Chronicle-Tribune · 20 June 2023
CP-2023-031
Fiercest fighting in years erupts in West Bank camp of Jenin, at least 5 Palestinians killed
By Ilan Ben Zion and Majdi Mohammed, Associated Press
Transcribed from the clipping
“JENIN, West Bank — Israeli troops and Palestinian militants fought for hours in the occupied West Bank on Monday in some of the fiercest fighting in years, with Israel deploying helicopter gunships for the first time in two decades… At least five Palestinians were killed and 91 wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Eight Israeli soldiers were wounded… The Health Ministry identified the dead as Khaled Asasa, 21, Qassam Abu Sariya, 29, Qais Jabarin, 21, Ahmed Daraghmeh, 19, and 15-year-old Ahmed Saqr… Wissam Bakar, director of Jenin Government Hospital, said the wounded included… Hazem Nasser, a Palestinian cameraman, was wounded…”
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Five names and five ages in one dispatch, one of them fifteen. The same paragraphs ran in five American papers that week under five different headlines; this one is the only one that puts the dead in the headline and says they were Palestinian.
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"Fiercest fighting in years erupts in West Bank camp of Jenin, at least 5 Palestinians killed," Chronicle-Tribune, 20 June 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-031. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-031
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