Subj: [IAP NEWS] The smell of dead bodies is spreading across the Jenin refugee camp
Date: 4/8/02 8:52:41 AM Mountain Daylight Time
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Israeli forces commit massacre in Jenin refugee camp

Israeli forces, comprising of more than 150 tanks, armored personnel
carriers and artillery, backed by F-16 fighter jets, continue to attack
Jenin refugee camp, home to 15,000 Palestinian refugees, living on one
square kilometer. Since April 3, Israeli forces have shelled the refugee
camp, with various heavy weaponry, including missiles, artillery, and
other heavy ammunition.

Water and electricity networks have been destroyed. Food and medicine
supplies are prevented from reaching the refugee camp. Dozens of
residents have been killed and injured. Many bodies are left under the
rubble of demolished shelters and in the streets and alleyways of the
camp.

According to information gathered by LAW from various official medical
sources and eye-witnesses in Jenin and the refugee camp, the number of
casualties and wounded, including women, children and the aged, is
increasing at a frightening rate. Each hour tens of casualties and
wounded civilians are reported. Ambulances and medical personnel are not
allowed access to the refugee camp and are prevented from evacuating the
dead and the wounded. All sources confirmed that for the past four days
no corpse or wounded has reached any hospital or medical center in Jenin.
Paramedics have been unable to provide any medical aid, as they are
prevented by the Israeli forces by force.

Since Sunday (April 7, 2002) evening 8 o'clock until this moment, tens of
Israeli tanks and seven Israeli attack helicopters have continued to
shell the refugee camp with heavy artillery and missiles. In the past 16
hours, more than two hundred missiles and artillery shells have been
fired on the refugee camp, killing at least 50 residents. More than 100
residents have been killed in the past three days. Sources have failed to
document the exact number of those killed, injured, and missing. Bodies
are left in the alleyways and tens of injured have been left bleeding
without any medical aid.

Calls received by LAW confirm that throughout yesterday and day, the
smell of dead bodies is spreading across the refugee camp. Each minute an
injured dies due to the lack of medical attention. Sources confirmed
that, since the past 24 hours, the refugee camp has run out of key
supplies, including water, food and medical supplies. Sources from the
refugee camp have stated that despite calls they have been forced to
drink waste water. Quite apart from the food and water crisis, sources,
including Jenin hospital, confirmed that the camp suffers a health
crisis. The director of the hospital stated that the capacity of Jenin
hospital has been crippled due to the destruction of a number of its
services and the continuation of Israeli shelling.

According to LAW, since early morning, tens of Israeli bulldozers are
randomly demolishing refugee shelters to make room for Israeli tanks and
armored personnel carriers to the camp. This has been accompanied by air
and surface shelling. Omar Steiti, who works at Jenin hospital and who
witnessed the situation in the refugee camp stated that "a massacre or
genocide is now taking place in the camp."

LAW condemns these mass killings and attacks on civilians, which amount
to war crimes and crimes against humanity, clearly violating the Fourth
Geneva Convention, and potentially the Genocide Convention (1948). LAW
calls on immediate intervention to end these war crimes.

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LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving
human rights through legal advocacy. LAW is affiliate to the
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Federation Internationale
des Ligues de Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) and the World Organisation
Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).

LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment, PO Box 20873, Jerusalem, tel. +972-2-5833530, fax.
+972-2-5833317, email: law@lawsociety.org, web: http://www.lawsociety.org

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