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25 August, 03

Visit of Student Delegation

Some volunteers from Al Faraa camp, including myself Nedal, coordinated and organizaed a trip for students of the Arab American University in Jenin and the American University in Paris, France. We first visited Jenin camp and the separation wall. We also visited the demolished neighbourhood which is called Al Hawashin in Jenin camp. It was a sad and terrible area that I had visited before. We listened to many stories which the families told us of the deaths of their loved ones. Most of the stories were like dreams or surreal films. The results of the fierce invasion witness on the biggest crime againest human kind. We also visited the 'martyrs cemetry' near Jenin camp where 65 bodies were buried, and we noticed the new types of graves that contain two bodies or more in the same space because most of the bodies were cut into many pieces and the parts of several persons were found mixed together.

In the afternoon, we traveled from Jenin toward the north to visit the separation wall near Al Jalameh village. On the road, we passed many villages whose populations ragned between 40,000-45,000 people. They face daily suffering from the settlers and the IDF. We arrived at Al Jalameh where the separation wall passed through the fields and destroyed many agricultural factories. The first thing which comes immediately to mind is the injustice of the separation wall of Berlin. A warning note was attached to the wall, warning us of the danger of death by either shooting or electric shock (a big electronic cable was tied to the first iron fence). The concrete wall was behind the fence which looked like a horrible prison. We left the area very quickly when the inhabitants told us that military Jeep will arrive within minutes. We changed to another point of the wall which separates the same village from Mqaibleh village (Arab village) which lies inside the wall. Israeli soldiers surprised us and from behind and stopped all the group near the wall. They took the passports and the identity cards and they checked them all. The soldiers tried to break our cameras but we refused to give them to up. They warned us if they foundd us another time in this dangerous area they will not let us go. We finally returned back with our friends and we thanked God that our guests (the foreign students) returned back safe.