Amnesty International, among others, has sent experts to Jenin, and they reported evidence of 'serious war crimes,' not the least of which was deliberately denying medical aid to the injured for almost two weeks. This alone constitutes a serious breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

It was an Israeli general who first said that hundreds were killed in Jenin, and Palestinians have always said that the full story will not be known until it is investigated. Unfortunately that investigation is unlikely to take place now, as Israel has simply refused to allow the UN team in. After accomodating all of Israel's demands about the make up of the fact-finding mission, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan simply gave up as Israel kept adding conditions.

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