Sunday, April 14, 2002

A Terrible Yearning for War and Peace
"After what we went through, it is impossible to have peace, by any means," said Amjed Ahmed Hazem, 35. Mr. Hazem, an electrician and a resident of the camp, is one of more than 4,000 Palestinian men caught up in the Israeli sweep. Like most of them, he was judged by Israel to be innocent, and he was released.

But he said that, in the meantime, he had been taken at gunpoint from his wife and three daughters, and held by Israeli soldiers for several days, handcuffed and blindfolded. His wrists were scabbed from the plastic handcuffs when he was interviewed in a village outside Jenin.

There, the names of some 500 released men like him — innocent men, according to Israel — were listed on construction paper on a mosque's wall, to help them be reunited with their families.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/weekinreview/14BENN.html

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