[Nettime-bold] Fwd: INTERNATIONALS IN WITH ARAFAT CALL FOR THEIR AMBASSADORS

[Gita Hashemi <gita@yorku.ca>]

This is a forward.

>
>Sunday, March 31, 2002
>For Immediate Release
>
>***Press Release***
>
>
>INTERNATIONALS IN WITH ARAFAT CALL FOR THEIR AMBASSADORS
>
>[RAMALLAH] 50 International civilians entered Yasser Arafat’s
>Presidential Compound today, which is under continuous siege by the
>Israeli Forces. The group of Internationals is comprised of civilian
>volunteers from France, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, Britain, Ireland,
>Germany, and Israel who are here on a humanitarian mission. Thirty-four
>(34) international civilians remain inside.  The group has stated that
>they will remain inside of the Presidential Compound until the siege is
>lifted; they remain in solidarity with all Palestinian people who are
>now under occupation and extend their demands to include the end of
>Israel’s occupation of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip.  The
>Israeli’s have cut power, phone lines and water supply to the compound.
>Food is also in short supply.
>
>The 34 foreign civilians are asking for their respective ambassadors to
>urgently come to President Arafat's compound.
>
>The city of Ramallah, where the group of internationals is currently
>based, is under closure and violent occupation by Israeli Forces. Power
>has been cut in most neighborhoods of Ramallah and water and food is in
>short supply in many homes, hospitals have had to resort to back-up
>generators and the transport of medicine and medical supplies has been
>disrupted. International witnesses have reported Israeli forces breaking
>in doors of homes and conducting mass arrests, where Palestinian’s have
>been bound and placed in torturous positions for extended periods, there
>have also been at least 14 extra-judicial executions performed by the
>Israeli Forces in the last 2 days. Medical personnel have been arrested
>by the Israeli’s and several ambulances have been confiscated, Israeli
>Forces also attempted to enter Ramallah Hospital earlier today but were
>kept out by a human blockade of conducted by the Internationals.
>
>For more information call-
>
>Adam 972 52 481 261
>
>Huwaida 972 52 642-709
>
>    972 55 851 896
>
>    972 55 975 374
>
>For information on Israeli: Allegra: 972 50 387 570
>
>For statement from Israeli see www.jerusalem.indymedia.org

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Israeli army. Our silence implicates us in the genocide. 

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