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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (240401)	3/20/2002 9:14:50 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769670

Israeli war crimes against Palestinian civilians continue: Mass arrests create new foes for Israel March 18, 2002 By The Guardian Hundreds of Palestinian boys and men, rounded up at gunpoint in Israel's sweep through the refugee camps of the West Bank, were left hungry and unwashed and were taunted by their captors during a confinement that lasted as long as six days, the Guardian has learned. The only apparent criteria for the mass arrests was that they were Palestinian and male, aged between 15 and 45. The round-up has been condemned by Israeli and international organisations - including the United Nations - who say such sweeping arrests are a gross violation of Israel's duties as an occupying power in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that the army had "lost any moral compass", and the Public Committee against Torture in Israel said the detainees had been subjected to "degrading and humiliating treatment". "This is very bad and brutal," said Hannah Friedman, director of the Public Committee against Torture in Israel. "You are not allowed to arrest people without real evidence. This goes against all the conventions. They put numbers on arms, and closed their eyes. This was only to humiliate all the men and the people in the camps, and these mass arrests will make it more difficult to make peace with this people later on. We are creating our own enemies."