Hell Made in Israel

Hell Made in Israel
Kawther Salam's Diary

June 2002

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Sunday, 2nd June 2002
I feel tired, frustrated and depressed, I can't survive any more, there is
no moral values and ethics under the occupation, and there is no justice in
the world, the "IDF" soldiers killed my hopes, dream and future.
I can't survive, It's difficult for me even to write my diary and express
my self in such words.
To live with the face of the evil is something, and to write about it is
some thing else.
The soldiers caused "Trauma" for me, the Trauma of injustice.
Since couple days I stay home, crying in my bed, I don't want to work or to
write. Crying is the only way to clean my feeling.

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Monday, 3rd June 2002
When there is no "Law", there is no justice, and when there is no Justice,
no peace.
Today I'm going to talk about the injustice in my homeland, the injustice
under the "Liberation War".
I don't think we can build our Palestinian State under this terrible
culture, and crazy men society. And while we must have our Palestinian
State, we must think how to build the State of the Law and the Civil Law.
During the Intifadah, my people made reverse 50 years against women, who
believe that a doctor married a 14 years old girl last week? Who believes
that the marriage age in Hebron between 14-18 years old while the
percentage of young divorced marriages are increased.
Violence increased against women inside the family, and in the streets,
women are not allowed to file complaint against the violence in the police
because there is no civil law against the violence. Any one can curse the
women in the street if he don't like her dress or if she is not covering
her hair!!
Traditional believes growing up, and young girls in the age of 5 or 6
years used to cover hair with scarves in childhood.
The religious people are growing and the violence against women growing
with them. They teach the new generation that the women should be covered
and controlled by men since childhood. the young boys learned to be violent
men!! small kids asked me in the street why I don't cover my self, the
said, "it's haram" to work like this.
The youth are shouting at me in the street to cover my self, they claimed
that the occupation came as a result of disobeying the God word of covering
women?? This is all what the religious people teach the new young
generation in the mosques! women always the close line to hang the problems
on!!

The Daily life Of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Wednesday, 5th June 2002
It was very quiet when the "IDF" soldiers driving war tanks break into
Hebron at 11am, the Palestinians were shopping normally in the center of
the city.
The soldiers ordered every body to go back home, they were shooting every
where without limited target.
The IDF soldiers break into the villages surrounding Hebron at the same
time, they killed young boy 15 years old at the entrance of Beit Ommar
village when they shot at crowded youth playing in the streets!!
Morad Alqam was Killed in the middle of his friends in Beit Ommar, his
friends told me that the ambulance arrived after 45 minutes. The IDF
soldiers stopped the ambulance for searching until Morad died in the same
place of his injury.

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Thursday, 6th June 2002
Israel the State of the Injustice??
Dose Israel the State of the Law?? This is the Israeli Law...
Today I received a letter from the Ministry of justice. They informed me of
closing my complaint against the "IDF" soldiers because I don't help them
through the investigation.
I'm deeply concerned the military police investigator lies.

On 30 May 2002. The military police send me a soldier to investigate my
lawyer complaint against the IDF practices towered me in my house.
The investigator arrived the "DCO" office at 12 o'clock to listen to my
testimony, but the "DCO" officer protest and he didn't allowed the
investigator to start his work, he claimed that he didn't receive any
information about the investigation before.
The "DCO" officer ordered me to get out of his office and wait until he ask
the military commander Colonel Dror Wienberg.

The military investigator went with the "DCO" officer, they spend one hour
together before the investigation.
At one o'clock, they called me, I went with Rick Polhamus , an American
observer.
The investigator told me that he don't understand Arabic or English, and
the "DCO" officer should be my translator, It was seems to me that the
investigator came to close the file of my complaint against the "IDF" soldiers.
He was looking in his watch all the time and talking on his cell phone.
When I start talking with him, He said, No I don't want to hear this, I
want to hear about that!! and when I talked about that, he said, no I want
to tell me about this!!
I told him, look, If you don't want to investigate me well, be sure even
after 10 or 20 years later, I will file a complain against the "IDF"
soldiers in the International court in Belgiom! I will file a complain
against the military commander him self Dror wienberg.

After half an hour, The "DCO" office decided to leave us, the investigator
told me that he couldn't continue investigating me because time is over and
he should return, he asked me to give him a copy of all what I send to my
lawyer in order to help him through the investigation. He said, that he
going to translate all what I will give him and then he will call me to
continue the investigation!!

The military investigator took all the letters, and a video cassette of all
the "IDF" made damages in my house.
On 6th, June 2002, his officer send me a letter informing me that they
closed my complaint file because I didn't help them through the investigation.

I posted the military police letter to my lawyer to take her legal steps
concerning the matter.

This is the statement of Rick Polhamus: "I went to the DCO to be an
observer of the process of the investigation of Kawther's complaint. We had
to wait while the inspector talked to the military commander for about one
hour. When we were finally were admitted they told Kawther they would
translate her statement because the investigator didn't understand Arabic
or English. However he asked questions and spoke most of the time in
English. The investigation was interrupted many time by the inspector
leaving the room to take calls on his cell phone. In the hour we were there
he was only talking with us for about 20-30 minutes. He would ask Kawther
questions and then when she would start to answer he would interrupt saying
things like, 'I already know about you. I don't want to hear all about
this.' When he asked about what evidence Kawther had, she started to play
him tapes of the soldiers harassing her but the inspector would stop
Kawther from playing them. Finally he received a call and said that he
would have to stop the investigation for that day. He said he would
download her diary from www.gush-shalom.org. He took a copy of Kawther's
complaint from her lawyer and a video tape. He said that he would have them
translated so he could study them and then he would contact Kawther in
about one week to continue the investigation. This a summary of what I
observed. I can be contacted about this while I am in the area at
02-222-8485 or in the US at 973-368-2221."

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Friday, 7th June 2002

Today I posted my diary dated 6th, June 2002 to Mr. Iran Shindar, the
Officer of the Military Police Investigation Unit.

I wrote for him, hope you will be able to read the investigation play made
by your military police investigators in order to close my file complaint
against the "IDF" sick practices towered me in Hebron.
I think if all the investigations made by your police staff in such of
different cases is going like this, in the same way I was investigated,
that's means you are not objective police, or even you are not a
police and it's better if you sell "tomato" in "Mahni Yoda" vegetable market.

The testimony below in my diary dated 6th, June 2002 is the way I was
investigated by your police.
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Daily, I'm receiving a lot of different international support by the people
in the world, Ramin was the one who support me in such of different way
that I couldn't write about it now, and I can just talk about it in the
next closed future, July 2002.

This is what I was received by Mrs. Marisa, a citizen of Spain, but reside
in the US of America due to marriage, and what I shoose to part of my diary.
Mrs. said that she is reading my diary since it was first posted in Gush
Shalom, it managed to touch her heart many times over.
Mrs. posted me long letter and I'm rewriting part of what she wrote.

The glorious sound of silence. (Thinking of Kawther Salam of her woes)
No, I don't hear the scary sounds
Of bullets swishing by my ear
Or bombs falling from the skies
And the starting voices of soldiers...

...Nor do I have to stoic endure
Lewd comments from anyone
Or the cutting off, of anything
Or the stomping on my rights...

...Life 'tis, merely, as should be
With mornings filled with dew
And nothing, out of the ordinary
Such as the hazard of falling houses
Or the rumpling of evil bulldozers
_Alters, what every soul yearns...

...For the bulldozers are, solely
For building houses and roads
And the plows prepare the fields
For tomorrow's, welcome bread...

...And the flowers can rise up lazily
Aware that little shall ravage them
Noises don't obliterate their chants...

...Palestine, teeming with evil noises
My wish may be simple yet, grandiose
And the shrill sound, of peaceful doves...

2-190"ecos..."(31) Por, Quidam - April 2002)
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To Kawther from A Friend "..." 7th, June 2002
Maybe it's the color of the sun cut flat
And covering these crossroads I'm standing at.
Maybe it's the weather or something like that
But Kawther, you've been on my mind.

Though you think my mind is hazy and thoughts might be narrow,
The things that happen to you bring me down in sorrow.
I pray that things will be much better for you tomorrow
Because Kawther, you've been on my mind.

When you wake up in the morning Kawther, look into your mirror.
you know I won't be next to you. you know I won't be near.
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone has had you on his mind.

Rick

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam Hell made in Israel 8th, June 2002 It was very hot today, the temperature reach 37 degree,
when the Jewish settlers and the soldiers broke into the
old market of the city of Hebron and they start damaging the Palestinians shops and shooting every where,
The Palestinians screaming shacked the old buildings in the city,
The soldiers were protecting the settlers damages,
they helped them and they threw sound bombs.
They shoot also, a Palestinian was injured seriously and others were injured lightly.
the settlers were screaming (death to Arabs),
(we don't want to see dogs in Hebron) that means, Arabs dogs!!
The settlers closed the old market which was under
the military curfew since over 523 days!!
The old market is the only part of the city Hebron that Palestinians
allowed to live after the military closed Al-Shuhade and Al-Shallaleh
Streets because of the Jewish settlers presence in the city.
The Palestinians are not allowed to marry, celebrate,
using the cars the transportation or even to have a donkeys
to help them to carry things in there daily life,
the Palestinians carried the Gaz pipes on their shoulders,
and they walked many kilometers around the city
in the mountains in order to reach the center of city of Hebron
which is not far away of their homes and they can reach it in
three minutes if the military open the Shalaleh and the
Shuhada streets like it was before.

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Sunday, 9th June 2002

The children testimonies made me cry, it was very difficult to control my
tears in front of them, it's very difficult for any one to hear the kids
expressing their fears.
I love to talk to children, and I love to make them happy, I don't have a
child, but many times I cut my tour to give them some sweets and to talk to
them.

Daily, Rawan, Najwan and Suzan the three sisters inviting me to visit them,
I always give them a promise if they receive high marks in the school.
The kids identified me easily, they called me by name, they act the way I
work, dress and talk in the T.V, some of them have a dream to be a
journalist like me!!

Since three days, I didn't recognize the three sisters sitting on the
window behind the light curtain.
O' God, what's happen? I nocked the door of three kids's house, the mother
opened, she is very weak with yellow face and tearful eyes!!
Rawan cut our silence and said, "the Yahood, that's means the Jewish shot
my sister Najwan, she is in the hospital"!!

Najwan, five years old, was slept in her bed with her two sisters on when
the "IDF" soldiers and settlers broke into the old market on Saturday night.
The mother heard the noise of the "IDF" and the settlers shooting and
screaming, she said, "I continued working in the kitchen, I know my three
kids were slept"!!

When Rawan walk up to have a glass of water, she asked me for a help, her
'bijama' was covered of blood, the mother said and she cried.

Najwan was shoot in her eye in the middle of her two sisters, she was
bleeding and unconscious, her tow sisters were sleeping and covered of blood!!

The small kid get the bullet from the open window, the mother told me how
she went to the hospital with her husband, they were carried Najwan
unconscious, the 'IDF' soldiers stopped them, they didn't allowed the
ambulance to come and carry the small child!!

The mother was telling me the story, when Rawan asked me to follow her, she
took me to her bed were her sister Najwan get injured, the points of blood
still covering the wall!!
Rawan wrote under the blood, "this is Najwan's blood, 7th, June 2002"!! She
drew a picture of black man holding big gun and shooting toward a small
flower??!! The picture made me cry in front of the mother and her kids!!

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
Monday, 10th June 2002
When I stopped to give the kids in the old market some sweets, I asked them
what they are going to do during the summer holiday?
Spontaneously, the kids, "we have already start our course in the mosque,
we receive money, food and study in the mosque"??!!
The kids told me something about the Grave Torture after death!!
How the angels 'Naker and Niker' investigating the people in the grave
about what they did in their life and how they tortured their bodies!!
How the angels took the bodies five times daily and forced the people
they weren't pray during their life to pray in the middle of the fire in
the hell!!
How the women hanged from the hair because they weren't covered!!
How "Al-Shaheed" that's means the martyrs and the suicide bombers replacing
a good place in the 'Paradise' married of 70 charming women, the nail of
each one is better more than the hole world!! And how Al-Shaheed is giving
forgiveness for 70 person of his family to enter the Paradise and live with
him!!
How Al-Shaheed blood spread nice smell and perfume, and his body survive to
be a live in the garden of the Paradise with God since the moment he died!!
How the women nails covered with polish will be flamed, and the musician
ears will be closed with lightening flame stick??!!
Such of deplorable stories the kids in the age of the flowers studied in
the mosque!!
No body teach these children that God is peace, love forgiveness and mercy,
no body told them that life is very short and they should enjoy it, no one
told them that God is not a list of threat and warning orders and massages.
These children shouldn't go to the mosque to hear just false roamers and lies.
I'm crying the future of this new generation, I'm crying the terrible
situation that made the extreme people growing and using the others needs
under the name of God and help.

The Daily Life of Kawther Salam
Hell made in Israel
11th, June 2002
Who is this Israeli soldier? Is he looking for his picture??
Why the Israeli commander arrested his soldier for 21 days
after the Palestinian Newspaper 'AL-Hayat' showed his coloured picture
playing with a Palestinian child??
I was astonished when the PA employee from Bethlehem
asked me about the IDF soldier I was filmed in Hebron playing with the
Palestinian child taking off his gun and hold it on his sholder!!
The PA employee said, "the israeli soldier is looking for his picture
after he was arrested 21 days as a result
of publishing it in my Newspaper"!!
The IDF soldier lifted his work,
he is working nowadays as a metal constructor.
A couple of days before the 'Intifada', the israeli constructor went to 'Hosan' village and asked the
PA employee to help him to reach or talk with me, he told him about how I was walking
in Hebron with a small child carying IM16 plastic gun, and how he loved the
child and he played with him honestly while I filmed them.
He asked about a copy of his picture
if it possible because he didn't see it yet.
The soldier said, "it was a surprise when his officer
told him that the commander asked to punish him 21 days in prison because
of what he played with the Palestinian kid"!!
When I heard the story I decided to write the story in
my newspaper, and to send the soldier a copy of his picture,
I was prepared the story and the picture while the 'Intifada'
began at that moment.
Hope any one identified the soldier will send his
picture through Gush-Shalom web site, an my apologize too.

Hell Made in Israel Kawther Salam's Diary

June 2002

Hell Made in Israel
Kawther Salam's Diary