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>http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=159923&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y>SOMEONE EVEN MANAGED TO DEFECATE INTO THE PHOTOCOPIER
>By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz Daily, 5/8/02
>http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=159923&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
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>No one deluded himself that the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, which
>takes up five of the eight floors of a new building in the center of El
>Bireh, would be spared the fate of other Palestinian Authority offices in
>Ramallah and other cities - that is, the nearly total destruction of its
>contents and particularly its high-tech equipment.
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>...In other offices, all the high-tech and electronic equipment had been
>wrecked or had vanished - computers, photocopiers, cameras, scanners, hard
>disks, editing equipment worth thousands of dollars, television sets. The
>broadcast antenna on top of the building was destroyed.
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>Telephone sets vanished. A collection of Palestinian art objects (mostly
>hand embroideries) disappeared. Perhaps it was buried under the piles of
>documents and furniture, perhaps it had been spirited away. Furniture was
>dragged from place to place, broken by soldiers, piled up. Gas stoves for
>heating were overturned and thrown on heaps of scattered papers, discarded
>books, broken diskettes and discs and smashed windowpanes.
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>In the department for the encouragement of children's art, the soldiers
>had dirtied all the walls with gouache paints they found there and
>destroyed the children's paintings that hung there.
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>In every room of the various departments - literature, film, culture for
>children and youth books, discs, pamphlets and documents were piled up,
>soiled with urine and excrement.
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>There are two toilets on every floor, but the soldiers urinated and
>defecated everywhere else in the building, in several rooms of which they
>had lived for about a month. They did their business on the floors, in
>emptied flowerpots, even in drawers they had pulled out of desks...
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