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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: AI: Israel: Deportations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.083017.23520@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** mideast.action: 38.0 **/
- ** Topic: AI EX108/92 ISRAEL Deportation **
- ** Written 4:21 pm Dec 21, 1992 by amassagee in cdp:mideast.action **
- From: Anne Massagee <amassagee>
- Subject: AI EX108/92 ISRAEL Deportation
-
- /* Written 6:06 pm Dec 21, 1992 by rmitchellai@gn.apc.org in igc:ai.uan */
- /* ---------- "AI EX108/92 ISRAEL Deportation" ---------- */
- EXTERNAL (for general distribution) AI Index: MDE 15/32/92
- Distr: UA/SC
-
- EXTRA 108/92 Deportation/ 21 December 1992
- Fear for safety
-
- ISRAEL/SOUTH LEBANON: Over 400 Palestinians
-
- Amnesty International is seriously concerned at the situation of over
- 400 Palestinian deportees currently stranded in an area between the
- "security zone", controlled by Israel with its allied militia the South
- Lebanon Army (SLA), and the rest of Lebanon. Most of the
- deportees are suspected by the Israeli authorities of being members of
- the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) which claimed responsibility
- for the killing of an Israeli Border Policeman last week.
-
- The deportees are reported to have tried this morning to enter the
- "security zone" on their way back to Israel but to have stopped when
- the SLA opened fire in their direction. Amjad Zamel, one of the
- deportees, was wounded and is said to have been taken to hospital in
- territory under Lebanese army control. The Israeli authorities have
- stated they do not intend to allow them back, although the Israeli
- High Court of Justice is currently examining a petition to allow the
- deportees back. The Lebanese authorities have stated they do not
- intend to allow the deportees into the territory under their control.
-
- Amnesty International is reiterating its call to the Israeli authorities to
- allow the Palestinian deportees to return safely to Israel. If any are
- suspected of committing an offence, they should be charged and given
- a prompt and fair trial, or be released.
-
- Amnesty International is also calling on Israel and the SLA to ensure
- that the Palestinian deportees are not harmed and are allowed safe
- passage through the "security zone" into Israel. At the same time, the
- deportees should be given protection by the Lebanese authorities if
- they seek it. Amnesty International has condemned the killing of
- Sergeant-Major Nissim Toledano, the Israeli Border Policeman taken
- hostage in Israel and then killed by Hamas. It had called on Hamas
- not to ill-treat him or execute him and to release him as he was held
- as a hostage. It had also called on the Israeli authorities not to
- retaliate against the killing of Nissim Toledano by summarily deporting
- hundreds of Palestinians.
-
- RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send
- telegrams/telexes/faxes/express and airmail letters either in English or
- in your own language:
-
- - calling on the Israeli authorities to ensure that the Palestinian
- deportees are allowed to return safely to Israel;
-
- - calling on the Israeli authorities and the South lebanon Army not to
- harm the deportees and to allow them safe passage back to Israel;
-
- - stressing that Amnesty International condemns the killing of the
- Israeli Border Policeman but urging the Israeli authorities not to
- commit human rights violations in response to such abuses.
-
- APPEALS TO:
-
- Mr Yitzhak Rabin
- [Salutation: Dear Prime Minister]
- Prime Minister and Minister of Defence
- Office of the Prime Minister
- 3 Kaplan Street
- Jerusalem 91919
- State of Israel
- Telegrams: Prime Minister Rabin, Jerusalem, Israel
- Telexes: 25279 mpres il
- Faxes: + 972 2 664 838
-
- Lieutenant-General Ehud Barak
- [Salutation: Dear Lieutenant-General Barak]
- Chief of Staff
- C/o Ministry of Defence
- 7 "A" Street
- Hakirya
- TEL AVIV 67659
- State of Israel
- Telegrams: Chief of Staff Barak, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Telexes: 371434 mod il
- Faxes: + 972 3 217915
-
- Major-General Yitzhak Mordechai
- [Salutation: Dear Major-General Mordechai]
- Military Commander for the Northern Command
- c/o Ministry of Defence
- 7 "A" Street
- Hakirya
- Tel Aviv 64734
- State of Israel
- Telegrams: Major-General Mordechai, Ministry of Defence, Tel Aviv,
- Israel
- Telexes: 371434 mod il
- Faxes: + 972 3 217915
-
- PLEASE SEND COPIES OF YOUR APPEALS TO:
-
- Judge Yosef Harish
- Attorney General
- PO Box 1087
- Jerusalem
- State of Israel
- Faxes: + 972 2 869473
-
- and to the diplomatic representative in your country - please see the
- responses to this topic for details.
-
- PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Please do not send
- appeals after 21 January 1993.
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