The Israeli Holocaust Against Arab
Children
THE WORLD MUST KNOW!
Researched and created by Michael Hoffman
Last revision: April 5, 2002

Israeli Child Killers:
Documentary Proof
Murdering Children for Sport
"Ali Murad Abu Shaweesh was 12 when Israeli soldiers
shot him in the back. Ali was killed on the same day in June, 2001 that
Sharon refused to let the Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, meet
with Yasir Arafat, yet his death also went unnoticed by American
television news. But not entirely unnoticed, since the Israeli soldiers,
who taunted the Palestinian boys over loudspeakers outside the Khan Yunis
refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, goading them to come out and throw rocks,
did so under the gaze of Chris Hedges, a reporter for the New York Times.
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have
covered--death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala,
mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb
snipers put children in their sights...in Sarajevo--but I have never
before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder
them for sport," Hedges wrote. His account, coolly factual yet full of
passionate intensity, was written not for his own paper but for Harper's
Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on his vacation." The Nation, March
11, 2002
Israelis Kill 13 Year Old Boy

Little Ahmed Ghanem bids a final farewell to the
remains of his big brother, Mahmoud, 13, in the village of Sara in the
West Bank. Mahmoud was shot in the head March 10, 2002 by Israeli troops,
west of Nablus.
Israelis Murder Palestinian Family:
Mother and three children

The body of Mohammad Abu Kweik, 8, is lifted from
the carnage after the Mitsubishi pick-up truck he was travelling in was
bombed by Israeli forces in the West Bank Palestinian ghetto of Ramallah,
March 4, 2002. Six Palestinian civilians, including the boy's mother,
Bushra Kweik, 38, and two sisters, Bara, 14, and Aziza, 16, were killed
when Israeli troops bombed their truck after their mother had picked them
up from school. The car behind them was also hit. The man the Israelis
were attempting to assassinate was not in either vehicle. Two Palestinian
children, ages 4 and 16, were killed in the second vehicle.

The body of Bara Kweik next to one of her school
books
Also on March 4, Israeli troops opened fire on an
ambulance in the Jenin refugee camp and killed a doctor, 57 year old
Khalil Suleiman. Three medics and a nine year old girl were wounded in the
Israeli army attack.
Commenting on the preceding Israeli army "raids" of
March 4, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated: "Anyone wishing to
conduct negotiations with Palestinians must first hit them hard...We must
inflict heavy losses on their side." Source: Los Angeles Times, March 5,
2002
Curator's note: The Kweik family name is also spelled "Quaiek"
in some reports
Israelis Murder 12 year old boy

The body of Mohammed Houmeduk, 12, shot and killed in
cold blood Dec. 18, 2001 in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza
Strip, by Israeli soldiers.
Israelis Murder Two Palestinian Boys: a
2 year old and a 13 Year Old
Hebron, Dec. 10, 2001. Editor's note: We have no
post-mortem photo of the two year old victim, Burhan Sidir. The Israelis
blew him apart. His head was found in the street. His legs were in
different places.

The photo above is of the other victim, 13 year old
Shadi Arafi killed by Israeli forces. Two brothers, aged 8 and 10 were
also seriously injured in the Dec. 10 Israeli attack.
Zahra Sidir said her son Burhan's third birthday was to
be March 27. "Can you think of a crime uglier than this?" she asked. "A
targeted person? My two year old son?"
On Nov. 22, 2001, five Palestinian school boys ages 7
to 14 were on their way to classes in the Gaza strip when they were killed
by a bomb planted by Israeli forces

Palestinian children hold photos of three of the five
school boys murdered by the Israelis

Palestinian children bid farewell to their deceased
playmates, killed by a booby-trapped bomb planted on the path to their
school by the child-killing Israeli army
Israel "....places explosive charges where children
are likely to pass and then claims that only the other side practices
terrorism?" --Gideon Levy,"On The Way To School," Ha'aretz, Nov. 26, 2001
Also cf. NY Times, Dec. 11, 2001, p. A12

The sister of 13-year-old Mohammed Abu Libda, who was shot to death
by Israeli troops, cries during his funeral as her brother's body is
brought home in southern Gaza, September 9, 2001.
Israelis Murder 11 Year Old Palestinian
Boy

The remains of Mohammed Zurub (above). Zionist occupation troops
shot dead the 11-year old Palestinian boy in the Gaza ghetto on August,
23, 2001. Haaretz newspaper reported: "Witnesses said that Mohammed Zurub
was shot in the heart after throwing stones at IDF (Israeli) troops."

Mohammed Zurub's relatives mourn the 11 year old
boy's murder by Zionist occupation troops, Aug. 23, 2001
Israelis Murder 14 Year
Old Palestinian Boy

The body of Mohammed Abu Arrar, 14, is caressed by a
relative prior to burial. The boy was shot to death in the Gaza ghetto by
Israeli soldiers, August 19, 2001.
Israelis Murder 8 Year
Old Palestinian Girl

Israeli soldiers shot this eight-year-old Palestinian
girl, Sabreen Abu Sneineh, in the head, in Hebron, Aug. 12, 2001
Israelis Murder Two
Palestinian Brothers

Two Palestinian brothers, Bilal Abu Khader, 8, and
Ashraf Abu Khader, 5, were killed in the West Bank town of Nablus, July
31, 2001 by Israeli helicopter gunships, which rocketed the center of a
Palestinian population center in the middle of the day. Six other
Palestinians were killed during the
Jewish-sponsored
assassinations.
Israeli Settlers Murder
Three Month Old Palestinian Baby

The body of murdered 3-month-old Palestinian infant Diya
Tmaizi, center, is flanked by murdered Palestinian civilians Mohammed
Hilmy Tmaizi, 20, right, and Mohammed Salameh Tmaizi, 22, left, in the
West Bank village of Idna, near Hebron. The Palestinian baby and the other
civilians were shot and killed, and at least four other Palestinian
civilians were injured late Thursday, July 19, 2001, near Idna. According
to Israeli radio, a Jewish "settler" group took responsibility for the
murders.
Israeli Army Opens Fire
on Children's Playground

Ibrahim Al-Mugrabi weeps over his 11-year-old son,
Khalil Ibrahim, who was slain in the Rafah section of the Gaza ghetto
after the Israeli army strafed the boy's playground with machine gun fire.
Khalil Ibrahim al-Mugrabi, 11, was shot in the head and
killed July 7, 2001 near Rafah in the Gaza ghetto. Two other Arab children
playing with him were wounded, one seriously, after the Israeli army
sprayed machine gun fire at a crowd of Arab children.
The children were gunned down by Israeli soldiers from
a Jewish guard tower as they were playing. Doctors said the dead
Palestinian boy was shot in the head and that a 10-year-old boy was
seriously wounded with a gun shot to the stomach. A third Palestinian boy,
age 12, was injured less seriously.
Mohammed Abu-Shikadem, 29, who was nearby when the
shootings took place, said that a group of some 30 children were playing
near the refugee camp when he heard a burst of machine gun fire from the
Israeli guard tower. ``Two of the children fell in front of my eyes,''
Abu-Shikadem said.
Israelis Kill Baby Girl and
School-Teacher, Wound Ten other Children in Refugee Camp
KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, Palestine-- May 7, 2001--
Israeli troops shelled homes in this Arab refugee camp today and fired
large-caliber machine guns, killing a 4-month-old baby girl and wounding
24 civilians. Doctors said 10 Palestinian children were among the injured.
One Israeli cannon shell hit the shack of the Hijo
family in the refugee camp, instantly killing 4-month-old Iman Hijo, with
shrapnel tearing a hole into the infant's back. The girl's 19-year-old
mother, as well as three brothers and sisters, were wounded, including
18-month-old Mahmoud Hijo, was in intensive care at Nasser Hospital with
shrapnel wounds, doctors said.
The slain infant's uncle, Wael Hijo, carried the girl's
body from the hospital's autopsy room to the X-ray department. In the
emergency room, Iman's 7-year-old aunt, Dunya, sat on a bed with a dazed
look on her face, her frilly white-and-green dress pulled up above scraped
and bandaged legs. ``They killed the baby,'' Dunya said, then burst into
tears.
Israeli troops also fired on the refugee camp's
Khaldieh School in the West Bank, killing a Palestinian school-teacher.
Palestinian boy, 12, killed in Khan Yunis
A 12-year old Palestinian, Muhind Nizar Muharb, was killed April 23 in
Khan Yunis refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip, when Israeli soldiers opened
fire on Palestinian demonstrators at the funeral of a slain Palestinian.
At least ten other Palestinians were injured. (Source: Ha'aretz, April 24,
2001)
Israeli army targets
Palestinian children in grenade attack on playground

Palestinian child, wounded in Israeli army grenade
attack on his schoolyard, is carried to an ambulance
"In the Old City of Hebron, (March 15, 2001), Israeli
soldiers lobbed a stun grenade into a schoolyard during an elementary
students' demonstration. The students were throwing stones at Israeli
cars, Israeli officials said. Six students suffered moderate or light
wounds, including burns, broken bones and blisters, Palestinian officials
said. The Israelis said five Palestinian children had experienced 'light
impact injuries from the grenade.'
"The army sees the removal of children from the circle
of violence as extremely important," an Israeli army statement said. The
army will "continue to act against anyone trying to compromise the
security of Israeli citizens," it said.
Source: N.Y. Times, March 16, 2001, p. A-10
"Six Palestinian children suffered burns on Thursday
(March 15, 2001) when Israeli soldiers threw a stun grenade into a West
Bank schoolyard in new violence after an Israeli pledge to ease its
blockade on Palestinians. Doctors in Hebron said three of the six children
sustained burns to the head, hands and back and the other three were
suffering from blisters and shock.
"Why did they throw the grenade into the yard? This is
only a provocation,' said teacher Mohammed Hawaismah as parents carried
children out of the school and into ambulances.
Source: Reuters, March 15, 2001
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