Thursday, January 23, 2003

ISRAEL/WEST BANK

Palestine Monitor: Palestinian Village Faces Annihilation
Urgent Press Release
Israeli bulldozers will destroy the entire village of Al-Daba’ in the Qalqilya district. The village consists of 250 Palestinians living in 42 houses. Sixty ton American made armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers will make short work of 42 houses, 600-700 dunums of agricultural land, a mosque, and an elementary school for 132 children.

The military order was issued 30 days ago and required the clearing of 50 meters of land next to the billion dollar wall (financed by the United
States) being built to separate Palestinian land from Israel in the northern part of the West Bank. The clearing operation has exceeded its orders and now the destruction will extend 500 meters into the West Bank and engulf the village of Al-Daba’

Independent: Israeli troops devastate West Bank village market
Israeli soldiers demolished 62 shops at a market yesterday, destroying the livelihood of hundreds of Palestinians. In the early morning, about 300 troops streamed into the market, just outside the village of Nazlat Issa. They brought seven bulldozers.

Villagers poured out to protest as the bulldozers tore down the village market, the main source of income for Nazlat Issa's 2,500 residents


Was Israel im Moment macht ist noch nicht mal mehr mit der Südafrikanischen Apartheit zu vergleichen. Dort wurden die Leute in ihren Ghettos wenigsten mehr oder weniger in Ruhe gelassen und waren nicht täglicher Gewalt und Willkür einer Besatzungsarmee ausgeliefert. Das Ziel der derzeitigen Politik Sharon's läuft auf eine Ethnische Säuberung der Palästinensergebiete hinaus.

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