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 Saturday April 20, 2002 00:57 by Another press monitor
 Jenin 'horror beyond belief', says UN envoy Extract from Irish Times 19 April 2002 (offered to counteract the unreferenced nonsense being posted to the site) Jenin 'horror beyond belief', says UN envoy The camp was the scene of the heaviest fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen in the three-week-old Israeli military offensive in the West Bank, and the Palestinians have accused of Israel of perpetrating a massacre there, alleging a death toll of 500. The director of Jenin's hospital, Dr Muhammed Abu Ghali, said yesterday that he could confirm 36 dead. Col Miri Eisen, an Israeli army intelligence officer, firmly denied the massacre allegations, insisting that the death toll was in the dozens, and said that most of those killed were Palestinian gunmen. She said 10 suicide bombers who had already recorded "farewell videos" had been killed or captured in the camp, from which a series of bombers have been dispatched in recent months. Mr Larsen said he could not confirm either account, but that there were "lots" of corpses. He said he would be reporting back to the UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, on what he termed "a sad and disgraceful chapter in the history of Israel". Meanwhile, Mr Annan has made a dramatic intervention in the conflict with a proposal to the UN Security Council for a multinational military force to halt the violence and keep the two sides apart. The Israeli army was withdrawing from Jenin to the city's outskirts yesterday, but remains deployed deep in Ramallah and Bethlehem, where it says it will remain until "wanted men" holed up there surrender. For 18 days, troops have encircled Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, where more than 100 Palestinian gunmen are trapped along with several dozen clergymen. President Bush indicated sympathy with Israel's refusal to withdraw from Ramallah, noting that five men alleged to have killed the Israeli tourism minister were in the basement of the building in which the Palestinian President, Mr Yasser Arafat, is confined, and that "they should be brought to justice." While Mr Bush praised Israel for honouring "a timetable" for the phased pullback of its troops, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders are indicating growing anger with the US position, which is why President Mubarak of Egypt declined to meet the US Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell, this week. Meanwhile, Mr Annan, has made a dramatic intervention in the Middle East conflict with a proposal to the UN Security Council for a multinational military force to halt the violence and keep the two sides apart. Mr Annan said last night his proposed force would be a "coalition of the willing" rather than an official UN mission. The ambassadors of the 15 member-states on the Security Council responded cautiously, pending consultation with their respective governments. Mr Annan told The Irish Times the force would "help create a secure environment as well as space for diplomatic and political negotiations to continue". The aim of his plan was to put "the option for peace" back on the table. On the key question of whether it would deter suicide bombings, he said: "I think the presence of the force would help." The logic of war should be replaced with the logic of peace and, if there was a gradual move in that direction, "We will see less suicide bombing and less violence." Ireland's UN envoy, Mr Richard Ryan, said the proposal would be examined very carefully in the various capitals. "We will no doubt return to it very quickly." |
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Jump To Comment: 5 4 3 2 1Why do you keep taking my comments off?
It is certaintly true that some of the U.N. membership are undemocratic, many of them friends of U.S. imperialism and the zionists e.g. the south african racists (when they were still in power) not to mention the genocidal regimes in central america (in the eighties) who were assisted in their murders by arms sales from the Zionists in Tel Aviv. There will never be peace in the region intil the Palestinin people have a state of their own. The Jewish people (who I do not equate with Sharon, also have the right to a state of their own).
The "fact finding" mission is of course a farce, the Zionists must believe that they have got rid of most of the evidence. Perhaps the "war on terrorism" should include Sharon, some hopes
I don't agree with Lalric either. I think he's narrow minded and hawkish. But I don't see any reason or point in making religious insults.
That's just coming down to his level.
Besides, which, this is meant to be a NEWS site, not a site for people to trade insults, if you want to do that then post your e-mail addresses and swap insults in PRIVATE!
The UN being made up of 190 countries of which over two thirds are despots or autocrats.
Mr Larsen has already made one retraction with regards to Israels alleged misdeeds.
He will be discredited again.
UNWRA which runs the camps is also complicite in the sponsoring of suicide and shooting attacks on Israeli civilians.
Israel ignores the UN because it has never given Israel a fair hearing other than resolution 181 which allowed for its creaion, when the majority of countries that were members were democratic.
Every resolution since then has been an effort to either discredit Israel or an attempt at its destruction
more lies from from richard ryan, brian cowen does not give a shit his head is so far up bush's arse he can see daylight when are we the irish people going to expell the isreali nazi ambassador from our country cowen is just as guilty for isreali war crimes by his inaction the blood on his hands goes all theway up to his elbows long live hamas.