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Merrick
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Re: Palestinian report 8
Apr 09, 2002, 17:40
Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:09:59

hey all,

2 main things;

1) arafat's medicine is running low. medically very serious. we have a new line into the building, though, which is good because the israelis have jammers on some of the mobiles there.they have very, very little water and very little food left in there, and the idf are still not letting humanitarian aid through.

2) the family of a volunteer here were stopped in an ambulance last night. a wounded man in the ambulance was arrested and the family interrogated, including violence to one of the men, for 2 hours; the actual patient was 3 years old. the most disturbing thing, though, was that the commanding officer of the troops doing this told the family that they would not be allowed anywhere until "everyone in the nativity church is dead." there are about 200 people in there, including some freedom fighters but mainly families who fled there and to the mosque when homes in the area were shelled, and then the mosque was also shelled beyond being useful as a refuge. the idf are claiming publically that it is all gunmen there, and we are terrified that this is idf preparation to massacre everyone in there. they have denied medical care to the many wounded in there for 2 days now, and we have reports that a number of people have bled to death in that time. an ambulance was crushed by a tank yesterday morning trying to reach them, but some bodies and a few wounded have been removed, but some of the wounded have been arrested on the way out.

there have been gunbattles and heavy tank movement all night here, but we have no reports yet of what this signifies; ayda camp have reported that the night was ok, but we are worried about deheishe camp, since we saw large earthmover type vehicles and many tanks heading up there midnightish. we also had a false alarm that someone was trying to batter our downstairs door down...but just a false alarm. we're quite surprised that they haven't taken us out yet, since we seem to be being so successful in getting info out - we've been doing interviews with press everywhere from the us, uk, germany, chile, mexico, spain, japan, australia etc etc etc...we had an unconfirmed report last night that the director of bethlehem tv, in our building, was arrested last night, and we've not been able to contact him since. we are probably going to try and leave for a little later to try to get some ambulances up to manger square; internationals tried yesterday but got shot at when the idf decided to stop the curfew lift on their time not ours. and azza camp, which was shelled during the night, including the building some of the internationals were in, have reported seeing an ambulance heading for the old city about 2 hours ago. a couple of minutes later there was heavy gunfire and the ambulance has not been seen returning. and news just in...there's about 40 journos waiting to come up to manger sqaure with us...i wanna be exploited...

if there is any fundraising anyone can do running the press ops here is costing a bomb; there are details of how to donate on http://jerusalem.indymedia.org.

take care all.

love,

sarah
from the centre of besieged bethlehem
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