Editing Operation Defensive Shield (section)

====Reported first-hand allegations====
David Rohde of ''[[The New York Times]]'' on the April 16 reported:
{{quote |Saed Dabayeh, who said he stayed in the camp through the fighting, led a group of reporters to a pile of rubble where he said he watched from his bedroom window as Israeli soldiers buried 10 bodies. "There was a hole here where they buried bodies," he said. "And then they collapsed a house on top of it." The Palestinian accounts could not be verified. "The smell of decomposing bodies hung over at least six heaps of rubble today, and weeks of excavation may be needed before an accurate death toll can be made."<ref>David Rohde, ''[[The New York Times]]'', 16 April 2002, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E6DA113CF935A25757C0A9649C8B63 MIDEAST TURMOIL: THE AFTERMATH; The Dead and the Angry Amid Jenin's Rubble]</ref>}}

Stewart Bell of the ''[[National Post]]'' on the April 15 reported that [[Ahmed Tibi]], an Arab member of the Israeli [[Knesset]], said he had met hundreds of Palestinians displaced by what he termed the "massacre" in Jenin. According to Tibi, "Everyone has a tragedy, about executions they saw, about their whole family that was killed, about the most tangible concern—where is my family?" Bell reported that Jenin's population recounted "vivid accounts" of fighting and homes being demolished but first-hand accounts of massacres was scarce. One such rumor was a grocery store owner near Jenin who spoke of seeing Israeli troops using a refrigerated truck to hold the bodies of massacred Palestinians, which he said was still parked on a nearby hill. He refused to elaborate out of fear from "collaborators." Bell reported that a National Post reporter inspected the truck and found that it contained apples and other food for the Israeli soldiers.<ref name="NPost">{{cite news |title=What happened at Jenin? |last=Bell |first=Stewart |date=April 15, 2002 |work=National Post}}</ref>