Argus Leader · Sioux Falls, South Dakota · 10 November 2002
CP-2002-016
'We've had no water for 10 days'
OCCUPATION OF A WEST BANK CITY. Israeli says military curfew is necessary to prevent suicide bombings
Jamie Tarabay, Associated Press, Jenin, West Bank
Transcribed from the clipping
“JENIN, West Bank – Israel’s renewed occupation of Jenin – now in its third week – has left its mark everywhere: tanks have knocked down electricity poles and palm trees lining streets, and a military curfew confines tens of thousands of residents to their homes. Israel says it has no choice but to keep what it calls the ‘capital of terror’ in a chokehold.
A disproportionately large number of suicide bombers have come from Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp by the same name. ‘The minute you open the road, you get two, three, four bombers a day,’ said Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The Palestinians say the Israeli measures are excessive and counterproductive.
‘The presence of the army in Jenin will not stop operations inside Israel. If they leave and hand it back to us, the operations (attacks) would cease,’ said the Jenin governor, Haider Arshaid, pausing while an armored vehicle rumbled by his home.”
Context added by this archive
Both officials named and quoted in consecutive paragraphs, the Israeli adviser and the Palestinian governor of the city under curfew.
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"'We've had no water for 10 days'," Argus Leader, 10 November 2002, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-016
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