This was the third and final day of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday concluding Ramadan. I awoke at the home of a family where twin sons had been killed on separate occasions in the last two months. The rest of the children make the home boisterous. I heard the cries of Allahu Akbar, the funeral parade for a boy from the neighbouring village of Sili who had been killed the night before. Annie Higgins writes from Jenin Refugee Camp. Read more about A Day in the Life of Jenin Refugee Camp
The city and the Refugee Camp breathed more easily when the Israeli Army withdrew from its two-week invasion about a week ago, but everyone knew that the Army would maintain its presence, if slightly less visibly. Annie Higgins writes from Jenin. Read more about Update from Jenin
Fuad Ahmad Abu Ghali was shot dead by Israeli troops in Jenin on 27 October 2002. University of Chicago lecturer Annie Higgins, working with the medics who went to pick up his body, described an encounter with the soldiers that killed him. Read more about The killing of Fuad Abu Ghali
With the high number of Palestinian children killed and injured in the Intifada, Israel has invested considerable time in portraying this as a failure of Palestinian parents to keep their kids away from violence. In this report from Jenin, Annie Higgins notes a more obvious cause — the Israeli tanks and troops that patrol the kids’ routes to school. Read more about Jenin Today: They Shoot Children, Don't They?
The curfew in Jenin was lifted mid-morning today. Two hours later, with no warning the army returned to the main city. The streets were still full of people trying to buy supplies before curfew was reimposed. Read more about Civilians killed in Jenin
The view framed in the windscreen of the taxi as we turned the corner and entered Jenin refugee camp is one of utter devastation: a massive concrete-grey pile of rubble. Read more about Letter from Jenin camp
‘When they begin shelling the houses, we want to go to our relatives’. So we all go to my brother’s house next to us. We all move over there. Then the Israeli soldiers come with the bulldozer and the tank. They tell us to come out of the house. Read more about Three testimonies from Jenin
The reality left behind by the Israelis in Jenin Refuge Camp defies even the most vicious imagination. One after another, the people of Jenin have been trying to tell anyone in the world who will listen what they have witnessed and lived through since the beginning of their most recent tragedy on April 3, 2002. Read more about Journalism in Jenin: No Honor Among Thieves
It’s a difficult thing to comprehend a willing descent into a place of mass suffering. Usually, such things are random and so temporary that one cannot plan for it. Read more about Jenin: Not of this Earth, Part I
