Ramallah...a City in Rage

All of our hearts and eyes are on Jenin and Nablus. My best friend in Nablus got his electricity back today, after 7 days straight without it. Still no water. No telephone..only a mobile phone. He has a newborn (3 weeks old) and a 4 year old at home. In Jenin reporters gather on the Israeli checkpoint waiting to enter. Even Ben Welderman from CNN stated on the air today....we feel Israel is hiding something by not letting any of us enter. 'Us' is not only journalists. But int'l relief services, Red Cross, human rights activists, Israeli peace activists, ambulances, clean water trucks, etc, etc.

Today it was reported that the Israeli army has actually started to cover up their war crimes by bulldozing the rubble to central locations and by burying over 300 decomposing Palestinian bodies in mass graves and sewage pits. The are putting the bodies in body bags so the pictures are less disturbing once the cameras do get in and find them. Israel has actually asked the UN for more body bags, as you will read below. They ran out of body bags in Israel!!!!! Can anyone understand what this means!!!

I am receiving many messages from Israeli friends who are trying to offer help. Truth is they feel just as helpless as us under curfew, or for that matter, as an American under Bush. Here is an excerpt from one Israeli mother:

"...really all words mean nothing anymore.israel is the real loser .the ugly aggressor.just like after hitler germans were ashamed to be germans ,now israelis are going to be in the same position.no matter how many palestinians are killed israel will never succeed in justifying stealing your lands,your lives,your futures,your safety,and all they can,and then calling you terrorists because you don't take it quietly enough!how dare you resist...."