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| Arabic | جنين | |
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| Also Spelled | Jinin (officially)
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| Governorate | Jenin | |
| Population | 35,760 (2006) | |
| Jurisdiction | 37,342 dunams (37. Mount Gilboa (הר הגלבוע is a Ridge above the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The following is a list of cities in Palestinian National Authority administrated areas, although depending on which particular area each locality is located After the signing of the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian territories were divided into three areas (Area A Area B and Area C and 16 Governorates under the jurisdiction The Jenin Governorate ( محافظة جنين) is one of a number of Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories, It A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of Area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used in various standardized versions 3 km²) | |
| Head of Municipality | Hadem Rida | |
Jenin (Arabic: جنين ; Hebrew: ג'נין), a city in the West Bank's Jenin Governorate, is a major Palestinian agricultural center. Hadem Rida (حادم رضا is the mayor of Jenin, in the West Bank. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The West Bank (الضفة الغربية, הגדה המערבית Hagadah Hamaaravit) also referred to in Israel as " Judea and Samaria The Jenin Governorate ( محافظة جنين) is one of a number of Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories, It Palestinian people or Palestinians ( الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha`b al-filasTīni; الفلسطينيون, al-filasTīnīyyūn
Jenin also refers to the adjoining Jenin Refugee Camp and is the name of the surrounding district within the West Bank. Although designated as being under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli military invaded the city during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 and has conducted regular incursions into the city since. The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit Background March and April 2002 saw a dramatic increase of Suicide bomb attacks against Israelis by Palestinian militant groups such as Hamas,
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Demographics
According to projections based on a 1997 census, the city of Jenin has a population of 35,000 Palestinians. The Jenin refugee camp housed approximately 12,000 refugees, according to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) on 373 dunams (92 acres). United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency providing education health care social services A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of Area used in the Ottoman Empire and still used in various standardized versions The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Some 42. 3% of the population of the camp is under the age of fifteen.
Geography
The city of Jenin overlooks both the Jordan Valley to the east and the Marj Ibn Amer (Jezreel Valley) to the north. The Jezreel Valley (עמק יזרעאל Emek Yizrael) is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the south of the Lower Galilee region of Israel Jenin is thought to be the site of the Israelite village of En-Gannim, mentioned in the Bible (See also: Anem). Anem (עין גנים lit garden spring) - two fountains a Levitical city in the tribe of Issachar (1 Chr
Features
One of the city's quarters is an official United Nations refugee camp housing mostly the descendants of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It has long been a center of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The city includes the Martyr Doctor Khalil Suleiman Hospital. Khalil Suleiman (1943/1944&ndash 14 March 2002) was a Palestinian doctor in Jenin in the West Bank.
History
Jenin was known in ancient times as the Canaanite village of Ein-Ganeem or Tel Jenin. [1][2] The city of Ein-Ganeem is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the city of the Levites of the Tribe of Issachar. The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written in Biblical Hebrew (and the related Biblical Aramaic In the Jewish tradition a Levite ( is a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Issachar ( was one of the Tribes of Israel. At its height the territory it occupied was immediately north of (the western half of Manasseh, and south [3] After some years, the city's name was changed to Ginat. In book of Yehudit[4] the settlement is mentioned as Gini. The Jewish historian Josephus also mentioned Ganim as a city in northern Samaria. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Josephus (AD 37 – c 100 also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu (Joseph son of Matthias and after he became a Roman citizen, as Titus Flavius Josephus Samaria, or the Shomron ( שֹׁמְרוֹן, Standard Šoməron Tiberian Šōmərôn [5] The modern Arabic name Jenin ultimately derives from this ancient name. The origin of the place as Ein-Ganeem was recognised by Ishtori Haparchi. Ishtori Haparchi (1280-1366 (also Estori Haparchi) (אשתורי הפרחי is the pen name of the 14th century Jewish physician topographer and traveler Isaac In the 20th century C.E., the State of Israel built a nearby Israeli settlement, Ganim, also named after the ancient village. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured as a result of Jordanian attacks during the 1967 Six-Day War. Ganim (גנים was an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council. This settlement was evacuated in August 2005 as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. Israel's unilateral disengagement plan ( Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תוכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in Another Israeli community was also given the name of Ein Ganim, today part of Petah Tikva. Petah Tikva (פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה "Opening of Hope" known as Em HaMoshavot ("Mother of the Moshavot " is a city in the
Jenin was a center of civil unrest during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine which was prompted by the assassination by the British of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, for whom a Hamas military wing was since named. The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine was an uprising during the British mandate by Arabs in Palestine which lasted from 1936 to 1939 Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (1882&ndash November 20, 1935) ( عزّ الدين القسّام,) full nameIzz al-Din ibn Abd al-Qadar ibn Mustapha Ḥamas (ar حركة حماس acronym ar حركة المقاومة It was also used by Fawzi al-Qawuqji's partisans. Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1890 - Beirut 1977 فوزي القاوقجي was the field commander of the Arab Liberation Army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and a rival On August 25, 1938, the after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town. Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After ordering the inhabitants to leave, about one quarter of the town was blown up. [6]
In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the city was defended by Iraqi forces, then captured briefly by forces of Israeli Karmeli Brigade during the "10 Days' fighting" following the cancellation of the first cease-fire. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The offensive was actually a feint designed to draw Arab forces away from the critical Siege of Jerusalem, and gains in that sector were quickly abandoned when Arab reinforcements arrived.
The Jenin refugee camp was founded in 1953 to house Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their native villages and towns in the areas that became the Israeli territory during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
For 19 years, the city was under Jordanian control; it was then captured by the Peled division of the IDF on the first day of the Six-Day War of 1967. Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (الأردنّ al-Urdunn) is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) (צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, lit Background Suez Crisis aftermath The Suez Crisis of 1956 represented a military defeat but a political victory for Egypt
Conflict years
The city was handed over by Israel to the control of the Palestinian Authority in 1996. At the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada, Israel alleged that the city had become a central source for the dispatching of suicide bombers to the North and Center of Israel. This article is about suicide attacks for political and/or military reasons According to Israeli sources, a quarter of all suicide bombings carried out in Israel during the current, second Intifada originated in Jenin. This article is about suicide attacks for political and/or military reasons See Palestinian political violence for an in-depth discussion of this broader issue. Palestinian political violence or Palestinian terrorism refers to acts of violence committed for political reasons by Palestinians Palestinian groups that support
Battle of Jenin
Following the battle, Jenin fell under the control of the Israeli military. The Battle of Jenin took place from April 3 to April 11, 2002 in the Refugee camp of Jenin, in the West Bank. In that time, residents of Jenin have been subject to extended curfews (over 150 days since June 2002, nearly all prior to 2004. A curfew can be one of the following An order by a Government for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time Several suspected Palestinian militants and nearby civilians have been killed by the Israel Defense Forces, which terms these actions "targeted killings". Selective Assassination is a policy of selecting targets using arms training personnel and cover-up strategies designed to justify assassination as the means to meet a political agenda UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employee Iain Hook was also killed by Israeli troops on November 22, 2002. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency providing education health care social services [7][8]
Politics
Municipal elections were held in Jenin on 15 December 2005. Six seats each were won by Hamas and the local coalition of Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Ḥamas (ar حركة حماس acronym ar حركة المقاومة Fatah (فتح literally opening, is a reverse Acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (حركة التحرير The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP) ( Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr Jenin was one of several Palestinian cities where Hamas showed a dramatic growth in electoral support. [9] The mayor of Jenin is Hadem Rida. Hadem Rida (حادم رضا is the mayor of Jenin, in the West Bank.
See also
References
- Jerusalem Media & Communication Centre, Who Lives In Jenin Refugee Camp?: A Brief Statistical Profile, 2002. The Battle of Jenin took place from April 3 to April 11, 2002 in the Refugee camp of Jenin, in the West Bank. Arna's Children is a 2003 Palestinian Documentary film directed by Danniel Danniel about a children's theatre group in Jenin Zakaria or Zakariyah Zubeidi (زكريا محمد عبد الرحمن الزبيدي born 1976 is the current Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades The Jenin Governorate ( محافظة جنين) is one of a number of Governorates of the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the Palestinian Territories, It
- ^ Mariam Shahin (2005). Palestine:A Guide. Interlink Books, 183. ISBN 156656557X.
- ^ Military: Jenin. GlobalSecurity. org. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the
- ^ Book of Joshua Chapter 19, 21 "and Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez";Joshua Chapter 21, 29: "Jarmuth with the open land about it, En-gannim with the open land about it";
- ^ Yehudit 3, 10
- ^ The Wars of the Jews, 3, 3, 4
- ^ "The British in Jenin", History Today, July 2002, pp2-4. The Book of Joshua ( Hebrew: Sefer Y'hoshua ספר יהושע is the sixth book in both the Hebrew Tanakh and the Old Testament of the Christian The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the
- ^ Israel admits killing British UN worker BBC News November 23, 2002
- ^ Why was an unarmed Briton shot in the back? Chris McGreal The Guardian May 7, 2003
- ^ Palestinian Municipal Elections, the Left is advancing, while Hamas capitalizes on the decline of Fatah Nasser Ibrahim, December 22, 2005
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