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Today in Focus

What the raid on Jenin says about the future of Israel and Palestine

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The biggest assault on the West Bank in 20 years could herald a new phase of this old conflict, reports Bethan McKernan from Jenin. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

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0:10.5

Today, how a raid on a refugee camp in Palestine

0:14.2

gives us a glimpse of a possible future for an old conflict.

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1:01.6

I woke up about 7.30 on Monday morning and I was actually in Tel Aviv because I was supposed to be doing interviews and reporting in Tel Aviv that day.

1:16.4

The Guardian is the guardian's Jerusalem correspondent.

1:19.2

She started this week with plans to cover protests in Israel over controversial government reforms.

1:24.9

But that isn't what she ended up doing.

1:27.6

I realised just from glancing at my phone and how many messages and alerts they were on it,

1:32.6

that something really out with the ordinary kind of massive had happened.

1:38.8

The IDF update said that airstrikes have been conducted in the Jenine camp.

1:43.3

I mean, that's the sentence that no one's uttered in 20 years.

1:48.1

So I knew that I had to basically throw out everything I was doing for the day.

1:53.3

Drives back to Jerusalem, pick up my flat jacket and my helmet and then drive up to Jenine.

1:58.8

A refugee camp in Jenine, a city in the north of the Palestinian territories,

2:03.3

was under a full-scale raid by the Israeli army.

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