Day 10 — Socialist Resistance newspaper

Day 10

Socialist Resistance no8 | page 15

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for fruit vans, taxis and, most importantly, ambulances to get through.

After lunch we head off to the other roadblocks into Balata Camp. The first one is opened as a result of one of our group persuading a passing digger to remove it. help of local Palestinians. One has been knocked down by the Palestinians themselves, so four entrances are now open. has been hit by a rubber bullet. He has difficulty walking and is heavily bandaged. I stay in the house, while others head off to do checkpoint watch. The guards are being really heavy, and the internationals take a have broken down enough of the barricade

open again.

We go to a new road block, and some men in a garage came with iron bars, and help to knock it down. We then clear a road block barring the main street. The camp is fire at animals, or anything that moves Day 13

We are taken around four previously demolished houses - one of these involved