PALESTINIANS IN JENIN CAMP TURN DOWN U.S. RELIEF AID
REuters, 4/25/02

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian officials at Jenin refugee camp
Thursday turned down a U.S. aid shipment of tents, food and children's
toys, saying the camp had been destroyed by Israel with U.S.-made weapons.

They said residents refused to unpack the shipment, which included 800
tents and other relief supplies from the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), after it arrived in U.N. trucks Tuesday.

"Residents do not accept this assistance presented by the United States
because their camp has been demolished, its youth killed by American
weapons in Israeli hands," said Fakhri Turukman, a Palestinian legislator
from the camp.

"We would rather die of hunger than be fed by our killers," said Ibrahim
Hussein, a member of the camp's relief committee...

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