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SOS calls from the Jenin Refugee camp!



SOS calls from the Jenin Refugee camp!  The camp, 1 km squared, home to
approximately 15,000 people is being attacked by air and land.  Contacts in
Jenin City report heavy black smoke rising from inside the camp.  Friends
inside the camp are reporting heavy bombardment by tanks and helicopter
gunships.  Bulldozers have also been brought into the camp and are
demolishing homes to make way in the narrow streets of the camp for tanks to
enter.

"We have no electricity and no water.  Our water tanks have been destroyed
from the intensity of the Israeli bombardment.  Our wives are crying and our
kids are screaming.  There's no television to distract them.  All they are
hearing is the explosions all around them. Where is the conscience of the
world when we are being massacred and no one is intervening to stop it?" –
Jamal Abu Al-Haije, resident of Jenin Camp

Dr. Ali Jabareen of the Jenin Hospital reports that they need help reaching
the injured and dead.  People are being left to bleed in the streets and
other people are being buried under the rubble of their homes.  No idea how
many people are dead.  The hospital ambulances are not being allowed to
move.  UNRWA and the International Committee of the Red Cross are not able
to function.  Is there anyone to help? To contact Dr. Ali Jabareen, please
call: +972-4-250-2653/4

Reports from Nablus are that they have also brought bulldozers into the
Balata Refugee Camp.

Random explosions throughout Ramallah.  Difficult to know what is being
blown up.

Innocent Palestinian civilians are being terrorized and killed. The
international community has an obligation to stop this massacre.  Will we
wait until it's over to say that we're sorry?

Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon
Office of the Prime Minister
Tel: ++972 2 6705555
Fax: ++972 2 566 4838
Email: pm@gov.il

Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz,
IDF Chief of Staff,
Ha-Qirya,
Tel-Aviv,
Israel.
Fax: ++972-3-569-55-94

Mr. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,
Minister of Defense,
Ministry of Defense,
37 Kaplan st.,
Tel-Aviv 61909,
Israel.
E-mail: sar@mod.gov.il
Fax: ++972-3-696-27-57 / ++972-3-691-69-40 /
++972-3-691-79-15


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mrs. Mary Robinson
OHCHR
Tel. ++41 22 917 9000
Fax. ++41 22 917 9012/9006/9005
E-mail webadmin.hchr@unog.ch

UNICEF
Carol Bellamy, Executive Director
UNICEF House
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
USA
Tel: +212 826 7000
Fax: +212 887 7465
CC:  UNICEF Jerusalem Office
Pierre Poupard
UNICEF Special Representative
West Bank & Gaza
FAX: 583 0806

President, European Commission
(Romano Prodi)
European Commission
200 rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
E-mail: romano.prodi@cec.eu.int

US President
George Bush
The White House
1 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone: ++1-202 456 1414
Fax: ++1-202 456 2461
Email: president@whitehouse.gov