heavy and aggressive torture. He was arrested when the Israelis invaded the Camp.

· The Palestinian citizen Jamal Abu Musalam from Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus, died yesterday due to wound sustained on the 12th of last May, when he was shot by the Israeli occupation forces, and declared clinically dead, he was severely injured in the head and other parts of his body.

· Five of the Palestinian citizens owned vehicles were smashed by three Israeli soldiers and their captain at the Qalandia roadblock. Eyewitnesses said that the vehicles were queued at the roadblock under the gun threat of the Israeli soldiers. Detained for several hours at the roadblock, the driver protested against such humiliation, the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian drivers and smashed the windows of five of the parked cars, and confiscated several other car keys.

· Dr. Ahmad Rabah head of the Gaza Hospital said that the Palestinian citizen Neven Mahdi (19) from Khan Younis, was shot by an Israeli sniper who shot her in the head where the bullet penetrated her skull through the bones and exited from the other side, while she was at the Abu Holey passage in the Gaza Strip, her condition was described as critical.

· The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed the Palestinian boy Murad Jameel Alqam (16) from the town of Beit Ummer near Hebron. Medical sources said that he was shot by a bullet that penetrated his neck and caused his death.

· A vast arrest campaign amongst the citizens of the New Refugee Camp of Askar near Nablus. Wafa reporter said that the Israeli occupation forces gathered citizens between the ages of 15 years and 50, and detained them in the concentration Camp of Howara.