Posted on 05/09/2003 4:19:05 PM PDT by blam
Britons arrested trying to enter Gaza Strip
The Israeli army has raided the West Bank offices of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement.
Soldiers confiscated computers and documents, and arrested an American and an Australian.
Earlier in the day, Israeli security forces arrested two British members of the group, who were trying to enter the Gaza Strip.
Alice Coy and Nick Durie were taken for questioning at the border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, said the ISM.
About 22 army jeeps surrounded the group's offices in the village of Beit Sahour, said George Rishmawi - a Palestinian close to the group.
Police spokesman Gil Kleiman said Christine Razowsky, 28, from Chicago, an Australian woman who did not want her name released, and Palestinian Fida Gharib, 22, a secretary for the ISM, were arrested.
The military said it had arrested several people who violated the law in the village, but refused to release details. Kleiman said the foreigners were in police custody, and were being questioned for entering a restricted military area.
He added the interrogation documents and other evidence - including the computers - will be used by the Interior Ministry to decide whether the foreigners should be deported.
The ISM is a pro-Palestinian organisation composed of volunteers who often act as human shields, placing themselves between Palestinians and the Israeli army.
In the past two months, an American member of the group, Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed and two other foreign activists, an American and a Briton, were seriously wounded in separate incidents. One of the wounded, Briton Tom Hurndall, 21, remains on life support in an Israeli hospital.
Story filed: 15:41 Friday 9th May 2003
In a press release later that day the group said "Our hopes are crushed" (flame suit on)
[28/01/2002]
Infestation.
Can't sleep due to hundreds of little critters buried under my skin making me itch like mad - yep Alice has SCABIES :( My priority for now is killing the sods. Tiny mites burrowing under my skin. Trying to remain distant and focused about it but difficult when woken at 6am by the little sods.
Evil buggers.
Itching will remain for a couple of weeks after treatment as body deals with the carcasses. Gruesome!
Don't want to give these guys any more nights of munching me from inside my own skin so getting Permethrin today. "This leads to a complex series of reactions in various organs, leading to paralysis of the nervous system, inhibition of metabolism and ultimately death of the insect." :)
Alice Coy skiing...
Rough life, huh?
I'm the one on the right (strangely enough), and the guy next to me is the one I met at Wadi Rum.
At about 5.20 pm today Rachel Corrie from Olympia in Washington State, USA died of her injuries in A-Najar Hospital in Rafah after being deliberately run over by an Israeli military bulldozer.( Honesty would compel, as later stated below, that she died after putting herself infront of a bulldozer.)
Rachel had been working as("playing leftist as..") an ISM activist in Rafah for seven weeks when she was killed trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes and property in the Hi Salaam area of Rafah.
The confrontation between the ISM and the Israeli Army had been under way for two hours when Rachel was run over. Rachel and the other activists had clearly identified themselves as unarmed international peace activists throughout the confrontation. (Woop-de-do) The Israeli Army are attempting to dishonour her memory by claiming that Rachel was killed accidentally when she ran in front of the bulldozer. Eye-witnesses to the murder insist that this is totally untrue. Rachel was sitting in the path of the bulldozer( Hello? Anyone home?) as it advanced towards her. When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside she climbed up onto the mound of dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it wearing a fluorescent jacket to look directly at the driver who kept on advancing. The bulldozer continued to advance so that she was pulled under the pile of dirt and rubble.( OK, so physics wasn't her favorite. ) After she had disappeared from view the driver kept advancing until the bulldozer was completely on top of her. The driver did not lift the bulldozer blade and so she was crushed beneath it. Then the driver backed off( What? No donuts in the dirt?) and the seven other ISM activists taking part in the action rushed to dig out her body. An ambulance rushed her to A-Najar hospital where she died. Rachel joins 1,900 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since September 2000,
For further information contact: • Tom on +972 52 694 380 • Joe on +972 67 628 507 or • Nick on +972 55 874 693
And, like, you want to do someting with you life. Like, um, I don't know, like a cause.
But you're too stupid and you didn't do well, even at the alternative boarding school your friggen parents sent you to. You know?
So, like, if you go to these sub third world places, you are a somebody. Even if you're a nobody. But it's the first time, so, like, it is soooo way cool and everybody shares what they have, which is nothing. But that doesn't matter, because like ....
I could go on. But why.
"...well, like I was saying, the ground was shaking and all of a sudden, it must of been the water, cause like they didn't have bottled water, but I had to go real bad, and and like NO FRIGGEN Way was I going in the field, so I got in the Toyota Land Cruiser and just made it back to the Hotel, and I was dirty so like I took a shower and then a nap. So I missed everything."
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