From Occupied Palestine

No way to die
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 16 December 2004

Yasser Arafat's death last month in a French hospital was shrouded in mystery, accusation and acrimony. While a nation mourned, those nearest to him found themselves struggling for access, battling to find out the truth - and even, after he had died, fighting over his few possessions. SUZANNE GOLDENBERG talks to those closest to the Palestinian leader to piece together the real story of his death

Peace hopes blown apart in tit for tat
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 22 August 2003

Washington -- Two months ago, as the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was making her debut as the Bush administration's point person on the Middle East, an Israeli lawyer visited Washington.

Editors dismiss Israeli press chief's allegation of bias
EDWARD PILKINGTON
Guardian, 17 October 2002

The head of the Israeli government press office has provoked stinging criticism from international news organisations by accusing them of gross bias in favour of Palestinians.

Daniel Seaman said that BBC editorial decisions were in the hands of the Palestinian Authority and that the Guardian had bowed to Israeli state pressure to withdraw its award-winning correspondent, Suzanne Goldenberg.

Israel blocks UN mission to Jenin
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 24 April 2002

Jerusalem -- Israel reneged on its commitment to an international investigation of its offensive against the Jenin refugee camp last night, throwing the United Nations mission into disarray.

Hours after a chorus of Israeli officials, including the foreign minister, Shimon Peres, said Israel had nothing to hide, the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, decided the team, announced just 24 hours earlier by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, was no longer acceptable.

Disaster zone hides final death toll
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 17 April 2002

Jerusalem -- The morgues of Jenin's hospitals held just 16 corpses yesterday, exposing the difficulties of establishing the true death toll in a bloody battle for a refugee camp still under siege by Israeli tanks.

Evidence of Israeli contempt for Geneva convention
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 17 April 2002

Jersualem -- The accusation from British and Palestinian politicians that Israel has been involved in war crimes raises questions about the extent to which its military incursion into the occupied territories may have broken the terms of the Geneva convention.

The lunar landscape that was the Jenin refugee camp
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 16 April 2002

Jenin -- A fortnight ago, before Israeli forces invaded, this was a crowded, bustling place. The narrow alleys between the cinderblock homes -- spanning barely the width of outstretched arms -- were packed with children.

Yesterday, the Hart al-Hawashin neighbourhood, the heart of the Jenin refugee camp, was a silent wasteland, permeated with the stench of rotting corpses and cordite. The evidence of lives interrupted was everywhere. Plates of food sat in refrigerators in houses sheared in half by Israeli bulldozers. Pages from children's exercise books fluttered in the breeze.

Bodies search begins in rubble
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 13 April 2003

Jenin -- The stench of death rose from the Fashafshe family home on Old Castle Street, or what remains of it: a five-foot high mound of rubble topped by a television aerial.

A few days ago an Israeli army tank and a bulldozer prowling the narrow lanes of the town's main square were boxed in by this old stone house. So they demolished it, burying a Palestinian family of five beneath its two-foot thick stone walls.

Refugees flee camp with reports of Israeli abuses
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 12 April 2002

Jenin -- An exodus was under way yesterday from the refugee camp that endured the bloodiest battle of Israel's military offensive, with Palestinians bearing horrifying accounts of a systematic campaign of destruction and abuse.

Toll of the bloody battle of Jenin
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 10 April 2002

The ferocious battle for Jenin camp - a square kilometre housing 16,000 people - last night entered the bloody lore of the Middle East: a fiasco for Israel, an immensely costly victory for the Palestinians, who reportedly suffered as many as 100 dead, with corpses rotting in the lanes of the camp for days.