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Reuters. 11 April 2002. Palestinians Urge U.N. Probe Into Jenin Killings. RAMALLAH -- Palestinians called on Thursday for the United Nations to investigate the killings in Jenin refugee camp. Mohammed Dahlan, a senior aide to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, told Reuters the Palestinian Authority had sent letters appealing to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and heads of other international organizations for an investigation. Palestinians have accused Israel of carrying out massacres in Jenin and elsewhere, and have said 500 Palestinians, some of them in Jenin camp, have been killed in Israel's 13-day-old offensive in the West Bank. Jenin camp, like other West Bank areas, has been declared a closed military area, barring journalists from obtaining their own independent accounts. "We asked him (Annan) to form an investigation committee to probe the war crimes, the ethnic cleansing policy and the massacres of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in the Jenin camp committed by the Israeli army," Dahlan said. The Palestinian Authority issued a statement calling on the international community "to dispatch international monitors and to stop these Nazi massacres against our people." Israel has opposed an international observer force in the region. Residents in the camp, speaking by telephone, described seeing bodies lying in the narrow alleys during the fighting. "In the street that I walked through, there were also bodies of children and women as well. I was horrified. I don't know how many," said Yosra, who declined to give her family name. During the fighting, Palestinian ambulances were not allowed to enter the camp to evacuate wounded and dead. Thousands of protesters marched in the Gaza Strip on Thursday protesting over the Jenin killings and chanting slogans praising the Palestinian fighters for their resistance. "We will sacrifice our souls and blood for Jenin," a banner read in Gaza City, where one of the demonstrations called for by the Palestinian Authority was held. "Sabra and Shatila, Jenin, what is next?" read another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
