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What Really Happened at Jenin? No Massacre of Palestinians
Occurred
Contrary to the repeated televised charges of Saeb Erakat and other
Palestinian spokesmen, "hundreds" of Palestinians were not killed. As of
May 1, there were 54 bodies found in Jenin -- not 500 -- according to
Israeli military sources. Palestinian officials, on the ground, now verify
the Israeli numbers: Mousa Kadoura, director of Yasser Arafat's Fatah
organization for the northern West Bank, claims 56 Palestinians died in
Jenin (Washington Times, May 1, 2002). Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has
stated that only seven civilian casualties have been identified (Israel
Foreign Ministry Press Release, April 20, 2002). These limited Palestinian
casualties were due to the fact that Israel did not employ massive air
strikes or artillery barrages in Jenin, but rather sent its vulnerable
ground forces to engage in house-to-house combat. As a result, Israel lost
23 soldiers in the battle. Essentially, Israeli soldiers lost their lives
in order to keep the collateral deaths of Palestinian civilians to a
minimum.
This article is located at: http://pnews.org/ArT/BusH/JENin.shtml
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