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Oddmund Garvik
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Palestine under attack
Recent updates
West Bank Update
April 10th, 2002
The deputy governor of Jenin, Haider Rashid, this morning described how
the Israeli soldiers in the Jenin United Nations refugee camp are
bulldozing houses, "at first I thought they were doing it to make the
roads wider for the tanks - but now I believe the army is doing this in
order to cover its crime. When the soldiers finally leave from Jenin, the
press, cameramen and diplomats will want to come to see the terrible
things the soldiers have done - but this atrocity will literally be
covered up".
The situation in both Jenin city and refugee camp remains appalling with
Israeli tanks and helicopters attacking and shelling the area, a 24 hour
curfew, the rounding up of Palestinians and no water or electricity. It is
estimated that 200 Palestinians have been killed in this massacre in Jenin
- this cannot be confirmed as no one can access the area to collect the
bodies or the injured.
According to Mr. Rashid, at least 3,000 people, mostly women and children
have left the camp (home to 15,000 people). Im Alaa As-Sady, who was one
of those who escaped the carnage in the camp, described how she had "no
choice but to leave with my children. There was no water, and we ran out
of bread days ago. Constantly there is shelling of the houses - and if you
go outside, or near the windows, or on the roof, snipers can shoot at you.
We fled to the city and are now in a house with forty other people. I do
not know how we will manage as we are all here and have no food already.
We cannot get out to buy some more because the curfew is not lifted here
as we are in an area close to the camp. I don't know where my husband or
other daughters are". In almost all of these cases, it is the third time
that Israel has made these people homeless - the crimes committed against
the first two generations are repeated for the third.
The city of Nablus and the Beit Ein Ma'a refugee camp are also coming
under constant attack with heavy shelling. Israeli troops yesterday forced
the civilians to evacuate the neighbourhood of El-Yasmeen. The mostly
women, children and old men were then forced to spend the night in the
grounds of a school. The wholesale destruction of the city continues, with
the destruction of houses, business, shops and factories, with the
accompanied loss of life.
Medical teams across the West Bank remain unable to provide care to the
sick and wounded. Approximately 2 million people remain, for the 14th day,
under 24-hour curfew, the majority without water, electricity or
telephones. Palestinians lives are at risk even obeying the curfew; Minal
Ibrahiem Liftaweih was shot dead in her home in the Ein Mesbah
neighbourhood of Ramallah this morning, by a sniper on a near by building.
In another incident an Armenian monk, Armen Sebanyian was shot in
Bethlehem in the Church of the nativity, seriously wounded. He remains in
critical condition. Yesterday we reported on the death of a Ramallah man -
shot dead by a sniper as he was on his way after the lifting of the
curfew. There are also cases reported of prisoners who were arbitralily
detained or arrested, who were then shot dead on their way home after they
had been released - again by snipers, (for more information see Palestine
Monitors "Casualties of the Lifting of the Curfews" 10th April).
Palestinians call for the intervention of the international community to
bring an immediate halt to this Israeli military aggression, and the
immediate lifting of this inhumane curfew.
Please write or telephone your political representatives, your local
Israeli embassies and Israeli government officials demanding they stop
immediately these brutal highly militarized attacks on a civilian
population, and as an interim step withdraw all Israeli troops from the
newly re-occupied towns and cities.
For the addresses of these officials, please see:
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Activism/contact_info_for_campaigns.htm
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"There is such a thing as the freedom of
exhaustion. Some people are so worn down
by the yoke of oppression that they give
up... the oppressed must never allow the
conscience of the oppressor to slumber... To
accept injustice or segregation passively is to
say to the oppressor that his actions are
morally right."
Martin Luther King
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