Day 13 : Tuesday 10.10.2000
Palestinian boy Sami Abu Jazar, 12, lies currently connected to a life
support machine in the intensive care unit at Al-Shafah hospital in
Gaza Strip after being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers in Rafiah.
As per PA orders , Palestinian workers reconstructed and painted
Joseph's Tomb, in the West bank city of Nablus. The religious shrine
was ransacked last Saturday by Palestinians just after Israeli
soldiers evacuated the site.
Jewish settlers have been attacking churches and mosques throughout
the Jewish state as part of thier campaign against Arabs, Muslims and
Christians alike. In Yaffa, Jewish saboteurs "Jami Hasan Bek", an old
Mosque on fire. Several Arab homes and busienss were also vandalized
by the saboteurs. Thousands of Jaffa Palestinian residents managed in
putting out the fire. Few days back a Jewish rolled burning tires into
the "Omari Mosque" in the town of Tabariya, setting the mosque in
fire.
Jewish settlers closed the Hebron-Jerusalem highway and some other
main roads in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, settlers continued
to maraud Arab towns and villages in the West Bank, attacking unarmed
and helpless Palestinian farmers and often setting fire on their olive
fields. Settlers have been implicated in at least four gruesome
murders of Palestinians in the past few days.
Barak extended his ultimatum to the Palestinian Authority for another
48 hours to end the Intifadha or else the peace process would be
declared dead.
This is some photos of what happened today.