Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Their bodies are decomposing, there’s all kinds of maggots and lice and flies eating their bodies



I am still here in the village of Teiyba, just five kilometers from Jenin. The internationals I’m with are still interviewing the refugees from the Jenin Refugee Camp, gathering their stories with as much detail as possible to reconstruct what happened to them personally and their families and what took place in the Refugee Camp from start to finish.

Yesterday seven internationals that were with us in Teiyba made it into Jenin City. Last night we got a call that two of them made it into Jenin Refugee Camp, which at this point everybody thought was totally impossible. But they were able to sneak around, and got around soldiers and made it all the way into the center of the camp which is where the heaviest fighting was and which is where a lot of the Israeli soldiers were killed.

We haven’t heard a whole lot from them, but they said the homes they’ve seen in the refugee camp are absolutely totally destroyed, absolutely nothing left of them. They reported seeing the remnants of thousands of the rockets fired from the Apache helicopter gunships. These rockets have these wires that come off of them so that they control where they hit. And they reported there are thousands of these, all around the fields, all throughout the camp, in the city.


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