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| UN Delegation Mistreat Local Palestinians in Jenin |
| 2002-11-28 |
| Palestine Chronicle reporters in the town of Jenin said that UN investigators who arrived to the town yesterday to look into the circumstances surrounding the murder of a UN official engulfed their investigation in secrecy. The investigators were dispatched to the town to look into the Israeli army's shooting death of Iain Hook, a UN project manager whose responsibility was to oversee the rebuilding of the destroyed refugee camp. The camp was destroyed by Israeli forces in the historic invasion of April 2002. Yes, they came in a tromped the place flat, destroyed it for no reason. They made a desolation and called it Jenin. I really liked the part where they sowed the site with salt. And they murdered that guy in cold blood, too... Several foreign guards reportedly sealed the UN compound and refused entry to Palestinian officials, and all Palestinian UN workers. Foreign UN workers however, were allowed entry. "I just thought I'd pop in and pay me respects... What's that over there? Why, it looks like a matchbook! It has Hebrew writing on it!..." Immediately after the murder of Hook, the UN administration in Jenin closed down the building and forbade anyone from entering or approaching the scene. A large Palestinian "Beat it! We have work to do. We don't have time to screw around with your Volkischer Beobachter... Hooks brothers stood and listened to a foreign UN official, who presumably explained the details of the shooting, although he was not an eyewitness. When Palestinian eyewitnesses arrived to the scene, UN guards denied them entry, and prevented them from meeting with Hooks family. Jamal Shati, a Palestinian Parliamentarian and the Head of Refugee Affairs at the Legislative Council, told the Palestine Chronicle that the behavior of the UN was suspicious. He expressed his worry that the UN might be trying to hide the read details of the incident. He said, It would have been rational for the investigators and Hooks family to listen to the accounts of those who were present at the time of the shooting, those who tried their best to save Hooks life. You know, the guys with the guns, who were clustered thick as flies around the trailer to keep the Zionist oppressors from attacking it... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |