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Merrick
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Re: Palestinian report 10 pt 1
Apr 09, 2002, 17:43
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 04:34:28

hello all,

greetings from the cold quiet of the bethlehem morning. well, quiet if it wasn't for the tanks trundling past. i hate the noise of them; so heavy and destructive and intrusive. the damage they've done up in the old city is horrendous, destroying much of the renovation that was done for the millenium, smashing road surfaces, water pipes and sewage conduits and generally wreaking infrastructural havoc as well as the damage to life and limb.

yesterday was pretty draining - the feeling of our own impotence as we spoke to people inside the church of the nativity. we now have confirmation that there are about 260 people in there, largely families from the surrounding streets who feld when their homes were shelled, or fled again from the mosque when it was destroyed. at least 30 are wounded, some seriously, and they have been denied proper medical care for 3 days now. the israelis have let some ambulances up there, but not with deliveries of medical supplies, and they have arrested some people from the backs of ambulances once they were moved. the idf started shooting at the church yesterday morning, and then shelled it around lunchtime on the milk grotto street wall, to the right of the church. luckily those great fat medieval walls are still holding strong, but all the windows are gone and they were still shooting at the building last night. this despite ongoing denials on idf radio that the church was under attack at all, although these were apparently made to look pretty foolish by an announcement from ariel sharon that the (none-existent) attack would stop...
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