Eyewitness account from Sheffield's twin city in Palestine West Bank

The Star, Sheffield

Recent Sheffield visitor Amjad Rhaie shows the damage caused by an incursion of Israeli forces into his home, the New Askar refugee camp, in Sheffield's twin city of Nablus on the West Bank of Palestine

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00:00My name is Amjad Alpaie and I am one of the Popular Services Committee members and I am

00:25the director of the Social Development Center inside the camp.

00:32What's happening this night in the camp is that the Israelis attacked the camp at one

00:37o'clock in the morning and they stayed until five o'clock.

00:41They arrested nine people during the night and they are targeting another two children,

00:50one of them.

00:52They can't arrest him until now and the other one, they arrested him in the night.

00:58They entered more than 20 houses and they destroyed all the furniture inside these houses.

01:05They attacked the Popular Services Committee and KPS Center and they destroyed the furniture

01:13inside these centers and they destroyed our tools and our materials and what we are working.

01:33We are here now in the Popular Services Committee 2.

01:36As you see, they destroyed everything here.

01:39They entered during the night and they are destroying everything, even the chairs and

01:45the rice on the floor that we give to the poor people and they destroyed everything.

02:02As you see here, for example, look, they are destroying or shooting this laptop, I don't

02:08know what's the problem of this laptop.

02:11So we are spending a lot of time to have these materials and tools to work for the camp and

02:17after suddenly in one hour, one minute, they destroy everything.

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