SOS (english)
by Palestine 9:49am Sat Apr 6 '02


ZNet Updates from Palestine

We are receiving reports from the
international solidarity movement
in Palestine.
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April 6, 2002

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?" – 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.

Random explosions throughout Ramallah. Difficult to know what is being blown up.

Innocent Palestinian civilians are being terrorized and killed. The international community has an obligation to stop this massacre. Will we wait until it's over to say that we're sorry?

Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon
Office of the Prime Minister
Tel: ++972 2 6705555
Fax: ++972 2 566 4838
Email:  pm@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@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@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@cec.eu.int

US President
George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone: ++1-202 456 1414
Fax: ++1-202 456 2461
Email:  president@whitehouse.gov