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Created: October 5, 2002
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Explosion Reported in Nablus

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On Saturday, October 5, 2002, the following event was posted on New Profile by Dorothy Naor:

Dear Friends,

Now is the time to begin getting the data out on the streets, to the average person who knows only what is reported in the media. Please do your best to help change public opinion, to understand, to know. Best, Dorothy

----- Original Message -----
From: Yehudith Harel
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 6:10 PM

Subject: Fw: Explosion reported in Nablus; Israeli troops rampage through city shooting randomly, killing teen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Palestine Monitor"
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:17 PM

URGENT UPDATE 5 October 2002

Explosion reported in Nablus; Israeli troops rampage through city shooting randomly, killing teenager boy and wounding others.

The Palestine Monitor is receiving reports from international monitors in Nablus of the Israeli military rampaging through the streets of Nablus, shooting randomly, after an explosion that rocked the city at approximately 5.20 this morning. The cause of the explosion is as yet unknown, but some reports indicate that it may have been a landmine that exploded in an Israeli military camp.

A fourteen-year-old boy, Amar Jamal Rajab, is reported to have been killed after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier near the entrance of the Beit Ein Al Maa refugee camp, while throwing stones at a tank.

"The situation here is truly horrifying," said Susan Barclay, an American monitor working with Grassroots Protection for Palestinian People (GIPP), speaking from the Old City in the center of Nablus. "Right now, there are soldiers in jeeps, tanks, APCs and hummers moving around the city, shooting at anything and everything in a violent attempt to enforce the curfew."

"The city has been completely closed and isolated - Israeli troops have bulldozed the only road left that was passable, shutting us down completely," said Barclay.

According to witnesses, Israeli forces are closing all entrances to Nablus, and erected barriers between the eastern and western part of the city.

There are between 10 and 20 international monitors in Nablus working with GIPP. Barclay has been in Nablus for the last three months.

"We are on the streets in various locations, trying to be as visible as possible -- to let the Israeli troops know that we are watching the terror that is unfolding," said Barclay. "This is the longest period that we have seen this level of terror directed at the population of Nablus - they are even targeting schools by driving right up to them and shooting randomly."

Barclay also reported that an ambulance driver of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) had been shot a while attempting to get to the injured.

For more information contact: The Palestine Monitor
+972 (0)2 298 5372 or +972 (0)59 387 087
Palestine Monitor

For Israeli news contact the English Language liberal daily: Ha Aretz: Ha Aretz

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