On
June 30, 2002, the raid on the Amaari refugee camp in Ramallah
resulted in the serious injury of an 18-month-old baby girl, Munia
Adel Rehan. In the waiting area of nearby Sheikh Zayed Trauma
Hospital, her mother gave a statement about the incident.
"Soldiers
entered the house about 12 p.m. They locked the family in a room
and watched television in another room. Around 4, the soldiers
received orders to leave the house, and when they rushed to leave,
they bumped her off the stairway. She fell off the stairway, into
the stairwell, three flights down. The soldiers left her there.
They did not help her.
"We went
out after the soldiers to try to get the child to the hospital,
and the soldiers refused, saying they had to search the rest of
the camp first. We had to go around in back to call the ambulance,
through the alleys. The ambulance came within 10 minutes, but
the soldiers would not let it through for a half hour. We reached
the hospital around 7 p.m."
The
child's head is bandaged and a laceration is visible right at
the hairline, towards the top of the head. She has been x-rayed,
and the family is waiting for results of a CT scan. She looks
lethargic and sleepy, so doctors worry she may have sustained
some brain injury. She has been moved to the Ramallah Hospital.
For
more information contact:
Eden Coughlin 056 389 317
For
more information on The International Solidarity Movement contact:
Huwaida Arraf 067 473 308
