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Palestinian deportees fast as bizarre standoff drags on
MARJ AL-ZOHOUR (Lebanon), Dec 24: More than 4Q0 Palestinians, deported by Israel and refused entry by Lebanon. on Thursday entered their second week trapped in a freezing no'man's land, out of water and fasting to preserve ■ dwindling foodstocks, reports AP.
•'As two more men were hospitalized in Lebanon and temperatures plunged to bclpw zero, raising the number of casualties to four, the deportees appealed to International organizations. They need food, waler .and heating fuel- for their makeshift tent camp.
■ Lebanon refuses to allow re-
lief agencies to help the men ' and there was no sign that Israel was about to relent on its refusal to allow in supplier
- The Palestinians remain huddled in a rocky, snow-covered no-man’s land between-Israel's self-designated security zone in South Lebanon and territory controlled by the Lebanese government. The bizarre standoff dragged on, plunging US-sponsored Arab-Israeli peace talks in jeopardy.
Abdy) Aziz RanllsL a Gaza Strip physician and the deported people's spokesman, said the camp ran out of drinking water Wednesday night. He claimed several cases of
dysentery among .men who drank from a stream. Rantisi said they were fasting from dawrr-to-dusk to save food, which now consists>.on a small quantity of potatoes and vermicelli.
In Jerusalem, an Israeli government official said the Jewish state had been asked by the International Committee of the Red Cross to allow aid for the deportees to be shipped through the security zone.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israel has not yet decided on what It will do. But he reiterated Israel's assertion that it is no longer responsible for the
men's welfare?
"We think it is the responsibility of Lebanon to supply them with water and food." he said.
UN envoy James Jonah was due to arrive in Israel on Saturday to resolve the impasse.
In Cairo, PLO chief Yasser Arafat urged today Arab participants in the Middle East peace talks to adopt a firm stand against Israel's expulsion of Palestinians.
Before Joining the Arab meeting, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader afso called on the United Nations to put Israel in its place for
defying a UN Security Council resolution ordering it to lake back the deportees.
"We (the Palestinians) are taking up the Israeli challenge by intensifying the Intifada (uprising) hul can the Security Council do Ihe same, Arafat told journalists after a-meeting with Arab Ix-aguc leaders.
Arafat asked Arab countries tn provide urgent aid to Palestinians in the occupied territories before joining the meeting of foreign ministers of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan —in-, volvcd tn the peace talks — and
Amr Mussa said in an opening
statement to the meeting that Arabs must adopt a common stand to confront what he said were the difficult ctrcuin-stanccS in the region after the expulsions.
Another report says, Palestinians in the Baqaa refugee camp staged a threc;hour general strike Thursday to protest Israel's, deportation.
When the strike grided, camp representatives .circulated copits of a memorandum delivered to the UN Office In Amman and addressed to UN
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