April 09, 2002: The IDF has deployed a large
number of troops and intense firepower in an effort to break the
Palestinian resistance. Officers in the area have described the battle as
a "Palestinian Masada," saying that there is a huge amount of destruction
in the camp, and that the bodies of dozens of dead Palestinians are strewn
in the streets. Leaning over drips nearly empty of fluid, Zahra al-Wawe
worked without electricity, blood banks or ambulances, pleading for help
over her mobile telephone until the battery ran dry, shouting: “We are
losing them, we are losing them.”
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Medical sources fear that at least 150 residents have been killed and
the bodies are still lying in streets, alleyways and inside shelters and
homes. Sources told LAW that the refugees are suffering from lack of food,
medicines, water. The camp has ran out of all basic supplies. Medical
sources fear a health epidemic in the camp. Contrary to Israeli claims
that ambulances have been allowed access, medical personnel told LAW that
two ambulances, trying to evacuate the wounded in Jenin, were ran over and
destroyed today by Israeli tanks. LAW
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Jenin. Remember this word, for every time your lose faith in humanity,
all you need to do is to recall it. Repeat inside of you, slowly, when you
are down and frail. It should give you vigor and lift your spirit. It's a
symbol of courage, courage beyond these times of despair and degradation,
courage that's legendary, almost mythological. How else can we explain
that a small refugee camp, less than a kilometer sq. length and width
stands for days in the face of hundreds of tanks, Apache helicopters and
thousands of trained killers, they call soldiers? story by
Ramzy Baroud
