Ahmad Yassin was assassinated in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on 21 March 2004. Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at Hamas' spiritual leader, Shaikh Ahmed Yassin, as he left a mosque after performing the Monday dawn prayers, killing the Hamas leader and six other worshippers. A reporter who rushed to the scene after hearing three loud explosions found the blown-up remains of Yassin's blood-soaked wheel-chair. Witnesses at the mosque said Yassin's body had been evacuated to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Rantisi was assassinated in an Israeli helicopter missile strike, as he returned from a visit to his family on 17 April 2004.

Hundreds of thousands of citizens, including prominent political figures, participated in the funeral procession of Hamas leader, Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, and two of his bodyguards. The body of the Hamas leader, who was extra-judicially executed yesterday night, was taken to the Al Omari Grand Mosque in the heart of Gaza City, where his body would be prayed on and sent to his final resting place. During the procession, which started from the leader's home at the Al Sheikh Redwan suburb, citizens chanted slogans demanding revenge to Al Rantisi's killing and condemning the continuous Israeli military aggressions against the Palestinian people, as billowing banners of the different factions appeared throughout the procession. The funeral procession witnessed also a massive attendance of representatives of national and Islamic factions, who expressed the unity of the Palestinian stance in the face of the Israeli conspiracies, asserting that the resistance would continue despite the Israeli strikes.

On 06 Jun 2004, An Israeli court Sunday jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Al-Barghouthi for life for resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine but he said his people's statehood quest would not be broken. Al-Barghouthi, who denied involvement in actual resistance to the Israeli occupation of his country, received another 20 years for attempted murder and a further 20 for activity in a resistance group that Israelis and their supporters call "terrorist" group - 165 years in total - in a high-profile case that Palestinians denounced as a show trial. The articulate Palestinian lawmaker, Marwan Al-Barghouthi, did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Israeli occupation court.

Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails of Sabe', Nafha, Hadarim and Shatta started an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday 15 August 2004.

They are to be joined by prisoners of the rest of Israeli jails on Wednesday 18 August 2004. On 22 August 2004 Among the unwavering attempts by the Israeli prisoners’ service to break the open hunger strike the Palestinian prisoners are embarking on for the eight day in row, the Al Ramlah and Hasharoon female prisons were brutally attacked by the Israeli jailers and as the personal belongings of the detainees were seized in the notorious Israeli desert jail of Nafha. The prisoners further threatened that they would even refrain from taking medicines in the case the Israeli prisons authority went ahead with the atrocious and racist measures against the striking prisoners. On 26 August 2004 As the Palestinian political prisoners' open-ended hunger strike entered the 12th day, the Israeli occupation Prison Service used coercive measures by against the hunger-strikers, including threats, psychological and physical pressures. On 29 August 2004 Aisha Al-Zaban, 55, died after suffering a severe heart attack a two days ago in Nablus City. Family members said that Aisha was participating in sit-ins organized by families of prisoners at the tent pitched for that purpose in downtown Nablus. Aisha is a mother of two; Ammar, who is serving 26 life sentences in Israeli jails, and Bashar, who was killed in 1994. On 02 September 2004 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli occupation jails have effectively ended an 18-day-old hunger strike after most of their demands for better conditions were met.

Israel officially ended a 17-day military operation, named Operation Days of Penitence, in the northern Gaza Strip. Operation Days of Penitence conducted between September 30, 2004 and October 15, 2004. The operation, focused on the town of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camp, which were used as launching sites of Qassam rockets on the Israeli town of Sderot and Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. The operation resulted in the deaths of between 104 and 133 Palestinians (42 civilians), and 5 people on the Israeli side (2 soldiers and 3 civillians).

During this attack the Israeli military killed between 104 and 133 Palestinians, including 62-87 militants and 18-31 civilians; demolished 77 houses and damaged hundreds more; damaged public facilities, including schools, kindergartens and mosques, and destroyed farmland.

The attack resulted in a proposed resolution of the U.N. Security Council condemning the Israeli action, calling for Israeli withdrawal and respect for human rights of Palestinians. The resolution was vetoed by the United States on October 5 who criticized it from ignoring terrorism against Israelis.

Over the weekend of October 17, the Israeli military announced that its troops withdrew from the Jabalia refugee camp and other populated areas and redeployed to positions nearby and proclaimed the attack a success, with a warning that the troops would return if the rocket attacks resume.

Yasser Arafat dies at the age of 75 in a hospital near Paris, after undergoing urgent medical treatment since October 29, 2004.

3 January 2004, Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians Saturday in one of the bloodiest days in at least two weeks in the West Bank city of Nablus while a fourth Palestinian was killed in the Gaza Strip. A fifth Palestinian, a 17-year-old pallbearer, was pronounced clinically dead in Nablus, after soldiers shot him in the head as he helped carry the coffin of his 15-year-old cousin, one of the three killed by the army.

8 January 2004, The Israel Army stepped up its raids in the West Bank yesterday, killing three Palestinians and arresting 19. Israel’s nightly sweeps through West Bank towns and villages, together with a concentrated three-week series of raids in Nablus, the largest West Bank city, have raised tensions. Palestinians charged that Israel was trying to sabotage peace efforts. Soldiers have killed 14 Palestinians in West Bank raids in the past three weeks.

12 January 2004, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei yesterday urged the international community to put pressure on Israel to halt construction of its West Bank separation wall, saying that time is running out on chances for a negotiated peace settlement.

January 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead three Palestinians since Sunday, wounded six others, detained at least 85 and demolished eleven houses in the past week while a Jewish settler and four Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded in Palestinian attacks in the last 24 hours. Suicide bombing in Erez

Separately, four Israeli soldiers were killed early Wednesday when a Palestinian female bomber blew herself at the Gaza Strip’s main crossing terminal to Israel (Erez), injuring 10 more troops.

21 January 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces on Tuesday went on rampage to demolish a mosque and at least 30 Palestinian houses, wound 38 Palestinian workers and a “deaf” woman at a military roadblock, detain more anti-Israeli occupation Palestinians in the ongoing arrests spree and deport an activist detainee from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.

25 January 2004, Around 400 Palestinian detainees in the jails of the Israeli Occupation Forces will be among more than hundreds of Arab prisoners to be freed within days in a German-brokered deal between Hizbullah and Israel, Lebanese, Israeli and German sources confirmed late Saturday.

The exchange is expected to take place Wednesday or Thursday, when an Israeli plane will take the Arab prisoners to Germany at the same time a Lebanese plane from Beirut arrives there with an Israeli intelligence officer and the bodies of the soldiers. The Palestinian prisoners will be released in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

28 Jaunary 2004, Four days ahead of the holy Islamic festivity of Eid Al-Ahda, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead at least eight Palestinians, most of them by sporadic machine gunfire, in a military invasion of Al-Zaitoun neighborhood, south east of the Gaza City.

31 January 2004, Israeli forces briefly raided the West Bank town of Bethlehem yesterday and dynamited the home of a Palestinian who blew up a Jerusalem bus.

About 7,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli custody.

02 February 2004, In early Monday, Israeli occupation forces raided the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza strip, killing four Palestinians and injuring several others. A special force of Israeli occupation soldiers allegedly came to arrest a Palestinian member of the resistance, Yasser Abu Al-Ayish, who lost his legs and an arm to an Israeli tank shell a year ago. However, they killed him with three other Palestinians in the refugee camp.

07 February 2004, An Israeli helicopter gunship slammed a missile into a car in Gaza City on Saturday, killing a top Islamic Jihad commander and a 12-year-old bystander and drawing vows of revenge by Palestinian resistance.

The Israeli army confirmed it had targeted the vehicle carrying Aziz al-Shami, who was a top commander in Islamic Jihad's "Jerusalem Brigades" armed wing and a brother-in-law and bodyguard of Islamic Jihad leader Abdallah al-Shami.

08 February 2004, An eleven-year old boy and a teenager were among six Palestinians killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza Strip within the last twenty-four hours while another five year old boy was critically wounded and at least 14 bystanders injured, as the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Israel against resuming its policy of extra-judicial killings.

Israeli Occupation Forces backed by tanks and US-made Apache helicopters stormed into Al-Salam neighborhood of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and surrounded the house of Ashraf Adnan Abu Libdah early Sunday, opening sporadic machine gunfire.

11 February 2004, Israeli troops killed at least 13 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in gunbattles during what Israel called raids to root out militants behind attacks on Jewish settlements, Israeli Occupation Forces stormed into Al-Shajae’iyeh neighborhood. Israel launched its deadliest strike into Gaza for months amid signs of unease among the military over a shock announcement by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week that he planned to pull all the settlers out of the Gaza Strip.

22 February 2004, A Palestinian bomber killed seven people on a crowded Jerusalem bus Sunday on the eve of World Court hearings into a controversial barrier Israel says will ensure its security against such attacks. Around 60 people were wounded in the blast, which turned the green number 14 bus into a charred skeleton at a busy intersection near the Inbal Hotel, where leaders of major U.S. Jewish organizations were meeting.

25 February 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces on Wednesday morning raided Palestinian bank branches in Ramallah amid escalating military invasion of West Bank cities, villages and refugee camps. Israeli Occupation Forces troops, backed by military vehicles, stormed into Ramallah early Wednesday and declared by loudspeakers that curfew is imposed on the city center, closing the main streets down town with barbed wire.

28 February 2004, Israeli police yesterday stormed Al-Haram Al-Sharif, one of Islam’s holiest sites, to confront Palestinian protesters.

The storming coincided with another spate of protests in the West Bank against the barrier, now under World Court review for cutting into occupied territory that Palestinians want for a state. Four Palestinian demonstrators and three police officers were lightly injured.

29 February 2004, An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing three people, including an Islamic Jihad member, and wounding 15 others. One of the dead was identified as Islamic Jihad member Ayman Dahdouh. The body of the other victim was so badly disfigured that it couldn’t be immediately identified.

03 March 2004, Israel assassinated three members of the Hamas resistance group in an air strike that tore apart their car in the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. The Israeli military confirmed that operatives of the powerful Islamist faction had been targeted in a missile attack not far from the illegal Israeli settlement of Netzarim in Gaza. Hamas leaders vowed revenge attacks.

06 March 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian policeman early Saturday as two Palestinian children died and a third was critically wounded by a bullet in the head since Thursday. Meanwhile, Israel sealed off the Occupied Territory, tightened its siege of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and besieged President Yaser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah.

10 March 2004, The Israeli army staged its deadliest West Bank raid in months Wednesday, killing five Palestinians in violence that overshadowed a new round of international diplomacy. The latest bloodshed came amid conflicting signals on whether Israeli and Palestinian leaders were preparing to meet next week in their first summit in eight months. Israeli occupation troops operating undercover shot dead five members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in an ambush in the town of Jenin.

14 March 2004, Two Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least seven other people Sunday in a double-attack at Israel's port of Isdood (Ashdod) that scuttled efforts to set up an Israeli-Palestinian peace summit. Another 10 people were wounded in blasts that ripped through warehouses at Israel's second busiest port.

17 March 2004, Israeli occupying forces launched Tuesday morning a wide scale military onslaught on Rafah City, killing four Palestinian citizens, demolishing five houses and wounding nine, one critically.

21 March 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces killed three Palestinian activists and three bystanders, including a mother and a wife, in A’basan village east of the central Gaza Strip of Khan Younis early Sunday, a teenager in the West Bank on Saturday, while a 7-year-old girl and three civilians died of wounds sustained during earlier Israeli raids, to raise the Palestinian death toll to 17 since Wednesday.

21 March 2004, Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at Hamas' spiritual leader, Shaikh Ahmed Yassin, as he left a mosque after performing the Monday dawn prayers, killing the Hamas leader and six other worshippers. A reporter who rushed to the scene after hearing three loud explosions found the blown-up remains of Yassin's blood-soaked wheel-chair.

Witnesses at the mosque said Yassin's body had been evacuated to Al-Shifa Hospital.

With the assassination of Shaikh Yassin a new cycle of violence is inevitable as Hamas is going to avenge the assassination with suicide bombing, as it did before, then Israelis are going to retaliate with more assassinations and raids, as they did before.

Al-Manar TV reported that the Israeli Prime Minister, Sharon, personally supervised the assassination of Shaikh Yassin, whose death may be an attempt by Sharon to distract public attention from his personal scandals.

24 March 2004, Abdelaziz Rantissi was chosen Tuesday as the new supreme head of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas to succeed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel, as the Jewish state vowed to continue targeting faction leaders. Shortly after the announcement, Rantissi vowed that Israelis “will not know security” and called on the Hamas armed wing to “teach Israel a lesson.”

30 March 2004, Palestinians in Israel, the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory and the Diaspora were set to mark the 28th “Land Day” on Tuesday, as they have done each year on March 30 since 1976, to protest Israel’s ongoing expropriation of Palestinian land on which it continues to build new illegal Jewish colonies, and expand existing settlements and cities, which were created since 1948 and after 1967.

02 April 2004, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday threatened his long-time foe Yasser Arafat with assassination in barbed comments in which he called the veteran Palestinian president a poor insurance risk.

In Jerusalem's Old City, Israeli occupation police stormed the square outside al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites. After Friday Muslim prayers, officers used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse Palestinian worhsippers and arrested 14.

05 April 2004, The Israeli occupying forces escalated its onslaught on the occupied Palestinian territories, killing five citizens, demolishing a house and arresting tens. Three Palestinians were instantly killed today morning in Juhor Al Deek area, close to Deir Al Balah, in the heart of Gaza Strip by several Israeli missiles, Palestinian security services said.

10 April 2004, A 12-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. They said Iman Tulba was killed when Israeli occupation soldiers at the Ganei Tal Jewish settlement opened fire at a nearby three-storey building in Khan Younis. Tulba's cousin, Alaa, said he saw a bullet fly through the family's kitchen window, ricochet off a wall and hit her. He added there were no clashes in the area at the time.

12 April 2004, Palestinian security sources reported today morning that the Israeli occupying forces spotted and shot dead there Palestinians, northwest of the illegitimate Jewish settlement of “Nitzarim” that is established on Palestinian-owned lands in Al Mughraqa area, south of Gaza city.

17 April 2004, An Israeli helicopter missile strike on a car in Gaza City killed top Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi. Witnesses said two of Rantissi's bodyguards were also killed in the attack in which two missiles were fired.

Medics said Rantissi, 56, Hamas's leader in the Palestinian resistance group's Gaza Strip stronghold, had been rushed to a Gaza City hospital in critical condition after the attack. Sources said he had been wounded in the head with shrapnel.

Hundreds of Hamas members and supporters flooded to the hospital after news of the Israeli raid.

20 April 2004, Palestinian Medics said five Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation gunfire during an Israeli occupation raid on northern Gaza. At least 25 other Palestinians were wounded.

22 April 2004, At least nine Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed as Israeli troops backed by Apache helicopters raided the Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya for a second day yesterday.

The raid came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to continue targeting Palestinian leaders, following the weekend assassination of Hamas leader Abdelaziz Al-Rantisi.

27 April 2004, The Israeli occupying forces killed five citizens throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, including a child.

29 April 2004, A Hamas fighter was killed and four Israeli occupation soldiers wounded in a car bombing on a Gaza Strip settlement yesterday, while a leading Palestinian peace campaigner was briefly arrested in East Jerusalem.

The Israeli occupation forces continued their campaign of house to house search across the West Bank yesterday, witnesses said. Beit Sahour has been under curfew for the third day yesterday with all the entrances to the city were blocked by military checkpoints.

02 May 2004, Israeli missiles killed four members of the Palestinian resistance in a strike on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. The men belonged to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction.

The strike took place hours after two Palestinians shot dead an Israeli settler and her four children in the Gaza Strip and as members of Sharon's Likud party voted on his plan to pull out of the area and evacuate four of 120 settlements in the West Bank.

04 May 2004, In a fresh incursion today morning into the refugee camp of Khan Younis, two citizens were killed and 22 others wounded besides 30 houses were demolished. In Hebron, fives citizens were arrested and seven others arrested during an Israeli onslaught into the city, when the Israeli soldiers fired a tear gas canisters fired in the morning , that is within the strict curfew imposed on the city. Meanwhile seven other citizens were arrested in halhoul town, north of Hebron city, WAFA reported.

10 May 2004, The Israeli occupying forces shot dead two Palestinian citizens in the Al-Qarara town of khan Younis and the Abu Dis town of the occupied east Jerusalem.

Additionally, 30 houses were knocked down after the Israeli troops incurred into the Abu Hadaf area, close to the road leading to the illegitimate settlement of Kosofim that was illegitimately built on the lands of al Qarara town.

13 May 2004, A powerful explosion ripped apart an Israeli armored personnel carrier yesterday, reportedly killing five soldiers, in the second such attack by Palestinian fighters in Gaza in two days — as Israel waged its biggest offensive there in nearly a decade.

14 May 2004, Israel killed 12 Palestinians yesterday in revenge raids on the Gaza Strip as President Yasser Arafat called for global intervention to help prevent “Israeli crimes”. Eleven Palestinians were killed in helicopter missile strikes in Rafah refugee camp.

16 May 2004, After a brief halt to the orgy of demolitions being perpetrated by Israeli Occupation Forces in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli court has given the go-ahead for the Israeli army to further demolish homes in a poverty-stricken Gaza Strip refugee camp.

The Israeli Supreme Court of Justice on Sunday rejected a petition made by residents of the largely-destroyed Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip for a ban on further Israeli Occupation Forces demolitions of their homes.

18 May 2004, Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians Tuesday in the biggest raid on the Gaza Strip for years as tanks and infantry thrust into a the 130,000 refugee camp town despite an international outcry.

The assault on the Rafah refugee camp, by one of the largest Israeli forces in action since the start of a Palestinian uprising in 2000, drew condemnation because of threats to destroy hundreds of Palestinian homes in the occupied territory.

19 May 2004, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a protest march in a besieged Gaza refugee camp on Wednesday, killing at least 10 Palestinians and raising the death toll to 33 in Israel's bloodiest raid in Gaza in years.

Israeli media said at least 50 bodies, most of them school children, had been counted after the strike in the Rafah camp, which some witnesses said was carried out by helicopter gunships and others blamed on firing by tanks.

20 May 2004, The Israeli occupying forces continue its onslaught on Rafah city and its refugee camp, killing six citizens and massing its military escalation in the Al-Salam and Al-Barzeil and Juneina neighborhoods and two others in Tal al Sultan neighborhood at a time a strangulated siege is still imposed on Tal sultan neighborhood for the third day consecutively.

27 May 2004, A Palestinian man was killed yesterday by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, site of a devastating weeklong Israeli raid that ended earlier this week.

Mohammed Zurob, 42, was hit in the chest by fire originating from an Israeli army position near the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

29 May 2004, A fourth Palestinian citizen of the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun, joined on Saturday morning the three others who were killed yesterday night by the Israeli occupying forces in different parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, IPC correspondent reported.

02 June 2004, Two Palestinian civilians have been shot dead by the Israeli occupying forces in eastern Gaza City, close to the Karni commercial crossing.

Dr. Mu’wia Abu Hussanien, Chief of the emergency department of the health ministry stated that Tareq Subhi Temraz, 22, and Hussam Ahmed Hamad, 22 were killed by the Israeli firing at Karni- Nitzareem road, east of Gaza city.

06 Jun 2004, An Israeli court Sunday jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Al-Barghouthi for life for resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine but he said his people's statehood quest would not be broken.

"The (Israeli) occupation is going to end one day. It is dying," Al-Barghouthi, 45, said just before the Tel Aviv court handed down five consecutive life sentences against him. The court based its sentence on the killings of five people by Palestinians in his Fatah faction, thus holding him responsible for actions of others.

Al-Barghouthi, who denied involvement in actual resistance to the Israeli occupation of his country, received another 20 years for attempted murder and a further 20 for activity in a resistance group that Israelis and their supporters call "terrorist" group - 165 years in total - in a high-profile case that Palestinians denounced as a show trial.

The articulate Palestinian lawmaker, Marwan Al-Barghouthi, did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Israeli occupation court.

Supporters said Al-Barghouthi had no intention of appealing the verdict or asking the court for a reduced sentence.

07 June 2004, The Israeli occupying forces shot and killed two citizens and wounded five others, including four children, in different parts of the occupied Palestinian territories.

17-years-old Mohammed Nabhan was killed when the Israeli forces, stationed near the illegitimate Israeli settlement of "Neveh Dekalim", west of Khan Younis opened heavy gunfire at him. His body was found early this morning. Meanwhile, another citizen was shot and killed in the Qalandia refugee camp.

15 June 2004, Israel’s military killed two Palestinians, including a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in a missile attack on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday.

Palestinian security officials recovered fragments of what they said was a missile from the charred remains of a car in which Khalil Marshoud, an Al-Aqsa Brigades leader, and another two Palestinian who were driving. Both men were killed in the blast.

23 June 2004, Three Palestinian civilians were killed Monday and several others were wounded, by Israeli Occupation Forces in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun.

Al-Shifa Hospital sources, in Gaza, said that Khaled al-Shinbari 21, and Ibrahem Salha 21, were instantly killed after having been shot with Israeli gunshot in Beit Hanoun. Three other civilians were wounded. Ahmed al-Masri suffer critical wounds as he was shot with several bullets, medical sources said. .

24 June 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces stormed into and imposed curfew on the old cities of Nablus and Hebron in the northern and southern West Bank respectively and shot dead three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, raising the Palestinian death toll since Tuesday to eight, and to 3,353 since the outbreak of the Intifada, or uprising against Israel’s 37-year old occupation, on 28 September 2000.

28 June 2004, Palestinian rockets slammed into a town in southern Israel on Monday, killing two people, rescue officials said, hours after members of Palestinian resistance groups blew up an army post in the Gaza Strip, causing the death of one soldier.

It was the first time makeshift rockets fired from Gaza, which usually cause no serious injuries, had claimed lives in Israel and a strong Israeli military response appeared likely.

28 June 2004, The Israeli occupying forces firings killed today three citizens and wounding others in two separate incidents in khan Younis city of the Gaza Strip.

The 50-year-old Musleh Salem Abed Al Aal was shot and killed today morning by the several live bullets targeted him by the Israeli occupying soldiers manning Al matahen military checkpoint, north of khan Younis city and wounding the teen Tareq Abu Sursar, 16, with two live bullets in the left foot.

01 July 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces stormed into Jericho and Nablus early Thursday, sealed off and imposed curfew on both West Bank cities, continued their siege of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, where they began bulldozing a five-kilometer deep “security zone,” and shot dead a nine-year old boy in Rafah raising the Palestinian death toll to three in the past twenty-four hours and to 3,371 since September 2000.

02 July 2004, Israeli occupation forces ending a two-day terrorist raid on Rafah, under the pretext of searching for weapons-smuggling tunnels, shot dead a Palestinian civilian on Friday, and Israeli occupation troops killed two other Palestinian civilians in Gaza Strip.

05 July 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead on Sunday night a Palestinian public security officer as he was walking down a main road about 500 meters away in the town of Rafah, raising the Palestinian death toll to 12 since Thursday and to 3,383 since the Intifada against the 37-year old Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip broke out in 2000.

06 July 2004, The Israeli occupying forces killed four citizens early this morning in the city of Nablus, including a professor at the Al Najah University, during a wide military invasion of the city that spread destruction everywhere.

Dr. Khaled Salah, 52, a professor at the electrical engineering department of the Al Najah University, along with his son Mohammed, 16, were shot dead by the Israeli soldiers during an invasion into the city.

09 July 2004, Members of an Israeli undercover unit broke into several houses in Beit Hanun yesterday and killed seven Palestinians. The commandos were supported by snipers, who occupied the roofs of nearby houses, and two Apache helicopters.

Of the seven dead, six belonged to the resistance while the seventh was a woman on-looker. The dead were identified as Jamila Hamad, Hamed Abu Oda, Ahmed Zanin, Naim Al-Kafarna, Naser Abu Harbid, Zuhir Abu Harbid and Nahed Abu Oda. Four belonged to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, while two were senior fighters in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.

11 July 2004, A Palestinian bomb killed a woman at a bus stop in Israel on Sunday in an attack proving that the Israeli barrier built inside Palestinian territories does not stop attacks. However, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon still insisted that it proved the need to continue building a West Bank barrier declared illegal by the World Court.

14 July 2004, 110 Palestinian children, taking part in a summer camp in the West Bank city of Hebron, survived death on Tuesday after drinking poisoned water taken from a well apparently spoiled by a mob of Israeli settlers who were usurped Palestinian-owned lands in the Yatta Town, south of the city.

Altewani village’s mayor, Saber Alhareeny, stressed he witnessed four armed Israeli illegal settlers roaming around the spoiled well, then it was clear that the water was poisoned with strange chemical substances and dead chickens. After that an Israeli police force came and cordoned off the area, IPC correspondent reported.

15 July 2004, The Jordanian ambassador at the United Nations has requested holding an emergency session of the UN General Assembly to vote for a resolution adopting the ruling made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning the illegality of the Apartheid Wall.

21 July 2004, The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted Tuesday a resolution by 150-6 votes with 10 abstentions demanding that Israel comply with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) “advisory opinion” on the Apartheid Wall Israel is building on occupied Palestinian land, with the 25-member European Union voting “yes.”

Palestinian UN observer Nasser Al-Kidwa said the ICJ’s opinion and Tuesday’s resolution could be “the most important” UN action since the General Assembly adopted resolution 181 in 1947, which partitioned Palestine to allow the creation of the state of Israel.

Israel and the United States voted against, along with Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. All 25 members of the European Union voted in favor.

25 July 2004, Israeli helicopters struck a suspected militant target in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, wounding at least four people and adding to tension in the territory at the heart of a Palestinian leadership crisis.

A helicopter fired at least two missiles into a building in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood that residents said was the home of an activist from the Hamas resistance group.

27 July 2004, The 7,500 Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli jails and concentration camps have moved health care to the top of their priorities, before going through an open hunger strike.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) asserted that the prisoners inside the Israeli jails have been preparing for a complete hunger strike, to protest the maltreatment and medical negligence of about 800 sick prisoners.

31 July 2004, An 11-year-old boy was among eight Palestinians killed within 48 hours by the Israeli Occupation Forces , who also extra-judicially executed three activists, as a 16-year-old girl was critically wounded with a bullet in the head.

03 August 2004, Israeli occupation helicopter missiles took the lives of three Palestinian civilians and wounded 16 others today morning in Yebna refugee camp of Rafah, south of Gaza Strip.

Medics identified them as Mohammed Abu Al Nada, 18, Akram Al Habibi, 30, and Maysara Abu Selmyia, 19. Two of the bodies were torn into shreds and 16 others were wounded.

05 August 2004, Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead five Palestinians Wednesday, including two boys and a bystander, as they expanded their reoccupation and thrust deeper into the densely populated northern Gaza Strip, using tanks and military helicopters, which forced the UNRWA to pull out its foreign staff and the United States to warn its citizens against travel to the area.

11 August 2004, A car bomb exploded between two Israeli army checkpoints on a busy transit route outside Jerusalem Wednesday, killing two Palestinians and wounding 16 people in the first such attack for six months.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility and apologized for the Palestinian causalities, saying their target was Israeli soldiers.

17 August 2004, The Israeli occupation troops, tightened their grip, austere measures, and control on Nablus city of the West Bank particularly in the old town, killing a child and wounding several, in addition to the scouring of the civilians’ houses.

The 8- old- year child khaled Al Astta from the old town of Nablus was shot dead with a live bullet in the heart, killing him instantly and wounding eight civilians including children during Israeli indiscriminate shootings towards the civilian’s houses.

18 August 2004, A Hamas leading anti-occupation activist survived an Israeli Occupation Forces failed extra-judicial assassination in an Israeli air strike that killed five Palestinian bystanders and wounded 12 others in eastern Gaza City late Tuesday, to raise the Palestinian death toll in five days since Friday to 13 including two boys, and to more than 3,469 since the Intifada (uprising) against the 37-year old Israeli occupation broke out some four years ago.

Sheikh Ahmad Sae’ed Al-Ja’bari, a leading Hamas activist, survived an Israeli failed extra-judicial assassination in an air strike late Tuesday, when an Israeli Occupation Forces’ unmanned aircraft hovering overhead fired an internationally-prohibited explosive device, which witnesses believe was triggered by remote control.

22 August 2004, Among the unwavering attempts by the Israeli prisoners’ service to break the open hunger strike the Palestinian prisoners are embarking on for the eight day in row, the Al Ramlah and Hasharoon female prisons were brutally attacked by the Israeli jailers and as the personal belongings of the detainees were seized in the notorious Israeli desert jail of Nafha.

The prisoners further threatened that they would even refrain from taking medicines in the case the Israeli prisons authority went ahead with the atrocious and racist measures against the striking prisoners.

24 August 2004, At least 30 Israeli tanks stormed yesterday night the West Bank city of Nablus, blockaded its old town and broke into Askar refugee camp.

Earlier on Tuesday morning, an Israeli military contingent broke into the Askar refugee camp, an outskirt of Nablus, and searched a local medical center, detaining its staff and messing up with its furniture.

26 August 2004, As the Palestinian political prisoners' open-ended hunger strike entered the 12th day, the Israeli occupation Prison Service used coercive measures by against the hunger-strikers, including threats, psychological and physical pressures.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) lawyer quoted hunger-striker Ahmed Yousef from Bethlehem, as saying that the prisoners who need medications due to the strike were informed to drink water and then transferred to ward (7) in the notorious desert prison Bier Shiva, and then rumored that those hunger-strikers broke their strike.

30 August 2004, Aisha Al-Zaban, 55, died last night after suffering a severe heart attack a two days ago in Nablus City.

Family members said that Aisha was participating in sit-ins organized by families of prisoners at the tent pitched for that purpose in downtown Nablus. Aisha is a mother of two; Ammar, who is serving 26 life sentences in Israeli jails, and Bashar, who was killed in 1994.

In a separate incident, the civilian Hassna Abu Faradh, 60, was crushed to death by an Israeli settler before he fled the scene in Qulqelia.

31 August 2004, Medics’ sources and eyewitnesses said that the Israeli troops started shooting heavily towards an ambulance close to one the Israeli military checkpoints, south of Gaza Strip wounding two of the medical crew.

The Israeli soldiers manning the military checkpoint at Al Matahen checkpoint, north of khan Younis city with a well-intent and no previous alarm opened gun fire towards an ambulance of the medical relief and the passing vehicles along the road wounding moderately Dr. Rafeeq Abadal, 37, and Subhi Maddi,50, witnesses said.

02 September 2004, Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli occupation jails Thursday have effectively ended an 18-day-old hunger strike after most of their demands for better conditions were met.

"We announce to you all that all prisoners in all prisons have ended today their open hunger strike," said Hisham Abdel-Razek, the Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs.

04 September 2004, The Israeli occupation forces killed on Friday two civilians in Gaza and Rafah cities in two separate two separate occupation raids as a third succumbed to his critical wounds he sustained a couple of weeks ago in Khan Younis city , south of Gaza Strip.

07 September 2004, Israeli occupation forces killed 14 Palestinians and wounded dozens others in an fresh overnight carnage in the city of Gaza. An Israeli combat helicopter fired several missiles at a soccer field, east of Gaza City, where a group of Hamas supporters were gathering.

Israeli military sources claimed the attack targeted a training camp for Hamas' military wing, Ezzeddin Al Qassam Brigades, claims that Hamas officials denied.

October 08, 2004 - A series of bombings killed at least 26 people in Egyptian Red Sea resorts packed with Israeli tourists, in attacks on Friday looked like the work of al Qaeda.

October 19, 2004 - Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian gunmen in Gaza on Tuesday as they approached a border fence with a bomb.

October 20, 2004 - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian on his way to a mosque in a Gaza refugee camp on Wednesday as well as a gunman closing in on an army outpost in a nearby buffer zone.

October 22, 2004 - Israel killed a top Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian militant group vowed on Friday to hit back hard.

October 26, 2004 - Israel's divided parliament is widely expected to ratify Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a pivotal step toward the first evacuation of settlers from lands Palestinians want for a state.

October 28, 2004 - Israeli soldiers shot dead a 10-year-old Palestinian girl on Thursday as she was walking to school in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

October 29, 2004 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, weakened by what doctors think may be leukemia, left the West Bank for the first time in 2-1/2 years on Friday and flew to France for medical treatment.

November 03, 2004 - President Bush's campaign declared victory over Democratic Sen. John Kerry and claimed re-election to a second term in the White House on Wednesday, but Kerry refused to concede until all ballots were counted in Ohio.

November 04, 2004 - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has been in a coma since Wednesday evening and was now in critical condition in the intensive care unit at a French military hospital.

November 05, 2004 - Yasser Arafat is in a coma between life and death and some of the Palestinian president's powers have been transferred to his prime minister.

November 09, 2004 - Yasser Arafat slipped deeper into a coma overnight and his health worsened. Palestinian officials arrived at a French military hospital for a visit Arafat.

November 11, 2004 - Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned Nobel Peace prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in renewed conflict with Israel, died in France on Thursday, his dream of a Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.

November 11, 2004 - Palestinians streamed into the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday in an outpouring of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the enduring symbol of their nationalist cause.

November 12, 2004 - Thousands of Palestinians paid tumultuous homage to leader Yasser Arafat on Friday, surging around the helicopter that flew his coffin home to the West Bank in a chaotic scene of guns and tears. Thousands of Palestinian mourners flooded into Yasser Arafat's compound and mobbed his coffin after it arrived for burial on Friday in the area where Israeli forces trapped him until his final days.

November 18, 2004 - An Israeli tank killed three Egyptian policemen on the Gaza-Egypt border Thursday, prompting an Israeli apology for what the army said was a tragic error when it mistook them for Palestinian militants.

December 09, 2004 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing alliance with the Labor Party, warning that failure to do so would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan.

December 09, 2004 - A militant leader survived an Israeli missile strike on his car in Gaza on Thursday in Israel's first apparent assassination attempt in the Palestinian territories since Yasser Arafat died in a Paris hospital.

December 10, 2004 - Israeli troops shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian girl in a Gaza refugee camp on Friday, after militants wounded four Israelis in a mortar attack on a nearby Jewish settlement.

December 14, 2004 - Israeli troops demolished several Palestinian homes and raided an Islamist stronghold in Gaza City on Tuesday as the army intensified operations in the wake of a deadly militant attack.