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From Anne Gwynne, a Welsh Nurse living in Nabulus

Today in Nablus, a total force of two tanks: one of which was a very big tank - Number 2, and Number 13, which is made to move something as big as an apartment block; two army personnell carriers; eight large armoured Druze jeeps; and five other armoured jeeps entered the city. The soldiers occupied three houses - of course, these are actually people's homes. [This took place] from 6 o'clock this morning until quarter pas 7 this evening. When they occupy your home, they either shoot the door down or hit it with their boots and break the lock and burst in and put everbody into one room in the whole block and there they remain without food or water for the whole day until they decide to go - or indeed for two or three days. They then go to the roofs of these occupied homes, where! of course they have a wonderful view of the children in the street below.

It's the first day of the school holidays today - oh that's why they came, of course, it's the first day of the school holidays! And therefore there are many children in the daytime, not just after three or four o'clock. And there were hundreds and hundreds, possibly thousands of children in the streets, literally everywhere. They would provocatively drive up and down, and when the children would start throwing stones each time, they would then [start out in] bursts of fire at them. They're very large bullets. I haven't seen such big ones as today. They're 10 centimetres long, they are enourmous bullets! They're not huge cannonballs [as I called "cannibal" in a previous transcription], but they are very very long. I'm going to get some to bring back with me to Berkley.

When you used those for firing at children throwing stones, they injured 50. Eight of them are fighting for their lives tonight with ! chest wounds and groin wounds. Groin wounds bleed very badly, and they lose most of their blood before they get to the hospital - and of course the chest wounds are horrible - they lose their liver and bits of their lung. By 10:00 this morning, ___ Hospital was already full, and in another two hours, Al Rafidiyah Hospital was full. The overflow went to Al Watani, and a lot went to a speciality private hospital called the Nablus Hospital, which is also now full. We don't have any more room for any more injuries tonight. I'm sure they are___. These are *all* children. This is the point that I wanted to make particularly. I checked on this very carefully. Almost everyone is under 15, and most were under 12. Over half of them were shot with these large live bullets. About 40% were shot with steel rubber-coated bullets.

They sound quite friendly; [but] they're not, believe me. At 7:15, after this exercise in entrapment, they exploded a bomb in each of the homes that they occupied, destroying a room, and left."

There are some photos on this link WARNING THESE PHOTOS ARE VERY GRAPHIC
posted by kwacky at 2:52 pm