Archive for April, 2003

Haaretz: ‘It’s a terrible thing, living with the knowledge that you crushed our daughter’

Wednesday, April 30th, 2003 | Posted in Press clippings, Rachel Corrie

By Nathan Guttman
Originally published by Haaretz

WASHINGTON - Craig Corrie sent just one e-mail to his daughter during the seven weeks she spent in Rafah. She addressed most of her letters to her mother, Cindy, and Craig read them with concern. When he was a soldier serving in Vietnam, he would send his loved ones letters with...

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Israeli’s Blast Near Peace Camp at Mas’Ha No Injuries

Sunday, April 27th, 2003 | Posted in Reports, Mas'ha Village

by Tom Wallace

At approximately 1:00 PM today, April 27, 03, Israeli contractors, protected by Israeli army, police and private security, blasted rock with 50 – 60 sticks of dynamite. The blast was 25 meters from the Peace Camp at Mas’Ha. The Contractors have been charged with building the “security fence” otherwise known...

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ISM Rafah Statement on the Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

Saturday, April 12th, 2003 | Posted in Press Releases, Tom Hurndall, Gaza Region

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On 11 April 2003, 10 members of the International Solidarity Movement in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine, were planning to set up a tent in an area that an Israeli tank often uses to shoot into the houses and streets of a refugee camp called Yibna. Several Palestinian community members had initiated the project, gathered...

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Israeli soldier shoots British ISM activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza

Friday, April 11th, 2003 | Posted in Press Releases, Tom Hurndall, Gaza Region

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Between 4:30 and 5:00 PM today Israeli snipers shot another ISM activist in the head. Tom Hurndall from Manchester Britain is currently in critical condition in a helicopter on his way from Europa Hospital in Khan Younis to a hospital in Bir Sheva. He is 22 years old.

According to Laura, the activists were being...

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International Solidarity Movement Activist Seriously Injured in Jenin

Sunday, April 6th, 2003 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports, Jenin Region

Palestine Red Crescent Society

Press Release
www.palestinercs.org/pressreleases/PR050403WBRR.htm

Jenin - (5 April 2003): At approximately 7:23 pm, PRCS Emergency Medical...

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