People in Jenin need help

In this letter, Islah Jadd recounts the desperate conditions in a Jenin refugee camp.
About the author
Islah Jadd is a friend of a person who lives neighbour to the Jenin refugee camp.
Dear Mona,

If Mounir or anybody has the power to do something...

I got a phone call from a friend in Jenin, his house looks over the Jenin refugee camp. He told me that so far he has counted more than four hundred missiles fired by Apache helicopters on the camp.

His friend inside the camp lost his son of nineteen years, Walid Ibrahim Said. His body has been with him for two days now, as he was unable to bury him or carry him to the hospital. NOW they are removing some houses at the eastern entrance of the camp to widen the street by twenty meters to make a space for their tanks to enter.

The Palestinian armed men stopped the shooting for twenty minutes to enable some women and children and elderly to go and fetch some water. They have been arrested by the army and used as human shields in front of the tanks. The Apaches shot at the oxygen section in Jenin hospital to destroy it. So many bodies scattered in the narrow alleys of the camp need to be taken to the hospital. It is impossible for the camp residents to help the injured. Anybody who approaches is shot at.

The Red Cross declared that they will minimize the movement of their staff because it becomes very risky for them to move. This massacre has to be stopped immediately.

Contact any medical corps you know of, to protest, to demonstrate in front of the Red Cross, to announce partial strikes, to pressure the Israeli government to allow medical aid for the injured and removal of the corpses from the street. Act now, immediately please, Kamel told me that they estimate the number of killed or corpses in the Jenin camp is not less than one hundred.

Waiting your response as soon as you can.

Love,
Islah

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