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Table of Contents: Re: Petition to condemn Ariel Sharon for War Crimes Bram Dov Abramson <bda@bazu.org> Web Strike in Solidarity with Palestinian people - Report From Bethlehem "ricardo dominguez" <rdom@thing.net> (en) Occupied Palestine, Bullets against International observers and activists gradozero@inventati.org (by way of John Jordan) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:00:25 -0500 From: Bram Dov Abramson <bda@bazu.org> Subject: Re: Petition to condemn Ariel Sharon for War Crimes anansi1@earthlink.net: > The petition below will help the lawyers in Belgium who are suing >Ariel Sharon for war crimes. > > They need 1,000,000 signatures. They currently have 307,551 What happens when they get to 1,000,000 signatures? cheers Bram - -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:09:36 -0500 From: "ricardo dominguez" <rdom@thing.net> Subject: Web Strike in Solidarity with Palestinian people - Report From Bethlehem [This call is a forward without the attachments mentioned. The files can be downloaded from palestinian.org site.] Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:31:28 -0500 From: Gita Hashemi <gita@yorku.ca> Subject: Web Strike in Solidarity with Palestinian people Gita - - ---------- Hello All, We, Internet users and Webmasters, announce a GENERAL STRIKE protesting the Israeli aggression against and in solidarity with the Palestinian people and leadership in Ramallah. We urge you to join us in the strike, by sending this logo (attached) to as many people as you can, and stopping all the services given in your websites, while loading your websites into the strike page. Please help us have affect on the world, by joining the strike. ONLY TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE. If you have a website, please join the strike, and replace the first page in your website with the files attached (index.html , strike1.jpg). (Here is one of the striking sites: http://www.palestinian.org/ ). Thanks alot for your help, STRIKE@PALESTINIAN.ORG Feel free to forward/print the logo. <<<MORE>>> Report From Bethlehem by Kristen Schurr March 31, 2002 Last night, 30 March 2002, 20 of us stayed in Al Azzeh refugee camp of 5,000 inside of Bethlehem with several families expecting an invasion by the Israeli military. We went two to a house. There is no land to build on, so any new homes are built atop existing ones. At the house I stayed in, we watched Arfat on television most of the night giving a press conference inside his compound in Ramallah. At 10pm he was given one hour to surrender by Israeli military or they would go in shooting. This has not yet happened and he has said he will not go alive. Television stations showed five dead, shot at point blank range inside Arafat's compound. The family I was with stays up most of the night and sleeps during the morning daylight hours. The shooting at nights requires them to quickly move from one room to the next, and to always be ready. They do not jump when they hear the popping of F-16s. They simply get up and move as the noise becomes louder. There was a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The bomber was from Nablus, which is further north from Bethlehem. The families inside of Al Azzeh refugee camp expected Israeli military to invade the camp and disappear all of the men aged 16 to 50 years old. Israeli snipers continued to fire into the camp throughout the night. They fired at Palestinians and internationals alike as we scurried across roads to get inside of the houses, which are litered with bullet holes. Many of the windows are protected by bags of sand. We met the mother of a 14 year old Palestinian girl who was shot by Israeli snipers as she opened the front door of her house inside the camp two weeks ago. I was expected to address a conference at Columbia University in NYC via telephone at 3:30 am Palestinian time, but my cel phone was unable to function. All international media has been asked to leave Bethlehem. Now the Palestinian people need all people from around the globe as much as ever. I write this quickly to you all from Dehesha refugee camp because invasion of Bethlehem is now imminent. It is expected within the next two hours. It is now 1:30 pm. We are told that if Arafat is assasinated the Israeli military will fully re-occupy the entire West Bank, of which Bethlehem is a part. We will return to Al Azzeh camp within the hour to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian families as the invasion unfolds. Yesterday Beit Jala, the town without lights at night that stands across the valley from an Israel settlement fully lit conected by a bridge that only Israelis are allowed to use, was invaded in order to be at the highest point surrounding Bethlehem. Parts of Beit Jala are under curfew. It is still impossible to get to Ramallah, where Palestinians and internationals are asking for assistance. Some are blocking tanks, others defied the curfew by donating blood. As here in Bethlehem, in Ramallah internationals are also riding along inside of ambulences. We are here in solidarity with the Palestinian peoplein order to bring attention to the brutal military occupation, sanctions, killings, and daily humiliation Palestinians face at the hands of Israeli military and government. Bethelehem, according to those who live there, is virtually deserted. Streets that once swarmed with life are mostly shut down now. All schools are evacuated. Teachers say they are not afraid. Many Palestinians say all they have left is their will. We have been thanked and fed and described as peace prophets. Our presence is necessary and deeply appreciated. We request that as many of you who receive this help in any way you can. I can only ask that we all please raise awarness of this situation, work on divestment campaigns, and tell Bush and the US government that their funding of the Israeli military is a terrorist atrocity which must not be stood for. We will update you as much as possible. Thank you so much for your caring and interest. A suicide bomber has just hit Haifa, which is about 90 km from Tel Aviv. Salaam, Kristen Schurr Bethlehem, Palestine 31 March 2002 http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/report_schurr.cfm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:50:44 +0000 From: gradozero@inventati.org (by way of John Jordan) Subject: (en) Occupied Palestine, Bullets against International observers and activists ________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ At 3:00 p.m. Italian activists from the National Committee in support of Intifada and from Indymedia Italia, French and Swiss from GIPP, and internationals from International Solidarity Movement gathered in Bethlehem for a small demo directed to Beit Jala to visit houses occupied by the Israeli army and to bring food and medicaments to the Palestinian people. Around 100 people headed for Bethlehem, where the atmosphere was really heavy and streets deserted. Two buses of Action for Peace activists with a MP that were trying to come to the action were stopped at the Bethlehem check point. Following the sound of a clarinet and of hands clapping we moved to Beit Jala village.n Stop the Occupation", "Sharon you will see Palestine will be free" the slogan chanted while climbing up. We arrived at the point where two days ago we met the tanks and the road was empty, there were only a few kids that started running toward us and joined the march. We continued toward the houses with the snipers, in front of which we know the tanks are stationed, to try to bring medicaments and food to the Palestinian families isolated there. At this point arrived a tank in front of us. In the gun-turret a soldier looked at us coldly. He was cold as someone knowing what he has to do and that it is normal routine in his life and he pointed at us the rifle. A contact group tried to negotiate, but immediately started the first burst one meter from their foot. They weren't plastic bullets. They were real bullets, they hurt: the first wounded were a journalist and an Australian girl that was hit straight into the stomach. People didn't panic; they group and try to send the negotiators forth again. Machine-gun burst gave no possible further discussion. We started to drew back slowly to avoid panic and situations of more dangerous chaos. Shots got more and more frequent and near, around 30 of them. There were shots hitting the road at 10 cm from a man ankle. There were shots hitting walls and shots toward video cams and cameras. The tank moved forward. Most of the people accelerated their walk while two rows drew back slowly. Soldiers continued to shoot against us. Some of us remained blocked in a lateral alley behind a small gate, and despite our claims we were obliged to let them escape into a house. The withdraw went on for twenty slow minutes, the tank was following us at a distance of two meters. In a little lateral road a cameraman and a journalist from the BBC try to take the car, but soldiers didnmt agree and covered them with bursts under our powerless eyes, until they decide, uninjured but terrorized, to go back with the group. At last the tank stopped. A camera came out the trapdoor. His arm came out; holding a cameraVthe soldiers took pictures of usV At last we made our way back to Bethlehem. We inquired about wounded: they're seven; one of them, the Australian girl, in the operating room. The others have little hurts caused by splinters and pebble that have been thrown here and there by the bullets. We went back the center "IBDAA" in the camp to spread the communication. For us now the occupation is a more vivid reality. As for thousands of Palestinians every day. As the war. You can't just stay and look. 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