Dear Friend,

I hope once again to send, with your help, £1,000 to the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin.  Since I last wrote to you the Israeli army have been very busy raiding the Jenin Refugee Camp, raiding peoples’ homes and shooting unarmed residents.

Ukraine provides Israel with the ideal cover, not that the western media is ever very interested in the non-White victims of western imperialism, especially if they are Palestinian or Yemeni.

This is a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1jhTQkrmw

to a disturbing video of Israeli soldiers laughing whilst preventing a Palestinian ambulance from tending to a man they had just shot.  As a result he bled to death. A war crime but not one that the press is particularly interested in.

You will notice that Youtube has placed a health warning to deter people from watching it

‘The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences’.

Strangely enough videos of Russian war crimes are not labelled so.  Presumably offence to Zionists or Israelis is more important than any offence given to Russians. I still found it impossible to play until I advanced to the next video and then pressed the back key!

To most people a home is a place of safety or a refuge from the outside world. Not in Jenin. Soldiers raid the houses day or night and think nothing of firing a shell or bullets at a house.

The Al Tafawk Centre provides a refuge for the children of the camp and as Mona, the manager, explained on 8 March in an email to me, the children whose sleep has been disturbed, having been forced to stay outdoors in the bitter cold, sleep on chairs at the Centre. A Centre which the Israeli military all but wrecked last year. 

[see Why did Israel raid and wreck a children’s centre in Jenin? https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/5/why-did-israel-raid-and-destroy-a-childrens-centre-in-jenin

I am therefore asking you to send what you can afford in order that we can ensure that the will of the people to resist the actions of the Israeli occupier are not allowed to once again drive the Palestinians into exile, which is their ultimate aim.

You can make a donation here at Go Fund Me

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-open-jenin039s-al-tawfawk-centre or at Pay Pal info@thebrightontrust.org.uk

Below is the correspondence I have received from Mona, who manages and teaches at the Centre, since the invasion of Ukraine when the Israeli military stepped up its harassment.

Many thanks,

Tony Greenstein

24 February

Dear Tony 

I think while the world is busy with Ukruna! Israel uses that as always 

Here is the situation in the camp these couple of days! It is really awful 

Thanks again very much from all of us

Mona

25 February

My cousin have been shot this night sadly Jalamnh ! He was in their car

1st March

Dear Tony

Again a nightmare in the camp with gas and shooting ! Killed 2 people broke a neck of an old man ! Dogs in children homes while they were sleeping! 

2nd March

Dear Tony 

Yeah the solders let one of the boys who have been killed bleeding till death in this place!  Sadly ,they used to do this.

The situation is getting harder in the camp! Huge number of children is feeling bad from the gas the Israel threw toward them while they kept them outside their homes! One of my children saw when the solders broke his father neck in front him and yestrday night..Alot stories we see and live every night! We are so scared that  the world is busy and let Israel do this every night.. you are our voice dear Tony 

Thank you very much

Mona

8 March

New sad pictures from Jenin! Solders  Destroy homes every night around us! Children sleep on chairs at center during the day as they spend the nights outside their homes! 

31 March

Dear Tony 

Hope you are ok and doing well! The camp has be raid this morning! They did not let the ambulance take the people who have been shot! One from then a teen name Sanad he was at center before 2 years 

We record this video how they did not allowed  the ambulance take him ! He died while the solders laughing! 

Thats awful

6 April

Dear Tony

This morning the solders attacked a child home to arrest her father in the camp... And they hide homes while the children were going to the schools and scare them !