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Merrick
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Re: Palestinian report 30
Apr 18, 2002, 18:40
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:55:18

all quietish here, just a little gunfire. after last night's failed attack on the church, and some news from ramallah (see below) it's hard to know if this is good or bed.

a swiss woman in jenin reported finding feet and other body parts lying in the streets of the refugee camp. another international in the area said that "if we wanted we could swing from taibe to jenin on tank cannon barrels." this is a fairly substantial distance...

in jerusalem, internationals and israelis are tonight protecting a house in the sheik jarrah neighbourhood. the family, who have lived there for 40 years, have been served with an eviction notice after a sephardic congregational organisation claimed the building belonged to them. they have not been able to make this claim stand up in court, but the family are facing forced eviction by the israeli authorities anyway.

in nablus, a 2-year-old girl with neurological diseases who had run out of her medicine and was trapped in an idf closed military zone in the village of deir al-khateb died this morning on finally being allowed to hospital. she had been comatose and convulsing for some hours, having run out of her medication 2-3 days ago, and medical aid having been prevented from reaching her at least since monday.

from ramallah, we have a report from the muqada that certain assurances were given by colin powell during his meeting this afternoon with president arafat. these included: that the church of the nativity will not be attacked again, and that ariel sharon has a timeframe for withdrawal from palestine, although this timeframe could not be given. he also stated, worryingly, that he could not offer any such guarantees regarding the safety of the presidential compound or those within it, which included arafat, several hundred palestinians and several dozen international activists. whether powell's assurances are worth the oxygen used to utter them is a different matter...

the idf has re-entered the west bank town of tulkarm.

sarah xx
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