Re: 1,000 HOMELESS FROM ONE "ISRAELI" RAID

"Ilan Ramon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Ariel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > But they're not homeless. "palestinians'" homes are in Arabia, where
>  they
> > > belong!!
>
> why you don't go back to the zoo, where you belong!!!!
> LOL....

it's occupied by its rightful arab dwellers
 
> "Abu-Alwafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > 1,000 HOMELESS FROM ONE "ISRAELI" RAID
> >
> > In the latest of the "Israeli" raids, staged in mid-October, 15
>  Palestinians
> > died in gun battles with the army, 120 homes were destroyed and about
>  1,000
> > people made homeless, according to U.N. relief agency figures.
> >
> > Palestinian officials said "Israeli" forces had wrecked 1,200 homes in
>  Rafah
> > since the September 2000 start of the uprising.
> >
> > Of these, more than 200 homes were bulldozed to make room for the security
> > barrier that "Israeli" forces have gradually constructed over the past
>  year,
> > Palestinian officials say.
> >
> > Palestinian Negotiations Minister Saeb Erekat condemned the barrier in
> > Rafah, urging Washington to intervene to "stop the building of walls that
> > hinder the materialization of President Bush's vision of a Palestinian
> > state."
> >
> > "Israel" denies any homes were razed expressly to make room for the wall
>  in
> > a 330- to 660-foot-wide buffer zone created by "Israel's" 1979 peace
>  treaty
> > with Egypt.
> >
> > An "Israeli" military official acknowledged that Palestinian homes had
>  been
> > destroyed in the border area during raids to destroy tunnels used for arms
> > smuggling or in response to Palestinian attacks, but could not provide any
> > figures.
> >
> > "The Palestinians in effect are the ones who turned this into a combat
> > zone," the official said.
> >
> > Palestinians fear that continued construction of the wall will threaten
>  more
> > houses in the camp, said Omar an-Naqah, an official in Rafah's governing
> > council.
> >
> > The "Israeli" army has plans to extend the barricade but they are on hold
> > for financial reasons, the military official said.
> >
> > Some of the refugees made homeless by "Israeli" raids, including Abdel-Al,
> > have been resettled in U.N.-provided housing near the Jewish settlement of
> > Atzmona in the south of the poor, desert territory.
> >
> > A few months after his home was flattened, Abdel-Al lost one of his five
> > children, Waleed, a 23-year-old member of the militant group Islamic Jihad
> > who was killed in a gun battle with "Israeli" forces.
> >
> > Another son, Khalil, 31, a father of four, also saw his home as well as
> > three grocery stores he operated with his father crushed by "Israeli"
> > armored bulldozers.
> >
> > Father and son now make out a living selling sweets known as Qatayef for
>  the
> > Muslim holy month of Ramadan. "Things are very bad. Work is limited and
> > security is lacking," Khalil said.
> >
> > The Rafah governorate of 150,000 people, including residents of the city
> > proper, has a poverty rate of 75 percent -- people living on less than $2
>  a
> > day, according to municipal estimates.
> >
> > A beautiful Mediterranean beach stretches just west of the city but offers
> > no escape for weary residents for it is sealed off within the Jewish
> > settlement of Rafiah Yam.
> >
> >  Reuters November 26, 2003
> >
> >
> >