Jenin
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Jenin (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and is the capital of the Jenin Governorate. It is a hub for the surrounding towns.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jenin came under Israeli occupation in 1967, and was put under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority as Area A of the West Bank, a Palestinian enclave, in 1995.<ref name="Beinin" />
The city had a population of approximately 50,000 people in 2017, whilst the Jenin refugee camp had a population of about 10,000, housing families of Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine War.<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /><ref name="PCBS Jenin">2007 Locality Population Statistics Template:Webarchive. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics</ref> The camp has since become a stronghold of Palestinian militants, being the location of several incidents relating to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
EtymologyEdit
Jenin has been identified as the place "Gina" or "Ginah" mentioned in the Amarna letters from the 14th century BCE, as a town in Canaan.<ref name=":4" /> Jenin is commonly identified with the later biblical city of Ein-Ganim,<ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite thesis"The name of Jenin city is repeated in several sources, including the Bible, and was called by Ein Ganim"</ref><ref>Ishtori Haparchi, Kaftor wa-Ferach, vol. 2, (3rd edition, published by ed. Avraham Yosef Havatzelet), chapter 11, Jerusalem 2007, p. 65 (note 168) (Hebrew)</ref><ref name=":34">Template:Cite journal</ref> from Template:Langx, meaning "the spring of gardens"<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> or "the spring of Ganim",<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> probably referring to the many springs located nearby. The present-day Arabic name is believed to preserve the city's ancient name.<ref name=":1" />
HistoryEdit
Ancient periodEdit
Template:FurtherJenin is identified with a number of important towns mentioned in ancient sources. Throughout history, it was referred to as "Ein Ganim", "Beth Hagan", "Ginah", and "Ginae", along other names.<ref name=":4">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":34" />
Tell Jenin, believed to constitute the original settlement core of the city, is located at the center of what is today Jenin's business district.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kohlp339">Kohl et al., 2007, p. 339.</ref> The tell is also known as Tell el-Nawar, a term derived from the Arabic word for "gypsies," due to former nomadic encampments in this site. The earliest settlement at the tell dates to the late Neolithic and the early Chalcolithic. In the early 20th century, the tell was occupied by a modern cemetery and a threshing floor.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Bronze AgeEdit
Jenin has been identified as the place Gina or Ginah mentioned in the Amarna letters from the 14th century BCE. At the time, it was a vassal state of the New Kingdom of Egypt.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":4" /> The people of Gina managed to kill the warlord Labaya during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten.Template:Sfnp
Iron AgeEdit
Jenin is identical to Ein-Ganim, which the Hebrew Bible describes as a Levite city belonging to the Israelite Tribe of Issachar.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":34"/><ref name=":2">Template:Bibleverse Template:Bibleverse</ref> It has also been associated with Beth-Haggan, mentioned in 2 Kings in connection with Ahaziah's flight from Jehu, before he is wounded at Ibleam and later dies in Megiddo.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":34"/><ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> The Book of Judith renders its name as Gini.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" />
Roman and Byzantine periodsEdit
Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian of the 1st-century CE, mentions Ginae as being in the great plain, on the northern border of Samaria.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="War">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> During the Roman period, Ginae was settled exclusively by Samaritans. The people of Galilee were disposed to pass through their city during the annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem.<ref>Josephus, Antiquities XX.VI.1</ref> In 51 CE, a Galilean Jew was killed in Ginae by hostile Samaritans while en route to Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkot. With Roman procurator Cumanus failing to respond, Jewish Zealots led by Elazar the Son of Deinaeus (Ben Dinai) sought vengeance, and several Samaritan villages in Aqrabatene were destroyed.<ref>Josephus, the Jewish War, II.232-236; Antiquities XX:118-122</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Biblical commentator F. W. Farrar raised the possibility that this Samaritan village, "the first village at which [a traveler taking the road from Galilee to Judea over Mount Tabor] would arrive", was the one which rejected the disciples of Jesus in Luke's Gospel at the point where Jesus and his followers begin his journey towards Jerusalem.<ref>Farrar, F. W., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Luke 9, accessed 11 June 2018</ref>
Ceramics dating from the Byzantine era have been found here.<ref>Dauphin, 1998, p. 750</ref> There is no mention of Jenin in the reports of the Muslim conquest of the Levant from the Byzantines, which, according to the historian Moshe Sharon, "is not surprising, since it was a small place of minor importance".<ref name="Sharon172">Sharon 2017, p. 172.</ref>
Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periodsEdit
Jenin came under Crusader rule in 1103.<ref name="Khalidi"/> The Crusaders called it Le Grand Guerin (Latin: Garinum or Gallina Major),<ref name="Sharon172"/> to distinguish it from the town of Zir'in, which they called Petit Grin.<ref name="Khalidi">Template:Cite book</ref> Under the Crusaders it was a small seigniory, forming part of the Principality of Galilee or the Kingdom of Jerusalem.<ref name="Sharon172"/>
Shortly before the Battle of Hattin in 1187, Jenin was captured by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin,<ref name="Sharon172"/> who destroyed the nearby fort, Castellum Beleismum.<ref name="Boas">Template:Cite book</ref> In the 1220s, the geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described Jenin as "a small and beautiful town, lying between Nabulus and Beisan, in the Jordan Province. There is much water, and many springs are found here, and often have I visited it."<ref>Cited in le Strange, 1890, p. 464</ref> In 1229, a peace was concluded between Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Sultan al-Kamil, during the Sixth Crusade, whereby the city was given to the Crusaders, but Sultan as-Salih Ayyub was able to control it permanently in 1244 after the Battle of La Forbie.Template:Citation needed
In 1255, it was agreed between the Ayyubid sultan in Syria, an-Nasir Yusuf, and the first Mamluk sultan in Egypt, Izz al-Din Aybak, to give the latter all of the lands lying west of the Jordan River, and thus Jenin entered into the possession of the Mamluks.Template:Citation needed It was one of eleven subdistricts of Mamlakat Safad (Province of Safed).<ref name="Sharon174"/> In the late 13th century, Mamluk emirs (commanders) stationed at Jenin were ordered by Sultan Qalawun (Template:Reign) "to ride every day with their troops before the fortress of 'Akka, so as to protect the coast and the merchants."<ref name=Ayalonp168>Ayalon and Sharon, 1986, p. 168.</ref> As one of the stations of the Mamluk barid (postal route) between the Mamluk capital Cairo and Damascus, it was one of the towns where fires were lit to warn of a Mongol attack.<ref name="Sharon174">Sharon 2017, p. 174.</ref> The geographer al-Dimashqi mentioned Jenin around 1300.<ref>Cited in le Strange, 1890, p. 41</ref> From the time of Qalawun's son, Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad (Template:Reign), it was a station on the route where ice was transported to Cairo for the sultans' drink houses.<ref name="Sharon174"/> The Mamluk historian al-Qalqashandi (d. 1418) described Jenin as "an ancient spacious town which is riding on a shoulder of a nice valley in which there is a river of flowing water" north of Qaqun "on the top end of Marj Bani Amer [Jezreel Valley]".<ref name="Sharon174"/> He also noted that it contained the mausoleum of Dihyah al-Kalbi, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.<ref name="Sharon174"/>
Ottoman eraEdit
The Ottomans conquered Mamluk Syria in 1516. Jenin became the administrative center of a nahiya (subdistrict) of the Lajjun Sanjak (Lajjun District).<ref name="Sharon174"/> The sanjak was officially called the Iqta (Fief) of Turabay until 1559 when it became officially known as the Lajjun Sanjak.<ref>Rhode 1979, p. 24.</ref> The Turabay dynasty was the ruling house of the Bedouin Banu Haritha tribe, whose members held the governorship of Lajjun from the start of Ottoman rule through 1677.<ref>Sharon 2017, pp. 176–177.</ref>
The tax registers from 1548 to 1549 report that Jenin had a population of eight households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 2,000 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf (religious endowment) in the name of the Mamluk sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (Template:Reign).<ref name="HA160" /> Turabay rule was occasionally interrupted, including in 1564, when a certain Kemal Bey was appointed sanjak-bey (district governor) by the Ottomans.<ref>Abu-Husayn 1985, p. 188.</ref> On 15 October 1564 Kemal Bey requested from the beylerbey (provincial governor) of Damascus that the stone caravanserai of Jenin be repaired, garrisoned and serve as the chief headquarters of the Lajjun sanjak-bey in order for Lajjun to prosper and for the road connecting Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt to become secure. The official response was that the caravanserai be turned into a fortress; the fortress became ruined at some later point and 19th-century residents of Jenin used to claim that certain large rocks strewn in the village were the remnants of the 16th-century fortress.<ref>Sharon 2017, p. 173.</ref>
The Turabays, who remained nomads in the plain between Mount Carmel and Caesarea, made Jenin the administrative headquarters of Lajjun and used the town's Izz al-Din Cemetery to bury their dead.<ref>Sharon 2017, p. 177.</ref> A large, domed mausoleum was built for the grave of one of the chiefs and sanjak-beys of the family, Turabay ibn Ali (d. 1601). Known as Qubbat al-Amir Turabay (Dome of the Emir Turabay), it was described in a 1941 report as a ruined structure, and Sharon, writing in 2017, notes that it "does not exist anymore".<ref name="Sharon178">Sharon 2017, p. 178.</ref> No other graves of the Turabays in Jenin had survived into the 20th century.<ref name="Sharon178"/> During the conflict between Fakhr al-Din of the Ma'n dynasty, who governed the sanjaks of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the Turabays, in 1623, Fakhr al-Din captured Jenin and stationed his men there. In 1624 the most prominent Turabay chief and sanjak-bey of Lajjun, Ahmad ibn Turabay, drove out the Ma'nid troops from Jenin and established his personal residence in the town.<ref>Abu-Husayn 1985, pp. 195–196.</ref>
In the mid-18th century, Jenin was designated the administrative capital of the combined districts of Lajjun and Ajlun.<ref name=Doumanip39>Doumani, 1995, p. 39.</ref> There are indications that the area comprising Jenin and Nablus remained functionally autonomous under Ottoman rule and that the empire struggled to collect taxes there. During the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt which extended into Syria and Palestine in 1799, a local official from Jenin wrote a poem enumerating and calling upon local Arab leaders to resist Bonaparte, without mentioning the Sultan or the need to protect the Ottoman Empire.<ref name=Quataertp107>Quataert 2005, p. 107.</ref>
In the late 19th century, some members of the Jarrar family, who formed part of the mallakin (elite land-owning families) in Jenin, cooperated with merchants in Haifa to set up an export enterprise there.<ref name=Yazbakp150>Yazbak 1998, p. 150.</ref> During the Ottoman era, Jenin was plagued by local warfare between members of the same clan.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The French explorer Guérin visited in 1870.<ref>Guérin, 1874, pp. 327–332</ref> In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Jenin as "The capital of the district, the seat of a Caimacam, a town of about 3,000 inhabitants, with a small bazaar. The houses are well built of stone. There are two families of Roman Catholics; the remainder are Moslems. A spring rises east of the town and is conducted to a large masonry reservoir, near the west side, of good squared stonework, with a long stone trough. This reservoir was built by 'And el Hady, Mudir of Acre, in the first half of the century [..], north of the town is the little mosque of 'Ezz ed Din, with a good- sized dome and a minaret."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. 44 -45</ref>
British Mandate periodEdit
According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Jenin had a population of 2,637 (2,307 Muslims, 212 Hindus, 108 Christians, seven Jews, and three Sikhs).<ref name=census1922/> A following census in 1931 showed a slight increase to 2,706 (2,610 Muslims, 103 Christians, two Jews, and one Druze) with another 68 in nearby suburbs (all Muslims).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> From 1936, Jenin became a center of rebellion against the British Mandatory authorities. By the summer of 1938, residents of the city embarked on "an intensified campaign of murder, intimidation and sabotage" that caused the British administration "grave concern", according to a British report to the League of Nations;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the population had further increased to 3,100.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The city played an important role in the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, prompted by the death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in a fire-fight with British colonial police at the nearby town of Ya'bad months prior to the start of the revolt. On 25 August 1938, the day after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town. Despite having captured and killed the assassin, British forces ordered the inhabitants to leave, and blew up one quarter of the town as a form of punishment.<ref>"The British in Jenin", History Today, July 2002, Gordon Corera, pp. 2-4.</ref>
Jenin was used by Fawzi al-Qawuqji's Arab Liberation Army as a base.
The village statistics of 1945 list the population as 3,990 (3,840 Muslims and 150 Christians).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1948 WarEdit
Template:Further In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the city was defended by the Iraqi Army, then captured briefly by the forces from Israel's Carmeli Brigade during the "Ten Days' fighting" following the cancellation of the first cease-fire. Prior to the battle, the city's residents fled temporarily.<ref>Gelber, Yoav (2004) "Independence Versus Nakba"; Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Publishing, Template:ISBN, p.220</ref> The offensive was actually a feint designed to draw Arab forces away from the critical Battle for Jerusalem, and gains in that sector were quickly abandoned when Arab reinforcements arrived.
Jordanian controlEdit
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jenin came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.
The Jenin refugee camp was founded in 1953 by Jordan to house displaced Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the 1948 War. In 2014 the camp had a population of 16,000. For 19 years, the city was under Jordanian control. A war cemetery for Iraqi soldiers and local combatants is located on the outskirts of Jenin.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 14,402 inhabitants in Jenin.<ref name=Jordan1961/>
Israeli occupation 1967 to 2020Edit
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Jenin has been under Israeli occupation since the Six-Day War, in 1967.Template:Citation needed
On 14 May 1989, during the early months of the First Intifada. Mohammad Jibrin, aged 45, died in Ramallah Hospital after being beaten by Israeli soldiers in Jenin. Three months later, in response to a question from a member of Knesset Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote that there was no investigation by the Military Police Investigator.<ref>Talmor, Ronny (translated by Ralph Mandel) (1990) The Use of Firearms - By the Security Forces in the Occupied Territories. B'Tselem. download pp.76,78</ref>
According to Joel Beinin, Jenin was classified as under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority as Area A of the West Bank, a Palestinian enclave, in 1995.<ref name="Beinin">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Verify source In 1996, Israel handed over control of the city to the Palestinian National Authority in keeping with the Oslo Accords.Template:Verify source
According to the BBC, the city is "Known among Palestinians" as "the Martyrs' capital", but the reason they gave was Israeli statistics about suicide bombings, the BBC did not identify any non-Israeli source for the name.<ref name="Known among Palestinians" >Template:Cite news</ref> During the Second Palestinian uprising (also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada) the camp's militants, some 200 armed men, included members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Tanzim, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas.<ref name="BBCmartyrs"/><ref name=Bernanp434>Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cite book</ref> By Israel's count, at least 28 suicide bombers were dispatched from the Jenin camp from 2000 to 2003 during the Second Intifada.<ref name="BBCmartyrs">Template:Cite news</ref> Israeli army weekly Bamahane attributes at least 31 militant attacks, totaling 124 victims, to Jenin during the same period, more than any other city in the West Bank.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
During the al-Aqsa Intifada, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield with the stated aim of dismantling militant infrastructure so as to curb suicide bombings and other militant activities. The army encircled and entered six major Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, among them Jenin. During the Battle of Jenin (2002) in April 2002, 23 Israeli soldiers and 52 Palestinians, including civilians,<ref name=AFPJTimesJul2011>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} - "Fifty-four Palestinians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed in the mêlée".</ref><ref name=JPostJul2010>Template:Cite news</ref> were killed.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Human Rights Watch reported that the refugee camp, which was the major battleground, suffered extensive damage. Witnesses stated unarmed people were shot and denied medical treatment, and as a result died. Human Rights Watch have regarded many killings to be unlawful such as the death of a 57-year-old wheelchair bound man who was shot and run over by a tank despite having attached a white flag on his wheelchair. A 37-year-old man who was paralysed was crushed under the rubble of his house, his family was not allowed to remove his body. A 14-year-old boy was killed as he travelled to purchase groceries during the temporary relief of the curfew that was imposed by the army. Medical staff were shot at (one nurse killed) while trying to reach the wounded even after clearly being in uniform displaying the red crescent symbol.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> There have also been reports of Israeli soldiers using Palestinians as human shields, one father described how a soldier rested his rifle on his 14-year-old son's shoulder as he shot.<ref>SUMMARY, HRW</ref> Israel denied the entry of rescue teams and journalists into Jenin even after they withdrew. Over the following years, Jenin was subject to extended curfews and targeted killings.
During a gun-battle with Islamic Jihad militants whom Israel says were firing at troops from inside the UN compound, an Israeli military sniper shot and killed a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employee, Iain Hook (54) on November 22, 2002.<ref>Israel admits killing British UN worker BBC News November 23, 2002</ref> The sniper reportedly mistook a cellphone in Hook's hands for a gun or grenade.<ref name=nyt>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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In the framework of the Valley of Peace initiative, a joint Arab-Israeli project is under way to promote tourism in the Jenin region.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2010, 600 new businesses opened in Jenin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Canaan Fair Trade is headquartered in Jenin.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Director of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was killed by masked gunmen in the city in April 2011. Mer-Khamis co-founded the theatre with Zakaria Zubeidi, former military chief of the al-Aqsa Brigades who had renounced violence.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Israeli occupation in the 2020sEdit
On 6 February 2020, a Palestinian policeman, Tarek Badwan, was shot dead by an Israeli sniper as he stood at the entrance to the Jenin police station and chatted with a colleague. No explanation has been forthcoming. The incident was recorded on video.<ref>Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, 'What the Israeli army does to soldiers who shoot Palestinians,' Haaretz 19 November 2021</ref>
On 17 June 2022, Israeli forces conducted a raid in the al-Marah area of the city. During the raid, Israeli forces opened fire on a car, killing three Palestinians and seriously injuring another.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 26 January 2023, Israeli forces killed nine in a clash with Islamic Jihad militants during a raid in the city and refugee camp of Jenin.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 3 July 2023, shortly after 1 a.m., Israeli forces attacked the city's refugee camp using drone-fired missiles and ground troops. Eight Palestinians died from injuries sustained during the attack and a further eighty were injured, nine of them critically.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Fifty Palestinians, whom Israeli forces labeled "militants", were arrested. Israeli forces cut off telecommunications and electricity in the area and medical professionals struggled to reach the injured. Israel claimed that while they were targeting suspected members of the Jenin Brigades, an armed group, they acknowledged that innocent people may have been injured or killed in the raid. Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Minister of Defense, said "The operation is progressing as planned," and Eli Cohen, the Israeli Foreign Minister, said claimed the refugee camp had become a "center for terrorist activity" thanks to funding from Iranian sources.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The refugee camp has a population of roughly 17,000 inhabitants and is about a quarter a square mile in size.
On 19 September 2023, four Palestinians were killed during another Israeli military invasion of the city – among them a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, chased and killed for having noticed the Israeli undercover soldiers sneaking into the Jenin refugee camp.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gaza warEdit
During the Gaza war, Israeli forces carried out multiple operations in Jenin. On October 22, 2023, the IDF conducted an airstrike targeting an underground compound beneath the Al-Ansar Mosque in the city. It was reported to be the first airstrike in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. The IDF stated that the strike aimed at operatives from Hamas and PIJ who were planning a terror attack.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Jenin was severely damaged during the Gaza war. By June 2024 repeated bombing attacks and incursions with bulldozers by Israeli forces razed every street and reduced every public square to rubble. In one incident on 21 May, according to journalist Gideon Levy, an Israeli sniper shot dead bystanders, including surgeon Oussaid Jabareen, who was shot while on his way to work at the Jenin Government Hospital.<ref>Gideon Levy, Alex Levac, 'In a Single Hour, Israeli Snipers Killed Seven Bystanders at the Jenin Refugee Camp,' Haaretz 14 June 2024.</ref><ref>David Gritten, 'Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli West Bank raid,' BBC News 21 May 2024</ref>
In late August 2024 Israel launched a large-scale, multi-day raid on Jenin as part of Operation Summer Camps, with one resident saying that "The water is cut off. The electricity is cut off, the sewage system is no longer working. All the infrastructure is destroyed, we no longer have any services that work." The governor of Jenin said that "The Israelis are besieging the hospitals and cutting off the city from the refugee camp, which has become a military zone with no access...neither the civil defence, nor the ambulances, nor the journalists can go and see what is happening there." The IDF, on the other hand, says that this is operation is "not extremely different from regular activity".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At least 20 Palestinians were killed by the IDF in this attack,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref> including a Palestinian man in his 80s.<ref name=":3" /> Additionally, the Israeli forces fired at ambulances carrying "a dead and a wounded person",<ref name=":3" /> leading to the injury of 2 EMTs and a volunteer doctor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Also in August, Israeli bulldozers destroyed miles of the city, including homes, businesses and infrastructure; Israeli soldiers blocked emergency responders from assisting residents. News reports include videos of this attack, as well as assertions by the Israel Defense Forces that it is rooting out terrorism; and that it "undertakes all feasible precautions to avoid damaging essential infrastructure”, while acknowledging that these “operations in the area have caused unavoidable harm to certain civilian structures".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In December 2024, the Palestinian Authority launched an anti-militant operation in Jenin, the largest in three decades, called "Protect the Homeland". The operation aims to regain control of the Jenin refugee camp, targeting militants and those fueling instability.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On January 21, 2025, the IDF launched its own operation in Jenin, dubbed Iron Wall, aimed at clearing Jenin of militants and putting a stop to light arms being smuggled into the city.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>TV7 Israel News, Template:YouTube, January 21, 2025, minutes 07:56–09:10.</ref> Operations in Jenin are ongoing. Around 100 homes have been demolished, residents are being prevented from returning to the area by military checkpoints, and Israeli tanks have been deployed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
GeographyEdit
Jenin is situated at the foot of the rugged northernmost hills (Jabal Nablus) of the West Bank, and along the southern edge of the Jezreel Valley (Marj Ibn Amer),<ref name="Zeitoun">Template:Cite book</ref> which the city overlooks.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Its highest elevation is about 250 meters above sea level and its lowest areas are 90 meters above sea level.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Immediately southwest of Jenin is the Sahl Arraba plain (Dothan Valley), while further south is the Marj Sanur valley.<ref name="NID">Template:Cite book</ref> About 1.5 kilometers to Jenin's east is Mount Gilboa (Jabal Faqqua).<ref>Template:Cite bookTemplate:Dead link</ref>
Jenin is 42 kilometers north of Nablus, 18 kilometers to the south of Afula, and 51 kilometers southeast of Haifa.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The nearest localities are Umm at-Tut and Jalqamus to the southeast, Qabatiya and Zababdeh to the south, Burqin to the southwest, Kafr Dan to the west, Arranah, Jalamah and the Arab Israeli village of Muqeible to the north, Deir Ghazaleh to the northeast, and Beit Qad and Deir Abu Da'if to the east.
GovernmentEdit
Jenin municipality was established in 1886 under the Ottoman rule with no more than 80 voters and elections were made every 4 years until 1982 when the Israeli government took control over the municipality until 1995. Template:Citation needed
List of Jenin mayors:<ref>Template:Usurped Jenin Municipality.</ref> Template:Col-begin Template:Col-2
- Andulmajeed Mansour
- Abdulrahman al-Haj Hassan
- Ragheb Al-Souki
- Al-Haj Hassan Fazaa
- Tawfeek Mansour
- Bishara Atallah
- Hussein al-Abboushi
- Aref Abdulrahman
- Fahmi al-Abboushi
- Tahseen Abdulhadi
- Abdulraheem Jarrar
- Saleh Arif Azzouqa
- Hussni al-Souki
- Ahmed Kamal allSa'adi
- Ahmed Shawki al-Mahmoud
- Shehab al-Sanouri
- Abdullah Lahlouh
- Waleed Abu Mwais (appointed)
- Hatim Jarrar
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Municipal elections were held in Jenin on 15 December 2005. Six seats each were won by Hamas and the local coalition of Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Jenin was one of several Palestinian cities where Hamas showed a dramatic growth in electoral support. <ref>Palestinian Municipal Elections, the Left is advancing, while Hamas capitalizes on the decline of Fatah Template:Webarchive Nasser Ibrahim, December 22, 2005</ref> Hadem Rida was then elected as Mayor of the city, until he was arrested by the Israel Forces and spent 3 years in jail. After his release, he resigned from the position and went back to practice in his clinic in Jenin city.Template:Citation needed
DemographicsEdit
According to the 2017 census by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Jenin had a population of 49,908,<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /> the Jenin Refugee Camp of 10,417<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /> on 373 dunams (92 acres). Some 42.3% of the population of the camp was under the age of 15.
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| 1596 | 8 households<ref name=HA160>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 160</ref> | |
| 1821 | ~1,500–2,000<ref name=Scholz266>Scholz, 1822, p. 266, cited in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 155</ref> | |
| 1838 | ~2,000<ref name=Robinson155>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 155</ref> | |
| 1870 | ~2,000<ref>Guérin, 1874, p. 328</ref> | |
| 1882 | ~3,000<ref name=SWP44>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 44</ref> | |
| 1922 | 2,637<ref name=census1922>Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29</ref> | |
| 1931 | 2,706 + 68<ref name=Census1931>Mills, 1932, p. 68</ref> | |
| 1945 | 3,990<ref name=Hadawi54>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Template:Webarchive</ref><ref name=1945p26>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Template:Webarchive</ref> | |
| 1961 | 14,402<ref name=Jordan1961>Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 8 Template:Webarchive</ref> | |
| 1997 | 26,681<ref name="PCBSCensus1997 Jenin">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2007 | 39,004<ref name="PCBS Jenin"/> | |
| 2017 | 49,908<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /> |
Public institutions and landmarksEdit
Jenin is home to many institutions, landmarks, and works of art. The Khalil Suleiman Hospital is located in the city. The Freedom Theatre is a theatre and cinema in the Jenin refugee camp. The Jenin Horse is a famous work of art made of scrap metal from cars destroyed by Israeli forces, built in 2003 by German artist Thomas Kilpper and young people from the city.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The horse was destroyed by the IDF in October 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
There is a monument honoring German pilots shot down in Jenin during the First World War, which incorporates an original wooden propeller.<ref>Palestinians and Their Society, 1880-1946Author:Sarah Graham-Brown</ref> An old British Mandate landing strip, Muqeible Airfield, is located in the city.
Holy sitesEdit
The main and largest mosque of Jenin is the Fatima Khatun Mosque, built in 1566.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Another mosque in Jenin is the Al-Ansar Mosque.<ref name="idc20231022">Template:Cite news</ref>
The ancient cemetery in Jenin houses the tomb of Sheikh Izz al-Din, a Sufi saint of the Rifa'i order. According to local traditions, he was a descendant of Ali Zayn al-Abidin, the grandson of Muhammad and the sixth Sh'ia Imam. According to a local tradition, Sheikh Izz al-Din fought alongside Saladin against the Crusaders. The tomb possibly predates the cemetery, which served as a burial site for the people of Jenin and the Turabay dynasty. Another tomb in the same cemetery is al-Sheikh Tarabiya, where the Turabay emir Ahmad ibn Turabay ibn Ali al-Harithi is buried.<ref name=":03">Template:Cite book</ref>
Education and cultureEdit
The Arab American University is located in Jenin's vicinity.
Cinema Jenin is the largest movie theater in the area. The cinema, which reopened in 2010 after a 23-year intermission, has indoor and outdoor screens, a film library and educational facilities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Strings of Freedom is an orchestra in Jenin founded by an Arab citizen of Israel, Wafaa Younis, who travels form her home in central Israel to teach music to the local youth.<ref name="Concert">Template:Cite news</ref>
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External linksEdit
- Welcome To Jinin Template:Webarchive
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- A project aimed at reopening a movie theater for the residents of Jenin and the refugee camp.
- Peace and Prosperity in the West Bank in-depth report on NOW on PBS
- Heart of Jenin documentary on PBS wide angle
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