Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:47:33 -0400
From: bobhunt@erols.com
Subject: [libs4peace] (fwd) [osint] Palestinian Testimonies Support Israeli Version of Fighting In Jenin
To: libs4peace@yahoogroups.com ("Libertarians 4Peace"), American_Liberty@yahoogroups.com, Individual-Sovereignty@yahoogroups.com
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:17:59 -0000, "pirate97006" <pirate97006@yahoo.com>
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http://www.middleeastwire.com:8080/storypage.jsp?id=5389
publisher: Cybercast News Service
By: Julie Stahl
Posted: 2002-04-25
Jerusalem - Palestinian militants fighting against Israeli forces in
the Jenin refugee camp have given a description of events in
interviews with various Arab media and press that is similar to the
version put forth by the Israeli army.
Israel, which sent tanks and troops into Jenin to arrest wanted
militants and break up the terrorist infrastructure, said it met with
fierce resistance in the camp, which was heavily booby-trapped.
Palestinian officials have charged that a massacre took place, but
that charge has not been substantiated by findings in the camp. Some
fifty bodies have been discovered, most of which appear to have been
those of Palestinian fighters.
In translations of interviews that have appeared in the Arab media
and press (translations provided by the Middle East Media Research
Institute), Palestinian militants offered an inside view of the
battle in the Jenin refugee camp.
Sheikh Jamal Abu Al-Hija, the commander of the military wing of Hamas
in the Jenin refugee camp, described the battle as "guerrilla
warfare."
"[We placed] explosive devices on the roads and in the houses;
surprises [await] the [Israeli] occupation forces," Al-Hija said in a
telephone interview with the Qatari-based satellite station Al-
Jazeera on April 8.
"In several places, there are clashes between the mujahideen [Jihad
holy warriors] and the occupation forces...
"The occupation forces flee in panic from the Jenin camp - but they
escalate by using tractors, airplanes, and tanks against the camp.
The truth is that the fighting is being conducted from neighborhood
to neighborhood, like guerilla warfare. The mujahideen are using
automatic rifles, explosive devices, and hand grenades," he said.
Another fighter, identified as "Omar," and described as a one-armed
Islamic Jihad bomb maker, explained in the Egyptian government-
sponsored weekly Al-Ahram Weekly how the camp had been booby-trapped
and how women and children participated in the battle.
"We started working on our plan: to trap the invading soldiers and
blow them up from the moment the Israeli tanks pulled out of Jenin
last month," Omar said of a previous Israeli incursion.
"We had more than 50 houses booby-trapped around the camp. We chose
old and empty buildings and the houses of men who were wanted by
Israel because we knew the soldiers would search for them," he was
quoted as saying.
Omar described how they had packed water pipes with explosives and
nails and had hidden them in cupboards, under siks and in sofas
about 16 feet apart.
Regarding the ambush of 13 soldiers in Jenin, Omar said the women had
helped lure the soldiers into a trap.
"We all stopped shooting and the women went out to tell the soldiers
that we had run out of bullets and were leaving," he said. Then the
women alerted the fighters when the soldiers were in the trapped
area.
"When the senior officers realized what had happened, they shouted
through megaphones that they wanted an immediate cease-fire. We let
them approah to retrieve the men and then opened fire," he said.
Abu Jandal, the Islamic Jihad commander in the Jenin camp, said the
fighters had sworn not to allow the Israeli army to enter the camp.
All the fighters were martyrs, he said in one of several interviews
with Al-Jazeera satellite television. Even the children wanted to
participate, he said.
"Believe me, there are children stationed in the houses with
explosive belts at their sides," Abu Jandal said. "Today, one of the
children came to me with his school bag. I asked him what he wanted,
and he replied, 'Instead of books, I want an explosive device, in
order to attack...'"
"Abu Ahmad" a leader of the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade in Jenin (a group
linked to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah
faction), was quoted by Hizballah's weekly Al-Intiqad as pledging to
carry out more "martyrdom" operations to show the organization
remained strong.
"The martyrdom operation by 'Andalib Taqatqah' is proof of the [Al-
Aqsa Martyr] Brigades' capability of striking at the [Zionist] entity
any time, anywhere," Abu Ahmad said in reference to the 17-year-old
female bomber who killed herself and six others at a Jerusalem market
during the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
In response to reports of heavy fighting in the camp, PA negotiator
Saeb Erekat said that the people were fighting to defend their homes.
"Nobody said that there wasn't fighting," Erekat said by telephone on
Wednesday. "We said that because the people decided to stand up and
fight [the massacre occurred]."
Israel has vehemently denied the massacre accusations and said that
Jenin was a hotbed of suicide bombers. More than 20 suicide bombers
were sent from the Jenin refugee camp to perpetrate attacks in Israel.
2002 (Cybercast News Service). This news item is distributed via
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Brooks Isoldi, editor
bisoldi@intellnet.org
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