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To: StormRider who wrote (1541)	4/21/2002 1:13:05 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

FAMILIES SCRABBLE IN THE DUST TO FIND THEIR DEAD By Justin Huggler, The Independent (UK), 4/19/02 news.independent.co.uk WHEN THEY found the body it was in pieces and so they gathered it all up out of the rubble, great chunks of blackened, rotting flesh with bits of bone sticking out, and piled them up on a blanket. The smell made us retch and stumble away gasping for clean air. The Palestinians said the pile of putrefying flesh and bone was Mohammed Massoud Abu Sb'a. The people of Jenin refugee camp returned to look for their dead yesterday amid the devastation that the Israeli army had made of their homes. The destruction here was more devastating than an earthquake, yet the Israelis have not allowed any heavy lifting equipment in here, so the Palestinians dug out the bodies with their hands, scrabbling in the dust and heaving away the broken blocks. They had brought a stretcher for the body we saw being dug up but a stretcher was not needed for fragments so they bundled them all up in a blanket and carried them away. Aid workers and human rights monitors have started to call this ground zero. The television pictures do not convey the devastation. You have to come here to walk over the dust and rubble that used to be people's homes, picking your way through the little pieces of their lives, the children's schoolbooks and discarded clothing. You have to smell the stench of death that clings to certain corners. The piles of rubble tower high above your head and the work of removing the bodies is nerve-racking and haunting... Another woman stopped us angrily outside the hospital. She was saying something had happened to her sister, but would not explain what. "See what Sharon has done to us," she said hysterically. "America is with Sharon, Britain is with Sharon."