Jenin, an agricultural town that dates back to ancient times, has long been a center of Palestinian resistance, writes mtnassar.
Camp conditions have always been difficult. In the early years of the camp, refugees had to stand in long lines to receive food rations, and for decades their cramped homesThe Jenin camp soon became the poorest and most densely populated of the West Bank’s 19 refugee camps. And given its location near the “
”—the armistice line that serves as Israel’s de facto border—camp residents who were expelled from northern Palestine could actually see the homes and villages from which they were expelled. But they were prevented from returning to them.The Israeli occupation of Jenin compounded the difficulties of these refugees. As stateless Palestinians, they couldn’t return home. But under Israeli occupation, they couldn’t live freely in Jenin, either.
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