Give Us Bigger Houses Or Die!
Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 3:57:28 pm PDT
The entitlement mentality meshes with the death cult: Palestinian gunmen raid UNRWA offices in Jenin.
The United Nations decided over the weekend to suspend its construction project in the Jenin refugee camp after Palestinian gunmen threatened crews rebuilding houses destroyed during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002.
Five men armed with M-16 rifles raided the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) offices in the camp on Friday to protest that the new houses were too small. The gunmen threatened to harm the UN staff if their demands for larger houses were not met.
Residents of the Jenin camp are complaining that their new houses, replacing those destroyed in Israeli incursions, are not big enough, said Sami Mshasha, a spokesman for UNRWA in Jerusalem.
Sources in the camp said they did not know to which group the gunmen belonged, although some residents identified them as members of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah.
This was the third attack of its kind on UN offices and crew in the Jenin camp in the past six months. Residents had complained that the construction work was too slow and that senior Palestinian Authority officials had stolen parts of the donations from the international community to the camp.
One of the attackers complained that the 180 square meter apartment he had been given was too small for him and his wife. “Soon we will have children and this apartment would be too small,” he told the UN staff.
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