Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 5 July 2023
CP-2023-046
Israel begins withdrawal from Jenin refugee camp
By Shira Rubin and Hazem Balousha, The Washington Post
Transcribed from the clipping
“Israeli forces began withdrawing from the Jenin refugee camp… Mahmoud Balas, 47, a resident of the camp, said his family had fled on foot… Umm Haitham al-Batawi, 66, spoke from the hospital where her daughter-in-law was being treated after being attacked by Israeli army dogs.
‘I’m tired of having to leave my house again and again,’ she said… Nidal Al-Obeidi, Jenin’s mayor, said the infrastructure damage would take months to repair… Miri Eisin, a former Israeli intelligence officer, said the operation was what Israelis call ‘mowing the grass’ — to lower the risks…”
Context added by this archive
The same Washington Post dispatch as the Miami Herald page, run long. Three residents of the camp are named and quoted here, including a sixty-six-year-old woman speaking from a hospital. None of them survives the Miami cut.
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"Israel begins withdrawal from Jenin refugee camp," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 July 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-046. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-046
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