URGENT ALERT: Monday, April 08, 2002, 3:29
PLEASE NOTE: al-Jazeera and LAW are now reporting around 100 killed.

Please call/fax/e-mail your foreign minister, your prime minister, the Israeli ambassador to your country.

This is exactly what Palestinian activists, civil society organizations and human rights groups have feared – a combination of Ariel Sharon, open American support (or impotence), and an international community which refuses to take real steps to protect Palestinian civilians – initial reports are 40 people killed yesterday, and continuing today. Please pass around, please take action

- Note: this is from our sources from the Jenin refugee camp. The usual ways of confirming death tolls (hospitals, doctors) has not taken place. The dead are still lying on the streets.

Ittijah has just received a phone call from the Jenin refugee camp. The following is happening:

Israeli forces are in the Jenin refugee camp. They entered the refugee camp in tanks, simply demolishing everything. As of the time of this phone call, around 250 meters of the refugee camp, including shanty houses, have been destroyed. It is not known if there were people in the houses or not. Women and children were used as human shields for the tanks.

The Israeli army yesterday called upon people to gather in the courtyard of the mosque in the Jenin refugee camp. The refugees in the camp refused, seeing this as surrender, and vowing to protect their camp. Today, refugees who have left the Camp under Israeli fire were made to wear black. They are gathered in a field sealed off with barbed wire next to Salem village, close to the Green Line.

There are Palestinians remaining in the camp who refuse to surrender. According to our sources, they say they will not become refugees again.

The tanks are shooting at people in the street, including those already injured and dead. Israeli forces are still banning ambulances from entering Jenin refugee camp. There are no confirmations yet of how many people are dead or injured, as our source was calling from a mobile phone within the camp. There is a very real possibility that massacres are taking place. According to initial reports at LAW, a Palestinian human rights NGO in Jerusalem, forty residents have so far been killed and their bodies are still lying in the alleys and streets.

The following is from LAW’s report: “Dr. Muhammad Abu Khali, Head of Jenin Hospital, stated that on Saturday April 6, three ambulances were sent to Jenin refugee camp in order to evacuate the wounded but they were attacked by Israeli soldiers. On
Sunday, April 7, Israeli forces rounded up 150 residents and shot two Palestinians, Wadah al-Shalabi (32) and Abdel Karim al-Sa'di (23), in front of the eyes of their own families. LAW managed to identify five of the killed Palestinians: Samer Jaradat (25), Fadi Abu Ara (24), Mustafa al-Shalabi (32), Munir Wishahi (27) and Muhammad al-Hamed (30).

For more information, please call:
Mr. Ameer Makhoul
Director,
Ittijah: Union of Arab Community Based Associations
Mob: +972-(0)54 862 171
Tel: +972-4-850 7110
Fax: +972-4-850 7241
E-mail: ameer@ittijah.org

Ittijah acaba de recibir una llamada telefónica desde el campo de refugiados de Yenín. Esto es lo que está pasando:

Las fuerzas israelitas están en el campo de refugiados de Yenín. Entraron con tanques, simplemente demoliéndolo todo. Sobre la hora de la llamada telefónica, ha sido destruido alrededor de 250 metros del campo de refugiados, incluyendo chabolas. No se sabe si hay gente en las casas o no. Mujeres y niños fueron usados como escudos humanos para los tanques.

El ejército israelí ordenó a la gente apiñarse en el patio de la mezquita del campo de refugiados de Yenín. Los refugiados se negaron, porque lo entendían como una rendición, y prometieron defender su campo. Hoy, refugiados que abandonaron el campo bajo fuego israelí se vistieron de negro. Están concentrados en un campo precintado con redes alámbricas de púas junto a la vila de Salem, cerca de la Línea Verde.

Hay pelestinos permaneciendo en el campo que rechazan rendirse. De acuerdo con nuestras fuentes, afirman que no se convertirán otra vez en refugiados.

Los tanques están disparando a la gente en la calle, incluyendo a aquellos ya heridos y muertos. Las fuerzas israelitas todavía impiden a las ambulancias entrar en el campo de refugiados de Yenín. No hay confirmaciones aún de cuánta gente está muerta o herida, según nuestra fuente que estuvo llamando desde un teléfono móvil dentro del campo. Hay una posibilidad real de que se esté dando lugar a masacres. De acuerdo con las informaciones iniciales de LAW, una ONG palestina de Derechos Humanos en Jerusalem, al menos cuarenta residentes han sido asesinados y sus cuerpos aún yacen en calles y pasadizos.

Esto es la información de LAW: "Dr. Mohamed Abu Jali, Jefe del Hospital de Yenín, declaró que el Sábado 6 de Abril, tres ambulacias fueron enviadas al campo de refugiados de Yenín para evacuar los heridos pero fueron atacados por soldados israelíes. El Domingo 7 de Abril, fuerzas israelíes redondearon unos 150 palestinos y dispararon a dos palestinos, Wadal al-Shalabi (32) y Abdel Karim al-Sa'di (23), ante los ojos de sus propias familias. LAW logró identificar cinco de los palestinos asesinados: Samer Jaradat (25), Fadi Abu Ara (24), Mustafa al-Shalabi (32), Munir Wishahi (27) y Mohamed al-Hamed (30).

Para más información, por favor llamad a:

Ittijah: Union of Arab Community Based Associations

Mob: +972-(0)54 862 171

Tel: +972-4-850 7110

Fax: +972-4-850 7241

E-mail: ameer@ittijah.org

Fuck the whole miserable lot.

I wish peace would be restored.
In Jenin there is war: Israeli army against terrorist (some call them freedom fighters)

In any case this is not a massacare it is a battle.
In war people die.
One can not start a war of terror against Israel and later complain when Israel tries to prevent more terror by destroying the terrorist infra-structure that Palestinians had build.

No, only war. From 1949 to 1998, the US government gave USD 84.8 billion in foreign aid and other US federation grants to Israel

It is not war
by Marcos Pérez • Tuesday April 09, 2002 at 04:48 AM
Madrid, Spain

This is not war, there are no two armies. The IDF is killing civilians, using them as human shields and destroying their homes.

Terror to fight terror, such a brilliant strategy!. STOP THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINIAN LAND! GO BACK TO THE GREEN LINE! DISMANTLE ALL SETTLEMENTS! then Israel will have some moral authority. Until then, it´s just State Terror against poorly armed people.

Marcus,
Many in Israel agree with you that Israel should go back to the green line. Even better than dismentaling the settlements it would be better to give them to the Palestinian people.

But one think I and many Israelis do not agree:
This is war. It has been war in Tel-Aviv, in Netanya, in Haifa, In Jerusalem. The Palestinians are those who perpatrate war crimes against israelis.

Israel is not Targeting civilians. It is fighting war with terrorists. There are casulaties on both sides. Many Plaestinians gunman and many Israeli soldiers are hurt.

I wish you and the Palestinians peace.

after the world opens its eyes to the Palestinians Holocaust..the idreali's will not have a foot to stand on!!

lets see...occupation/oppression = people will fight back...
dont remind me of the holocaust on the jews while they are doing the same thing...
funny how hitler wanted his own arien state.....but isreal got his wish

isreal = hitler2002
isreal = occupiers
isreal = opressors
isreal = liers
isreal = cancer
isreal = disregard for international
isreal = thinks its above law
isreal = distorter of facts
isreal = cold blooded killers
isreal = racist state
isreal = wont last much longer

funny how isreal plays the security card each day!!!
funny how isreal is the only country with nuclear weapons
funny how isreal is the only country in the region with "weapons of mass destruction"
funny how isreal still portrays itself as a victim

sharon is a terorist..he will and should be tried for WAR CRIMES

how ironic you (Isreal) observe the so called "holocaust" while the racist state is doing the same thing to the palestinians

no matter what isreal does or says it cant distort the facts..no matter how much the media is biased towards the isreali's. still doesn't change facts

isreal is the worst state on the planet,, a cancer if you will
what does one do with cancer?

isreal's time is up, wont be long now
the world knows what your doing behind closed doors, barring journalist and observers to
witness the PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST

why doe the USA move on iraq when UN resolutiond are passed, yet stands there and does nothing when
UN resolutions are passed against isreal

everyone in the USA neds to find out what there elected officials view are towrds the middle east and vote
accordingly..

the arabs must stand up and fight fire with fire..
the arabs have billions and billions of dollars...use it to put in elected officials who will vote for your cause..
thats what the JEWS are doing..
dont be afraid...you have to start somewhere

history is not on the side of the oppressors . its jus a matter of time before this ARIAN STATE is collapsed

palestinians aren't terrorist...just propoganda the isreali biased media is spewing..
they have the right undder international law to fight an occupation!!
OH YEA isreal is above any law of the lands

people of the palestinian HOLOCAUST . dont worry for the world now knows the truth about this HOLOCAUST,
and no amount of lies or distortion of facts will change that..

the nazi tactics the isreali's use

here are some words that the terrrorist Sharon spoke

[Sharon]:"Call Israel by any name you like, call it a Judeo-Nazi state as does Leibowitz.
Why not? Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint. I don't care whether I am
like Ghadafi. I am not after the admiration of the gentiles. I don't need their
love. I don't need to be loved by Jews like you either. I have to live, and I
intend to ensure that my children will live as well. With or without the
blessing of the Pope and the other religious leaders from the New York Times. I
will destroy anyone who will raise a hand against my children, I will destroy
him and his children, with or without our famous purity of arms. I don't care if
he is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. History teaches us that he who won't
kill will be killed by others. That is an iron law".

"We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality, the moral
lessons of the holocaust or about the Jews who were supposed to have emerged
from the gas chambers pure and virtuous. No more of that. The destruction of Eyn
Hilwe (and it's a pity we did not wipe out that hornet's nest completely!), the
healthy bombardment of Beirut and that tiny massacre (can you call 500 Arabs a
massacre?) in their camps which we should have committed with our own delicate
hands rather than let the Phalangists do it, all these good deeds finally killed
the bullshit talk about a unique people and of being a light upon the nations.
No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light. Good riddance."

"I personally don't want to be any better than Khomeini or Brezhnev or Ghadafi
or Assad or Mrs. Thatcher, or even Harry Truman who killed half a million
Japanese with two fine bombs. I only want to be smarter than they are, quicker
and more efficient, not better or more beautiful than they are. Tell me, do the
baddies of this world have a bad time? If anyone tries to touch them, the evil
men cut his hands and legs off. They hunt and catch whatever they feel like
eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I
want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear
me instead of feeling sorry for me. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear my
madness instead of admiring my nobility. Thank god for that. Let them tremble,
let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country,
dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy if one of our
children is murdered - just one! That we might go wild and burn all the oil
fields in the Middle East! If anything would happen to your child, God forbid,
you would talk like I do. Let them be aware in Washington, Moscow, Damascus and
China that if one of our ambassadors is shot, or even a consul or the most
junior embassy official, we might start World War Three just like that!"
read whole article here :http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/sharonsbloodyhands.asp

these words come out of the mouth of a leader...what does that tell you?
the inmates are running the asylum!!!!

this man wants no peace..has no visions of peace, nor will he ever let peace happen.

the isreali's elected this man...shame shame on you.

you reap what you sow
everything that goes up comes down
all good things come to an end

and this is the beginning of the end!!!

THE HOLOCAUST WAGED AGAINST THE PALESTINAINS WILL NOT GOT UNPUNISHED

funny how words can make a rich man poor and a virgin into a whore, well the world is seeing through isreal's words now..

buh bye isreal ..it wasn't nice knowing you or anything about you.. you oppressive state