Was there a massacre in Jenin?
Subsequent investigations and reports by the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Time magazine, and the BBC all concluded there was no massacre of civilians, with estimated death tolls of 46–55 people among reports by the IDF, the Jenin office of the United Nations, and the Jenin Hospital.
Where is Jenin in Israel?
northern West Bank
جنين (help·info) Ǧinīn) is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate and is a major center for the surrounding towns.
What is Jenin famous for?
With a name that comes from the Arabic for gardens, Jenin is renowned for its abundant fruits and vegetables. It’s also famous for Marj Ibn Amer, a valley rich with plains of fertile soil. Jenin, the northernmost governorate in the West Bank, is home to some 300,000 people.
What is Deir Yassin now?
The history and the massacre that took place in Deir Yassin are now buried under shopping centres, bus depots, religious Jewish schools, and a psychiatric hospital in the Orthodox neighbourhoods of Givat Shaul Bet and Har Nof.
What does the term Nakba mean?
the Palestinian Catastrophe
The Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, romanized: an-Nakbah, lit. ‘”disaster”, “catastrophe”, or “cataclysm”‘), also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people.
When did Palestine lose its independence?
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Britain’s former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948.
Who controls Bethlehem today?
Bethlehem came under Jordanian rule during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was later captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Since the 1995 Oslo Accords, Bethlehem has been administered by the Palestinian Authority.