CPTnet
11 February 2008
HEBRON URGENT ACTION: Israeli Civil Administration set to demolish clinic and twenty homes near Hebron this week

Palestinian residents of the Beqa’a Valley are in danger of losing their health clinic, currently under construction, and twenty homes. The Israeli Civil Administration issued orders to the Israeli military to demolish the homes and clinic by the end of the week.

Residents in the valley have been building this clinic without governmental or outside funding, even though many have little or no paid employment. The Israeli Civil Administration refused to grant a building permit despite the difficulties residents encounter in reaching other health facilities outside of the valley. Between 600 and 700 people, mostly women and children, will use the new clinic for routine medical care, including prenatal checkups and vaccinations. Palestinian Relief and CARE International currently provide these services one day a week in other existing facilities. The residents decided to build their own clinic as the facilities they are now using are inadequate. Some patients are currently receiving care in part of one resident’s home.

(To view pictures of Beqa’a Valley residents using an existing home as a clinic, visit <http://www.cpt.org/gallery/album233> Six of the other buildings scheduled for demolition are homes that the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) rebuilt after previous demolitions.

Israeli authorities demolished Jaber’s home in the Beqa’a Valley three times.

ACTION
Please call, e-mail, or write to the Israeli military. Urge them to rescind the demolition orders and allow residents to complete the clinic in the Beqa’a Valley.

Send the appeal electronically: <http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/Contact+Us/>

Or call

Public Appeals Officer Phone: 011-972-3-569-1000
Public Appeals Officer Fax: 011-972-3-569-9400

In addition, please call, email, or write to your government officials. Urge them to send a strong message to the Israeli government to rescind the stop work orders and allow residents to complete the clinic in the Beqa’a Valley.

Below is a suggested list of contacts for this Urgent Action:

Canada:
Embassy in Tel Aviv – The Canadian Embassy, PO Box 9442, Tel Aviv 67060, Israel. Fax: (011 972 3) 636-3380. Email: taviv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Office of the Prime Minister, 80 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Canada, K1A 0A2. Fax: 613-941-6900 or Email: pm@pm.gc.ca

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Maxine Bernier, House of Commons, Ottawa ON, Canada, K1A 0A6. Fax: (613) 995-0687 or Email: Berni.M@parl.gc.ca.

You can mail your MP at the House of Commons address, or find their email address at <http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/PostalCode.asp?Source=SM>
UK:
Embassy in Tel Aviv – British Embassy, 192 Hayarkon Street, Tel Aviv 63405, Israel. Tel: (+972 3) 725 1222; Fax: (+ 972 3) 527 8574. Email: webmaster.telaviv@fco.gov.uk

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA

To email the Prime Minister go to <http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/page821.asp>

Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH. Tel: 020 7008-1500

To email MP, MEP’s, MSPs, or Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs <http://www.writetothem.com/>
Contact details for UK Members of Parliament and House of Lords:
<http://www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm>


Contact details for the Members of the Scottish Parliaments:
<http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/membersPages/msplocator.htm>

Sweden:
Contact PM Fredrik Reinfeldt , Phone: 46 8 405-1000, email via senior registry clerk: www.sweden.gov.se

Contact Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, Phone: 46-8-405-1000, email via senior registry clerk – www.sweden.gov.se

USA:
Embassy in Tel Aviv – US Embassy, 71 Hayarkon Street, Tel Aviv 63903, Israel. Email: Mary Glantz, Human Rights, glantzme@state.gov or Michelle Schohn, schohnjm@state.gov or ac5@bezeqint.net

President George W Bush, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

Register your message with the White House Comment Line 202-456-1111 or comments@whitehouse.gov.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520

Matthew S. Rosenstock Office of Israel and Palestine Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the State Department. Email: RosenstockMS@state.gov, phone 202-647-1461. (Rosenstock met with Abdelhadi Hantash when he was in the States.)

To contact your Senator go to <http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm>

To contact your Representative go to <http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/>
Or call the Capitol Switchboard at (202)-224-3132 and ask for the appropriate Congressional office.