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>JN Jan. 23, 2002, Vol. 10, No. 15
Israel Plans Strong Response After Shooting in Jerusalem
By VOA News
Israel said it planned a strong response, after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israelis waiting for a bus in central Jerusalem Tuesday. The attack wounded at least 40 people. Israeli police shot and killed the gunman.
An armed group linked to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's Fatah faction, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, has claimed responsibility. Israeli officials immediately accused Arafat of doing nothing to stop terrorism. They promised tough retaliation.
Palestinian officials condemned the attack. But they said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has created a situation that forces Palestinians to lash out against Israeli aggression. Tuesday's shooting came as the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, threatened what it called an all-out war, after Israeli soldiers killed four Hamas members in a West Bank raid.
Israeli forces killed the four men during a raid in Nablus, while searching for militants. The army said it arrested nine suspected militants and discovered what it calls one of the largest bomb-making laboratories ever found in the West Bank. Palestinian officials say Israel killed them in cold blood.
After the Israeli raid, at least 2,000 Hamas supporters stormed a Nablus prison, demanding freedom for jailed militants. Protesters threw stones at Palestinian police, who fired back with tear gas and rifles. One demonstrator was killed. Police later freed one Palestinian militant.
Muslims Recognize "Freedom Of Worship" - But Not For Jews
By IsraelNationalNews.com
The interfaith summit in Alexandria, Egypt ended Tuesday with a joint statement by Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders pledging to use their "religious and moral authority to work for an end to the violence and the resumption of the peace process." The statements condemned "the murder of innocents in the name of God."
Although the leaders resolved that, "The sanctity and integrity of the holy places must be preserved, and freedom of religious worship must be ensured for all," PA Police Mufti Abdul Salam Abu-Shkaidem told The Jerusalem Post that this does not mean Jews should be allowed access to the Temple Mount:
"[Just as] I am not going to pray in the church [or] the synagogue [but rather] I pray in my place, and they pray in their place... Give me access to go to my mosque, and I am not stopping you from going to your church or synagogue... [The Jews] have no right to go there, this is a mosque - the whole Temple Mount."
Yad Vashem Website: Expanded version of Auschwitz Album
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Yad Vashem has published an expanded version of the Auschwitz album, the only surviving visual evidence of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau, on its website , to coincide with the 57th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (Jan. 27).
The on-line Auschwitz Album displays 58 photographs documenting the day-to-day functioning of Auschwitz-Birkenau, taken in early summer 1944 by SS men, responsible at Auschwitz for the identification and fingerprinting procedure, of the Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Also included in the on-line presentation are testimonies, aerial photos taken of the camp between April - December 1944, and photographs of its construction.
The main deportation of Hungarian Jewry took place in early summer 1944, and for this purpose a special railway line was built which extended from the station outside the camp to a ramp within Auschwitz. It was here, before the selection process took place, that many of the album's photographs were taken. The photographer followed the new arrivals through the selection process, to their "final destination", although he did not record acts of violence.
Those deemed fit to work were processed for slave labor, and those deemed unfit, to Birkenau (birch valley), the area directly in front of the killing facilities to unwittingly await imminent death. The album's purpose is unclear, as it was not intended for propaganda. However it is assumed that it was created as a method of reference for a higher authority, in keeping with albums from other concentration camps.
The photographs which make up the Auschwitz Album were discovered by the late Lily Jacob - Zelmanovic Meier, deported from Bilke - a small town in the Carpathian Mountains - in April 1945 on her liberation from Auschwitz by the US army. The album had been given the seemingly innocent title "Resettlement of Hungarian Jews" by the Nazis. She kept the photographs in her safekeeping until the 1980s when Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld convinced her to donate them to Yad Vashem.
Yad Vashem restored the album in 1994 in its conservation laboratory, computerized the vital information for its Archives, and matched the aerial photographs taken by the US Army Air Force in 1944 and 1945 with those in the Auschwitz Album.
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