Tre volontari arrestati a Tulkarem / Tanks a Balata

["Edvino Ugolini" <edvinoug@tin.it>]

FREE PALESTINE !




*** Press Release ***



24 May, 2003 For Immediate Release



ISM ACTIVISTS DETAINED BY ISRAELI MILITARY



[Refugee Camp, TULKAREM]  Two American ISM volunteers and one Palestinian
were taken by Israeli Forces at 9:45AM this morning after accompanying
schoolgirls to their homes.  Mike Johnson, age 52 from Washington, Matteo
Bernal, age 22, from Kentucky and Osama Qashoo, 21, from Qalqilia are
currently being held at the Tulkarem DCO.



ISM volunteers arrived to the Tulkarem refugee camp at approximately 7AM
this morning, witnessing dozens of schoolgirls on their way to school
amidst a heavy military presence including three tanks, multiple armored
personnel carriers, a D-9 bulldozer, hummers and jeeps.  About fifteen
girls between nine and eleven years old were stranded on their on way to
school, crying and paralyzed in fear from the Army's sound grenades and
random firing of rubber bullets.  The ISM volunteers informed the Israeli
Military of their decision to escort the girls out of harms way. The army
agreed to let the volunteers take the children home and did not instruct
them to leave the area.



Upon attempting to leave the camp at 9:45AM, after having led the
schoolgirls to safety, Israeli Forces stopped the volunteers, refusing to
let them leave the camp under the pretext that the area was a military
zone.  A large truck and a military jeep arrived, at which point the three
volunteers were taken to the Tulkarem DCO where they are currently being
held in a 15X30 cell.



Johnson and Bernal are the sixth and seventh foreign ISM peace activists to
be taken by Israeli forces in the past two weeks.



For more information call: Radhika Sainath        972 52 475 663

                                           Mike Johnson        972 67 421 345

                                           Flo Razowsky       972 67 361 708



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Balata Incursion



A group of Israeli peace activists and internationals are monitoring the
activities of a tank that has entered Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus. It
is reported that some children have been throwing stones at the invading
tank. No injuries have been reported at this time.



For more information call: Neta Golan   972 59 871 055




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