facility:jenin refugee camp

  • The Israeli army’s libido to destroy
    The public accepts any military operation, as long as it ends with Palestinian bereavement and flattened Palestinian houses
    Amira Hass Jan 22, 2018 11:13 PM
    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-israeli-army-s-libido-to-destroy-1.5751612

    Is it the Border Police spokesman or the Israel Defense Forces’ mouthpiece? Who is supposed to reply to a Haaretz query asking why our forces demolished four dwellings in last week’s raid on the Wad Burqin neighborhood in Jenin, whereas official reports led us to believe it was only one?

    Was someone embarrassed? After all, there is no need to hide the results of our libido for destruction from the Israeli public. The public accepts any military operation, as long as it ends with Palestinian bereavement and flattened Palestinian houses. Our crowds in the Colosseum like to touch the collective vengeance and the suspicions of the Shin Bet security service are more sacred to them than biblical verses. Even the so-called Supermarket Law could not divert attention away from the soothing sight of ever more piles of rubble, under which lie notebooks, schoolbags, blood pressure medication, school report cards and toothbrushes belonging to 18 people.

    On Saturday afternoon, as I was returning from the scenes of devastation in Wad Burqin, which is next to the Jenin refugee camp, the IDF spokesman directed me to the Border Police and the Shin Bet. I followed the advice. The Shin Bet never answered. The Border Police spokesman wrote back: “The overall response will be given by the army.” This response never arrived and the article on the raid was filed without it. On Monday a soldier at the army spokesperson’s office told me that “the incident was managed by the Border Police, from beginning to end. They have to supply answers.”

    Is this game of Ping-Pong an indirect admission that the raid failed? Ahmed Nasser Jarrar, the suspect in the murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevah in the West Bank earlier this month, was not found even after we fired a missile at his mother Khitam’s home, after which it caught fire and was razed by our bulldozers.

    To the extended Jarrar family, all its children and its elderly, who endured a night of terror, the confusion between Border Police and army spokesmen makes no difference. Ahmed Nasser’s cousin, Ahmed Ismail, was killed. Israel is holding on to his body; an empty hole in the ground, dug immediately after his death, is waiting. Our forces reported that he opened fire and wounded two of our policemen. His brother Mohammed says that the two of them left the house together to finish talking about family matters. They parted near the house of the widow Khitam. Mohammed returned home and Ismail went to sleep at a friend’s house. If he did open fire at the armed invaders, it’s a source of pride for the family, not just pain. However, the family finds it hard to believe that this happened, since Ismail wasn’t interested in guns.

    According to Palestinian reports, the people injured in the raid are from the Jenin refugee camp. Three of the arrested men (one of whom has been released) were apprehended outside the neighborhood. They are not members of the Jarrar family. Except for Ismail, whose involvement is still unclear, it seems that if there were Palestinians who opened fire at the armed Israelis, they were not from the Jarrar family.

    But four of the family’s homes were demolished. Acting casually, our wonderful boys shelled and demolished Khitam’s house in a cruel and sadistic procedure called “the pressure cooker,” which takes revenge against the entire family without a trial, under the guise of operational necessity. And Ismail’s house? Was that an operational necessity too? The impression is that it was demolished as collective punishment after an on-the-spot trial, after the special forces were enraged that two of its members were wounded and determined that Ismail was the one who had fired at them. Without warning or delay, the bulldozers plowed into the house of Ali and Nasim Jarrar while their family members, the youngest one six years old, were inside. The choice was to die under the bulldozers or to risk being shot as you ran out. They were caught by soldiers when they fled through a back door. They were detained and then released while our bulldozers completed the job.

    We also pulverized one more unpopulated old stone building known as Dar Alhajat. The last people to live in it were two elderly sisters. The extended family’s children used to go there to play and be pampered. The children and grandchildren of this family will continue to bear the torch of fury and revulsion directed at the destroyers.

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  • Israeli forces shoot, kill 2 young Palestinians during raid in Jenin refugee camp
    July 12, 2017 10:17 A.M. (Updated: July 12, 2017 10:32 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=778042

    JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed two young Palestinians — one 17-year-old and one 20-year-old — and injured at least two others after a violent military raid into Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank erupted into clashes early Wednesday morning.

    An Israeli army spokesperson said that during an “operation” in the camp, a Palestinian gunman opened fire at Israeli forces, and other locals threw Molotov cocktails, which prompted Israeli fires to open fire toward the "attackers.”

    No casualties were reported among the heavily armed and armored Israeli forces.

    According to the Israeli army, no one was detained during the raid.

    The spokesperson did not acknowledge the deaths of the two Palestinians, and said reports of casualties were under investigation.

    Medical sources at Khalil Suliman governmental hospital said that 17-year-old Aws Muhammad Youssif Salamah died later in the hospital after succumbing to a gunshot wound.

    The Palestinian Red Crescent told Ma’an that 20-year-old Saad Nasser Hassan Abd al-Fattah Salah was shot and killed by Israeli forces at the scene of the clashes. He reportedly sustained bullets to his head and chest.

    Local sources highlighted Salah was survived by three brothers — one of whom, Youssif, is currently imprisoned in an Israeli jails — and that their father was permanently disabled after being shot by Israeli forces some time in the past.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Deux Palestiniens tués par l’armée israélienne (sources palestiniennes)
      AFP / 12 juillet 2017 07h20
      https://www.romandie.com/news/Deux-Palestiniens-tues-par-l-armee-israelienne-sources-palestiniennes/814147.rom

      Jénine (Territoires palestiniens) - Deux Palestiniens ont été tués mercredi par des balles tirées par l’armée israélienne lors d’affrontements dans le camp de réfugiés de Jénine dans le nord de la Cisjordanie occupée, selon des sources palestiniennes.

      Un Palestinien a été tué sur le coup et un autre grièvement blessé a succombé. Un troisième a été touché à la jambe, ont précisé ces sources médicales et de sécurité sans fournir dans l’immédiat des précisions sur ces affrontements.

      L’armée israélienne a déclaré que des soldats avaient ouvert le feu sur des « assaillants palestiniens armés qui ont tiré et lancé des engins explosifs » sur les soldats opérant dans le camp. Aucun soldat n’a été blessé, a-t-elle ajouté.

    • Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (06– 12 July 2017)
      http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=9250

      Wednesday, 12 July 2017

      In new crime of excessive use of force, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian civilians and wounded a third one in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The Israeli forces claimed that the soldiers opened fire at “two attackers” after “Palestinian armed persons opened fire at them and threw explosive devices at the forces stationed in the camp”. However, PCHR’s investigations and eyewitnesses refute the Israeli narrative. PCHR strongly condemns this new crime. PCHR hereby stresses this crime was committed after the Israeli political and military leaders gave the Israeli soldiers the green light to shed the Palestinian blood in light of the international community’s policy to tolerate Israel for crimes committed by the Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians. According to PCHR’s investigations and eyewitnesses’ testimonies, at approximately 02:00 on Wednesday, 12 July 2017, Israeli forces backed by military vehicles and dozens of infantry soldiers moved into Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. They stationed in the center of the camp and then stepped out of their vehicles. They surrounded several houses to raid them and arrest some of its residents. Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian young men and children gathered and threw stones at the soldiers, who heavily opened fire at the stone-throwers. As a result, ‘Oday Nizar Abu Na’asah (19) sustained a live bullet wound to the leg. At approximately 04:00, the Israeli forces withdrew while 2 military jeeps stationed at the western entrance to the camp. In the meantime, a motorbike driven to the western side of the camp was traveled by Sa’ed Naser ‘Abdel Fattah Salah (20) from the eastern neighborhood in Jenin, and Aws Mohammed Yousif Salamah (17), from Jenin refugee camp. When the jeeps moved the motorbike moved behind them, so the Israeli soldiers opened fire at them from a distance of 4 meters. As a result, Sa’ed was wounded and fell on the ground and Aws was also wounded and walked for 50 meters away from the motorbike before he fell on the ground. The wounded civilians were transferred to Martyr Dr. Khalil Soliman Governmental Hospital in Jenin. Medical sources said that Sa’ed arrived dead at the hospital and doctors there tried for hours to save Aws’s life, but he died succumbing to his serious wounds. Medical sources mentioned that Sa’ed was hit with two bullets to the head and left side of the chest while Aws was hit with a bullet that entered his abdomen and exited the chest. An eyewitness said that he saw 3 Israeli soldiers surrounding Sa’ed and trying to move him. Then a sound of gunshot was heard from the place.

  • ’State of Jenin’: A Palestinian refugee camp raided by Israeli troops night after night - Israel News -
    Haaretz.com | Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Feb 10, 2017 12:42 PM
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    After a soldier was wounded in Jenin, the IDF intensified its nighttime raids there. 
And when the Israelis don’t enter this West Bank refugee camp, the Palestinian security forces do.

    This is a type of anxiety that no Israeli civilian is familiar with: nights when sleep is marred by the noise of soldiers moving about, gunshots, armored vehicles outside the window, stun grenades and explosives in an adjacent alley. Night after night. Soldiers who storm the house rowdily, after blowing up the front door. Children who wake up in a fright to the sight of masked, heavily armed figures during dead-of-night kidnappings euphemistically called “arrests.”

    On one occasion during the second intifada, I slept over in the Jenin refugee camp. I’ll never forget the fear that seized me when soldiers raided it. It’s a particularly chilling experience in a densely crowded, yet determined and militant camp like that in Jenin. Last week, raids were carried out there almost every night. After a soldier sustained light to moderate wounds during one, the Israel Defense Forces ratcheted up even more the rate and intensity of its infiltration.

    Residents are convinced that on the night between Jan. 28 and 29, soldiers had come to avenge the wounding of their buddy and teach the camp a lesson it wouldn’t forget. “They came to kill,” people in the battered camp said this week, as they buried another of its sons, Mohammed Abu Khalifa, after he was killed by soldiers’ bullets on Sunday. He was buried in the cemetery of intifada victims at the edge of the camp, which, like Jenin itself, suffers from severe overcrowding.

    The young adults in the camp spend their days sleeping and their nights in wakefulness. They have no reason to get up during the day. They hang out in the meager café on the main street; some of them man observation posts at the camp’s entrances and instantly report every suspicious movement on Facebook. They also post real-time videos when the IDF enters. Facebook is the most widely used means of communication when it comes to warning about everything, including the arrival of Israeli troops. Of the Facebook groups in the camp, the best known is “State of Jenin Camp.”

    The soldiers usually show up at about 2 A.M. in armored vehicles, some of which look like civilian cars. They descend on foot from the hilltop where the houses are, and information about their whereabouts spreads like wildfire. By the time they reach the alleys below, half the camp is awake and young people are waiting for them with stones, pipe bombs and makeshift weapons. In contrast to the second intifada, when we met armed people at almost every street corner, there is hardly any standard-issue weaponry in evidence these days. The army uses tear gas, stun grenades and, of course, live ammunition.

    It’s not only the IDF that executes nocturnal raids. Similar operations are carried out by the forces of the Palestinian Authority, in coordination with the army. When the Israelis arrive, the PA personnel leave. The young people oppose them, too, but less intensely, and the mutual firing of weapons is mainly into the air. No one has been killed in the Palestinian forces’ raids of the past few months.

    In recent weeks, PA troops – who at one time were afraid to enter the camp – arrested 15 to 20 young people, taking them to Jericho for interrogation. The IDF arrested only four people in that period. No one from either group has been released yet.

    The same pattern played itself out last week: Almost every night, Israeli or Palestinian forces were in the camp. Never a dull moment. Last Thursday, an Israeli soldier was wounded. On the two nights that followed, the IDF entered in large numbers. On Saturday night, they didn’t arrest anyone – residents of the camp are convinced that they came not to detain people but to kill: They killed one young person and wounded four others.

    After a year in which no one was killed in the camp, they’re in mourning again here.

    Twenty-year-old Mathin Dabiyeh was in the café at the foot of the hill on that night. Now he hobbles about on crutches at the entrance to his house. At 3:15 A.M., after it was known that soldiers had entered the camp, he began to make his way home. The soldiers appeared opposite him in an alley, he recalls now. There’s no point asking him if he was carrying a pipe bomb or an improvised firearm, as I won’t get a straight answer. The soldiers shot him in the leg and he started to run up the alley, limping. The troops gave chase but he managed to elude them. A neighbor with a moped took him to the hospital just outside the camp’s entrance. The hospital’s ambulances don’t dare enter the camp when the IDF is present, so in most cases the wounded are taken out by local residents.

    The bullet lodged in Dabiyeh’s knee. His friend Aslam, who was wounded together with him, is still hospitalized; he was hit in the stomach. What will Dabiyeh do the next time soldiers enter? “I can’t run now,” he tells us, evasively. He wears a black knitted skullcap. His brother works as a security guard at the Jenin branch of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

    It all took place in the early hours of Sunday morning in the area between the buildings, next to the Queens’ Salon beauty parlor, which is now closed. According to eyewitnesses, IDF snipers positioned themselves on the roof of a house across from the beauty parlor, hiding behind a black plastic water container. The crying of an infant can now be heard from that house, which, like others nearby, is plastered with militant graffiti. The wounded men escaped through an alley at the end of which is an old poster with a photograph of Saddam Hussein. The home of Mohammed Abu Khalifa, who was killed in the incident, is located next to a mosque named for Abdullah Azzam, from the neighboring village of Silat al-Harithiya, who is said to have been a friend of Osama bin Laden.

    Narrow steps lead to a small, stark house, which is almost bursting with people. The last day of Mohammed’s life was his 19th birthday. In the evening he celebrated here with friends. There was a power outage, an almost-daily occurrence, so his friends played music from their cellphones. They drank juice. This is what a birthday party here looks like.

    The dead boy’s uncle, Jumaa Abu Jebal, who lost a leg in the IDF’s invasion of the camp in 2002, and his mother, Fatma, greeted us on our visit this past Monday. Mohammed dropped out of school in the 11th grade and began working with his father at his garage. After his friends left that night, we are told, he went to fix a car that had broken down in the camp. That was at about 10 P.M.

    An hour later or so, he returned home and went to sleep, his mother relates. At 2 A.M., friends knocked on the door. They came to summon him, after learning that soldiers were in the camp. Mohammed’s father forbade him to go out, but around 3, after his father went back to sleep, the teen snuck out of the house. That act cost him his life.

    His mother heard shots at about 3:30 – the shots that killed her son, a few dozen meters from his home. She learned from a Facebook post that Mohammed had been wounded – that’s how parents find out about their children’s fate here. She tried to get to the hospital, but was forced back home by the shooting. It wasn’t until 5:45 A.M., after the last of the troops had left the camp, that she could leave. Mohammed died before she and her husband reached the hospital; he had been struck by three bullets in the chest and one in the stomach.

    A week earlier, Israeli troops had entered this house in search of Mohammed’s uncle, Jumaa, who lives on the upper floor. A Shin Bet security service agent ordered the amputee to get dressed, but he wasn’t arrested. Jumaa is a Hamas activist.

    “This is the last time I’m coming here. The next time I’ll send a drone to liquidate you,” the Shin Bet man told Jumaa, who replied, “If you have anything [on me], take me.” To which “Captain Haroun,” as the agent styles himself, retorted, “You know what people around you are doing.”

    Jumaa, an affable, smiling man who’s married to an Israeli Arab woman from Haifa and speaks broken Hebrew from his years in an Israeli prison, is certain the Shin Bet man was referring to his nephew Mohammed.

    The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit stated this week, in response to a query from Haaretz: “On Jan. 29, explosive devices were thrown at IDF soldiers during activity in the Jenin refugee camp. The force responded with gunfire at those who were throwing the devices, as a result of which one of them was killed. The IDF enters the refugee camp in accordance with operational needs and with the aim of preventing terrorist activity in the area.”

    Not far from the house of mourning, on a wall in another home, is a photograph of Majd Lahlouh, who was shot to death after going out to confront soldiers in the camp in August 2013, at the age of 22. Beneath the photo lies his cousin of 23, Izak Lahlouh. He, too, was wounded that night last month, by a bullet that hit an artery his leg. He was told in the hospital that if his evacuation had been delayed by another few minutes, he would have died from loss of blood. Now he’s bedridden, keeping warm with blankets and watching television, with crutches by his side.

  • 19-year-old Palestinian shot and killed by Israeli forces in Jenin refugee camp
    Jan. 29, 2017 10:34 A.M. (Updated: Jan. 29, 2017 7:43 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775164

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian and injured several others early Sunday morning in Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, after clashes erupted following an Israeli army raid into the camp.

    Locals identified the slain young man as 19-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Khalifa, with sources saying he was shot with a live bullet in the lower back that went through his body, emerging from his abdomen.

    Medical sources could not immediately be reached to confirm the nature of his injuries.

    State-run Palestinian news agency Wafa said that Abu Khalifa was left on the ground for hours before paramedics were able to evacuate his body.

    At least five other Palestinian youth were injured, including one seriously, and were evacuated to Jenin hospital for treatment.

    After undercover Israeli forces in a civilian vehicle infiltrated the camp, dozens of military vehicles stormed the area, sparking violent clashes that continued for several hours, according to reports.

    Israeli forces heavily fired live ammunition, stun grenades, and tear gas into the camp as youth threw stones and Molotov cocktails.

    Shortly after, a funeral procession was held for Abu Khalifa, with hundreds of mourners carrying his body through the streets of the camp.

    An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the clashes to Ma’an via telephone, saying that “violent rioters attacked and hurled pipe bombs” at Israeli forces, with no injuries reported among Israeli forces.

    “Responding to the threat, forces fired toward main instigators,” the spokesperson added. She said that “hits were confirmed,” but did not directly confirm Abu Khalifa’s killing or the number of Palestinians to be injured.

    The purpose of the hours-long raid remained unclear, as the Israeli army spokesperson said that no detentions were made in the camp. However, Muhammad’s cousins were detained in a raid into Jenin refugee camp on Thursday, with the Israeli army claiming brothers Muhammad and Ahmad Abu Khalifa were “Hamas operatives.”(...)

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Sunday, 29 January 2017
      http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8755

      In the dawn, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child and wounded 4 others, including a child and his brother, when they moved to Jenin refugee camp to carry an arrest campaign. According to PCHR’s investigations and statements of eyewitnesses, at approximately 02:00, a group of Israeli undercover units dressed like Palestinian civilians and driving cars with Palestinian registration plates sneaked into Jenin refugee camp, west of Jenin. They stationed in al-Samran neighbourhood and the main square in the camp. After fiding out the car is travelled by Israelis, Palestinians gunmen opened fire at the car from a far distance. After that, large numbers of Israeli forces immediately raided the camp. A number of Palestinian youngsters then gathered and threw stones, Molotov cocktails and handmade bombs at the Israeli soldiers, who immediately fired live bullets at them in response. As a result, Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Khalifah (16) was hit with a bullet that entered his lower back and exited the abdomen. He was transferred to Dr Khalil Suleiman Hospital where he was announced dead. The shooting also caused the injury of 4 other civilians, including a child and his brother. The wounded civilians were transferred to the abovementioned hospital, where the Medical sources classified the child’s injury as serious. It should be mentioned that, the Israeli forces prevented Palestinian ambulances from approaching the wounded civilians until they withdrew at approximately 05:30, but no arrests were reported (PCHR keeps the names of the wounded civilians).

  • Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian in Jenin camp
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    JENIN (Ma’an) – Israeli forces shot dead a young Palestinian man in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank early Wednesday morning, Palestinian security sources say.

    Izz al-Din Walid Bani Gharra , 21, was shot in the chest during clashes with Israeli forces who raided the camp at dawn. He was evacuated to the public hospital in Jenin where he died shortly after, sources told Ma’an.

    An Israeli army spokesperson did not have information on the incident and an Israeli border police spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment.

    Gharra is the twelfth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza since the start of 2015, according to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, with over 900 injured, not including injuries resulting from settler violence.

    One Israeli has been killed in the same time period.

    Search and arrest raids are regular practice by Israeli forces, who have conducted a weekly average of 86 raids this year, up from 75 a week in 2015, according to a May report by UN Special Coordinator (UNSCO).

    Such raids often result in what rights groups argue is excessive use of force by Israeli forces against locals who often throw rocks and bottles at the forces.

    • Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (04- 10 June 2015)
      Thursday, 11 June 2015
      http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11091:weekly-report-on-israel

      Wednesday, 10 June 2015
      In the early morning, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in Jenin refugee camp, west of Jenin town in the north of the West Bank. Israeli forces claimed that Israeli soldiers moved into the camp to arrest wanted persons. When they were on their way out of the camp, they noticed a young Palestinian man trying to throw a bomb at them. Therefore, one of the Israeli soldiers opened fire at him, so the bomb exploded beside him before he could throw it.PCHR’s investigations cast doubts on that claims especially as the victim was hit with one bullet and the doctors said that they examined his body and found no shrapnel of an explosive device or something like that.

      According to investigations conducted by PCHR and eyewitnesses’ accounts, in the early morning, an Israeli force sneaked into Jenin refugee camp and stayed in an area separating between the square in the centre of the camp and al-Samran neighbourhood in the north of the camp, where the victim’s house is located. At approximately 03:00, a sound of one bullet was heard in the area hitting ’ Ezz al-Deen Walid Hasan Bani Ghorah (23) and killed him immediately. Meanwhile, a Palestinian civilian Subaru car was passing by the area, so the driver took the body of Bani Ghorah to Martyr Dr. Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin. Medical sources in the aforementioned hospital reported that Bani Ghorah was hit with a bullet that penetrated his left arm and settled in his chest killing him immediately.

  • #Israel kills #west_bank teen, bombs #Gaza
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israel-kills-west-bank-teen-bombs-gaza

    A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza, on July 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Said Khatib) A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza, on July 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Said Khatib)

    Israeli occupation forces shot dead a 16-year-old #Palestinian in the West Bank early Tuesday, witnesses and medics said, as war jets bombed dozens of sites in the besieged Gaza strip. The attacks come after Israeli soldiers discovered the bodies of three missing settlers whose disappearance and killing it blames on #Hamas despite revealing any evidence that links the crime to the Islamist group. read (...)

    #Palestine

    • Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in Jenin refugee camp
      Published today (updated) 01/07/2014
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      BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during a military operation in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank early Tuesday, locals and medics said.

      Palestinian Red Crescent medics told Ma’an 16-year-old Yousef Abu Zagha was shot by Israeli fire in the chest during clashes with troops who raided the camp overnight.

      Abu Zagha was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a public hospital in Jenin.

      An Israeli military spokeswoman said that he was a “Hamas operative” about to hurl an explosive device at troops sent to arrest him.

      “They opened fire and confirmed a hit,” the spokeswoman said.

      The killing came after Israeli forces found the bodies of three Israeli teenagers who had been missing in the West Bank for over two weeks.

      Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians in the military operation that followed the disappearance of the teenagers from the Gush Etzion settlement on June 12.

    • Les forces israéliennes tuent un jeune Palestinien dans le camp de réfugiés de Jenin
      http://www.ism-france.org/communiques/Les-forces-israeliennes-tuent-un-jeune-Palestinien-dans-le-camp-de-refug

      Le jeune Yousef Abu Zagha , 16 ans, a été tué par les tirs des forces israéliennes ce mardi matin, pendant une « opération militaire » dans le camp de réfugiés de Jenin. D’après les médecins du Croissant rouge palestiniens, l’adolescent a reçu une balle dans la poitrine tirée par les troupes qui ont attaqué le camp cette nuit.
      La mort d’Abu Zagha a été prononcée peu de temps après son arrivée à l’hôpital public de Jenin.

  • Week in Photos (22 March-28 March)
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/photoblogs/week-photos-22-march-28-march

    A female Israeli border guard fires tear gas towards Palestinian demonstrators (unseen) during a protest in the Aida Palestinian refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 22, 2014, after three Palestinians were killed in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank during an operation launched by Israeli soldiers to arrest a militant. Medical and security sources said two of those killed were militants and the third was a civilian. (Photo: Musa al-Shaer-AFP) A female Israeli border guard fires tear gas towards Palestinian demonstrators (unseen) during a protest in the Aida Palestinian refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on March 22, 2014, after three Palestinians were killed in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank during an (...)

  • #Israel threatens further use of force after killings of three Palestinians
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/netanyahu-threatens-further-use-force-after-three-palestinians-ki

    A female Israeli border guard fires tear gas towards Palestinian demonstrators (unseen) during a protest in the Aida Palestinian refugee camp near the #west_bank city of Bethlehem on March 22, 2014, after three Palestinians were killed in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank during an Israeli army operation. (Photo: AFP - Musa al-Shaer)

    Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday that the army would use force against anybody plotting attacks against the Zionist state, after troops killed three Palestinians in a West Bank raid. “Over the weekend, our forces struck at a terrorist who had organized attacks on Israelis and was also planning attacks on innocent civilians,” Netanyahu told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting. "Our policy is to attack those who (...)

    #Palestine #Top_News

  • The story behind the wanted Hamas man in Jenin
    | Haaretz
    By Gideon Levy | Mar. 23, 2014
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.581425

    I met with fugitive Hamza “Hamzi” Abu al-Haija around two weeks ago, at his home on the slopes of the Jenin refugee camp (“Twilight Zone,” March 7). Hamzi didn’t act like a wanted man. He was spending the day in his family home, acting normally; he wasn’t armed nor did he betray any signs of the nervousness typical of men on the run that I’ve met over the years. Wearing sweats, he was playing with his little niece and joined the conversation we were having with his mother. He smiled a lot and said he was not afraid.

    He told us that on the evening of December 18 soldiers had come to his home to arrest him while he was celebrating the birth of a nephew with friends. They heard suspicious noises from the street and at first thought it was a force from the Palestinian Authority, which has also been trying to arrest Hamas men in the camp. Only when he and his three friends ran to the roof and looked down did they realize it was the Israel Defense Forces.

    Hamzi managed to escape by fleeing over the roofs and through the alleys, but his friend, Nafaa Saidi, was shot and killed by the soldiers. In the three ensuing months, no one tried to arrest him and Hamzi continued with his routine; during the day he would stay in his family’s home, but at night he would sleep elsewhere. He explained that he had studied hairstyling and that a few weeks earlier a Shin Bet man who called himself Shalom called to tell him, “I will be coming to get you soon. We need to finish the story between us.”

    • But the more serious story going around was about the circumstances under which the other two men with Hamzi were killed: According to these testimonies, they were killed as they were carrying Hamzi’s body to his family home, which is a distance from where the gun battle had occurred. Sharpshooters in the camp killed them, even though they were not armed.

  • Amid rage, thousands lay Jenin men to rest | Maan News Agency
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    JENIN (Ma’an) — Over 10,000 Palestinian mourners on Saturday marched behind the coffins of three militants who were shot dead by Israeli forces overnight in Jenin refugee camp.

    Palestinians marched from Jenin’s public hospital to its largest mosque, carrying the bodies of Hamza Abu al-Haija, 22, Mahmoud Abu Zeina, 17, and 22-year-old Yazan Mahmoud Basim Jabarin .

    After performing the funeral prayer, the mourners marched to Jenin camp’s cemetery led by officials of the PLO, the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad.

    During the procession, mourners shouted slogans urging Palestinian militants to take revenge and calling on the PA to immediately end peace negotiations with Israel and focus instead on reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.

    Masked Palestinian gunmen at the front of the crowd of thousands fired gunshots in the air, expressing rage and readiness to retaliate against the Israeli army.

    Meanwhile, youths distributed candies as the funeral procession approached the cemetery.

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    Trois Palestiniens tués dans des heurts avec l’armée israélienne en Cisjordanie
    http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_Trois_Palestiniens_tues_dans_des_heurts_avec_l_armee_israelienne_en_Cisjo

    JENINE (Territoires palestiniens) - Trois Palestiniens ont été tués samedi dans le camp de réfugiés de Jénine, en Cisjordanie, lors d’une opération de l’armée israélienne visant à arrêter un activiste, ont indiqué des sources sécuritaire et médicale.

    Selon ces sources, parmi les victimes figurent deux activistes, alors que la troisième était un civil. Quatorze autres Palestiniens ont été blessés dans des échanges de tirs, deux étant dans un état critique.

    L’arme israélienne a confirmé les faits, mais affirmé que quatre Palestiniens avaient été tués.

    Selon les sources palestiniennes, les soldats israéliens étaient venus dans le camp de Jénine, dans le nord de la Cisjordanie, pour arrêter Hamza Abou Alheja, 20 ans, un membre de la branche armée du mouvement islamiste Hamas, les Brigades Ezzedine al-Qassam.

    Les deux camps ont échangé des tirs, et d’autres hommes armés sont venus aider l’activiste, dont Mohammad Abou Zena, 19 ans, un membre du Jihad islamique qui a été tué avec Alheja, selon ces sources.

  • Israeli forces shoot dead three Palestinians in #west_bank raid
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/israeli-forces-shoot-dead-three-palestinians-west-bank-raid

    Israeli soldiers opened fire on a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank early Saturday, killing at least three Palestinians including a 17-year-old, officials said. A large contingent of #occupation forces surrounded the northern West Bank home in attempt to abduct Hamza Abu al-Heja, a 22-year-old member of Palestinian resistance faction Hamas. Soldiers then opened fire on the house after Heja refused to surrender, killing him along with 22-year-old Yazan Mahmoud Basim Jabarin, and 17-year-old Mahmoud Abu Zeina. read more

    #Israel #Palestine #Top_News

  • Is Fatah’s Armed Wing Making Comeback? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/hebron-israeli-soldiers-killed-fatah-intifada.html

    Israeli accusations aimed at Fatah, fiery statements by some Fatah leaders, the scrutinization of the political identities of martyrs who fell in Qalandia’s two refugee camps near Ramallah and in the Jenin refugee camp, as well as the armed skirmishes between security forces and some Fatah members in the Nablus camps, all lead to the belief that Fatah’s military wing had returned to the forefront of Palestinian armed resistance in the West Bank. This is alongside a small presence by the Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades, a member of which was assassinated by occupation forces in the Jenin camp on Sept. 17.