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From: patricia smith
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Israeli Authorities deport Flemish Peace Activists / UPMRC ambulance and Danish medical team shot at
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URGENT UPDATE
Israeli Authorities deport Flemish Peace Activists:
UPMRC ambulance and Danish medical team shot at
29 March 2002
6:00pm
This afternoon at 3pm eighteen Flemish peace activists
arrived at Ben Gurion airport from Belgium to join the
Grassroots International Protection for Palestinians
(GIPP) campaign. At 5:30 p.m., Israeli authorities at
the airport physically forced the members of the
delegation onto the bus that would take them to the
plane to be deported.
The peace activists were told by Israeli airport
security that they were not welcome in Israel, and
were later told that due to the recent escalation of
violence, that they could not be responsible for their
safety. The peace activists protested their
deportation by staging a sit-in at the airport when
the Israeli authorities physically lifted some of them
by their hands and feet and forced them onto the bus
that would take them to the plane that awaited them on
the tarmac.
In Ramallah, a Union of Palestinian Medical Relief
Committees (UPMRC) ambulance carrying a Danish medical
team was shot at by the Israeli army when it tried to
reach the wounded inside the compound of the
Palestinian Authority headquarters. Local medical
personnel fear for the lives of not only Chairman
Arafat but for all of the civilian population who are
also in grave danger.
On behalf of Palestinian civil society, we call on
those who believe in peace and justice to immediately
begin demonstrations and protests in front of their
local Israeli embassies to stop the Israeli government
from waging this war on the Palestinian population.
Together we can stop the disaster that Sharon is
intent on carrying out.
For more information contact the Palestine Monitor at
+972-59-208-258
Emergency Rafah Relief Fund:
http://al-awda.org/rafah_fund.htm
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