Over 500 palæstinensere er blevet dræbt, 23.000 er blevet såret og hundredvis af mennesker er livsvarigt handicappede. Der finder bombeangreb sted, stakkels mennesker får deres huse ødelagt af bomberne, og man fjerner tusindvis af træer, som er bøndernes levebrød.
Yesterday was another day of tragedy: more than 200 people, including a French journalist, were wounded at the check points, although the Palestinians had not opened fire; the evening claimed another victim, an Israeli settlement; over 500 Palestinians were killed, 23 000 wounded and hundreds maimed for life; bombings, the houses of the poor demolished by bombs, thousands of trees - the livelihood of the peasant farmers - uprooted, roads blocked, despairing men and women, prisoners in their own villages, going hungry and Palestinian leaders considered to be military targets executed.