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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413
>Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime
>
> From Phil Reeves in Jenin
>
>16 April 2002
>
>A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has
>finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of
>the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where
>thousands of people are still living amid the ruins.
>
>A residential area roughly 160,000 square yards about a third of a mile wide
>has been reduced to dust. Rubble has been shovelled by bulldozers into 30ft
>piles. The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere,
>evidence that it is a human tomb. The people, who spent days hiding in
>basements crowded into single rooms as the rockets pounded in, say there are
>hundreds of corpses, entombed beneath the dust, under a field of debris,
>criss-crossed with tank and bulldozer treadmarks.
>
>In one nearby half-wrecked building, gutted by fire, lies the fly-blown
>corpse of a man covered by a tartan rug. In another we found the remains of
>23-year-old Ashraf Abu Hejar beneath the ruins of a fire-blackened room that
>collapsed on him after being hit by a rocket. His head is shrunken and
>blackened. In a third, five long-dead men lay under blankets.
>
>A quiet. sad-looking young man called Kamal Anis led us across the
>wasteland, littered now with detritus of what were once households, foam
>rubber, torn clothes, shoes, tin cans, children's toys. He suddenly stopped.
>This was a mass grave, he said, pointing.
>
>We stared at a mound of debris. Here, he said, he saw the Israeli soldiers
>pile 30 bodies beneath a half-wrecked house. When the pile was complete,
>they bulldozed the building, bringing its ruins down on the corpses. Then
>they flattened the area with a tank. We could not see the bodies. But we
>could smell them.
>
>A few days ago, we might not have believed Kamal Anis. But the descriptions
>given by the many other refugees who escaped from Jenin camp were
>understated, not, as many feared and Israel encouraged us to believe,
>exaggerations. Their stories had not prepared me for what I saw yesterday. I
>believe them now.
>
>Until two weeks ago, there were several hundred tightly-packed homes in this
>neighbourhood called Hanat al-Hawashim. They no longer exist.
>
>Around the central ruins, there are many hundreds of half-wrecked homes.
>Much of the camp – once home to 15,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948
>war – is falling down. Every wall is speckled and torn with bullet holes and
>shrapnel, testimony of the awesome, random firepower of Cobra and Apache
>helicopters that hovered over the camp.
>
>Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake
>furnishings, mattresses, white plastic chairs spewed out into the road.
>Every other building bears the giant, charred, impact mark of a helicopter
>missile. Last night there were still many families and weeping children
>still living amid the ruins, cut off from the humanitarian aid. Ominously,
>we found no wounded, although there was a report of a man being rescued from
>beneath ruins only an hour before we arrived.
>
>Those who did not flee the camp, or not detained by the army, have spent the
>bombardment in basements, enduring day after day of terror. Some were forced
>into rooms by the soldiers, who smashed their way into houses through the
>walls. The UN says half of the camp's 15,000 residents were under 18. As the
>evening hush fell over these killing fields, we could suddenly hear the
>children chattering. The mosques, once so noisy at prayer time, were silent.
>
>Israel was still trying to conceal these scenes yesterday. It had refused
>entry to Red Cross ambulances for nearly a week, in violation of the Geneva
>Convention. Yesterday it continued to try to keep us out.
>
>Jenin, in the northern end of the occupied West Bank, remained "a closed
>military zone", was ringed Merkava tanks, army Jeep patrols, and armoured
>personnel carriers. Reporters caught trying to get in were escorted out. A
>day earlier the Israeli armed forces took in a few selected journalists to
>see sanitised parts of the camp. We simply walked across the fields, flitted
>through an olive orchard overlooked by two Israeli tanks, and into the camp
>itself.
>
>We were led in by hands gesturing at windows. Hidden, whispering people
>directed us through narrow alleys they thought were clear. When there were
>soldiers about, a finger would raise in warning, or a hand waved us back. We
>were welcomed by people desperate to tell what had occurred. They spoke of
>executions, and bulldozers wrecking homes with people inside. "This is mass
>murder committed by Ariel Sharon," Jamel Saleh, 43, said. "We feel more hate
>for Israel now than ever. Look at this boy." He placed his hand on the
>tousled head of a little boy, Mohammed, the eight-year-old son of a friend.
>"He saw all this evil. He will remember it all." So will everyone else who
>saw the horror of Jenin refugee camp. Palestinians who entered the camp
>yesterday were almost speechless.
>
>Rajib Ahmed, from the Palestinian Energy Authority, came to try to repair
>the power lines. He was trembling with fury and shock. "This is mass murder.
>I have come here to help by I have found nothing but devastation. Just look
>for yourself." All had the same message: tell the world.
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