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Israelis try to counter claims of war crimes
By James Drummond in Jenin Published:April 19 2002 20:45 | Last Updated:April 20 2002 15:11
The Israeli army on Friday stepped up its effort to counter allegations that it committed war crimes in the Jenin refugee camp.
The army has admitted it is struggling to compete with the impact across the world of the graphic images from the devastated camp.
Troops were on Friday withdrawn from the camp but redeployed on surrounding hilltops.
But as corpses are dug from the ruins and the traumatised population returns to find devastation, Jenin is certain to haunt the army for long to come.
The Israeli army has given inconsistent accounts of deaths in Jenin.
Initially it said up to 200 Palestinians had been killed.
The line rapidly changed to "hundreds of dead and injured".
Now the army estimates no more than 90 were killed.
Twenty- three Israeli soldiers also died at Jenin.
On Friday the army admitted it had from the outset treated the camp as a military target.
It said up to half the suicide bombings against Israel were perpetrated by residents of the Jenin camp or by Palestinians who had passed through it.
There is no doubt the army met heavy resistance when entering the camp.
Palestinian fighters had had three days to prepare.
Half-way through the operation, the army forced many residents to flee the camp to nearby towns.
The camp has been devastated and hundreds of houses have been demolished and, according to the UN, at least 2,000 people made homeless.
The Palestinians were clearly out-gunned but residents admit the fighters did succeed in mining some of the buildings.
The army says all the buildings in the devastated central area had been booby-trapped and that is one reason for the scale of destruction.
What threatens the reputation of the Israeli army more than anything is the tactics used - particularly following the killing of 13 soldiers in an ambush.
In some areas of the camp, Palestinians say the army used bulldozers to destroy houses without warning.
In other streets, people say warnings were issued but by loudspeakers, not on a house by house basis.
Another point of controversy is whether bodies were taken out of the camp.
Palestinians say the denial of access to aid workers is evidence the army sought to cover up misdeeds.
Residents say they saw refrigerator trucks retrieving bodies and Palestinian officials say corpses were buried in graves in the Golan Heights and the Jordan Valley.
The Israeli army denies this.
* A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a car at an Israeli military checkpoint in the Gaza Strip on Friday, wounding two Israeli soldiers.
In a separate incident Israeli troops killed five gunmen who had opened fire on them near the Egyptian border.
Israel said it had detained two leaders of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, accusing them of involvement in suicide attacks.
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