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a press release follows the mail, please distribute


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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:24:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "safe abu.keshek" <safe_abu_keshek@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: back to palestine, please urgent

Back to Nablus,
Three months away from Palestine, moving between
Italy, England, France, and Spain, it was good
experience for me, I learnt a lot of things about
activism, and I felt so happy that I have something to
give, to tell more people about my country, my
struggle, and the important role that they can play in
my country,
I'm so great full for all the people who helped me in
all the countries I been, who supported my struggle,
and who still supporting my struggle.
I'm sorry all for not writing to you the same day I
arrived back home, but it was really very hard trip
and the day I arrived I started working, a lot of work
need to be done here, and we need your support all of
you,
The last crisis happened yesterday when the army
invaded our media office in Beit Sahour... 
Dear friends, 
At 12:30 May 9th, PCR and ISM offices in Beit Sahour
were invaded by 
dozens of Israeli army, police, and border police.
Three women were 
arrested. One released later in the day. All the
computers (6 
desktops and 3 laptops) and all ISM and PCR files were
expropriated. 
This raid is another step in the Israeli attempts to
silence peace
activists and force them to leave the country.
Both PCR and ISM offices are turned into
non-functional.
In addition to urging all of you to raise your voice
loudly against
the continued attack against peace and human rights
activists, we
have the following specific requests: 

1-we are in urgent need for Computers to resume our
work. We in 
particular appeal for Palestinian and Israeli
organizations to immediately donate or lend us
computers to help us resume our work.

2-we are in urgent need for legal help. We are looking
for lawyers 
both locally and internationally to help us fight
against the series of illegal procedures that peace
activists are facing.

3-to face the declared policy of transfer of
international peace 
activists, we urge for Jewish peace activists from all
over the world to consider joining ISM in Palestine as
soon as possible.

And here is the official press release that we sent
out after this incident: 


INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Friday, May 9, 2003
For Immediate Release

ISRAELI FORCES RAID ISM OFFICE 

[Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] Israeli forces
raided the ISM 
office this morning, confiscating equipment and
material and 
snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9,
approximately 20 
military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored
personnel carrier 
(intended for many arrests) surrounded the ISM media
office in Beit 
Sahour. Dozens of soldiers, border police and civilian
police 
officers raided the ISM office, confiscating all
computers, not only 
in the ISM office but in the nearby office of the
Palestinian Centre 
for Rapprochement. Files, CD, and photos were all
pillaged, while 
soldiers broke equipment and damaged office space.
Israeli forces 
kidnapped Palestinian volunteer, Fida, American
volunteer, Flo, and 
a worker with Human Rights Watch visiting the office.
At the time of 
this writing, Fida has been released, and the
internationals seem to 
have been moved to the office of the Israeli Ministry
of Interior, 
most probably for deportation.

The Israeli government has declared an open war on
international 
peace and human rights workers. Israeli forces are
doing everything 
in their power to specifically prevent the nonviolent
resistance to 
their military rule. The stepped-up harassment of
internationals and 
journalists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is
nothing short 
of a further attempt to shield from the international
community the 
brutality of daily Israeli military actions against
the Palestinian 
people. 

The ISM, however, has no plans to leave the
Palestinian areas nor to 
reduce our actions or our efforts. We need your help.
Please protest: 

In the US: Contact your congressperson, the State
Department and the 
White House using this link. 
http://www.cflweb.org/congress_merge_.htm or
http://www.congress.gov 
also call the State Department and demand action.
STATE DEPARTMENT 1-
202-647-5150

For UK, Please call THE FOREIGN OFFICE 020 7008 1500,
Also Contact 
your MP and Prime Minister 

For Israel Contact Israeli Minister of Interior, Tel:
+972-2-629-
4701; Fax: +972-2-629-4750
Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom Fax:
+972-2-5303704 e-mail: 
sar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz Fax: +972-3-6916940,
6976990 e-mail: 
sar@xxxxxxxxxx
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fax: (+972-2) 566-4838 or
651-3955 or 
651-2631 

For Canada: Minister of Foreign Affairs Bill Graham,
House of 
Commons, Ottawa ON K1A 0A6; Fax 613-996-3443

Everyone, Contact the Israeli embassy in your country

See our website: www.palsolidarity.org for more ways
to help or get 
involved.


We need your help now and your support, please do your
best by media pressure, by trying to send more people
here and by all kinds of donations,
My best for all of you looking forward to meet you
again all

I can be reached on this numbers:
+972-59-335271
+972-55-829682

- From Nablus-Palestine your always

Saif 



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