Summary Executions in Jenin

Israeli Occupation Forces are waging an unprecedented campaign to raze the Jenin refugee camp. In one case, eyewitness reports testify that more than 160 people have been transferred from one area of the camp to the village of Kufr Dan outside Jenin where they are being held without food, water, or medical supplies while the offensive continues. Bulldozers rolled over areas where houses had been destroyed creating easy access into these areas for the Israeli military. Many of those rounded up were placed under arrest, while the remainder have been abandoned away from their homes.


The Israeli military has completely demolished one entire section of the camp and is in the process of making a "sweep" through the rest of the camp. Fighting between Israeli army soldiers and armed Palestinians ceased when Palestinian resistance fighters ran out of ammunition. According to further eyewitness reports, unarmed men are now being rounded up within the camp and taken for summary execution. In one specific instance, a citizen of Jenin phoned a human rights field worker describing how Israeli soldiers broke into the homes of Palestinian civilians rounding up 150 of them and killing two men Waddah Fathi ash-Shalabi, 35 and Abdul Karim Yusif Sa'adih, 38 in front of the group.

In a conflicting report witnesses said that soldiers ordered five men to strip naked before executing them outside against the wall of their home. The same eyewitnesses reported that people in the Jenin camp were told in Hebrew that this would be another Sabra/Chatila massacre.