Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
1 April
ISRAELI ARMY USED NAZI WAR MANUALS TO CRUSH PALESTINIAN REVOLT
On this day in 2002, the Battle of Jenin began and lasted ten days. The Israeli Army employed infantry and assault helicopters but after an Israeli infantry column was defeated, Caterpillar armoured bulldozers were used to destroy and flatten a large area of the camp. “Israeli staff officers had no compunction utilising the lessons of the Wehrmacht’s attack on the Warsaw Ghetto, during the onslaught on Jenin”. Israeli minister Bin Azri said the objective was to ‘convert the life of Palestinians into hell’.
استخدم الجيش الاسرائيلي دليل النازية في الحروب لسحق الثورة الفلسطينية
1 أبريل
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2002 بدأت معركة جنين واستمرت عشرة أيام. استخدم الجيش الإسرائيلي مروحيات مشاة وهجومية ، ولكن بعد هزيمة عمود مشاة إسرائيلي ، استخدمت جرافات كاتربيلر المدرعة لتدمير وتسوية مساحة كبيرة من المخيم. "لم يشعر ضباط الأركان الإسرائيليين بأي تانيب الضمير من تطبيق خبرتهم في هجوم الفيرماخت على غيتو وارسو ، أثناء الهجوم على جنين". وقال الوزير الإسرائيلي بن عزري إن الهدف هو "تحويل حياة الفلسطينيين إلى جحيم"
"Just as Israeli staff officers had no compunction studying the lessons of the Wehrmacht’s attack on the Warsaw Ghetto, as preparation for the onslaught on Jenin, so their counterparts in the Pentagon will have paid close attention to Defensive Shield. Needing to plan for operations in densely built-up Islamic cities—Kabul, Kandahar, Basra, Baghdad—the US military could ill afford to ignore lessons from the West Bank, after its misfortunes in Mogadishu. On 17 June 2002, the Army Times reported that while Israeli forces were engaged in what many termed a brutal—some even say criminal—campaign to crush Palestinian militants and terrorist cells in West Bank towns, US military officials were in Israel seeing what they could learn from that urban fight...
"Lt. Col Dave Booth—who oversees US Marine-IDF exchanges on urban warfare—reported in another article in the Marine Corps Times that the Marines wanted ‘to learn from the Israeli experience in urban warfare and the recent massive search-and-destroy operations for Palestinian insurgents in the West Bank’."
Lessons in Urbicide, Stephen Graham, March 2010 14pp
"In April 2002 the Israeli Defence Force bulldozed a 40,000 square-metre area in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp in the Northern West Bank. A UN report estimated that some 52 Palestinians were killed in the attack, about half of them civilians. In a detailed investigation, Human Rights Watch found that several civilians, including a disabled man, were crushed to death in their homes, because Israeli forces failed to allow relatives time to help them escape; others were used as human shields by the advancing Israelis. Operation Defensive Shield left 140 multi-family housing blocks completely destroyed, 1,500 damaged, and some 4,000 residents homeless, out of a population of 14,000.1 During the operation, lesser demolitions were also carried out in Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah. Destruction of material infrastructure and cultural and administrative facilities was also widespread."
52-minute documentary of the battle of Jenin by Palestinian Moahmmed Bakri: "Jenin! Jenin!"