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Israelis try to pin blame for Jenin on suicide bombers
By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem
19 April 2002 Internal links Families scrabble in the dust to find their dead Israel
leaves Jenin, but maintains blockade Bush shrugs off Powell's failure to halt violence
Israelis try to pin blame for Jenin on suicide bombers Hamas uses website to fund
suicide bombings David Aaronovitch: It's not anti-Semitic to deny Israel's right to
exist. It is just wrong Leading article: There should be a UN inquiry into the deaths
at
Jenin
Israeli officials were desperately scrambling to explain the war crimes committed at
Jenin refugee camp as the international furore over the devastation rose to new
heights yesterday.
A senior Israeli government official admitted to The Independent that civilians had
died in Jenin, but said they were killed by Palestinians.
Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, claimed
Palestinian militants rigged the buildings with explosives, and blew them up while
holding civilians as hostage. The Israelis decided to send in bulldozers to fully
demolish the homes because they contained booby-traps, he said.
And the Defence Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said 45 of the 48 bodies recovered
from Jenin were wearing the uniforms of Islamic Jihad � a claim that contradicts
those who have seen the bodies.
The United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Terje Roed- Larsen, visited the most
heavily damaged area and described the scene as "horrific beyond belief". He told
Israel Army Radio: "Jenin will forever be a blot on the history of the state of
Israel."
The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that the scale of the
devastation was so great that Israel should allow international rescue and recovery
teams into Jenin.
Yesterday the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw added his voice to the calls for an
outside investigation into Israel's "excessive actions" in Jenin, which its forces
invaded on 3 April in a "counter-terrorism" operation. Mr Straw said: "Such is the
scale of the evidence that there is a strong case for Israel to answer."
Humanitarian groups fear that the exact death toll will never be known. Saeb Erekat,
a former Palestinian peace negotiator, said he had received 1,600 calls from families
who had been unable to find relatives from the camp.
Peter Hansen, commissioner-general of Unrwa, the UN relief agency for Palestinian
refugees, said: "It was worse than I feared. I saw a family digging for their father
who
they had found in decomposed bits, and the remnants of a child under the rubble. It
was a gruesome sight. We saw hundreds and hundreds of people walking around in
a daze, looking for what used to be their dear ones."
He said he did not believe the camp had been heavily booby- trapped � a claim used
by the Israeli army to justify banning access to Red Cross and UN ambulances.
Also from the Middle East section.
Amid the rubble of Jenin, Palestinians bury their dead
>From the ruins of Jenin, the truth about an atrocity
Israel completes withdrawal from Jenin
Families scrabble in the dust to find their dead
Hamas uses website to fund suicide bombings
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