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Massacre in Ramallah
The Palestine Monitor, 2 Apr 2002

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Betreff:  [AL-AWDA-News] URGENT APPEAL: Massacre in Ramallah
Datum: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:01:43 +0100 (BST)
Von: Patricia Smith <palestine_monitor_alquds@yahoo.co.uk>
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The Palestine Monitor,
A PNGO Information Clearinghouse

URGENT APPEAL

Massacre in Ramallah

02nd April 2002 -8 am þ

The Israeli army is attacking the site of the Preventive Security Forces in Ramallah with tanks and helicopter gunships in what has been a continuous assault of bombardment and shelling since last night. There are children inside the building, which is on fire, and ambulances and fire brigades are not allowed to reach the scene.
    At 1 am this morning the Preventive Security Compound was completely surrounded by Israeli army tanks, helicopter gunships and snipers. The Israeli army used more than 50 Palestinian detainees as human shields to walk in front of the tanks as they advances and surrounded the compound. People inside were asked to surrender and leave the building but whenever people tried to move they were shot.
    The Preventive Security is a branch of the Palestinian police and the compound holds a mixture of civilian and security facilities – there is a hospital inside, a nursery, a hotel, and other civilian facilities. Most of the people trapped inside the burning building are female employees who work in the civilian services and live inside the compound with their children and families. We have been called by desperate women trapped inside the building along with their children pleading for help and assistance.
    At this moment (8 am) the bombardment is ongoing and helicopter gunships are circulating over Ramallah. There seems to be a large number of killed and injured people inside the compound but up until this release no one has been able to provide medical and humanitarian assistance. Five ambulances from the Medical Relief Teams and the Red Crescent that tried to reach the site were stopped and held stuck. The medical staff was forced out of the ambulances, stripped of their clothes and put on the ground outside the Ramallah Municipality.
    This is a massacre in every sense of the word. Attacking a civilian facility, using innocent people as human shields and not allowing humanitarian assistance is an atrocity and must be stopped immediately.
    In other parts of Ramallah people have been without food and water for days and we are receiving desperate calls from families who have been without drinking water for two days. The Ministry of Health has warned that due to the high numbers of unburied corpses all over there is a serious threat of diseases spreading. We would also like to remind you that the Israeli army is attacking and destroying civilian institutions – Yesterday the Israeli army destroyed a Medical Relief Clinic in Qalqiliya and used it as an interrogation center; a Medical Relief Youth Centre in Ramallah was bombed and the offices of the Health , Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) was occupied and is now been used as a military station. The Palestinian Human Rights Organization – Al-Haq – has also been taken over and its facilities and documentation destroyed.

THIS IS AN URGENT CALL FOR ALL HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE TO INTERVENE IMMEDIATELY.

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