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Date Posted: 20:20:33 01/13/04 Tue
Author: Zee Bee
Subject: No reports on Nablus in Herald ..Why?

Subject: No reports on Nablus in Herald ..Why?
From: D&J Wakim
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:10:34 +1300

Again the N.Z. Herald has failed to report the Israeli obscenities that have happened in Nablus over the past 2 weeks and yesterday and today they are at it again in Tulkarem.
Can anyone help by lobbying the paper's editorial staff and ask on WHY NO REPORTS have appeared in the NZ Herald or any other news media that we know of??. If you can, please pass onto your organisation the details of these horrific events.
Monday, January 12, 2004
ISRAELI ARMY OCCUPIES TULKAREM CAMP
Massive round-up of men, women and children
[Tulkarem] The Israeli Army invaded Tulkarem Refugee Camp shortly
before 11:00 this morning. Approximately 20-30 military vehicles - APCs
and jeeps - rolled into the camp, occupied its entirety and carried out
operations in three
neighborhoods in the central part of the camp - al-Hamam, al-Nadi and al-
Balawni. Four international ISM volunteers, who had received an urgent call in
the morning, arrived in the camp at 11AM to find that soldiers had called all
men women and children in a section of the camp to come out of their homes.
Soldiers rounded up the residents at a local building used as a daycare, which
they had occupied and were using for interrogation. They then separated men
from the women and children and sent the women and children over to the
UNWRA building, which the Israeli military had also taken over.
Shortly before 1PM soldiers loaded approximately 230 men, handcuffed and
blindfolded in to military armored carriers and left the camp.
The women and small children were kept in the streets in the cold and rain
from 11AM until approximately 9PM, when they were allowed to disperse.
However the women were prevented from reaching their homes by military
cordons and were forced to seek other shelter.
There has been Israeli military fire and explosions throughout the day as
soldiers conducted house to house searches. One house in the camp caught on
fire and Israeli soldiers let the house burn for a significant period of time before
they would allow a fire truck to approach the house. Soldiers have not only
taken over the camp daycare and UNWRA building, but have also occupied
civilian homes, including the home of Abu Ghassan al-Sifareeni, who lives with
his wife, son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren.
Currently the entire camp, home to 17,000 refugees is under house arrest and
explosions can still be heard throughout the camp as soldiers continue their
operation. Two international ISM volunteers are staying in a house across from
UN building, where approximately 20 women and 30 children who couldn't get
to their own homes are also staying.
For more information from the camp, please call:
Flo - +972-67-361-708 or +972-64-309-753 or
AbdelKarim - +972-59-836-783

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