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From: pamzinkin at gn.apc.org

Fran, Mira and Unni are working on this. Please more responses.
Since I phoned Mustafa Unni has been in touch, Jihad Mashal is confined
to his house and cannot work as a doctor.
Ask International Red Cross what they are doing as well as your
government people, Israeli govt or embassy and US departemtns.

Dr Mahal was at PHA in Bangladesh and also at Cape Town meeting. Please
act for him and others in the most effective way you can.

 HDIP a Health Research Institute is
currently being ransacked and destroyed.

Attacks on the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees Building
-       The UPMRC offices in Ramallah have been fired upon. 
-       Dr. Muhammad Scafie, a 45-year-old UPMRC doctor who has
diabetes ­ the
head of the First Aid section of Medical Relief was used as a human
shield
when the building was evacuated. Dr.
Scafie, has also just been, released.
-       An Israeli tank attempted to shell a UPMRC ambulance as it was 
trying to
access a patient, narrowly missing it.
-       The local UPMRC clinic in Qalqiliya also come under attack, and
is
currently being used as an interrogation center.
-       Dr. Jihaad Mashal, a UPMRC Director, has been detained for 4
days 
in his
house. 
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