May deaths, injuries, arrests

According to the Palestinian President's website, Palestinians who were killed during April 2004 reached 61 people, which increased the Palestinian loss of life into 3,222 victims (excluding an estimate of 500 unconfirmed victims of the uninvestigated Jenin massacre). The number of Palestinians who were injured during April 2004 reached 1018 people, which increased Palestinian injuries to 36,052.

Palestinians who have been arrested during April 2004 were 685, which increased the total estimate of Palestinian arrestees until the end of April 2004 to 36,731. Statistics concerning other Israeli occupation atrocities, such as demolished houses and uprooted trees, can be found at the Palestinian President's website.*

The total number of Israelis who were killed during April 2004 was 4, which increased the total number of Israelis killed by the end of April 2004 to 857 (873 according to AP calculations). The total number of Israeli injuries during April 2003 was 8, which has kept the total Israeli injuries about 2,891.

The following is an attempt by Al-Jazeerah Information Center to document the number of victims of the Israeli military occupation of Palestine during May 2004 (Note: For Palestinian figures, there may be some differences between the total figures provided by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Wafa, and President Arafat's Office).

May 2004

Day of the siege	Date	Palestinians killed	Palestinians injured	Palestinians arrested	Israelis killed	Israelis injured
1048	1	-	9	7
1049	2	1	25	8
1050	3	6	58	70
1051	4	3	47	48
1052	5	3	43	87
1053	6	1	22	44
1054	7	4	13	15	1*	14
1055	8	-	12	10
1056	9	-	16	14
1057	10	2	16	9
1058	11	10	152	28	6**
1059	12	4	97	43	5***
1060	13	14	87	92	2+
1061	14	2	40	29
1062	15	1	27	14
1063	16	1	33	58
1064	17	4	28	15
1065	18	22"	64	33
1066	19	17"	112	129
1067	20	13"	56	136
1068	21	2	22	33
1069	22	4	30	38		2
1070	23	3	20	16
1071	24	2	23	26
1072	25	-	19	22
1073	26	2	41	22
1074	27	-	14	18
1075	28	2	9	7	1
1076	29	3	18	21
1077	30	3	35	22
1078	31	-	14	19

Total

129

1202

1133

* On May 7, 2004, one Israeli soldier was killed, 14 were injured by Hizbullah fighters when an Israeli special forces unit tried to enter south Lebanon.

** These were Israeli occupation soldiers who were killed in Al-Zaitoon neighborhood, Gaza City, by destroying their personnel carrier.

*** These were Israeli occupation soldiers who were killed in the Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip, by destroying their personnel carrier.

+ Israeli occupation soldiers killed in Rafah while Israeli forces were bulldozing Palestinian homes near the border with Egypt.

" These were mainly victims of the Israeli terror campaign on the Rafah refugee camp.

In September 29, 2002 , the Palestinian News Agency (wafa) reported that the number of Palestinians who were killed by the Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of the Palestinian Uprising (Al-Intifadha), was 2,523, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. But according to Palestine Red Crescent Society, that figure was 1,787 deaths and 20,593 injuries.

According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the total number of Palestinian deaths in West Bank & Gaza from September 29th, 2000 to the end of May 2003 was 22,822 injuries, and 2,336 deaths.

According to AFP, since the September 2000 launch of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, a total of 3,301 people have been killed, including 2,494 Palestinians and 747 Israelis (AFP tally until June 10, 2003).

+ The British journalist James Moller (29) was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces in Rafah. He is considered a human casualty expended to maintain the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Important Note: The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in the 2nd anniversary of the Intifadha (9/28/02) that the total number of Palestinian killed by Israelis or died as a result of Israeli occupation practices were 2,520. The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced that the number of Israelis killed since 9/26/2000 were 624. These figures differ from the ones above because Palestinian figures included Palestinians who die because they are prevented from reaching hospitals as a result of curfews or closures. See the following article: Border closure hits Palestinians - WHO

On 2/14/03, AFP reported: "Their (two Palestinians in Rafah) deaths raise to 2,945 the number of people killed since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, including 2,199 Palestinians and 690 Israelis.(AFP).

* The official website for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society can be found at: http://www.palestinercs.org

The Palestine News Agency (Wafa) website can be found at: http://www.wafa.pna.net/

The Palestinian President's website can be found at: http://www.p-p-o.net/Eng/defultE.htm

-- No data available, particularly Palestinians wounded by Israeli occupation forces, on daily basis.

Note: Only the Israeli government knows the exact number of Palestinians who have been arrested since March 29, 2002. Nobody except Israel knows what has happened to them, whether released, kept, tortured, or killed. However, the office of the Palestinian President provides a daily account about Palestinians arrested by Israeli occupation forces.

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