• 7 May 2002: UN General Assembly, 10^th Emergency Special Session resumed. Resolution ES-10/10: condemns the attacks committed by Israel against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Jenin refugee camp, and also condemns the refusal by Israel to cooperate with the Secretary-General’s fact-finding team to Jenin RC. Demands that Israel cease all hindrances and obstacles to the work of humanitarian org. and UN agencies in the OPT.
• 19 April 2002: Security Council resolution 1405: calls on Israel to lift the restrictions imposed on the operations of humanitarian organizations and welcomes the initiative of the Secretary-General to send a fact finding team to develop accurate information regarding events in the Jenin RC. (Israel refused to cooperate with the fact-finding team)
• 30 March 2002: Security Council resolution 1402: calls on Israel to withdraw its troops from Palestinian cities
• 15 April 2002: UN Human Right Commission condemns Israel for mass killings of Palestinians, blames Israel for “gross violations” of humanitarian law and affirms the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation
• 20 Dec 2001: General Assembly calls for halt to violence, implementation of Mitchell Report, reiterates applicability of IV Geneva Convention
• 6 Dec 2001: 114 Signatories to IV Geneva Convention issued joint declaration condemning Israel for indiscriminate and disproportionate use of violence and call for Israel to abide by international humanitarian law
• 3 Dec 2001: General Assembly votes on 6 resolutions criticizing Israel, areas include – status of Jerusalem, illegal Israeli settlements, inalienable rights of Palestinian people to self determination.
• 23 Nov 2001: UN Committee Against Torture, condemning Israeli practices
• 7- 13 Nov 2000: Mary Robinson, UN Human Rights Commissioner visits the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Following this she recommended the establishment of an international monitoring presence in the OPT.
• 20 Oct 2000: UN General Assembly, 10^{th Emergency Special Session}
• 19 Oct 2000: UN Commission on Human Rights, 5th Special Session
• 11-15 Oct 2000: Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
• 7 Oct 2000: UN Security Council Resolution 1322: deplores the provocation carried our at the Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on 28 September 2000, calls upon Israel to abide by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the 4^{th Geneva Convention}

• April 10 2002: USA, EU, Russia and UN jointly call on Israel to immediately withdraw from Palestinian territories
• April 16 2002: EU Commissioner on Development and Humanitarian Assistance says Israel impedes efforts of rescue workers and ridicules humanitarian law

• Physicians for Human Rights (USA and Israel)
• Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)  - Denmark
• International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) - Paris
• International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) - Sweden
• Human Rights Watch - New York
• Amnesty International
• International Committee of Red Cross

For more details see respective websites, or Palestine Monitor

2 B’Tselem report: Illusions of restraint: Human Rights Violations During the Events in the Occupied Territories 29^th September – 2^nd December, 2000

3 Statistics can only account for those who went to health centers

4 Ministry of Health

5 Palestinian Center for Human Rights 

6 UN Special Rapporteur of Commission on Human Rights, report March 2002, reported in DCI-PAL press release, 19^th March, 2002

7 General Union of Disabled Palestinians

8 UN Special Rapporteur of Commission on Human Rights, report March 2002, reported in DCI-PAL press release, 19^th March, 2002

9 Palestinian Red Crescent Society, 27^th October 2001 
 Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees

10 Palestinian Center for Human Rights: 28^th June, 2002

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11 Palestinian Red Crescent Society 10^th July,, 2002, 

12 Director, Holy Family Hospital, Bethlehem

13 During Israeli occupation of Bethlehem 19^th - 29^th October, 2001

14 Al- Ayyam newspaper, 19^th Oct, 2000 

15 LAW Society, Nov 4^th and 8^th 2000 

16 During 3 day invasion and occupation of Ramallah, (12^th-15^th March, 2002)

17 During Israeli occupation of Ramallah, October 2001

18 LAW Society, Oct 29^th 2000 

19 Information from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Ramallah

20 Al-Haq 

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21 Terje Rød Larsen in BBC interview, 19 April 2002

22 A report by the Gaza office of the UN Middle East envoy Terje Rød-Larsen, February 2001.

23 UNSCO: “The Impact on the Palestinian economy of confrontation, border closures and mobility restrictions’, (Oct 2000 -30^th Sept, 2001)

24 LAW Society (press release), 17^th July, 2002

25 DCI information received August, 2002

26 UNSCO

27 Does not include income losses and social and humanitarian costs. Assessment made by international donors

28 Palestinian Humanitarian Disaster, U.S. Agency for International Development, July 10, 2002

29 Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace

30 Al-Mezan 2001

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31 LAW Society, 29^th Nov 2001 (figure from beginning of 2000)

32 LAW Society, 29^th Nov 2001, (figure from beginning of 2000)

33 LAW Society, 29^th Nov 2001, (figure from beginning of 2000)

34 Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 3^rdJune,  2002

35 Ibid

36 Ministry of Education, 17 Jan 2002, information for Ministry of Education schools only, (from 28^th Sept, 2000)

37 PCBS, April 2002

38 All above stats: UNSCO: ‘The Impact on the Palestinian Economy of Confrontation, Border Closures and Mobility Restrictions’, Oct 2000 - 30^th Sept, 2001

39 Report by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation

40 Associated Press, 29^th Oct, 2000

41 World Bank report, March 2002