Robert Fisk is an award winning journalist precisely because of his objective reporting on the Middle East. He does not champion Arab governments,the PA, or Israel, and he reports honestly on the facts on the ground.
It was pointed out that Jenin was home to many suicide bombers. I ask why? The only way to stop these attacks is to understand and address the root cause of the anger. The root cause is not simply blind hatred. It is oppression. Look into the history of the 35 year occupation of the West Bank by Israel. Israeli human rights groups might help for understanding the reality of life under occupation.
After the Israeli army demolished the center of the camp, killing a still unknown number of civilans, a suicide bomber from Jenin blew themself up in Israel in retaliation. I say the numbers are still inknown, because there are still hundreds of people that are unaccounted for. They might be in Israeli jails or they might be dead, their families do not know. Also there were many people who were torn into so many pieces that they could not be identified and there were many who were buried by their families, because they were decaying, and were never taken to the morgue. Under the attacks by the Israeli army, people were not permitted to take dead family members to the morgue or dying people to the hospital. Ambulances were not allowed in, nor was the Red Cross. Many were also buried under the rubble and decayed, never to be counted. Human rights workers and internationals who arrived in the camp immediately after the invasion, stated that the smell of corpses decaying was overpowering and that there were body parts visible in and around the demolished houses. A huge area in the center of the camp, was nothing but an enormous mountain of rubble. The death toll could easily have been in the hundreds, as the IDF originally stated.
There was never a U.N. investigation into what happened in Jenin, because the Israeli government blocked one. I wonder what they had to hide. If there was no massacre in Jenin, then this investigation could have proved that.
Arguing about the exact numbers and whether or not it could be called a massacre is almost beside the point. There were war crimes committed in Jenin. Go to websites that others have suggested above to read about it.
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Date Edited: 23 Mar 2004 10:53:58 AM
Robert Fisk is an award winning journalist precisely because of his objective reporting on the Middle East. He does not champion Arab governments,the PA, or Israel, and he reports honestly on the facts on the ground.
It was pointed out that Jenin was home to many suicide bombers. I ask why? The only way to stop these attacks is to understand and address the root cause of the anger. The root cause is not simply blind hatred. It is oppression. Look into the history of the 35 year occupation of the West Bank by Israel. Israeli human rights groups might help for understanding the reality of life under occupation.
After the Israeli army demolished the center of the camp, killing a still unknown number of civilans, a suicide bomber from Jenin blew themself up in Israel in retaliation. I say the numbers are still inknown, because there are still hundreds of people that are unaccounted for. They might be in Israeli jails or they might be dead, their families do not know. Also there were many people who were torn into so many pieces that they could not be identified and there were many who were buried by their families, because they were decaying, and were never taken to the morgue. Under the attacks by the Israeli army, people were not permitted to take dead family members to the morgue or dying people to the hospital. Ambulances were not allowed in, nor was the Red Cross. Many were also buried under the rubble and decayed, never to be counted. Human rights workers and internationals who arrived in the camp immediately after the invasion, stated that the smell of corpses decaying was overpowering and that there were body parts visible in and around the demolished houses. A huge area in the center of the camp, was nothing but an enormous mountain of rubble. The death toll could easily have been in the hundreds, as the IDF originally stated.
There was never a U.N. investigation into what happened in Jenin, because the Israeli government blocked one. I wonder what they had to hide. If there was no massacre in Jenin, then this investigation could have proved that.
Arguing about the exact numbers and whether or not it could be called a massacre is almost beside the point. There were war crimes committed in Jenin. Go to websites that others have suggested above to read about it.
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