The Israelis Military aircrafts bombs the Palestinian
citizen's house ( Ahmed Abu Shrab) east of al-Bureij
refugee camp, middle of Gaza Strip, in 26 February,
2011.

Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (24 February – 02 March 2011)

Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian worker and a resistance activist, and wounded a worker, a farmer and a resistance activist in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child in the West Bank. In the Gaza Strip, on 27 February 2011, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel shot dead a Palestinian worker who was collecting scraps of construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip, nearly 300 meters away from the border. Another worker was wounded by IOF on 26 February 2011. On 27 February 2011, IOF killed a Palestinian resistance activist in the east of Gaza City. An Israeli warplane fired a missile at a number of activists of The al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad). On 28 February 2011, IOF wounded a Palestinian resistance activist in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. On 01 March 2011, a Palestinian farmer was wounded when IOF fired an artillery shell at a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance in the central Gaza Strip. During the reporting period, IOF launched a series of air strikes against the Gaza Strip. As a result, 4 houses were destroyed and 14 others were damaged, 11 civilian facility were heavily damaged, a security building was destroyed and a mosque was damaged. In the West Bank, during the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded, and dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation, including a PCHR field worker, a paramedic and two journalists. Additionally, IOF arrested a Palestinian civilian, an Israeli journalist, an Israeli human rights defender and two international ones.

Incursions: During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 40 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including two children. In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted 3 limited incursions into the southern and central Gaza Strip, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land.

Restrictions on Movement: Israel had continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

Vera Macht: THE NAMES OF THE INNOCENT WHO ARE KILLED

TSA agent accused in drug operation at Buffalo Airport. A Transportation Security Administration employee allegedly worked with an accused drug dealer to smuggle drug money through Buffalo Niagara International Airport, federal prosecutors say. The accused dealer, Derek Frank of Amherst, N.Y., appeared at a detention hearing on Friday in U.S. District Court in Buffalo, while TSA employee Minnetta Walker of Buffalo was not in attendance. The two were arrested earlier this week following a year-long probe by the FBI and federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Both entered pleas of not guilty in the case presided over by U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder.

Prosecutors say Walker routinely ushered suspected drug traffickers past airport security, including Frank who passed through security in February carrying $12,000 from an undercover informant to fly to Arizona and purchase drugs. "Federal, state and local law enforcement worked collaboratively to identify and arrest two individuals — one with a badge and one without — who were abusing our transportation security in order to transport bulk quantities of alleged narco-dollars out of the Buffalo area," DEA Special Agent in Charge John Gilbride said when the two were arrested. Walker faces the possibility of six years in prison if found guilty of charges of obstructing security measures.

Prison Rape And The Government - Disturbing report on US prison service. Incidents of sexual abuse may be as high as 25 per hour. "Overall, most victims were abused not by other inmates but by corrections staff: agents of our government, paid with our taxes". Back in 1998, Jan Lastocy was serving time for attempted embezzlement in a Michigan prison. Her job was working at a warehouse for a nearby men’s prison. She got along well with two of the corrections officers who supervised her, but she thought the third was creepy. “He was always talking about how much power he had,” she said, “how he liked being able to write someone a ticket just for looking at him funny.” Then, one day, he raped her.

Jan wanted to tell someone, but the warden had made it clear that she would always believe an officer’s word over an inmate’s, and didn’t like “troublemakers.” If Jan had gone to the officers she trusted, they would have had to repeat her story to the same warden. Jan was only a few months away from release to a halfway house. She was desperate to get out of prison, to return to her husband and children. So she kept quiet—and the officer raped her again, and again. There were plenty of secluded places in the huge warehouse, behind piles of crates or in the freezer. Three or four times a week he would assault her, from June all the way through December, and the whole time she was too terrified to report the attacks. Later, she would be tormented by guilt for not speaking out, because the same officer went on to rape other women at the prison.

Hundreds of people poured on the streets of Afghanistan's capital on Sunday to protest at the deaths of nine children killed in a NATO air raid on a remote rebel stronghold. The protesters chanted "death to America, death to the invaders" while marching through central Kabul. The protest follows similar demonstrations in the north-east province of Kunar following the deaths on Tuesday of the nine children who were killed while collecting firewood. President Hamid Karzai angrily condemned the killings and US president Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, the commander of the US-led troops in Afghanistan, apologised for the incident.

"We don't want the invading forces," [chanted one demonstrator carrying posters of the dead children. Another shouted:] "Death to the government of president Hamid Karzai." [Two of Nasim's sons were among the nine boys who went into the hills to collect firewood last week but never returned.] "The Americans are wild," [said the boys' father, who uses only one name and whose sons were aged 11 and 12, crying as he spoke.] "They don't value humanity and don't care about our children. "The men who carried out the air strike and the ones who ordered it should be brought to court."

They have received little attention in the United States, but a set of WikiLeaks disclosures of confidential documents has caused an uproar in Europe by showing that U.S. officials pressured Germany and Spain to derail criminal investigations of Americans. The more than 2,500 State Department cables that the anti-secrecy group has provided to news organizations since November include accounts of three cases that shed new light on U.S. responses to allegations of wrongdoing by its agents abroad.

Forces loyal to Colonel Moammar Gaddafi looked to be regaining control in parts of Libya after troops broke through rebel lines today in dawn attacks on opposition-held cities. Rebels suffered a major setback in Benghazi after a massive arms and ammunition depot outside Benghazi was destroyed in a massive explosion. Twenty seven people were killed after an area three times the size of a football pitch blew up, leaving a smoking crater.