Firsthand accounts from Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday March 08, 2002 14:32 by meteropolitan indian

I'm reposting this partially because an Irish Person is involved in this act of witnessing.

Four-year-old Ahmed Khader's heart raced with fear; the children of the neighborhood told him that we were the Israelis back in his home. The eight of us were not occupation soldiers. Rather we were foreign civilians (5 Americans, 2 Belgian and one Irish) who had come to the Balata Refugee Camp to express our solidarity with the people who had been invaded, terrorized and pillaged on a 4-day raid of their home; a refugee camp; by the Israeli military.

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http://www.italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=41216&group=webcast