DID YOU KNOW...

Since 2000, the Israeli army is guilty of unlawful killings; extensive and wanton destruction of property; obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel; torture; and the use of Palestinians as "human shields" (Source: Amnesty International, Report 2005).

Imagine life without justice...

Forced evictions and house demolitions are usually carried out without warning, often at night, and the occupants are given little or no time to leave their homes (Source: Amnesty International, 18 May 2004).

Imagine being awakened in the middle of the night and having your home destroyed...

In March, 2002 alone, six Palestinian ambulance personnel were killed by IDF fire, in most cases the attacked ambulances had been cleared by IDF for passage in order to reach individuals in need of emergency care (Source: Physicians for Human Rights, 4 April 2002).

Imagine the ambulance was on its way to save you...

Israeli settlers enjoy impunity for violent attacks on international human rights workers, and Palestinians, and their property (Source: Amnesty International, Report 2005).

Imagine you lived in a society where violence was tolerated...

More than half of the Palestinian populations live below the poverty line, $2 per day (Source: Amnesty International, Report 2005).

Imagine having to provide a living with barely $2 a day...

Palestinians must obtain special permits from the Israeli army to move between their land, towns, and villages in the West Bank (Source: Amnesty International, Report 2005).

Imagine if you had to obtain a special permit to go to your backyard...

Total curfews, arbitrary refusal at checkpoints, interruption of vital services and supplies to hospitals, and other measures that effectively bar infants, pregnant women, the elderly and the chronically ill from access to what is often desperately needed life sustaining treatment has silently increased the shameful toll of suffering and deaths (Physicians for Human Rights, 4 April 2002).

Imagine your child breaking a leg and not being able to get treatment because the roads are closed...

In 2002, the U.S. Agency for International Development determined that Palestinian children living in the occupied territories faced malnutrition at one of the highest levels in world—higher than in Somalia and Bangladesh (USAID, 2002).