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To: StormRider who wrote (1540)	4/21/2002 1:07:46 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

PALESTINIAN SURVIVES 10 DAYS BURIED BENEATH JENIN RUBBLE Agence France Presse, 4/19/02 JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - A Palestinian man was recovered alive Friday 10 days after being buried beneath rubble in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, site of the heaviest fighting in Israel's three-week military offensive, a Palestinian Red Crescent official said. Hossam Sharkawi, who is in charge of emergency services, said the survivor had been taken to hospital but he had no information on his condition. He said it was the first true case of a survivor being pulled from the debris of the camp which was devastated during an Israeli army incursion. "Others were half-trapped in the remains or were afraid to come out," he told AFP, adding an international aid team had arrived in Jenin to assist with attempts to locate other survivors. Sharkawi said 26 bodies had been found in the ruins, including four children, two women and two elderly people who were more than 65 years old. An additional 10 bodies were unearthed from shallow, sand-covered graves in the grounds of the camp hospital Friday to be given a formal burial in the cemetery. Several other bodies were to be disinterred later...