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Urgent Appeal to the World

> April 12th, 2002
> 
> 
> It has now been confirmed that Israeli troops have committed a massacre in
> Jenin. The Israeli army admits several hundred people have been killed, but
> Palestinians fear the numbers are much higher.
> 
> Israel is now attempting to cover up its crime by removing the bodies of the
> dead from the camp and burying them in the northern part of the Jordan
> Valley, in a secret location.
> 
> For ten days not a single journalist, nurse, doctor, international Red Cross
> team or observer has been able to reach the site of the massacre. No
> representative from UNWRA, the UN body responsible for the camp, has been
> permitted to visit the area — everybody denied access so they cannot see or
> report what has occurred.
> 
> Most of the 15,000 residents of the camp have been killed, injured or
> completely dispossessed of their homes and shelter. The camp has been
> destroyed.
> 
> Israel refused to listen to the International community when it demanded the
> troops withdraw from the camp; now they are trying to create a complete news
> blackout of the situation, so the world cannot learn what they have done
> there. We, members of Palestinian civil society are concerned that same
> events may be carried out in a different area — as long as the army remains
> in the West Bank this is a real threat. We are also concerned that next, not
> content with a blackout on the media, Sharon will attack the organizations
> and Palestinian civil society institutions that are daring, and able to,
> speak out.
>
> We are now, more than ever, in desperate need of an international protection
> force to be immediately deployed to the West Bank.
>
> We appeal to the world to not remain silent. Sharon must be stopped. The
> atrocity he and his army have committed must be seen; new atrocities must be
> prevented. To add insult to injury, Israeli spokespeople are claiming
> Palestinians are hiding the bodies of the dead in order to stage a
> propaganda coup in the coming days. This lie is a cynical Israeli attempt to
> distort the truth - another Israeli attempt to cover up their actions.
>
>
> Write to your representatives and Israeli officials - for addresses see
> http://www.palestinemonitor.org/Activism/Activism/contact_info_for_campaigns
> .htm
>
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