STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:46 PM Subject: PALESTINE. HEBRON: HEAVY ISRAELI SHELLING: A One-Sided War CPTnet HEBRON: HEAVY IDF SHELLING: A One-Sided War 13 July 2001 Friday the Thirteenth opened with heavy shelling in Hebron, beginning at 12:00 midnight and lasting several hours. The first firing came from upper hills, though it is not known who shot first. Sniper fire came from the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Sneineh. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) fired continuous rounds of mortars and gunfire, exacting a heavy price from Palestinian civilians in the wake of the killing of a Kiryat Arba settler and wounding of another. This morning, CPTers Kathy Kamphoefner and Jim Satterwhite visited the areas which underwent the heaviest gunfire to document the damage. Several houses in the el-Numra neighborhood were damaged by IDF gunfire, tank fire and mortar bombs-- both by direct hits and by shrapnel. A tank came into the H-1 [Palestinian-controlled] area from the Kiryat Arba settlement, according to residents, and began firing at the Palestinian Authority's (PA) border point about 1:00 am. Houses on both sides of the border marker experienced heavy gunfire. The house just inside the PA-controlled area is a double house, belonging to the families of Fawzey and Ruah Dana and, Manaafiz and Ala' Dana, Nafez Dana and Wudu'a Manass Dana and family reside in the adjoining house. The glass on the front of the building was shattered in the blasts. Most of the beds in the house were strewn with shattered glass. Shades and curtains showed bullet holes. Wudu'a was shot in the waist and is in the hospital. The houses were without water, as holes had been shot in the roof-top tanks. Electrical power to most of the Hebron area was out today. The IDF had shot out an electrical transformer in front of the houses. A fire truck arrived and sprayed water on the transformer at 12:30 pm, as it was still burning. A truck in front of the houses had been destroyed by an explosion. In a pet shop belonging to Tala' Qawasmi, CPTers observed many bullet holes and two aquariums had been destroyed, leaving fish to die on the floor. Next door was a house just in front of the PA border marker, belonging to Rubeen Zeyyad Sherif, housing 22 persons. Most of the windows on the front of the three-story houses were destroyed by bomb blasts, which began about 3 am. Walls were pock-marked with from rifle fire. Glass shards were everywhere. The family's water tanks were empty due to bullet holes. In the neighborhood behind these houses, other families also experienced considerable gunfire. In Noor Al-Jabari greeted the team members by holding up a 4-inch shell, and saying, "Made in the USA." Al-Jabari said no one in the house had slept last night. Kamphoefner and Satterwhite next visited families in the Harit Is-Sheikh neighborhood right above the center of town. The scene was similar, where a tank had fired on the homes in the vicinity of the PA border check-point, inside H-1. Eid Qawasmi reported his house and nine family members received gunfire from Tel Rumeida on the opposite hill. Shooting in this area began at 12 midnight. Further up the hill, mortar fire left large holes in the two-room house for 9 persons belonging to Osmi Adel Mahmoud Abdel-Khader. Abdel-Khader's car was shot several times and its rear windshield was shattered. In the one-room house belonging to Jahad Abdel-Rahman Abu-Zir, his wife and seven children, the front windows were broken out and bullet holes were found in the walls. Two twin baby girls, now four days old, Alla and Iyya were sleeping in one corner of the room during the shooting. In the street, the front of Abu-Zir's car also took five shots. The car of Hamdi Adel-Ghani Khaleeli was also damaged by bullets. His family of 10 persons, including a two-month old son, spent the night in one inner room of the house to avoid injury. He reported that the entire house shook for much of the time, due to the intensity of the bombardment. Water tanks in the area were empty due to bullet holes, he reported. What was striking about all of these incidents was that the IDF returned the night's sporadic Palestinian sniper fire with continuous automatic weapons fire and the tank bombardment of Palestinian residential neighborhoods. We have seen this pattern of collective punishment quite often in this occupation. Christian Peacemaker Teams is a program of Brethren, Quaker and Mennonite Churches. CPT P. O. Box 6508 Chicago, IL 60680 tel. 312-455-1199 FAX 312-432-1213, E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB www.prairienet.org/cpt [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
