Case Study

Provocation to Kill: The Use of Force as a Response to Provoked Stone-Throwing

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This case study examines the events of 24 April 2003, as well as preceding incidents during which the Israeli military utilized lethal force against Palestinian stone-throwers in the village of Qarawa. With several affidavidts given by eye-witnesses, the report provides detailed accounts of the shootings and killings of the Palestinian villagers by the occupying army. The report also includes legal analysis based on international law applicable to a belligerent occupying force, and calls for both Israel and the international community to fulfill their legal obligations.

Tulkarm: People’s Roots are as Deep as those of the Olive Trees

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Jamal Othman, a farmer from Al-Jaroushia, a village in the Tulkarm governorate, is one of many saddening examples of the human costs of the construction of the occupation’s new Wall. Othman’s family has lived in Al-Jaroushia for generations, the second most prominent family in the village of 1400 residents. His extended family of 120 lives on a 400-dunam plot of land.