Palestinian updates 11th April
IMC | 11.04.2002 13:27
April 11, 2002:
Horror stories continue to emerge of torture and dehumanisation. Eyewitnesses state that Israeli forces are now digging large holes inside Jenin refugee camp and in surrounding areas, fearing that these are mass graves. Eyewitnesses saw Israeli forces putting bodies inside the holes. Further reports of executions are materialising. Read more.
Recent photos from Ramallah.
[All reported times in GMT]
22:15: Report of mass graves being dug in the occupied Territories.
21:30: With Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, arriving in Jerusalem tonight the soldiers blocked the United Nations, the Red Cross and the media from entering the “closed military area” where scores of Palestinians, as well as 22 Israeli soldiers, have been killed in ferocious close-quarter fighting.Report
20:40: Ta'ayush - Arab-Jewish Partnership call for march to Jenin (Salem) Checkpoint this coming Saturday April 13th, at 11:00 AM "We shall march in protest against these horrors, from the Megido junction to the Salem checkpoint on the road to Jenin. The trucks accompanying us will carry much needed emergency supplies for the homeless, the destitute and the expelled of Jenin."
19:15: Request for medics in Palestine.
19:00: Update from bethlehem.
18.15: Mohammed Dahlan, a senior aide to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat announces that the Palestinian Authority has called for the United Nations to investigate the killings in Jenin refugee camp.Report
17.30: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency estimates that around 3,000 women and children in and around the Jenin refugee camp had been made homeless
16:55: Ariel Sharon shrugged off a fresh barrage of demands from the international community to end his military assault in the West Bank, declaring that there were still "thousands of terrorists" at large, "with a tremendous quantity of weapons and explosives".Report
16:10: EU asks Israel to end Church of Nativity siege
14:30: The Presidential compound is reaching a health and sanitation crisis. With no running water for almost three weeks the hundreds of people still trapped inside have been unable to flush toilets, wash themselves or clean areas within the compound. Medical personnel outside the compound who have been unable to reach those inside fear that the spread of disease is imminent.
14:15: BBC world service has reported that the over 4000 Palestinians have been arrested by Israel since the beginning of the incursions.
13:00 Reports of rampant stealing by the Israeli Army in Ramallah.
8:02: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency deputy representative to the territories, Karin Abu Ziyad, said Thursday that some 3,000 women and children in and around the Jenin refugee camp had been made homeless by the recent IDF operation.
5:48: IMC Jerusalem reports that a Palestinian man now living in Romani has been dumped by Israeli soldiers at nearby Salem checkpoint after having been arrested or escaping from Jenin. 160 were dumped naked outside of Syba. We heard several stories of horror from the men.
4:14: A press release from the Lutheran Church has claimed that mines have been planted in the streets of the Old City by the soldiers, some of which have already exploded.
Horror stories continue to emerge of torture and dehumanisation. Eyewitnesses state that Israeli forces are now digging large holes inside Jenin refugee camp and in surrounding areas, fearing that these are mass graves. Eyewitnesses saw Israeli forces putting bodies inside the holes. Further reports of executions are materialising. Read more.
Recent photos from Ramallah.
[All reported times in GMT]
22:15: Report of mass graves being dug in the occupied Territories.
21:30: With Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, arriving in Jerusalem tonight the soldiers blocked the United Nations, the Red Cross and the media from entering the “closed military area” where scores of Palestinians, as well as 22 Israeli soldiers, have been killed in ferocious close-quarter fighting.Report
20:40: Ta'ayush - Arab-Jewish Partnership call for march to Jenin (Salem) Checkpoint this coming Saturday April 13th, at 11:00 AM "We shall march in protest against these horrors, from the Megido junction to the Salem checkpoint on the road to Jenin. The trucks accompanying us will carry much needed emergency supplies for the homeless, the destitute and the expelled of Jenin."
19:15: Request for medics in Palestine.
19:00: Update from bethlehem.
18.15: Mohammed Dahlan, a senior aide to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat announces that the Palestinian Authority has called for the United Nations to investigate the killings in Jenin refugee camp.Report
17.30: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency estimates that around 3,000 women and children in and around the Jenin refugee camp had been made homeless
16:55: Ariel Sharon shrugged off a fresh barrage of demands from the international community to end his military assault in the West Bank, declaring that there were still "thousands of terrorists" at large, "with a tremendous quantity of weapons and explosives".Report
16:10: EU asks Israel to end Church of Nativity siege
14:30: The Presidential compound is reaching a health and sanitation crisis. With no running water for almost three weeks the hundreds of people still trapped inside have been unable to flush toilets, wash themselves or clean areas within the compound. Medical personnel outside the compound who have been unable to reach those inside fear that the spread of disease is imminent.
14:15: BBC world service has reported that the over 4000 Palestinians have been arrested by Israel since the beginning of the incursions.
13:00 Reports of rampant stealing by the Israeli Army in Ramallah.
8:02: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency deputy representative to the territories, Karin Abu Ziyad, said Thursday that some 3,000 women and children in and around the Jenin refugee camp had been made homeless by the recent IDF operation.
5:48: IMC Jerusalem reports that a Palestinian man now living in Romani has been dumped by Israeli soldiers at nearby Salem checkpoint after having been arrested or escaping from Jenin. 160 were dumped naked outside of Syba. We heard several stories of horror from the men.
4:14: A press release from the Lutheran Church has claimed that mines have been planted in the streets of the Old City by the soldiers, some of which have already exploded.
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