- 123 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 686 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000
“The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers.”
- Catherine Cook (media coordinator at the Middle East Research and Information Project)
Source:
These numbers are from Remember These Children (http://rememberthesechildren.org/about.html), a coalition of groups calling for an end to the killing of children and a fair resolution of the conflict. (View the complete list of the victimshttp:(//www.rememberthesechildren.org/remember2005.html), which was last updated on August 15, 2005.)
-1,063 Israelis and 3,659 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000.
Source:
The Palestine Red Crescent Society, is the source for the Palestinian deaths. (Visit their statistics page, which was last updated on August 15, 2005.http://www.palestinercs.org/crisistables/table_of_figures.htm)
the source for the number of Israelis killed is Israel’s military, the Israel Defense Forces. (Visit their statistics page, which was last updated on August 15, 2005.http://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/7/21827.doc)
-7,376 Israelis and 29,040 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000
"With no shooting from the Palestinian side, and often little or no use of tear gas to disperse the protests, Israeli soldiers have repeatedly fired live ammunition into unarmed crowds.”
by Lamis Andoni & Sandy Tolan
Village Voice
February 21, 2001
Source:
The Palestine Red Crescent Society, is the source for the Palestinian injuries. (Visit their statistics page, which was last updated on August 15, 2005.mentioned above) Our source for the number of Israelis injured is Israel’s military, the Israel Defense Forces. (Visit their statistics page, which was last updated on August 15, 2005.mentioned above)
-The U.S. gives $15,139,178 * per day to the Israeli government and military and $232,290 ** per day to Palestinian NGO’s.
“Generous as it is, what Israel actually got in U.S. aid is considerably less than what it has cost U.S. taxpayers to provide it. The principal difference is that so long as the U.S. runs an annual budget deficit, every dollar of aid the U.S. gives Israel has to be raised through U.S. government borrowing.”
Richard Curtiss (Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer in
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)
source:
* This number is based on 1997 research by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and includes economic and military aid, as well as federal loan guarantees. The Washington Report (http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm) is a magazine published in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region. It is dedicated to providing the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states.
This number is based on research done by Richard H. Curtiss and others at the Washington Report. They have found that Israel receives 12.2% more than $3 billion directly alloted to them in economic and military aid.
** In 2004, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID -http://www.usaid.gov/wbg/budget.htm) provided $232,290 per day to Palestinian NGO’s.
U.S. law prohibits providing aid directly to the PA. According to USAID, the law was waived once, in 2003
- Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by none.
"Aside from the core issues—refugees, Jerusalem, borders—the major themes reflected in the U.N. resolutions against Israel over the years are its unlawful attacks on its neighbors; its violations of the human rights of the Palestinians, including deportations, demolitions of homes and other collective punishments; its confiscation of Palestinian land; its establishment of illegal settlements; and its refusal to abide by the U.N. Charter and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War."
Donald Neff
(Former Time Magazine Bureau Chief, Israel
Fifty Years of Israel
article: Lessons to be Learned From 66 U.N. Resolutions Israel Ignores
Originally printed in the Washington Report in March 1993)
Source:
Paul Findley’s Deliberate Deceptions (http://www.middleeastbooks.com/html/books/findley-de.html) (1998, pages 192-4). This number only covers resolutions passed from 1955 through 1992.
- No Israelis are being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 8,043 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel.
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. This forms approximately 20% of the total Palestinian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).”
Palestine Monitor
Source:
The Mandela Institute for Human Rights – Palestine
http://www.mandela-palestine.org/
(last updated March 31, 2005)
Breakdown of Palestinian Prisoners
Palestinian Prisoners
Juveniles Imprisoned
335
Women Imprisoned
115
Men Imprisoned
7,593
- 0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 4,170 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since September 29, 2000
Peter Hansen, Commissioner General of UNRWA, condemned Israel’s demolitions: “Any humanitarian looking at the sheer number of innocent civilians who have lost their homes can only condemn Israel’s house demolition policy as a hugely disproportionate military response by an occupation army... It is a policy that creates only hardship and bitterness, and in the end can only undermine hope for future reconciliation and peace.”
Source:
B’Tselem,(The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories ) “Through No Fault of Their Own,” Nov 15, 2004.
- The Israeli unemployment rate is 10.4%, while estimates of the Palestinian unemployment rate range from 37-67%.
“The West Bank and Gaza have absorbed levels of unemployment that would have torn the social fabric in many other societies.”
World Bank
source:
The source of the Israeli unemployment number is the CIA World Factbook on Israel. In its report, "Twenty-Seven Months - Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis," the World Bank describes Palestinian unemployment as being at 37% at the end of 2002. The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) estimates Palestinian unemployment as being at 39.8%. The Palestine Monitor, estimates that unemployment has reached 48% in the West Bank and 67% in Gaza.The CIA World Factbook on Gaza and the West Bank estimates Palestinian unemployment at 50%.
Although unemployment in Israel is higher than it was before the Palestinian uprising began, most economists blame the global slowdown, particularly in the high-tech sector for the increase. (According to Business Week, Israel has the most high-tech-dependent economy in the world.) The sharp rise in Palestinian unemployment, on the other hand, is universally viewed as resulting from Israeli policies of closure and movement restrictions
- 60+ new Jewish-only settlements have been built on confiscated Palestinian land between March 2001 and July 11, 2003. There have been 0 cases of Palestinians confiscating Israeli land and building settlements.
“The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949
Source:
This number is from an article, "Israeli Settlements ‘Still Expanding’ Unchecked" originally printed in Arab News, written by Jonathan Cook (a British journalist for the London Guardian). There have been no cases of Palestinians confiscating Israeli land and building settlements.
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