From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CPTnet > June 8, 2001 > HEBRON: Let the World Know > By Jane Adas > > > Where should a person feel secure if not in a hospital bed? That is what > Um Maher asked CPTers Bob Holmes and Jane Adas as she sat outside the > intensive care unit in Alia Hospital where her 22-year-old daughter, > Majdaleen Alrai, lay critically wounded. > > Majdaleen, from Al Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron, had spent one week > in the hospital for treatment of diabetes and was scheduled to return home > on May 21. She was looking forward to her wedding with > 25-year-old Mohammed Rageb Silmi, which was to have taken place the first > week in June. > > At 11:30pm on May 20, CPTers had been awakened by sporadic heavy gun and > tank fire. We later learned that it came from the soldier camp guarding > the four mobile homes that comprise the Israeli settlement of Tel Rumeida, > and was directed towards a Palestinian neighborhood less than a kilometer > away from > the CPT apartment. > > The patients in Alia Hospital were awakened as well. For the sixth time in > the second intifada the hospital was hit by Israeli fire. A live bullet > pierced the window over Majdaleen's bed and lodged in her abdomen. Um > Maher, sleeping on a mattress beside her daughter's bed, described how > Majdaleen cried out, struggled from her bed and collapsed in the corridor. > > Majdaleen suffered extensive damage to her liver, kidney, and > intestines. While doctors operated for three hours, Um Maher tried to call > family members, but their cell phones were closed. In the early morning > she was finally able to reach Mohammed, a laborer en route to work in > Jerusalem. Mohammed returned to inform family members and bring them to > the hospital in Hebron. That was when he learned that Um Maher's family > home in the Al Aroub camp had been completely damaged by Israeli tank fire > at 12:30 am. > > Mohammed urged Holmes and Adas to let the world know how Israeli military > aggression has turned Palestinian lives upside down. Um Maher asked why > Arab countries only talk while the Israeli military destroys Palestinian > homes over their children's heads. She asked why the United Nations > enforces resolutions punishing Iraq but ignores similar resolutions > critical of Israel. "Why does the world allow what is happening to > us?" We have no answers to her questions. > > > ______________________ > > Christian Peacemaker Teams is an initiative among Mennonite and Church of > the Brethren congregations and Friends Meetings that supports violence > reduction efforts around the world. Contact CPT, POB 6508 Chicago, IL 60680, > TEL. 312-455-1199 FAX 312-432-1213 / To receive news or discussion of CPT > issues by e-mail, fill out the form found on our WEB page at > http://www.prairienet.org/cpt/ ============================================== _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
