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Palestinian updates 13th April

imc | 13.04.2002 17:14

LATEST UPDATES FROM WITHIN PALESTINE

April 14, 2002:

[All reported times in GMT]

12:00 The talks between the US Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have begun today at 10:00 at Arafat's besieged headquarters in Ramallah.

April 13, 2002:

[All reported times in GMT]

00:30 All homes and shelters of al-Somran and Jorid a-Dhahib quarters of Jenin refugee camp are being systematically demolished by Israeli bulldozers.

23:55 Prosecutor files charges against five Palestinian community leaders and political activists, charging them with supporting a terrorist organization and incitement.

23:45 Lebanon’s prime minister on border violence and how to avoid a wider war.

23:30
Mubarak rejects calls to launch war against Israel in response to attacks against Palestin.

21:45 Reportof a Palestinian being shot dead in a hostel adjoining the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.

21:30 Acountfrom Jenin refugee camp "our first glimpse of what is left of the packed warren of narrow lanes. These are scenes of devastation that will haunt the mission of Colin Powell"

18:06: Statement issued by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in which he condemned the suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed six people on Friday .

17:39: 3,000 Israelis, both Jews and Arabs, set out on a march towards Jenin, in the West Bank, protesting the IDF operations in the territories.

16:03: Tales of abuse from Burqin, West Bank.

15:39: Israel buries the bodies, but cannot hide the evidence.

14:46: Yesterday (April, 12), a joint Arab and Jewish Israeli demonstration was held across from the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv (situated on the sea-shore) set for the occasion of Secretary of State Powell's visit.

12:27: The Israeli High Court ordered the army not to remove the bodies of Palestinians killed in fighting in the Jenin refugee camp until a hearing is held on the matter.
The decision came in response to a petition presented by attorney Jamil Dakaur from the Arab "Adala" organization.

12:17: World finally gets glimpse of Jenin refugee camp devastation.

04:58: Rescue workers pulled the bodies of eight family members (including a pregnant woman, three young boys and an 85-year-old man) from the rubble of a home demolished by Israeli bulldozers in the West Bank town of Nablus.

02:01: Personal Testimony by Asaf Oron, a Sergeant Major in the Giv'ati Brigade and one of the original 53 Israeli soldiers who signed the "Fighters' Letter" declaring that from now on they will refuse to serve in the Occupied territories.

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