I hope this message will not become morbid fodder
for chain emails to draw pity, or prayers, or donations,
but rather actions. We are doing our bit by
resisting & or standing steadfast, & ask the world to please
do its bit in the name of our common humanity, each
according to his her/own capacity. We do not want to
become the red indians of the Arab world, but simply
want to live free, in peace & dignity on this land.

I will start by a few paragraphs' overview of the
situation "live" as i see it, & follow it with 9
suggestions of what we would please like to see
happen in the media & elsewhere in the outside world.

Firstly tonight -Sunday- we have heard numerous
reports of 30 Palestinian policemen executed in cold
blood by Israeli soldiers in a building where they
sought refuge on Irssal street in Ramallah. This was
after 5 Palestinian officers were executed by being
shot to the head & then had their corpses thrown on
the pavement for hours on Friday. Ambulances are
prevented from reaching their destinations & 2
hospitals have either been broken into (Arabcare) or
shot at (Nazer Maternity Hospital). If this
continues, it will be another Chechnya or Sarajevo in the
making.

Personally, I have been shut at home since Friday
morning, like all the tens of thousands of
inhabitants of Ramallah & El-Bireh, & no prospect of an end
soon.
We did not have electricity for one day, but thank
God it got reestablished today Sunday.

One of the employees of the Sakakini Center had the
Israeli army burst into his village (Kobar)
yesterday, destroy belongings & arrest his younger brother,
alongside 30 other young men from the village.

The cleaning lady of the Center lives in a house
with an outhouse for toilets. For 3 days the Israelis
have been posted by the door to her house & preventing
all exit. When the eldest today sneaked out to the
outhouse, the Israelis caught him & beat him. His
school teacher father tried to intervene, the
Israelis beat him & arrested him.

One of the board members of our center was arrested
with all the employees of the office building where
he was working late Thursday night. They were all
blindfolded & had their hands tied & placed in one
room for 16 hours. The Israelis destroyed some
office furniture & stole hard drives from computers. They
all untied themselves once they realized the Israelis

1- This is a long siege please keep the pressure to
have our story told & appeals for action continuous.
2- The Centre's admin.& finance director, Ms. Manal
Issa has collected about 10 testimonies by children
around her describing conditions under siege as well
as drawings she has scanned. These testimonies in
Arabic can be obtained directly from her at:
issamanal@yahoo.com. I will translate them tomorrow
to englsih & have them available. I am also asking that
anybody who gets this email directly or forwarded,
ask us for copies of these testimonies to have them
published as widely as possible.
3- Please ask for pressure on the international
community & decision makers to lift the siege on us.
We need tens & hundreds of letters daily to:
president@whitehouse.gov & vice.president@white
house.gov
4- If you do not want that, please write mainstream
news organizations in the US about the siege.
5- We need daily demonstrations in front of Israeli
embassies.
6- We need appeals from Arab artists to western
European artists for concerts/demonstrations/appeals
to decision makers to lift the siege.
7- We need action by Western/European artists for
events to ask for the siege to be lifted on us.
8- If you work for a publication, please keep a
section for daily news or weekly news from the
siege,
interviews with witnesses to repression/the siege,
children's testimonies, & information from
hospitals.
9-The disastrous health picture can be obtained by
calling the Ramallah Hospital & talking to its
director Dr. Atari or to the Deputy minister of
health
who is stationed there Dr. Munther Sharif
(972 2 2
298
2220).
10- Please give us your suggestions for action & for
what you need from us to better help us.

Thank you to the Muharraq Club, Bahrein TV, &
Dubai's Nadwat al Thaqafa for hearing us already..

Thank you all & we all look forward to hearing from
you soon,
Adila Laidi.
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We have a responsibility to support the Palestinian people and act to prevent further violence.

The lives of Israeli citizens and Palestinians are been sacrificed on behalf of the illegal Israeli settlers in occupied Palatine. We have a voice, so we must call out to our governments and the press. Let us not look back on this time and have to tell our grandchildren that we did nothing while Imperialist, Zionist powers massacred a Nation and its people.

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"We do not want to become the red indians of the Arab world, but simply want to live free, in peace & dignity on this land."
— If that's so, explain to me what a 19-year-old girl (probably brainwashed) was doing walking into a crowded restaurant last week, with explosives taped to her body, and blowing the high hell out of everything. That's been Palestine's record of peace and dignity for countless years.
You'll get no sympathy here. If you want the Israelis to stop shooting at you, quit trying to kill them first. I'm impressed with Israel's restraint in the whole affair.