1. Amira Hass
Profound Contempt
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2. Fra IPA
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:17:43 -0700
From: Institute for Public Accuracy <instpa@pacbell.net>
Subject: Aid Workers on Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem
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PM Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem: Aid Workers Available for Interviews
DOMINIC NUTT, domnutt@aol.com, http://www.christian-aid.org.uk
An emergencies officer for Christian Aid, Dominic Nutt is currently in
Bethlehem.
MARK ZEITOUN
Zeitoun, who is an international aid worker and a water engineer, is in the
West Bank. He said today: "In almost all the cities that the Israel Defense
Force has occupied, there has been severe damage to the water
infrastructure through systematic targeting and sabotage. The destruction
is done either by digging up the water pipes or by destroying the
electrical lines to the water pumps. Most attempts to repair the
infrastructure or to deliver water to the curfewed residents are blocked.
Just a few hours ago, I attempted to deliver a truckload of bottled water
into Nablus and I was turned away at an IDF checkpoint. Municipal workers
who try to repair the damage are often either arrested or shot at by the
IDF. In one case, a tank rolled over the repair truck with the municipal
worker still inside the truck; in another case seven municipal workers were
arrested while trying to repair the pipes. Some people had on-and-off
access to running water but we estimate that 50,000 people have been
continuously without access -- this includes hospitals. Just yesterday in
Bethlehem, the sewer lines backed up. This creates the danger of
cross-contamination from the backed-up sewer lines into the damaged water
pipes. This is a disaster."
RIMA AWAD, parc@alqudsnet.com, http://www.pal-arc.org
Awad is spokesperson for Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, a
group coordinating investigations into the Israeli attacks on Jenin and
Nablus. She said today: "The situation in the Jenin refugee camp is
disastrous. It had 16,000 people in only one square kilometer, a very dense
area -- those people are now scattered; we saw many people who could not
find their family, including a 10-year-old boy. The refugee camp was
shelled for eight consecutive days. The Israeli military has confessed that
they killed 120 people. We conservatively estimate 450 killed.... One thing
that everyone from the refugee camp said is that they will not become
refugees again. These are people who were driven out of their homes in
1948; Israeli forces destroyed their villages in what is now northern
Israel -- they don't want to become 're-refugees.'"
PETER HOLLAND oxfamqc@palnet.com, http://www.oxfam.qc.ca/indexE.html
Spokesperson for OXFAM Quebec, Peter Holland said today: "Yesterday, a few
people from the Jenin refugee camp were able to reach our shelter -- we
found that they were suffering from severe dehydration after spending 12
days under the curfew without running water. We estimate at least 40,000
people in Nablus and thousands in Jenin are in their 13th and 14th day
under the curfew. Neither us nor any other agency is allowed to go in to
distribute crucial supplies. This lack of access by aid agencies is
unprecedented and is going to have severe, severe negative consequences. A
colleague of mine, an American citizen, was allowed briefly into Jenin
camp. She was not allowed to drive any supplies in, so she took in whatever
little she could carry. She told me that she is now able to differentiate
the smell of animal corpses from human corpses."
JOSINA MANU, zisl@angelfire.com
ZAID KHALIL, zaidkhalil@yahoo.com, http://www.palsolidarity.org,
http://www.rapprochement.org, http://www.jerusalem.indymedia.org
Manu and Khalil are members of the International Solidarity Movement and
have recently returned from Bethlehem. Khalil, while in a peaceful protest,
was hit by shrapnel when the Israeli military fired on them.
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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