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Merrick
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Re: Palestinian report 24 pt2
Apr 14, 2002, 18:33
in manger square, meanwhile, the idf have been up to something very strange. there is now a huge hydraulic lift with a giant speaker hanging from it; yesterday it played the most hideous shrill feedback noise at the poor bastards in the church for about quarter of an hour, but they don't seemed to have used them since. as well as the original blimp (or at least the third one there, thanks to the aim of some local shaobab) there are also nowa blimp over beit sahour and fairground-style hot air balloon kind of over beit sahour, in the direction of the idf military base at heriodian. and yesterday there were a couple of aluminium foil balloons lurking round the church and the peace centre, of the type i think are used for blocking signals - like the few mobile phones inside the church with any charge left? the tosser of an israeli soldier who turned up at the star hotel with his apc yesterday evening to schmooze with the less discriminating journalists tried to claim that they were for 'decoration' and that the
loudspeaker was for celebrations of israeli independence day...quite bizarre and sick. i'm supposed to be going to jerusalem today, but i'm not sure that i can stand the thought of being somewhere festooned with the flags of this apartheid state, whilst they murder people just a few miles away. another man was shot by sniper fire in the church yesterday; he was initially thought to be dead, then breathed whilst being moved, but with 2 bullet wounds in the chest and no possibility of medical care there seems little hope for him. he was 26 years old.

for those of you who expressed concern about khaled, the bethlehem tv cameraman who was arrested at deheishe, he was released yesterday. he was held at gush etzion prison, where he says there were hundreds of people, many of whom had not been processed at all - the prison did not even know who they were holding. they were kept blindfolded all the time they were being held - whilst eating, sleeping and using the toilet. and the guards had a free hand to act as they pleased, beating and kicking the prisoners and preventing them from going to the toilet when they needed - khaled described one weeping 16-year-old boy who was prevented from going to the toilet and then beaten when he went in his trousers. khaled, whilst fine, is, not surprisingly, not his usual cheerily cynical self.

internationals protesting in ramallah against the pitifully ineffectual nature of colin powell's visit had been prevented from getting anywhere near the muqada, and are presently at deadlock with the idf. pictures from jenin show the continuing atrocities there; including the burnt body of a small boy - see http://www.jerusalem.indymedia.org . houses there and at the balata refugee camp in nablus bear the hallmarks of having been exploded from inside, by bombs carried into them by soldiers and then remotely detonated.

by the way, for another personal - and more long-term - account of life under occupation, go to http://georgie.ripserve.com for georgie's diary from bethlehem.

take care, and see you all soon(ish).

sarah xx
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