DEAR SENATOR: Palestinians have requested that international peacekeepers monitor their Israeli-occu- PLACE pied homeland—but Israel has rejected this. Instead, therefore, thousands of volun- You may wish teers from around the world, many of them Jewish, have tried to fill the need. 23¢ “The Israeli government is very suspicious of human rights activists for two reasons,” STAMP explains leading Israeli human rights lawyer Shamai Liebowitz.“They monitor human rights abuses and are able to record severe cases of humiliation and torture by soldiers and set- HERE tlers, and the Israeli government doesn’t want the world to see this.” to send these Since Jan. 4, 2004 the Israeli military’s civil administration has required foreign nationals, including human rights activists, journalists, and NGO workers, to apply for written permission to enter the West Bank and Gaza. It is often denied. Without this permission internationals may be deported or refused re-entry into Israel or the occu- pied territories. As a result Israeli human rights abuses have escalated and gone large- cards to the ly unreported to the outside world. On the anniversary of the brutal attacks on Hurndall, Miller, Avery, and Corrie, please protest Israel’s killing of U.S. and British civilians and contact the Israeli govern- ment to demand that U.S. citizens be granted access to the Palestinian territories. TO: two Senators SENATOR_________________________________________ (name of your Senator) and one U.S. SENATE WASHINGTON, DC 20510 Representative DEAR SENATOR: Palestinians have requested that international peacekeepers monitor their Israeli-occu- PLACE pied homeland—but Israel has rejected this. 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On the anniversary of the brutal attacks on Hurndall, Miller, Avery, and Corrie, please protest Israel’s killing of U.S. and British civilians and contact the Israeli govern- ment to demand that U.S. citizens be granted access to the Palestinian territories. TO: If you can make SENATOR_________________________________________ (name of your Senator) copies you may wish to send one to: U.S. SENATE WASHINGTON, DC 20510 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: Washington, DC 20500 Palestinians have requested that international peacekeepers monitor their Israeli-occu- PLACE pied homeland—but Israel has rejected this. Instead, therefore, thousands of volun- teers from around the world, many of them Jewish, have tried to fill the need. 23¢ “The Israeli government is very suspicious of human rights activists for two reasons,” STAMP explains leading Israeli human rights lawyer Shamai Liebowitz.“They monitor human rights abuses and are able to record severe cases of humiliation and torture by soldiers and set- HERE tlers, and the Israeli government doesn’t want the world to see this.” Since Jan. 4, 2004 the Israeli military’s civil administration has required foreign nationals, including human rights activists, journalists, and NGO workers, to apply for written permission to enter the West Bank and Gaza. It is often denied. Without this permission internationals may be deported or refused re-entry into Israel or the occu- pied territories. As a result Israeli human rights abuses have escalated and gone large- ly unreported to the outside world. 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Internationals hold up placards with pictures of human rights activists Thomas Hurndall, 22, another ISM Rachel Corrie (l) and Thomas Hurndall on April 22, 2003, shortly after volunteer, died in a London hospital Corrie was crushed to death and Hurndall shot in the head by Israeli sol- Jan. 13, 2004, nine months after an diers. Israel now restricts foreign journalists, volunteers and NGOs from may also wish to entering the occupied territories to report what is happening to the out- Israeli sniper shot him, also in Rafah. side world. In Jenin, ISM volunteer Brian Avery, send them to 24, from Albuquerque, NM, was shot in the face