ךשמה ;םיישונא םיניגמב שומיש ;םיימואלניב םיליעפ ינש שרגל הנווכ ןלוג עטנ לש התדרטה by םתוי 5:18pm Fri Feb 21 '03 yotamtly@yahoo.com רימחמו ךלוה םכשב בצמהשכ תיחרזאה הייסולכואב העיגפהו םילארשיה תוחוכה םיאצומ ,תכשמנ םיליעפב םג "לפטל" ןמזה תא ןזוס .ריעב םיהושה םיימואלניבה הקירפא םורדמ ןיבורו ב"הראמ ויהשכ ל"הצ ילייח ידי לע ורצענ םולשה יליעפ לש השיגפל םכרדב .רוחס תיבב םיימואלניבה ןזוסו לאירא דיל ררחוש ןיבור תרטשמב רצעמב ןיידע תקזחומ איה ,הארנ ךכ ,הרטמה .לאירא ,הקיתו הליעפ לש השוריגל איבהל םייניטסלפה םיחטשב וז ,תיסחי .םישובכה יעישתה שדוחב ,ןלוג עטנ םג ,הרטמ תווהל הכישממ ,הנוירהל הלעב לש םיחא ינש - םעפהו םייושנא םיניגמכ שמשל וחקלנ .םינורחאה םימיב תעונת יליעפ וחלשש בתכמה ןלהל העידי) תימואלניבה תוירדילוסה .(תילגנאב print article NABLUS: Outrages Continue Today in Nablus the Israeli Army continued its campaign of terror and vandalism against he Old City. All of the 12 the ISM activists based in the city (from Sweden, Switzerland,, Palestine, Ireland, South Africa, the UK, Denmark and the USA) were active around the city escorting people who were fleeing their homes to other parts of the city, working with Palestinian UPMRC (first aid) volunteers to rescue the injured, visiting houses and buildings that had been ransacked or demolished by the Israeli occupying army and following groups of Israeli soldiers who had taken Palestinians with them as human shields in their house to house terror campaign. With the coming of daylight the activists were also able to investigate an explosion they heard the previous night. When they did so they discovered that the Israelis had demolished an historic Turkish bath-house - part of Israel's ongoing campaign against the Palestinians' cultural and historical heritage. During the day two more demolitions were carried out. One of demolitions was of a goldsmith's store (where the soldiers found acid, which they concluded might be used in the manufacture of bombs). As they surveyed the Old City the activists discovered that throughout entire neighbourhoods there was not one house that had not been trashed and that many had "rat holes" blown through the walls. Several homes throughout the city were occupied by the invading troops including that of the long term Israeli peace activist, Neta Golan who is nine months pregnant and now has two of her Palestinian brothers in law being used as human shields by the Israeli occupiers. The two men are among seven Palestinians civilians who have been forced to march in front of a Israeli troops during their house to house searches. The weather throughout the West Bank has been cold and wet today. When the soldiers are conducting a house search or occupying a house the activists are made to stand outside. When the soldiers retired to Neta Golan's house for the evening the men were made to stand outside in the rain until 8.30 when the soldiers took them inside. No one has been able to contact them or gather any information on how the men are being treated. Tomorrow, the ISM is having a strategy meeting of its core activists in Beit Sahour. When its two representatives from Nablus were leaving for the meeting through the Huwarra Checkpoint, one of the soldiers stopped Susan (from the United States). "You're a trouble maker," he said to her before confiscating her passport. "You're not going anywhere." When the other activist, Robin (from South Africa), refused to leave without her, his passport was taken too and both were detained at the checkpoint until the border police arrived to arrest them. When Susan phoned through the news of their arrest I contacted the US consulate to inform them of her situation but they hung up on me. With some difficulty I was able to let the South African consulate know about Robin's situation and they are considering a lodging a formal protest to the Israeli government. When the border police arrived they took Susan and Robin to the police station at Arael Settlement and interrogated them both. After an hour Robin was released and taken to a bus stop at the settlement from where he intends to catch a bus to Tel Aviv. Susan is still in custody. She has been working as an ISM activist in Occupied Palestine for the past six months and had a certificate in her passport advising that her visa extension was under consideration. The police have told her that they have phoned the Ministry of the Interior and that her extension has been refused. The ISM have notified a lawyer who is lodging an injunction with Israel's supreme court against her deportation but the police seem intent on transporting her to Tel Aviv from where they hope to deport her. Susan is a woman of almost boundless energy and compassion and has been a pillar of strength to the activists who worked with her. She has displayed the most remarkable courage and resourcefulness and never lost her cool, even under the most trying of circumstances. Her deportation would be a heavy blow to the ISM as the Israeli Army steps up the tempo of its terror campaign in the lead up to the next Gulf War. I have just been on the phone with our activists in Nablus who have been working since nightfall to deliver food and baby formula to houses in the Old City and gathering together the wounded into places where the ambulances were able to collect them. At around 9 pm they received a call from the neighbours of an occupied house to report that a twenty four year old woman was being held alone in her house by Israeli soldiers. When the neighbours had tried to take her out of the house to the safety of their own homes the soldiers had refused to release her. When the activists arrived at the house they found a group of fireman whom the soldiers had detained and proceeded to negotiate with the soldiers for the release of the firemen and the woman. The soldiers denied that there was a woman in the house but eventually released the firemen. As they left the house the firemen said that they had seen a Palestinian woman in the house. According to her neighbours the woman's name is Roqaia Abu Aladas who is alone in the house because her mother is in hospital suffering from a long term heart condition and her father and brother have been taken away into detention. If you want to help free Roqaia you can phone the Nablus DCO on +972 2 5486 218 / 217 or +972 2 5486 301 / 302 and demand her immediate release from the Abu Aladas House near Yasmina St of the Old City. If you want to help Susan continue her humanitarian work in Occupied Palestine over the coming months, you can contact the US consulate in Tel Aviv on +972 3 519 7575 and demand they do their job by intervening to ensure that Susan not be deported so that she can continue her humanitarian work in the Occupied Territories. For further information contact: • Hussein on 059 355 404 or • Maria on 059 381 803 ======================================= Michael ISM Media Coordinator Beit Sahour Occupied Palestine Phone: +972-2-277 4602 Cell: +972-67-862 439 www.palsolidarity.org add your comments Source file