Refugees Invite US
Secretary of State Colin Powell to Visit Jenin Refugee Camp
(E/27/2002)
BADIL Resource Center
13 April 2002
For Immediate Release
The following letter by the women and children of the Jenin refugee camp
to US Secretary of State Colin Powell was published today on the first
page of al-Quds newspaper in Jerusalem. A similar letter was sent
to all representatives of foreign diplomatic missions and international
organizations in Israel/Palestine.
To:
Mr. Colin Powell,
Secretary of State of the United States of America
Re: INVITATION TO THE JENIN REFUGEE CAMP
Dear Mr. Powell,
We, the children and women of the Jenin refugee camp, survivors of the
massacre perpetrated here between 1 April 2002 and until this day by the
Israeli occupation army with the help of weapons made in the United States
of America, invite you to visit our camp, in order to witness with your
own eyes the atrocities committed against us:
killing, murder, destruction, dispossession, siege and starvation -
committed against innocent civilians, residents of our camp.
We would like to assure you, at the same time, that all that has been done
to us - and will be done to us in the future - will neither make us kneel
nor diminish our determination to demand our right to return to our homes
and lands in our villages and towns which were forcefully taken from us in
1948.
Thanking you and awaiting your visit,
The children and women of Jenin refugee
camp
12 April 2002
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