Tag: Jenin

  • Harassment and murder during invasions in Qabatiya, near Jenin

    The West Bank town of Qabatiya, just south of Jenin, is home to over 20,000 people. According to local residents the Israeli army invade the town every night from their base in Salem. As they invade, usually very early in the morning, they throw sound bombs and fire live ammunition to alert the residents to…

  • Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone – The children of 5767

    By: Gideon Levy September 28th, 2007 It was a pretty quiet year, relatively speaking. Only 457 Palestinians and 10 Israelis were killed, according to the B’Tselem human rights organization, including the victims of Qassam rockets. Fewer casualties than in many previous years. However, it was still a terrible year: 92 Palestinian children were killed (fortunately,…

  • Ha’aretz: IDF brings peace activist back to Jenin

    By Meron Rapaport Early Wednesday morning, a convoy of armored personnel carriers and four Israel Defense Forces jeeps entered Jenin – not an unusual event, but one of the armored jeeps had four very unusual passengers. The four foreigners had previously spent time in Jenin as volunteer aid workers and remember Israeli soldiers mostly as…

  • Peace Activist Wounded by IOF Fire Returns to Sue

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the night of April 5th, 2003, in the west bank city of Jenin, Brian Avery from North Carolina was shot in the face by machine-gun fire from an approaching Israeli Army APC. He did not die, the bullet penetrated his nose, broke the bones in his nose, hit his eye and…

  • Almost Another Massacre in Jenin

    Jenin, September 11th In the early morning hours one of the biggest Israeli invasions since weeks occurred in the refugee camp of Jenin. It was also close to becoming one of the biggest massacres. At around 7:30am this morning, nine Palestinian boys were injured by Israeli gunfire in the refugee camp of Jenin. Locals reported…