April 8, 2002
Today, at approximately 1:00 PM, six IDF soldiers entered the al-Baq Mosque in the old city of Nablus, where an emergency clinic has been established. At the time, present in the clinic were 45 wounded persons, four doctors, several volunteers, and ten corpses that it had not yet been possible to remove.
According to the information provided to B'Tselem by Dr. Zahara el-Wawi, a doctor at the clinic, the soldiers entered the mosque with their guns resting on the shoulders of Palestinian civilians who were forced to march in front of the soldiers as "human shields."
According to Dr. Wawi, who spoke with a B'Tselem fieldworker while the soldiers were in the mosque, the soldiers separated the medical staff from the patients, searched the dead bodies, and checked the identities of the injured patients.
The emergency clinic in the mosque was opened last Wednesday, immediately following the IDF incursion into Nablus. According to Dr. Wawi, the clinic's supply of medicines has been exhausted, and as a result the clinic is unable to take in any additional patients. The supply of water in the clinic has also been exhausted, as has the gas that runs the generator that provides electricity to the clinic.
Today, at approximately 1:00 PM, six IDF soldiers entered the al-Baq Mosque in the old city of Nablus, where an emergency clinic has been established. At the time, present in the clinic were 45 wounded persons, four doctors, several volunteers, and ten corpses that it had not yet been possible to remove.
According to the information provided to B'Tselem by Dr. Zahara el-Wawi, a doctor at the clinic, the soldiers entered the mosque with their guns resting on the shoulders of Palestinian civilians who were forced to march in front of the soldiers as "human shields."
According to Dr. Wawi, who spoke with a B'Tselem fieldworker while the soldiers were in the mosque, the soldiers separated the medical staff from the patients, searched the dead bodies, and checked the identities of the injured patients.
The emergency clinic in the mosque was opened last Wednesday, immediately following the IDF incursion into Nablus. According to Dr. Wawi, the clinic's supply of medicines has been exhausted, and as a result the clinic is unable to take in any additional patients. The supply of water in the clinic has also been exhausted, as has the gas that runs the generator that provides electricity to the clinic.