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investigations
Jenin
refugee camp
Facts and figures (UNWRA)
Destruction
in Jenin
Map showing a total of 340 buildings destroyed or seriously
damaged. (Human Rights Watch)
Aerial
photographs of Jenin after the attack
Israeli foreign ministry
The Israeli assault on
Jenin
Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding
Amnesty
International
Reports on Israel and the Occupied Territories
Israel
Defence Forces
Latest news from the military
International Committee
of the Red Cross
Report
of the UN Secretary-General on events in Jenin and other Palestinian
cities
Published 1 August 2002.
Also in PDF
format. See also press
release for background and summary of contents.
UN
General Assembly resolution ES-10/10
"Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and
the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory". 7 May
2002
Security
Council Resolution 1405
Situation in Jenin refugee camp; fact-finding mission. 19 April
2002
UN
Secretary-General calls for intervention by a multinational
force
18 April 2002
Annan
announces members of fact-finding team
22 April 2002
Call for
foreign specialised teams to assist in Jenin rescue
ICRC, 18 April 2002
UN relief mission to Jenin
camp reveals monumental destruction
16 April 2002
Report from the West Bank - Jenin, Nablus and Bethlehem
International Red Cross Society, 16 April 2002
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
UN fact-finding mission - a vital task that must go ahead
24 April 2002
Statement to the United Nations about the
fact-finding team to inquire into the events in Jenin
23 April 2002
Preliminary findings of Amnesty International delegates'
visit to Jenin
22 April 2002. Also Video
1 Video 2
Practical measures are required - words are not enough
19 April 2002
Statement to the UN Security Council on the protection of
human rights and international humanitarian law in Israel and the Occupied
Territories
18 April 2002
Jenin:
call for immediate international humanitarian
assistance
17 April 2002
Jenin:
Access denied to Amnesty International Forensic Expert - legal action
considered
16 April 2002
Amnesty International calls on the UN Security Council to
immediately deploy an independent investigation into human rights abuses
in Jenin
16 April 2002
The heavy price of Israeli incursions
Detailed report, 12 April 2002
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Jenin:
IDF military operations
Report concluding that the Israeli committed war crimes but did not
massacre "hundreds" of Palestinians. May 2002
Decision
to Block UN Inquiry Condemned
Press release, 24 April 2002
In
a Dark Hour: The Use of Civilians during IDF Arrest
Operations
Report, 18 April 2002
Allow
Access to Jenin Camp
Press release, April 15, 2002
Cease
Attacking Medical Personnel
Press release, March 9, 2002
"What
kind of war is this?"
Ha'aretz, 18 April 2002
The
lunar landscape that was the Jenin refugee camp
The Guardian, 16 April 2002
Amid
the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime
Independent, 16 April 2002
Inside
the camp of the dead
The Times, 16 April 2002
First
scenes inside Jenin
Disturbing photographs from al-Jazeera television with text in Arabic. Also video
version.
For latest developments
see our news compilation
Across
West Bank, daily tragedies go unseen
The Guardian, 27 April 2002
Annan
may be our undoing
Ha'aretz, 26 April 2002
Once
upon a time in Jenin
Independent, 25 April 2002
Israel
blocks UN mission to Jenin
The Guardian, 24 April 2002
UN
puts Jenin inquiry on hold
BBC, 24 April 2002
Sharon
says Israel will not cooperate with UN panel
Ha'aretz, 24 April 2002
Dealing
with the Grim Realities of Urban Warfare
An American military perspective. Center for Strategic &
International Studies, April 2002 [PDF file]
Battle
for truth in Jenin
The Guardian, 23 April 2002
Israel
accused over Jenin assault
The Guardian, 23 April 2002
Amnesty
demands war crimes inquiry into Jenin invasion
Independent, 23 April 2002
Israel:
We have nothing to hide in Jenin probe
Observer, 21 April 2002
Brutal,
yes. Massacre, no
Observer, 21 April 2002
Barring
aid to Jenin is 'a war crime'
Independent, 21 April 2002
Bush
says Israeli invasion of Jenin must be investigated
The Guardian, 20 April 2002
UN
to send fact-finding mission to Jenin
Independent, 20 April 2002
From
the ruins of Jenin, the truth about an atrocity
Independent, 20 April 2002
Army
denies frenzy of destruction in Jenin
The Guardian, 19 April 2002
Are the Israelis guilty of mass murder?
Scotsman, 19 April 2002
Israelis
try to pin blame for Jenin on suicide bombers
Independent, 19 April 2002
Fresh
evidence of Jenin atrocities
Independent, 18 April 2002
The
battle for the truth
The Guardian, 17 April 2002
Evidence
of Israeli contempt for Geneva convention
The Guardian, 17 April 2002
Israel
faces rage over 'massacre'
The Guardian, 17 April 2002
Jenin:
the propaganda battle
Tanya Reinhart. Indymedia, 22 April 2002
Journalists
accuse Israel of media violation
The Guardian, 22 April 2002
Muted
criticism in American newspapers
The Guardian, 17 April 2002
Jenin:
capital of Palestinian suicide terrorists
Israeli army, 19 April 2002
Suicide
bombers from Jenin
Israeli foreign ministry
What
happened in Jenin - from the mouth of a Palestinian
bomb-maker
Israeli foreign ministry
Jenin's
terrorist infrastructure
Israeli foreign ministry, 4 April 2002
"Palestinian
terror operatives arrested or killed in the Jenin refugee
camp"
Israeli foreign ministry, 23 April 2002
Saddam's
£14m gesture
The Guardian, 22
April 2002
'The
soldier shouted, kill them, kill them'
Independent, 21 April 2002
Amid
the rubble of Jenin, Palestinians bury their dead
Independent, 20 April 2002
We
fight like girls and we are accused of a massacre
The Guardian, 20 April 2002
I
saw three men shot. They surrendered but were still killed
The Guardian, 20 April 2002
The
soldiers have gone - but the survivors still suffer
The Guardian, 19 April 2002
Israel
completes withdrawal from Jenin
Independent, 19 April 2002
Families
scrabble in the dust to find their dead
Independent, 19 April 2002
Jenin
camp 'horrific beyond belief'
BBC, 18 April 2002
Shock
at lack of rescue efforts in Jenin
The Guardian, 18 April 2002
Helicopter
pilot 'refused order to blast Palestinian house'
The Guardian, 18 April 2002
Disaster
zone hides final death toll
The Guardian, 17 April 2002
Parallel
universes
The Guardian, 17 April 2002
Grieving
survivors say the Israelis buried war crimes in heaps of reeking rubble
Independent, 17 April 2002
Eyewitness:
Inside ruined Jenin
BBC, 16 April 2002
Straw
'concerned' over Jenin aid plight
The Guardian, 16 April 2002
Immortal
heroes of Jenin
The Guardian, Uri Avnery. The Guardian, 16 April 2002
Survivors
of Jenin creep home to see destruction
Independent, 15 April 2002
The
camp that became a slaughterhouse
Independent, 14 April 2002
Ten-day
ordeal in crucible of Jenin
The Guardian, 14 April 2002
Six
killed by Jenin camp girl bomber
The Guardian, 13 April 2002
Bodies
search begins in rubble
The Guardian, 13 April 2002
Refugees
flee camp with reports of Israeli abuses
The Guardian, 12 April 2002
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QUOTES
"What happened in Jenin was a fierce battle and
not a massacre ... The battle was fierce because the IDF
[Israeli army] sought to minimise civilian suffering." -
Gideon Meir, Israeli Foreign Ministry
"I think I can speak for all in the
UN delegation (in saying) that we are shocked ... Just
seeing this area, it looks like there's been an earthquake
here, and the stench of death is over many places where we
are standing." - Terje Roed-Larsen, UN Special
Co-ordinator in the Middle East
"The Israeli army took six days to
complete its massacre in Jenin and six days to clean it
up... there is a crime here demanding an immediate
investigation." - Nabil Shaath, Palestinian cabinet
minister
"Such is the scale of the evidence
that there is a strong case for Israel to answer."
- Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary
"I and my colleagues working in
crisis situations for decades do not recall a situation
where co-operation from the authorities has been less than
what we have experienced from the Israeli government. It is
beyond any human decency to let ambulances, food and water
stand outside the camp, as has been the case." -
Peter Hansen, head of the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency
"No camera frame is wide enough to
capture the scale and awfulness of what has happened in the
Jenin Refugee Camp. It is far worse than the TV pictures.
Bodies are crawling with maggots. People are still finding
corpses or bits of bodies. Many lie buried under the rubble
that was their homes." - Rory Macmillan, Scottish
lawyer and member of an international volunteer team
"We have given the terrorists a very
serious blow. There was a difficult battle, we lost many
fighters, the camp was totally fortified ... Many of the
fatalities among our soldiers were because we behaved as the
most moral army in the world." - Didi, an
Israeli colonel who commanded troops in the camp
"When we are confronted with the extent of
destruction in an area of civilian concentration, it is
difficult to accept that international humanitarian law has
been fully respected. What the law says is that you cannot
attack or destroy civilians or civilian property. If you are
in a military operation you have to take utmost care. If you
suspect that your operation will cause disproportionate
damage to civilians or civilian property then you have to
stop the operation." - Rene Kosirnik, the head of
the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross)
delegation in the region
"The truth will come out, as it has come out in
Bosnia and Kosovo ... We were on the ruins yesterday and two
elderly men came forward, each of them pointed to where
their houses had been and one of them told us that 10
members of his family were buried under the rubble."
- Professor Derrick Pounder, of Dundee University and part
of an Amnesty International team
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