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New attack against Bethlehem last night.

The sound of the explosions could be easily heard from Beit Sahour which is about two Kilometers far from the building that was attacked last night in Bethlehem December 3 2000, only few weeks before Christmas!

I was at my cousin's house designing the website of the Displaced Shepherds - which will come online soon.  when I went out to smoke a cigarette.  I was together with my colleague and one of the activists in Rapprochement George Q., we both heard the explosions.  At the first moment, we did not realize it might be bombarding.  Then we heard the helicopters in the sky of Beit Jala opening the fire of its heavy machine guns at Bethlehem.  at that moment, I got a phone call from my parents asking me not to come back home, because they do not want me to walk in the streets in the night because of the helicopter.  The sound was horrible, it was continuous.  I thought sadly to myself "tomorrow there will be more funerals".  However, luckily enough, there were no injuries.  However, the good news that there were no injuries were not the only news that I got after making some phone calls to ask about Bethlehem. The bad news of the many injured people in the village of Hussan was shocking accompanying the news of no casualties.

We used to see the destroyed buildings in Lebanon and Sarajevo on TV.  We never thought this could happen here in Palestine.  However, it is the same power that is bombarding Lebanon and other places is the same that is shelling and bombarding the towns and the refugee camps in Palestine both in the West Bank and Gaza.

Dear friends, now in this moment while writing this to you, I hear the sound of the Helicopters over Bethlehem.  I hope this night will pass safe without any bombardment or casualties. 

Still the Israelis are looking for non-lethal weapon to use.  What a joke.  The missile that Killed Hussein Abayat killed another two women (Azizeh and Rahma) who were visiting their relatives whose house was shelled one night before on November 8th.

What pictures should I include in this e-mail??  Which one among the tens of pictures that I have of the damaged houses in Beit Sahour and Bethlehem and Beit Jala, and other areas that I do not have pictures of like Ramallah and Gaza and and and.,,, 
When will the world remove the black cloth away from their eyes to see the truth?

WHEN ???

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