'This generation is more dangerous': The new West Bank resistance
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the Israeli army entered the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank and carried out a two-day raid where the target - according to Israel - was the headquarters of local militants. During the incursion, journalists were not allowed into the camp. Now that the rubble is being cleared - what really happened? And has it fed the flames of the 'Jenin Brigades' - a new generation of resistance that could be the most dangerous iteration yet?
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, the Israeli Defence Forces, or IDF, launched a two-day raid into the |
| 0:15.8 | Janine refugee camp in the West Bank. |
| 0:19.4 | The Israeli military had used a surprise drone strike in the early hours to target what |
| 0:23.8 | it said was the headquarters of local militants. |
| 0:30.1 | The camp is a cramped, heavily built-up area of just half a square kilometre, which houses |
| 0:36.8 | 14,000 people. |
| 0:39.8 | And although it's called a camp, it's more like an overcrowded little town than a nest |
| 0:44.7 | of tents. |
| 0:46.4 | And last week, it was the scene of intense fighting. |
| 0:52.1 | And Palestinians began fighting back from inside the city's crowded, decades-old refugee |
| 0:57.8 | camp. |
| 0:58.8 | Israel says it is necessary to do this because, in their opinion, Janine is the source of |
| 1:07.4 | much of the terrorism against Israelis, but the international community is very, very |
| 1:14.9 | alarmed. |
| 1:15.9 | During the two-day incursion, nobody was allowed to enter the area. |
| 1:21.4 | All that could be seen were plumes of smoke rising up above the camp as a constant barrage |
| 1:27.9 | of explosions and gunfire echoed across the city. |
| 1:33.3 | When our foreign correspondent, Catherine Filp, was finally allowed in, she found homes, |
| 1:39.6 | roads and water pipes ripped apart. |
| 1:43.2 | A group of children described to her what they'd seen. |
| 1:47.0 | For these children, it was clear who was to blame, the IDF and the Israeli occupation. |
| 2:10.3 | It was also clear who they saw as the heroes. |
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