Life and Dead, Destruction in Jenin
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Destruction

An Israeli soldier walks through the destroyed Jenin refugee camp after the Israeli army entered the city. Palestinians break the Israeli imposed curfew to walk through what used to be their homes in the Jenin refugee camp, Monday, April 15. A Palestinian woman wanders through the rubble of the demolished main square in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, April 15. Some defiant, some dazed, hundreds of Palestinians emerged from wrecked homes in the Jenin camp.

An Israeli soldier tank is seen near demolished houses in the Jenin refugee camp, where the fiercest fighting occurred, in the northern West Bank, Sunday, April 14. Israeli forces retained tight control of the camp and surrounding towns and villages, as part of the military offensive launched on March 29 to track down and eliminate Palestinian "militants" and their networks. Palestinians break the Israeli imposed curfew to walk through what used to be their homes in the Jenin refugee camp Monday, April 15. Using helicopter gunships, tanks, and bulldozers, Israeli forces took tight control of the camp and the surrounding areas as part of a military offensive, that began March 29. Palestine women picking up items from the rubble, once their house was stood.

Israeli Army

Israeli soldiers are seen atop armoured personnel carriers parked at Salem village in the outskirts of Jenin area, before advancing towards the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Monday April 15. In this handout picture made available by the Israeli Government Press Office, sitting from left, Minister without portfolio Effie Eitam, Israeli army Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer listen to a brief by an unidentified army officer during a tour of an army base outside the West Bank town of Jenin, Wednesday, April 10. Israeli forces retained tight control of the camp and surrounding towns and villages, as part of the military offensive launched on March 29, capturing several towns,confiscating weaponry and detaining at least 4,000 Palestinians.

Life

A Palestinian boy wanders through the rubble of his demolished house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, April 15, 2002. Palestinian women and children wait to cross the Qalandia checkpoint on the road from Ramallah to Jerusalem, April 15. The West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus and Bethlehem remain under Israeli military curfew, along with several refugee camps and villages. Palestinian teenage boys, backdropped by patrolling Israeli soldiers atop an armored personnel carrier, walk to the school of the northern West Bank village of Burkin, near Jenin refugee camp, to have their documents checked by Israeli forces Saturday April 13. Burkin residents said about 75 families had fled the Jenin refugee camp and taken shelter in the village after Israel launched its military offensiveon March 29

Dead

A Palestinian woman looks at dead bodies in a house in the refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin April 13. The charred remains of the head of a Palestinian emerge from the rubble of a house that was destroyed by Israeli armed forces in the heart of the Jenin refugee camp, Saturday, April 13. The burned remains of a Palestinian boy lay amidst toys in a house destroyed by Israeli soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp Saturday, April 13.


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