[Nettime-bold] Jenin - Witness: I saw houses demolished with people inside

[paolo columbo <pacolum@tin.it>]

Jenin - Witness: I saw houses demolished with people inside

by translator 6:11pm Sat Apr 6 '02

"IDF bulldozers moved in to the East and West entrances of the
refugee camp; the soldiers ordered civilians to leave the houses but even
if many refused to obey they started to bulldoze the buildings
anyway". This is what Adnan Al Sabah told ANSA (Italian news
agency). Adnan Al Sabah is a Palestinian writer, director of the press
centre of Jenin refugee camp where today, according to medical staff,
many civilians have been buried alive inside their houses destroyed by
IDF bulldozers. 
Al Sabah, speaking on the phone from the refugee camp where journalists
are not allowed in, said he witnessed what has happened. "The
soldiers arrived late in the morning and wanted to clear a way through
the houses for the tanks to move in. Through loudspeakers they ordered
the civilians to leave their houses raising their hands: those who did so
have been handcuffed and brought away, the others have been buried
alive". 
Al Sabah maintains that the demolitions have caused many casualties but
he is not able to give figures, also because IDF has sealed the area even
preventing ambulances to intervene. 
Nader Rashid, a doctor at Jenin hospital, told Al Jazira TV that tanks
"have surrounded the hospital preventing anyone to leave or enter
the building and are stopping ambulances".

Rashid confirmed that "many civilians have been killed during the demolition of houses", and the hospital keeps receiving "hundreds of emergency calls from the refugee camp in Jenin where the fightings continue causing many victims" but they are unable to help.

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