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Following Footsteps Of Jenin, Nablus Residents Refuse U.S. Aid
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| The U.S. “kills a person and walks in his funeral” |
Report By Maha Abdul Hadi, IOL correspondent in Palestine
NABLUS, April 27 (IslamOnline) – Syndicates and work unions in the West Bank city of Nablus announced that it will refuse any aid from the United States or from any American governmental organization in protest over the Bush administration’s biased stance during the Israeli aggressions on the Palestinian people.
This comes after the residents of the devastated Jenin refugee camp, also in the West Bank, refused food aid from the United States of which they are in dire need.
The move shocked many foreign delegations there. The residents, who have lost many friend and relatives in the Israeli aggression said that there is a local proverb which fits the U.S. in it’s attempt to show sympathy towards the Palestinians; “to kill a person and to walk in his funeral.”
“We do not want their [Americans’] food aid even if that means we starve to death,” Mahmood Rasheed Fayed, 70, told IslamOnline Friday, April 26. “They have killed my invalid son and hundreds of other martyrs by their flagrant support of Israel. Apaches and F16s are the gifts the U.S. grants Israel to kill us with.”
Fayed spoke to IslamOnline in a telephone conversation in which he elaborated on the reasons why thousands of refugees in Jenin rejected the U.S. aid convoy of food, tents and toys which arrived in the refugee camp Thursday, April 25.
He said the Palestinians in shattered Jenin will never accept a gift from the U.S. who kills with one hand and feeds with the other only for the sake of keeping up faces before world media.
Fayed is still searching amidst the rubble that was once his house for the body of his murdered son Jamal, who was killed amongst hundreds others in the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army following its invasion of the camp April 3.
“The Israeli army destroyed our camp with U.S.-made weapons,” said Fayed. “The U.S. then threatened to use the veto to hamper U.N. efforts to dispatch a fact-finding mission and still backs all Israeli terms in this respect.”
The syndicates and unions in Nablus issued a statement emphasizing their refusal to deal with any American government organization. “We can not be attacked with American hands today and accept it’s aid tomorrow,” the statement said, referring to the fact that most of the Israeli occupation army’s weapons are products of American factories.
The statement called for the Palestinian people and national establishments to take similar stances. “We must say ‘No’ to the American domination and ‘No’ to the aid from the people who kill our sons with their hands.”
The syndicates and unions included the doctors, lawyers, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians, agricultural engineers.
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