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Subject: Part 16,  Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious
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From:
"ISRAEL'S WAR IN LEBANON: EYEWITNESS CHRONICLES OF THE INVASION & OCCUPATION,
   Compiled and edited by Franklin Lamb,  1984 
     Publisher and sole distributor: 
       Spokesman for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 
         Bertrand Russell House, Gamble St., Nottingham, England NG7 4ET.
                    Transcribed with permission. 

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                          (continuation)
In the afternoon of 25 June, the Israelis flew over the hospital and
dropped leaflets in Hebrew. Nobody could read them. I still wonder
what they meant. Everyone became scared. One or two hours later they
started heavy shelling, concentrated on the hospital. People rushed
to the cellar. I believe there were more than 100 civilians there.
We tried to continue and we did continue the operation treatment of
the injuries, but with each new explosion I believed it would be the
last one and that the building would fall to the ground. The people
were scared to death and so was I, and it was impossible to go
upstairs. I was on the ground floor at one time to give morphine to
the injured upstairs, but was literally hit to the ground by the
explosions outside. The patients on the first and second floor we had
to leave alone. A boy 17 years old, a nurse, he was the only one of
the staff who took care of the patients. He sat on the first floor
and talked calmly to patients during the shelling. He is the greatest
hero I have ever met. After three hours, it became dark and we
decided to evacuate. 

When the dark came, the shelling became more scattered and it was
possible to escape. I was really impressed how they carried out the
evacuation. In less than half an hour all the patients were outside
and in security. First, the civilians, women and children, then the
patients and last, the staff. The last patient was in fact transported
directly from the operating theatre and was still under anaesthetic.
I will never forget the transport of this patient, his head between
my legs, working hard to keep his air-way free. The ambulance, without
lights throughout the blacked-out city. The story of the last patient
is an example of WHO became victims. He was 18 years old. He moved
with his family to a safe place in Beirut. He had begged his father
to let him take a short trip to their house to feed their animals, and
promised to be back in half an hour. The next day they met again in
our temporary clinic. The father was crying and the son without his leg.

To sum up, in my opinion there is no doubt that this was a deliberate
shelling of a fully operational hospital without military installations
or targets nearby. It was the second Palestinian hospital they had to
evacuate because of shelling. We heard from a further witness that
the first one was Akka, evacuated 22 June, I think. The Palestinians
had no hospital of their own remaining in operation. We evacuated to
the Theological School on Hamra Street, a safer place at that time,
but with no equipment or facilities at all, most of it being left in
Gaza. We had approximately 40 wounded patients and we faced many
difficulties in the next days. But step by step, it became possible.

I will finish with our departure some weeks later. Still, there were
very few foreign doctors and nurses inside Beirut. When we passed the
Israeli checkpoint, they checked our papers which declared we were
sent from the health services in Norway to do medical and humanitarian
work in Lebanon. The Israeli officer asked then: "Do you know the
rules?" "Rules, what kind of rules?" we replied. He said, "Okay -- 
you can go, but you can never, never come back." It seemed they wanted 
to prevent health workers from entering Beirut at a time when the
civilians in Beirut cried out their need for help to the whole world.

This is a picture of our first patient, in a way our baptism by fire
in this cruel war. She was in a flat, I suppose ten minutes from Gaza
Hospital. The mother told us she was hit by a fragment which came
through the wall, and the mother ran through the camp during the very
heavy shelling with the little child in her arms; the child with 
one arm already nearly amputated. 
                       (to be continued)
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        The story of these "crimes against humanity" has been
        carefully suppressed by the American Mass Media, which has
        always hypocritically exhorted us to: "Never again permit
        another holocaust!"

        Let us replace their hypocrisy with sincerity by exposing 
        the holocaust of `82 and the holocaust of `91 to the   
        TV-deluded consciousness of the American masses.

        Please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer
        bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
        both on and off campus.

                John DiNardo