Balata Refugee Camp invasions

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Sunday May 22, 2005 20:25 by Jon Glackin - Street Seen streetseen at hotmail dot co dot uk 07743275533

Urgent support needed for balatacamp.net

balatacamp.net is trying to undergo a dramatic online change, as we attempt to transform it into a true community website run by residents of the camp

A two week period with no Israeli invasions into Balata Camp ended Tuesday
night, when 30 armoured jeeps forced their way into the camp. Doors were
blown in and houses searched as the Israeli soldiers asserted their
dominance. Wednesday and Thursday nights were similar, with hours of
gunfire between the resistance with their misfiring Kalashnikovs and
well-armed soldiers with nightvision and jeeps on every street. Israeli
helicopters hovered overhead as soldiers occupied houses; by the morning
three Palestinians were injured and eight arrested.


SERVER HELP NEEDED URGENTLY:

balatacamp.net is trying to undergo a dramatic online change, as we
attempt to transform it into a true community website run by residents of
the camp. Our problem is that our current server has neither MySQL nor
php installed, which are necessary for any content management system.
None of the people working on the projects here has the knowledge to
install these, or the time to acquire that knowledge.

With most of the internationals leaving Balata in the near future, we'd
like to have the new site set up before they leave. So we're in desperate
need of either:
* somebody with a few hours spare who has some knowledge with installing
MySQL and PHP. The server is OpenBSD.
or
* access to a different server for the new website, that already has MySQL
and PHP installed.

if anybody has the knowledge or means to help, that would be wonderful.
please reply to streetseen@hotmail.co.uk