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Merrick
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Re: Palestinian report 12
Apr 09, 2002, 17:45
Sun, 07 Apr 2002 09:26:33

hey all,

greetings again from the increasingly hellish place that is the west bank. reports out of jenin are truly appalling; houses being bulldozed on top of their occupants and teargas being dropped by helicopter onto the refugee camp whilst people flee their homes. A doctor in the main hospitalis using the word massacre, which palestinians don't do lightly. and of course there are not internationals in jenin or nablus, so everything that comes out of there gets questioned by the press because it's not verified by the idf - such sick logic.

here a bunch of us tried to get an ambulance up to the church of the nativity where people are down to salt and water and have still not had proper medical attention. we had a warning shot fired at us,and then our hebrew speaker approached, but we were told we would under no circumstances be allowed through. there have been lots of arrests here in house-to-house searched this morning, and the army are doing shoot-to-kill curfew today, to prevent the sunday morning christian march the church leaders called from beit sahour and beit jala.

there are also tanks massing outside gaza, they had planes overhead last night, and some areas have lost elecrticity, often a precursor to an attack. and in the muqada they are dangerously low on food and water, and conditions are becoming increasingly insanitory.

we are trying to get food and medicine out to people in the bethlehem area, but it is difficult because of the curfew. the humanitarian aid community need to address this now.

in the imc, we are going a bit mad but indy the puppy keeps our spirits up; he has just learned to bark and is using his new-found skill assiduously.

take care, all.

love,

sarah
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