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Palestinian updates 14th April

I.M.C.-UK | 14.04.2002 12:49

LATEST UPDATES FROM WITHIN PALESTINE

April 14, 2002:

- Read full Arafat's anti-terrorism statement here.
- Read three articles published in today's Independent newspaper: Jenin: The camp that became a slaughterhouse

[All reported times in GMT]

22:00 Solidarity with arrested Arab Israelis.

21.30 No breakthrough in negotiations over Nativity Church.

21.00 Sharon says an international peace conference to be convened soon - without Arafat.

20:30 Iraq urges Iran to give oil revenue to Palestinians.

18:40 Confessions of an Israeli reservist: "The most terrible thing is to go into houses and see that they are just regular families. The children with their wide frightened eyes, I find very difficult."

18:30 Reporters Sans Frontieres blasts Israel for curbing press freedom.

18:20 The Palestine Center For Human Rights reports that the Israeli authorities reopened the notorious Ketziot desert prison camp popularly known as “Ansar 3.” During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Palestinian prisoners were held in the facility.

18:00 Statements from eyewitnesses, collected by LAW, confirm that despite Friday's Israeli High Court's interim order, Israeli forces have continued moving bodies outside Jenin refugee camp.

17:45 A delegation from the Swedish “Palestinian Solidarity Group” has been refused entry into Israel. Two delegates are doctors attempting to come to the West bank to carry out an assessment of the current medical situation – a project funded by the Swedish government.

17:30 Call for fund-raising for the people still trapped inside Jenin.

17:00 Report of summary executions in Jenin by Mezan Center for Human Rights.

16:45 The Israeli army has acknowledged it had killed hundreds of Palestinians earlier in the week in the Jenin refugee camp. "There were apparently hundreds of dead," the army's chief spokesman, Brigadier-General Ron Kitrey, told Army Radio. Kitrey's estimate sharply revised upwards the army's previous figure of some 100 Palestinian fighters killed in Jenin.

16:30 Imc-Italy reports that IDF is surrounding Jenin and other areas with barbed wire to "contain suicide bombers".
16:05 Article in The Independent(uk)newspaper : The camp that became a slaughterhouse "The wounded left to die slowly, in horrible agony..."

15:15 Israeli Supreme Court ruling : Israeli army must hand over the bodies of those Palestinian soldiers killed in Jenin refugee camp.

14:25 Cultural center in Ramallah seriously damaged by Israeli army operations.

14:20 Powell describes his talks with Arafat: 'useful and constructive'.

14:00 Report of top Hamas activist killed; Jerusalem bombing: two of the dead were Chinese workers.

13:40 Report from the Israeli Peace Movement of the Jenin Checkpoint Demonstration yesterday

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.

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