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[Al Kagan]

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>Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:09:44 -0500
>To: akagan at uiuc.edu
>From: Anand Pillay <pillay at math.uiuc.edu>
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>Dear Al,
>I received these from a friend in Israel.
>Please forward to whoever you think is suitable.
>Best wishes,
>Anand
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>>From ye_harel at netvision.net.il Sun Apr  7 10:35:57 2002
>Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:29:37 +0200
>From: Yehudith Harel <ye_harel at netvision.net.il>
>To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@math.haifa.ac.il>
>Subject: The story of a Palestinian Grandmother: 6.4.2002
>
>
>
>Behaviour of Hooligans - not that of an Army...
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: giacaman at baraka.org
>To: Yehudith Harel
>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 8:16 AM
>Subject: The Story of a Palestinian Grandmother
>
>
>The story of a Palestinian grandmother:
>
>  On Thursday, March 29th, 2002 , I knew that there will be
>re-occupation, and because we live right next to the
>governorate of Ramallah, where our president resides, I
>decided to move with my daughter and my grand-
>daughter to my other daughter's house. This was a
>house that we thought was safer, as it is located in the
>middle of Ramallah, and situated inside the Anglican
>Episcopalian compound . Little did we know then that
>the Israeli army would reach us there. And so we moved
>with very little belongings.
>
>We spent seven terrible days there, no electricity for
>much of the time, and no water for 7 whole days and
>night, as well as much shooting, bombing and invasion
>of offices and homes nearby, as well as the search of
>our home by the Israeli army.
>
>When they lifted the curfew  for 3 hours on Friday, April
>4th, I decided to go to my house to pick up a few more
>items, especially clothes. We dispatched. One of my
>daughters went for milk, and another stood for three
>hours in line to get some bread and very basic
>provisions. As I walked, I heard my daughter call me.
>She wanted  to make sure that I had the key to the
>house. I assured her I did. As it turned out the last thing I
>needed was a key.
>
>I headed to our house walking, as there was no other
>way to get there. You know, at my age and with my
>illness, it is not so easy. Still I was determined, but the
>army, even with the lifting of the curfew, would not allow
>me to get near my house. So I began to go through the
>kitchen gardens and backyards of homes, if you can
>imagine, until I got to my house.
>
>The first thing I saw was a chained backdoor. The
>neighbor came out and told me that she had chained it
>after the Israeli army left as it could no longer close
>properly.  They had stayed there for several days she
>said. I went to the front door and found it totally
>destroyed, with our veranda glass all shattered. I went
>back and went in through the backdoor with my
>neighbor's help and went into the stairwell. I just could
>not believe my eyes, the door to our apartment was
>sitting out there in a slanted odd position, and part of the
>wall was sitting out with it. I was aghast. I went into the
>apartment and again, I could not believe my eyes, there
>were things thrown everywhere, with many crumbs on the
>floor, rotten leftover apples, Matzos and other things I
>cannot describe.
>
>I went to the kitchen, and all was out, much was broken. I
>went to the bathroom and it was hell. They had
>apparently used it in ways as if they had never used a
>bathroom before. And then I went to my grand-
>daughter's room and found all her clothes, toys and
>stuffed animals in a state, all on the floor and I could not
>take it any more and started crying. also decided to
>leave. As I left, I cried even more as I saw our family
>picture all over the place: our wedding pictures, the
>children, birthdays, all torn or thrown on the floor like this.
>I rushed out with tears in my eyes and back again
>through kitchen gardens and backyards  thinking' could
>this be real'?
>
>Is this justifiable for so called 'security reasons'?
>Rita
>
>
>
>
>
>>From Human Rights Lawyer Tamar Peleg
>Saturday, April the 6th 6 pm.
>main points:
>- Jenin refugee camp cut off from the ouside world - heavy fighting
>- Number of dead and wounded growing by the hour
>- Medical relief crews forbidden from entering the camp
>
>detailed account follows
>----- Original Message ----- From: Tamar Pelleg Sryck
>To: alef
>Cc: dan ; hamoked ; liz ; daniel v ; ruhama
>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 6:09 PM
>Subject: ALEF: jenin camp on the verge of the worst
>
>
>
>I spoke to a friend, a former, 1st intifada, administrative detainee and
>and later a colonel in PA police. He lives  in Jenin city at the feet of
>the hill where the refugee camp is situated. He has been watching for
>hours on end  appachi  firing missiles, fire in the camp, smoke over the
>camp, tanks and  "nagmashim" surrounding it, more tanks, dozens of them,
>arriving by Haifa road. He can hear blast and heavy machine gun fire. The
>camp has  been completely cut off the outside world. The  phones don't
>function. The mobiles don't answer. The number of the wounded and the
>dead is not known. Cannot be known. however it is clear that It
>is growing constantly.
>
>I spoke to  doctor G.  in the Jenin hospital situated about 200 meters
>away from the camp.
>This is the only hospital that can receive the wounded and the dead from
>the camp.  They have not received any since yesterday morning.The
>ambulances  have not been allowed to move. A huge tank is standing in
>front of the hospital. Nobody dares to peep out having learned by
>experience that  shooting will follow. The  Red Cross and the Red
>Crescent are  negotiating with the IDF the conditions of  a permission to
>collect the wounded and the dead. I understand that IDF' condition is to
>identify everyone in order to be able to arrest any wounded person it
>choses to. In other words the medical staff is requested to surrender the
>wounded. This is  hardly acceptable.
>
>I spoke several times with the legal adviser to the West Bank military
>commander. At first I demanded, later implored, to permit the ambulance
>enter the camp. To stop the fire at least for a while. He said that
>ambulances cannot be allowed to enter the camp because "havy battles are
>taking place".
>
>It is true that the Palestinians resist with watever simple arms they
>have. It is not less true that IDF is determined to crush the camp with
>theirs.
>Is Jenin  refugee camp on the verge of a blood bath?
>
>It is 6:30 p. m. Before sending this mail I phonee doctor G agin. The
>ambulances were allowed just now to bring the dead. How many are
>they? will there be eenough room in morgue?  Will it be possible to bury
>them? the doctor could'nt know yet. As for the wounded  the negotiantions
>are in a dead lock.
>
>Tamar
>
>  April 6, 2002
>
>>From ye_harel at netvision.net.il Sun Apr  7 10:36:24 2002
>Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:08:25 +0200
>From: Yehudith Harel <ye_harel at netvision.net.il>
>To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@math.haifa.ac.il>
>Subject: Huwida Arraf: SOS from Jenin Refugee Camp
>
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>Huweida Arraf reporting about the Emergency Situation in Jenin:
>
>Main points:
>
>- 15,000 people are being attacked by air and land -heavy bombardment by
>tanks and helicopter gunships.
>- Bulldozers are demolishing homes to make way for tanks to enter the
>camp.
>- all communications lines are cut - the camp is isolated. No electriciy
>and no water
>- Medical crews cannot reach the wounded and the dead - People are being
>left to bleed in the streets. .
>- Nobody knows the number of the dead and the injured but it is growing
>
>The same information is provided by various Israeli based Human rights
>groups through sporadic contacts on the ground - I spoke with 2 people
>located close to the Jenin refugee camp and they report heavy fighing in
>the camp - people trying to escape - fleeing from the buldozed homes -
>have nowhere to go.
>Yehudith
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Huwaida Arraf
>To: palsolidarity at yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:17 PM
>Subject: [palsolidarity] Atrocities in Jenin - HELP
>
>SOS calls from the Jenin Refugee camp!  The camp, 1 km squared, home to
>approximately 15,000 people is being attacked by air and land.  Contacts
>in Jenin City report heavy black smoke rising from inside the camp.
>Friends inside the camp are reporting heavy bombardment by tanks and
>helicopter gunships.  Bulldozers have also been brought into the camp and
>are demolishing homes to make way in the narrow streets of the camp for
>tanks to enter.
>
>"We have no electricity and no water.  Our water tanks have been
>destroyed from the intensity of the Israeli bombardment.  Our wives are
>crying and our kids are screaming.  There's no television to distract
>them.  All they are hearing is the explosions all around them. Where is
>the conscience of the world when we are being massacred and no one is
>intervening to stop it?" &#8211; Jamal Abu Al-Haije, resident of Jenin
>Camp
>
>Dr. Ali Jabareen of the Jenin Hospital reports that they need help
>reaching the injured and dead.  People are being left to bleed in the
>streets and other people are being buried under the rubble of their
>homes.  No idea how many people are dead.  The hospital ambulances are
>not being allowed to move.  UNRWA and the International Committee of the
>Red Cross are not able to function.  Is there anyone to help? To contact
>Dr. Ali Jabareen, please call: +972-4-250-2653/4
>
>Reports from Nablus are that they have also brought bulldozers into the
>Balata Refugee Camp.
>
>Israeli Prime Minister
>Ariel Sharon
>Office of the Prime Minister
>Tel: ++972 2 6705555
>Fax: ++972 2 566 4838
>Email: pm at gov.il
>
>Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz,
>IDF Chief of Staff,
>Ha-Qirya,
>Tel-Aviv,
>Israel.
>Fax: ++972-3-569-55-94
>
>Mr. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,
>Minister of Defense,
>Ministry of Defense,
>37 Kaplan st.,
>Tel-Aviv 61909,
>Israel.
>E-mail: sar at mod.gov.il
>Fax: ++972-3-696-27-57 / ++972-3-691-69-40 /
>++972-3-691-79-15
>
>
>UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
>Mrs. Mary Robinson
>OHCHR
>Tel. ++41 22 917 9000
>Fax. ++41 22 917 9012/9006/9005
>E-mail webadmin.hchr at unog.ch
>
>UNICEF
>Carol Bellamy, Executive Director
>UNICEF House
>3 United Nations Plaza
>New York, NY 10017
>USA
>Tel: +212 826 7000
>Fax: +212 887 7465
>CC:  UNICEF Jerusalem Office
>Pierre Poupard
>UNICEF Special Representative
>West Bank & Gaza
>FAX: 583 0806
>
>President, European Commission
>(Romano Prodi)
>European Commission
>200 rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200
>B-1049 Brussels
>Belgium
>E-mail: romano.prodi at cec.eu.int
>
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>George Bush
>The White House
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
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