*[Enwl-eng] Jenin refugee camp: how it earned its reputation as the 'capital of resistance'

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                   Global Edition | 6 July 2023 
                 
           
                   
                    
                 
           
           
                  Jenin refugee camp on the western edge of the town of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, has often experienced violence between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants. But the latest raid by Israeli forces, which involved deploying helicopter gunships, hundreds of troops and armed drones, is viewed as the biggest incursion in the West Bank since 2005 when a Palestinian uprising known as the second intifada ended.

                  Maha Nassar explains that, as a scholar of Palestinian history, she sees this recent episode as the latest chapter in a much longer history of Palestinian displacement and defiance of Israeli occupation. Understanding this history helps explain why the Jenin camp in particular has become a centre of Palestinian militant resistance.

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                  Jenin has long been seen as the capital of Palestinian resistance and militancy – the latest raid will do little to shake that reputation 
                  Maha Nassar, University of Arizona 

                  Israeli troops have withdrawn after two days of fighting in a camp in the occupied West Bank. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that it would not be a ‘one-time action.’
                 
                   
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