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07.02.03, 10:14
Subject: [Human Rights] 800 Professors give warning and more
>
> - 800 AMERICAN PROFESSORS SIGN DOCUMENT WARNING OF
> COMING ISRAELI ETHNIC CLEANSING
>
>> We, American academics and intellectuals, applaud our
> courageous Israeli colleagues for their recent letter
> warning of the possibility of ethnic cleansing in
> Israel and the Occupied Territories. The 187 Israeli
> signatories express concern that the "fog of war"
> [against Iraq] "could be exploited by the Israeli
> government to commit further crimes against the
> Palestinian people, up to full- fledged ethnic
> cleansing."
>
> The Israeli professors point out that: "The Israeli
> ruling coalition includes parties that promote
> 'transfer' of the Palestinian population as a solution
> to what they call 'the demographic problem'.
> Politicians are regularly quoted in the media as
> suggesting forcible expulsion, most recently MKs
> [members of the Israeli parliament] Michael Kleiner
> and Benny Elon, as reported on Yediot Ahronot website
> on September 19, 2002. In a recent interview in
> Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon
> described the Palestinians as a 'cancerous
> manifestation' and equated the military actions in the
> Occupied Territories with 'chemotherapy', suggesting
> that more radical 'treatment' may be necessary. Prime
> Minister Sharon has backed this 'assessment of
> reality'. Escalating racist demagoguery concerning the
> Palestinian citizens of Israel may indicate the scope
> of the crimes that are possibly being contemplated."
>
> Benjamin Netanyahu, the newly appointed Israeli
> foreign minister, previously advocated expelling
> Palestinians while the world was distracted with
> events at Tiananmen Square.
>
> We join with our Israeli colleagues in calling for
> vigilance as events unfold in Israel and the Occupied
> Territories. With an average of more than $10 million
> dollars per day of American tax dollars going to
> Israel, we believe Americans cannot remain silent
> while crimes as abhorrent as ethnic cleansing are
> being openly advocated.
>
> We urge our government to communicate clearly to the
> government of Israel that the expulsion of people
> according to race, religion or nationality would
> constitute crimes against humanity and will not be
> tolerated.
>
> More information about the U.S. letter, including
> instructions on how to sign it, can be found at:
> www.professorsofconscience.org
>
> >
> >
> >
> The Palestine Monitor: A PNGO Information
> Clearinghouse
>
>
> VICTIMS OF CLOSURE
>
> Israeli soldiers prevent medical treatment two
> newborn babies die as a result
> 17th December 2002
>
> Adla Abdel Jaber As-Sayyefi, 37 years old, went into
> labour at around
> 3am on the morning of December 10th. Her husband
> rushed to his parent?s house
> concerned because Adla was due to go hospital to have
> an operation as it
> was going to be a breech birth, but she went into
> labour too early.
>
> They spoke to the Red Crescent requesting an
> ambulance, but the ambulance
> was unable to reach their village of Tel because of
> the trenches and checkpoint
> s
> and suggested instead the ambulance and the family and
> Adla, meet at another
> checkpoint of Beit Eba, the reasoning behind this
> choice was that it would
> be less distance for the pregnant woman to walk a
> matter of meters, and
> not kilometers.
>
> Adla?s husband borrowed a car from the neighbors, and
> Adla, her father
> in law Muhammad, mother in law, and her mother, went
> to meet the ambulance
> that they were assured was waiting for them. However,
> when they came within
> sight of the checkpoint a tank was blocking the path,
> and so in the dark
> and rain they tried to attract the attention of the
> soldiers in the tank.
> The lights of the ambulance were clear on the other
> side of the checkpoint
> and the Muhammad beeped the horn, and the ambulance
> turned on its siren,
> but still the soldiers in the tank made no moves.
> Finally, Muhammad got out
> of the car and shouted to the soldiers that Adla
> needed to get to the hospital
> and to let them pass - but still the soldiers refused
> t
> o respond.
>
> Too terrified to try to pass, 74-year-old Muhammad
> turned the car around
> and began to return to the village, but after only ten
> meters or so Adla
> gave birth; however the baby died. Muhammad who should
> have been celebrating
> the birth of his grandchild, who was to bear his name,
> instead drove his
> daughter in law and the baby?s corpse back to the
> village.
>
> Dr. Hisham An-Na?ana, the director of the delivery
> department in Rafidya
> hospital in Nablus, which Adla was attempting to
> reach, said the fact that
> the mother and child had not reached the hospital was
> definitely the cause
> of death of the boy; ?Breech births are not an unusual
> occurrence and normally
> a premature baby would not have died like this. This
> child died because he
> and his mother were denied medical treatment, which
> was only five kilometers
> away.?
>
> Munira Ahmed Kabaha, 30, from Tour Al-Gharbia near
> Jenin also went
> into labour early on the 6th of Decembe
> r. Her husband, Muwwafaq, telephoned
> Al-Razi hospital in Jenin, but was told that the
> ambulance could not reach
> their village because of checkpoints. However they
> arranged to meet at As-Shuhada
> junction, where his wife could be transferred to the
> ambulance.
>
> They drove to the meeting point and saw an ambulance
> that had been
> stopped by Israeli troops. Regardless of the danger
> Muwwafaq continued driving.
> As he said later ?I didn?t think about the danger as
> all I wanted was to
> get my wife and baby to the hospital." The ambulance
> realized that these
> were the people who required medical treatment and
> tried to negotiate with
> the Israeli soldiers, to convince the soldiers to
> permit them to move the
> woman who by this time was in pain and giving birth.
>
> After this delay, the soldiers examined the woman and
> let her go onto
> the hospital, however they were delayed too long and
> the baby died once it
> reached the hospital. The troops detained Muwwafaq and
> Munira&
> #8217;s sister for
> some time before permitting them to return to their
> village.
>
> Israeli troops regularly prevent Palestinians from
> receiving medical
> treatment, and in the past two years 73 other
> Palestinians have been killed
> because of this prevention. Many woman have been
> forced to give birth at
> home with no medical assistance, others have given
> birth at checkpoints and
> were fortunate to survive, as were there babies. These
> two newborns were
> the 16th and 17th babies to have died after Israeli
> troops, or checkpoints
> or barriers or trenches, prevented their mothers to
> get the treatment they
> were so obviously in need of.
>
>
> >
>
>
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