Humanitarian consequences of Israel's military operation in Nablus

[Scurrilous]

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2340.shtml

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"Beginning the 15th of December, the IDF intensified its almost daily incursions into the city of Nablus. On 26 December, the IDF launched a full-scale military operation into the city with a concentration on the Old City. It lasted 12 days until on 6 January 2004. This operation was one of the largest military operations in Nablus since "Defensive Shield" started in April 2002.

According to the IDF, this was a continuation of its use of "all legal means in order to strike at terrorists, their dispatchers, and those who assist them."1 The military operation had followed a suicide attack on 25 December 2003, in Petah Tikva, a suburb north of Tel Aviv which killed 4 people and injured at least 12.

Tensions in the streets of Nablus between the IDF and the local population led to a high number of casualties. The IDF fired live ammunition which resulted in the deaths of 6 Palestinians and over 50 injured.2 Several houses and historical buildings in the Qarioun district of the Old City were destroyed or damaged. The IDF placed the Old City under almost continuous curfew during the operation. It evacuated some houses in this area, and used them as military positions. Other houses were completely sealed by the IDF confining the inhabitants for days."

[Resistance]

1. These are not defensive operations

This is terrorism.

[The Stranger]

2. Kick

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