THE DEAD AND THE ANGRY AMID JENIN'S RUBBLE
By David Rohde, The New York Times, 4/16/2002
nytimes.com
JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Palestinians returning to this ruined place
recovered a wounded man today, skeletal and semiconscious, who said he had
been lying in the rubble beside a body and waiting for help for nine days.
Cradling the wounded man in a blanket, a dozen men carried him up a narrow
alley where flies swarmed a corpse and over a mound of rubble that smelled
of rotting dead. When the group emerged onto the vast field of destruction
that was once the heart of this refugee camp, a woman began screaming,
"Ambulance! Ambulance! Ambulance!"
"It's a disaster," said Ruba Al Ruzi, a young woman who watched the scene.
"I hope the Arab countries and the Americans who watched us being
slaughtered will face the same situation..."
United Nations officials said today that Israeli forces blocked a convoy
carrying 25 tons of aid from entering the camp, where 2,000 of the camp's
original 13,000 residents remain... |
