Sincemylettertoyouon15February 1990(A/44/920-S/21151), morePalestinians, including children, havebeenkilled orwounded. According toarecent report oftheDataBase Project onPalestinian HumanRights, 893Palestiniansincluding 216chi1dren under16yearsofage,werekilled between thebeginning oftheintifadah inDecember 1987and9April1990. AI-Fair reported on12April1990 thatduring March1990, 20Palestinians werekilled bytheIsraeli Army,including9children under18,andhundreds werewounded. Harshcollective punishment continues tobeimposed widely. AI-Fair reportedon9April1990thatatapressconference on5ApriltheIsraeli Public Committeeagainst Torture hadcondemned thetorture ofPalestinians during interrogation bypolice andsecurity officers. Representatives oftheCommittee saidthatlawyersandhumanrights organizations hadrecently beenhearing with"depressingregUlarity" reports oftorture during theintifadah. ThesameissueofAI-Fajrreported thatsixArabKnesset members haddemanded, following avisittoAnsar 3detention campon4April, therelease ofallPalestinians underadministrativedetention andtheclosure ofthecamp. TheKnesset members hadcondemned theharshconditions inthecamp,where 753administrative detainees, 3,888sentencedprisoners and1,406suspects awaiting trialwerebeingheld. TheIsraeli authorities continue tocommit otherviolations ofPalestinianrights intheoccupied Palestinian territory. ThedailyHa'aretz reported on 90-11482 1395c(E)I •.• Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Librarya,/ 44/ 943 s/ 2r28r English Page 2 12 April 1990 that, ot! the Previous day, the eve of Good F'riday' sone 20 armed Jewish fanilies, singing aDd c1aPPing, had moved into st' John's HosPice rear tlte church of the Hol.y Sepuicnre. tils ''tnpreceaented Jewish move iato a Muslin or Christian district of th; O1d City had- sparke'l protests and iaternatioual conalemnation. On 23 April The New Yolk Times rePorted that the Israeli Government had acknot tedged that it t u-a-l."rutfy provided tire settlers ttith nearfy 52 milliou for the prrtchase of the Hospice. It vtas also rePorted tha! a lower rsraeli court hat! ordered thei! eviction but that tbe SuPreme court would tsake uP ttte case shortly. on 19 Apri1, The washington Post rePorte'l that Prime Minister Yitzhak shanir was "hurriedly seeking" to ."t-olii"it nev Jewish settlements in tshe occupietl lerritories before leaving office. rt was rePorted thats the newly aPPointed person to oversee the new drive iad lauached a "crash proqran" to break g::l1u-t"t to"t new settlements in the next few lteeks and to instalf permanent housing at .rewish-occupied sites in the wesE BaDk cities of Nablus and llebron' It was also reported tha! sett]ers had already begun work at a new settlement' Dugit' focated just north of Gaza CitY'
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a report on the situation of Palestinians in the occupied territories, discussing human rights violations, torture, collective punishment, and the establishment of Jewish settlements. The language used is formal and neutral, suggesting a news report or a human rights organization's statement. The content does not seem to be focused on economic or environmental issues, but rather on political and social issues related to human rights and conflict.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Culture