From: Patricia Smith
To: Al awda news
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:54 AM
Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] House to house searches, Detainment and Executions
Clearinghouse
URGENT UPDATE
House to house searches, Detainment and Executions
A Worsening Crisis
31st March 2002
The Israeli army continues to occupy cities in the
West Bank; soldiers are currently engaged in
house-to-house searches, indiscriminately detaining
people and destroying property. The prisoners are
being held in concentration camp like places in the
nearby Israeli military base of Beit El, without
water, food or shelter.
Even more worrying is what may happen to the arrested
individuals. Israeli soldiers executed five
Palestinian policemen the day before yesterday. The
policemen, four of who were aged in their 50s and
over, were found lying close to one another, with
gunshots to their heads; before they were killed there
was no gunfire coming from the building, they did not
appear to be resisting the Israel soldiers who had
surrounded and entered the building they were in. Four
more corpses have just been found in another building
in Ramallah; they were also executed in the same
manner.
Two men were killed in a similar manner in Sayda, near
Tulkaram.
The house-to-house searches and indiscriminate
detaining of civilians present an imminent threat to
the lives of many Palestinians.
It is also becoming obvious that Israel intends to
re-occupy the whole of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Furthermore it appears Sharon is preparing to execute
Mr. Arafat � a move which will cause an explosion in
the whole region.
Throughout the past 19 months Sharon has been allowed
to conduct his plan to kill the peace process, destroy
the peace agreements, annihilate the Palestinian
Authority and to reoccupy the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. He has been able to do so because the
international community has permitted him; he cannot
be allowed to hurl us into a more dangerous situation.
The Grassroots International Protection for
Palestinians (GIPP) has issued a call for people from
all over the world to come to Palestine and
participate in the defense of Palestinians whose lives
are threatened by the Israeli military.
For more information contact the Palestine Monitor at
+972 (0)59 208258
Emergency Rafah Relief Fund:
http://al-awda.org/rafah_fund.htm
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