The Jenin massacre is a wound in the memory of the Palestinians

On April 1st, Palestinians marked the nineteenth anniversary of the massacre of Jenin, which the Israeli occupation forces carried out against the Palestinians in the Al-Madina camp.

On April 1, 2002, the Israeli occupation forces carried out the 10-day massacre of Jenin camp in the West Bank. The massacre caused the death of more than 500 Palestinians and wounding thousands.

Then, the Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General Terje Roed-Larsen described the camp at the time that it looked as after an earthquake and the smell of corpses was everywhere.

Despite this, Israel rejected Security Council Resolution 1405, which called for sending a fact-finding team to investigate what happened in the camp by the occupation forces.

Turning a blind eye to this horrific massacre by the countries of the world gave Israeli the green light to keep its systematic crimes against the camp’s residents, which led to the displacement of hundreds of families and the demolishing of more than 500 houses.

The Palestinians renew their struggle against Israel  until it is withdraw from the occupied Palestinian lands  and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

O. al-Mohammad