Inside Jenin: An Eyewitness Look at How Palestinian Terror Groups Turn Schools and Mosques Into Battlegrounds

‘They are cowards. They hide behind women giving birth instead of meeting us face to face,’ an Israeli officer says.

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Israeli border police patrol inside Jenin's camp during "Operation Iron Wall," February 12, 2025. Via Jotam Confino

JENIN, West Bank — “Some of the explosive devices the terror groups use can destroy the armored vehicle we are in.” 

The heavily armed and masked officer from the Israeli Defense Forces’s Judea and Samaria Division is escorting a handful of journalists at Jenin into a large refugee camp adjacent to the city in the northern West Bank where the IDF launched another major counter-terror operation three weeks ago. 

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