[lbo-talk] Fwd: Internation Solidarity Movement Offices raided

[joanna bujes]

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>Subject: Internation Solidarity Movement Offices raided
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>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 at mofa.gov.ilIsraeli
>Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz Fax: +972-3-6916940, 6976990 e-mail:
>sar at mod.gov.il
>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.
>
>For more information, please call: +972-2-277-4602
>
>END