arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

This evening we got a call from our fellow-activist Neta Golan, who yesterday succeeded in entering Yasser Arafat's besieged headquarters. It was only a short conversation, since the call broke off and could not be resumed.
Neta Golan, who is known for her courageous solidarity actions and has spent weeks in besieged villages, told that the mood in the compound is good though the supply of food and water is running low and in spite of the army's psychological warfare. Through loudspeakers there are made
constant threats and from time to time "shock grenades" are lobbed. These grenades cause loud explosions but little
physical harm. She said, everybody there is steadfast and determined not to leave except as free persons.
"I and my friends - international peace activists from Italy, France, the US and other countries, some of them of Jewish origin - have come here to act as a human shield in case of any IDF attempt to break in. The government
should know that among those determined to face the soldiers unarmed and bar their way is also an Israeli from Tel-Aviv."

Neta Golan started to tell about members of the International Solidarity Group, located in Beit Jala, who marched today unarmed towards the Israeli tanks stationed there, and fire was opened at them. Seven of them were
wounded, one was taken to hospital in a serious condition.

Then the call was abruptly cut off and could not be resumed - as happened on several previous occasions.

Following are several phone numbers at which Neta Golan and other members of the International Solidarity Group can sometimes be contacted - all of them subject to frequent interruption and cutting off:
972-(0)59-567800; +33-6-73865632 (French mobile phone); +33-6-61552019;
972-(0)52-642709; 972-(0)67-251268; 972-(0)55-559145; 972-(0)59-312574;
972-(0)67-270398; 972-(0)55-840767; 972-(0)814992; +39-3389773899 (Italian mobile phone).

Further details:
Adam Keller, Gush Shalom spokesperson:
+972-3-5565804 / +972-56-709603

This tragedy of the Palestinian people is not an exception. Take 50 years of history and you will easily notice that armies are taking good care of themselves, and are making lots of civilian victims. They are not even there to protect people nor territories ( in this case they just occupy places that don't belong to them) they are just trying to find a justification of their own existence. And the best way is to create hatred, violence How can the palestinian people be peacefull after so many years of occupation ?
Hope alltough heavily loaded, must not disappear, and israeli civilians seem the only ones the palestinians can count on. It is about time the civilians take back a power they have left too easily to an organisation that has as only goal to kill and destroy.