by the International Center of Bethlehem © 2001
In memoriam
of the persons who lost their lives
- Ahmed Abayat, killed while going back from his work – Jerusalem – Wednesday 17/10/2001
- Atef Abayat, Issa Abayat and Jamal Abdallah assassinated by car bomb, Beit Sahour, Thursday, 18-10-2001;
- Musa George Abu Eid, 19 years old, shot inside his home in Beit Jala, Friday 19-10-2001;
- Abed Abdelqader Abu Srour, 25 years old, shot next to his home, Aida camp, Friday, 19-10-2001;
- Mariam Subaih, 38 years old, a mother of six, shot next to her home in El-Khader village by tank shells, Friday, 19-10-2001;
- Rihab Nofal, 30 years old, a pregnant woman from Husan village; she was stopped at the Israeli checkpoint Al-Khader and denied passage to hospital, she and her unborn baby died there, Friday, 19-10-2001;
- Rania Kharoufa, 22 year old, mother of two, shot in a shop while trying to hide from bullets shot from a helicopter, Beit Jala, Friday, 19-10-2001;
- Aysha Odeh, 39 years old, mother of 8, from Jerusalem, shot inside the house of her relatives, whom she visited, Aida refugee camp, Friday, 19-10-2001;
- Johnny Yousif Thaljiya, 17 years old, shot while on Manger Square, playing with his nephew, Bethlehem, Saturday, 20-10-2001;
- Yousif Mohammad Abayat, 15 years, killed during shelling, Hindaza, Bethlehem, Saturday, 20-10-2001;
- Muhammad Sulaiman Baraq'a, 26 years old, deaf father of five, shot in his home, Al-Azze (Beit Jibrin) refugee camp, Sunday, 21-10-2001;
- Nahed Hussain Aljuju, 40 years old, officer in the Palestinian Police, shot in fighting, Sunday, 21-10-2001;
- Issa Fouzi Abu Hlayel, 28, Police man, killed by a shell in front of Al-Hussein Hospital, Beit Jala, Sunday, 21-10-2001;
- Nidal Alian, 19 years, died 22-10-2001 from the injuries he received two days before.
- Issa El-'Ali, 55 years old, driving his car on Jerusalem-Hebron road when a tank appeared at Bab es-Sqaq and shot at the car from behind, 24-10-2001
- Farid Abu Jalaleh, 22 years, killed Thursday during shelling of Aida refugee Camp, Bethlehem, 25-10-2001
- Wa’el Difallah Abayat , 20 years, killed Thursday by a shell near Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, 25-10-2001
- Ibrahim al-Dibs, 40 years, killed Thursday by an Israeli sniper’s bullet in Aida refugee camp, 25-10-2001
The improvised memorial for Johnny Taljiye, 25 October. Johnny was shot by a sniper at Manger square from Hindaza mountain, the hilltop in the background. He had just left the afternoon prayer in the Nativity church. The last picture shows the Bethlehem Peace Center, which was errected in place of the Police station of the British Mandate, Jordanian rule and Israeli occupation.
photos: Andreas F. Kuntz
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