Israel Acknowledges Jenin Massacre

15.04.02, 02:05
JERUSALEM – The Israeli army admitted Friday, April 12, to murdering hundreds
of Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, in what U.N. chief Kofi Annan
described an “appalling” massacre.

With the soaring death toll still controversial, the Palestinian Authority
asked for an international inquiry on Jenin and invited visiting U.S. Secretary
of State Colin Powell to inspect the camp for evidence of Israeli army
brutality, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

A senior army official told AFP under condition of anonymity that
Israel "estimates the Palestinian losses at about 250 dead" in the camp, but
the Palestinians put the death toll at a much higher estimate.

Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said this week that some
reports indicated about 100 Palestinians were killed in the Jenin camp
Saturday, April 6, alone. The Palestinians said 500 people were killed by the
Israelis in the impoverished refugee camp.

With the battle over, Jenin Mayor Walid Abu Mweiss said Friday that the Israeli
army was detaining "thousands of men, between the age of 15 and 50," in the
town of Jenin.

An Israeli army spokesman denied there were any "mass" arrests in the area, but
confirmed that security sweeps were continuing in the town of Jenin.

The Palestinians separately appealed to the United Nations to launch an
international inquiry into what the Israelis had done in the refugee camp.

"We call on the United Nations to immediately create an international
commission of inquiry on the Israeli massacres at Jenin because it is a U.N.-
administered refugee camp," said senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat.

He told AFP the Israeli army's acknowledgement that the Jenin fighting left
heavy casualties was "an admission by the Israeli government of massacres
against our people."

Witness reports of the Israelis demolishing Jenin homes while families cowered
inside, then stripping and beating detainees before marching them off naked
into nearby woods, have cast a shadow over Israel's argument that it was acting
in self defense, said AFP.

The world finally got to see what Israel has done in Jenin: piles of rubble
where homes once stood; gaping holes rent in the sides of buildings;
electricity wires torn down and strewn amid the wreckage, water flooding out of
broken mains and running down the broken streets. These scenes of devastation
will haunt the mission of Colin Powell, who flew in Thursday.

Hundreds of Palestinians fled their camp Thursday, an empty, smoking ruin
resounding to bursts of Israeli machine gun-fire. They left behind entire
neighborhoods flattened to make way for Israeli armor who massacred
indiscriminately elderly women and young boys and girls. Those spared drank
sewage water and live with rotting corpses of Palestinian civilians.

The operation began with rocketing from helicopter gun-ships and bulldozers
moved in to finish the job.

Palestinians said they witnessed the execution and the dumping of at least 150
Palestinians, who were killed in “the concentration camp” by the Israeli
occupation army.

Resistance leader in Jenin, Sheikh Gamal Abul Heiga, confirmed that following
the fall of the refugee camp Wednesday morning in the hands of the Israelis,
the occupation army then publicly started executing a large number of
Palestinian youth.

Palestinian detainees tell horrific tales of their treatment by the Israelis.
One said he was forced to strip naked and act as a human shield, standing with
an Israeli soldier behind him resting his gun on his shoulder. Another said
when he asked for a drink the soldiers forced a stick into his mouth. Then, he
said, they brought him water that tasted of urine.

The Israeli army has encircled the camp with tanks, and shot at, or arrested,
journalists approaching the area. The accounts of the killing of civilians and
the massive destruction of civilian homes suggest a grave abuse of human rights.

Ali Mustafa Abu Siria, 43, an Arabic teacher, was carried to hospital on a
ladder - nursing a gunshot wound to the left knee that had gone untreated for
four days. Doctors said it was badly infected. He was injured while serving as
a human shield for an Israeli army patrol, who led him out of his home
handcuffed and at gunpoint on Friday.

Doctors at Al-Razi hospital in Jenin said a man bled to death on its doorstep
after Israeli soldiers prevented medics from retrieving his body.

At dusk on Thursday, the refugee camp was hit by 10 explosions in the space of
an hour.

A new wave of refugees streamed out of the camp - including many children -
scavenging for food. A few hours earlier, Riyad Ghalib Damaj, 28, a produce
seller, also smuggled himself out with a group of women and children fleeing
the camp.

"There are no houses left in the refugee camp; there is only a highway. There
are countless numbers of houses destroyed. If you see them you will go crazy,"
he said.

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      > JERUSALEM � The Israeli army admitted Friday, April 12, to murdering hund
      > reds
      > of Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, in what U.N. chief Kofi Annan
      > described an �appalling� massacre.
      >
      > With the soaring death toll still controversial, the Palestinian Authority
      > asked for an international inquiry on Jenin and invited visiting U.S. Secretary
      >
      > of State Colin Powell to inspect the camp for evidence of Israeli army
      > brutality, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
      >
      > A senior army official told AFP under condition of anonymity that
      > Israel "estimates the Palestinian losses at about 250 dead" in the camp, but
      > the Palestinians put the death toll at a much higher estimate.
      >
      > Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said this week that some
      > reports indicated about 100 Palestinians were killed in the Jenin camp
      > Saturday, April 6, alone. The Palestinians said 500 people were killed by the
      > Israelis in the impoverished refugee camp.
      >
      > With the battle over, Jenin Mayor Walid Abu Mweiss said Friday that the Israeli
      >
      > army was detaining "thousands of men, between the age of 15 and 50," in the
      > town of Jenin.
      >
      > An Israeli army spokesman denied there were any "mass" arrests in the area, but
      >
      > confirmed that security sweeps were continuing in the town of Jenin.
      >
      > The Palestinians separately appealed to the United Nations to launch an
      > international inquiry into what the Israelis had done in the refugee camp.
      >
      > "We call on the United Nations to immediately create an international
      > commission of inquiry on the Israeli massacres at Jenin because it is a U.N.-
      > administered refugee camp," said senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat.
      >
      > He told AFP the Israeli army's acknowledgement that the Jenin fighting left
      > heavy casualties was "an admission by the Israeli government of massacres
      > against our people."
      >
      > Witness reports of the Israelis demolishing Jenin homes while families cowered
      > inside, then stripping and beating detainees before marching them off naked
      > into nearby woods, have cast a shadow over Israel's argument that it was acting
      >
      > in self defense, said AFP.
      >
      > The world finally got to see what Israel has done in Jenin: piles of rubble
      > where homes once stood; gaping holes rent in the sides of buildings;
      > electricity wires torn down and strewn amid the wreckage, water flooding out of
      >
      > broken mains and running down the broken streets. These scenes of devastation
      > will haunt the mission of Colin Powell, who flew in Thursday.
      >
      > Hundreds of Palestinians fled their camp Thursday, an empty, smoking ruin
      > resounding to bursts of Israeli machine gun-fire. They left behind entire
      > neighborhoods flattened to make way for Israeli armor who massacred
      > indiscriminately elderly women and young boys and girls. Those spared drank
      > sewage water and live with rotting corpses of Palestinian civilians.
      >
      > The operation began with rocketing from helicopter gun-ships and bulldozers
      > moved in to finish the job.
      >
      > Palestinians said they witnessed the execution and the dumping of at least 150
      > Palestinians, who were killed in �the concentration camp� by the Is
      > raeli
      > occupation army.
      >
      > Resistance leader in Jenin, Sheikh Gamal Abul Heiga, confirmed that following
      > the fall of the refugee camp Wednesday morning in the hands of the Israelis,
      > the occupation army then publicly started executing a large number of
      > Palestinian youth.
      >
      > Palestinian detainees tell horrific tales of their treatment by the Israelis.
      > One said he was forced to strip naked and act as a human shield, standing with
      > an Israeli soldier behind him resting his gun on his shoulder. Another said
      > when he asked for a drink the soldiers forced a stick into his mouth. Then, he
      > said, they brought him water that tasted of urine.
      >
      > The Israeli army has encircled the camp with tanks, and shot at, or arrested,
      > journalists approaching the area. The accounts of the killing of civilians and
      > the massive destruction of civilian homes suggest a grave abuse of human rights
      > .
      >
      > Ali Mustafa Abu Siria, 43, an Arabic teacher, was carried to hospital on a
      > ladder - nursing a gunshot wound to the left knee that had gone untreated for
      > four days. Doctors said it was badly infected. He was injured while serving as
      > a human shield for an Israeli army patrol, who led him out of his home
      > handcuffed and at gunpoint on Friday.
      >
      > Doctors at Al-Razi hospital in Jenin said a man bled to death on its doorstep
      > after Israeli soldiers prevented medics from retrieving his body.
      >
      > At dusk on Thursday, the refugee camp was hit by 10 explosions in the space of
      > an hour.
      >
      > A new wave of refugees streamed out of the camp - including many children -
      > scavenging for food. A few hours earlier, Riyad Ghalib Damaj, 28, a produce
      > seller, also smuggled himself out with a group of women and children fleeing
      > the camp.
      >
      > "There are no houses left in the refugee camp; there is only a highway. There
      > are countless numbers of houses destroyed. If you see them you will go crazy,"
      > he said.
      >




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      IDF: Dozens - not hundreds - of dead in Jenin refugee camp
      Israel Defense Forces officers now estimate that dozens - not hundreds - of
      Palestinians were killed as a result of the army's activities in the Jenin
      refugee camp. As of last night, 46 Palestinian corpses have been located in the
      camp. Updated estimates concerning the total number of Palestinian fatalities
      in the camp now range between 70 and a little over 100. Officials believe that
      some of the corpses are still buried under the rubble of houses demolished by
      IDF bulldozers.

      Throughout the West Bank, the IDF has located 189 Palestinian corpses during
      the first 17 days of Operation Defensive Shield. Once the additional corpses in
      Jenin and elsewhere are incorporated, the total is liable to increase by
      several dozen. About 600 Palestinians have been injured in the operation. About
      1,500 Palestinians continue to be held in detention. The large number of
      Palestinian detainees has required the IDF to reopen the Ketziot prison center
      in the Negev.

      IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz told the cabinet yesterday that 5,000
      Palestinian suspects had been apprehended during the operation, though most
      have been freed. Fifty top terror suspects have been seized, Mofaz added.

      Prime Minister Ariel Sharon relayed similar figures yesterday to the Knesset
      Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He said that 4,230 suspects have been
      detained in the operation and that 1,400 of these were "quality" arrests. Out
      of this latter group of quality arrests, 344 Palestinian suspects are Fatah-
      Tanzim men, 349 are Hamas operatives, 82 belong to Islamic Jihad, 70 to the
      Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and 356 are PA security
      apparatus officials.

      IDF officers are confident that Defensive Shield has significantly damaged the
      Palestinian terror infrastructure in Jenin. Major blows have been dealt to the
      three leading terror groups - Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad - in Jenin and
      elsewhere, said the IDF.

      Also, the IDF believes the operation has crippled "Kassam" missile
      manufacturing facilities, and it has led to the deaths or arrests of
      Palestinian "engineers" who have been responsible for the production and
      deployment of these missiles. An IDF search at a Ramallah mosque uncovered a
      stash of 20 Kassam missile engines.

      IDF Chief of Staff Mofaz told the government that searches in Yasser Arafat's
      Ramallah compound have uncovered documents which prove that terror
      organizations attempted to recruit Israeli Arabs for terror strikes.

      Though Israeli security officers are satisfied with operation results such as
      the capture of terror suspects and the confiscation of weapons, they admit
      Defensive Shield did not fracture Palestinian unity and support for Palestinian
      Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told
      visiting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that Tanzim military groups have
      been strengthened by the IDF military operation. The Fatah-affiliated Tanzim,
      Ben-Eliezer believes, are now the dominant Palestinian organization.

      Israeli security officials believe the IDF operation has had two contrary
      effects on the PA - it has, they say, weakened both the Palestinians' ability
      to carry out terror attacks, and also to prevent them. PA security mechanisms
      on the West Bank have been significantly impaired, though the security
      apparatus in the Gaza Strip has not been damaged. A "vacuum" has been created
      by the crippling of the official PA security forces on the West Bank and this
      gap plays into the hands of Tanzim semi-regulars, conclude the Israeli
      officials.

      By Amos Harel and Gideon Alon


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