Thursday, January 05, 2006
Those who support B'tselem explain this to me: why does this human rights organization have a special category for "Palestinian violence" but not one for "Israeli violence" on its website? In other news, this organization reported: "" A report by the organization revealed that 3386 Palestinians and 992 Israelis have been killed since the outbreak of Al Aqsa Intifada, adding that 118 Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers without being engaged in any kind of fighting, 22 of them were assassinated by the occupying forces, seven passers by were killed by flying bomb splinters and six others were mysteriously exterminated. The report also revealed that 31% of the apartheid 681- kilometer- long wall has been built by Israel by the end of 2005, 43% of the wall's construction has been sanctioned yet not launched, 16.5% of the wall is currently being built while 9.5% remain unsanctified by Israel. According to the report, 27 permanent military roadblocks are being set up by Israel in the West Bank and 26 others on the borders between Israel and the West Bank in addition to hundreds of barricades which are intermittently used, adding that Israel is detaining 741 Palestinian administrative prisoners in its concentration camps who have not been convicted or brought before court and whose release is still undecided."