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--------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: "huwaidaa" <huwaidaa@yahoo.com> To: palsolidarity@yahoogroups.com Subject: [palsolidarity] ISM Office Raided Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 13:50:39 -0000 Message-ID: <b9gbnf+44m0@egroups.com> INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT Friday, May 9, 2003 For Immediate Release ISRAELI FORCES RAID ISM OFFICE [Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] Israeli forces raided the ISM office this morning, confiscating equipment and material and snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9, approximately 20 military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored personnel carrier (intended for many arrests) surrounded the ISM media office in Beit Sahour. Dozens of soldiers, border police and civilian police officers raided the ISM office, confiscating all computers, not only in the ISM office but in the nearby office of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement. Files, CD, and photos were all pillaged, while soldiers broke equipment and damaged office space. Israeli forces kidnapped Palestinian volunteer, Fida, American volunteer, Flo, and a worker with Human Rights Watch visiting the office. At the time of this writing, Fida has been released, and the internationals seem to have been moved to the office of the Israeli Ministry of Interior, most probably for deportation. The Israeli government has declared an open war on international peace and human rights workers. Israeli forces are doing everything in their power to specifically prevent the nonviolent resistance to their military rule. The stepped-up harassment of internationals and journalists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is nothing short of a further attempt to shield from the international community the brutality of daily Israeli military actions against the Palestinian people. The ISM, however, has no plans to leave the Palestinian areas nor to reduce our actions or our efforts. We need your help. Please protest: In the US: Contact your congressperson, the State Department and the White House using this link. http://www.cflweb.org/congress_merge_.htm or http://www.congress.gov Also call the State Department and demand action. STATE DEPARTMENT 1- 202-647-5150 For UK, Please call THE FOREIGN OFFICE 020 7008 1500, Also Contact your MP and Prime Minister For Israel Contact Israeli Minister of Interior, Tel: +972-2-629- 4701; Fax: +972-2-629-4750 Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom Fax: +972-2-5303704 e-mail: sar@mofa.gov.ilIsraeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz Fax: +972-3-6916940, 6976990 e-mail: sar@mod.gov.il Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fax: (+972-2) 566-4838 or 651-3955 or 651-2631 For Canada: Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham, House of Commons, Ottawa ON K1A 0A6; Fax 613-996-3443 Everyone, Contact the Israeli embassy in your country See our website: www.palsolidarity.org for more ways to help or get involved. For more information, please call: +972-2-277-4602 END ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Rent DVDs Online - Over 14,500 titles. No Late Fees & Free Shipping. Try Netflix for FREE! http://us.click.yahoo.com/YoVfrB/XP.FAA/uetFAA/9rHolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: palsolidarity-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --------- End forwarded message ---------- ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk