Publication:
Lessons in Urbicide (2003)
Author(s): Graham S
Abstract: In April 2002 the Israeli Defence Force bulldozed a 40,000 square-metre area in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp in the Northern West Bank. A UN report estimated that some 52 Palestinians were killed in the attack, about half of them civilians. In a detailed investigation, Human Rights Watch found that several civilians, including a disabled man, were crushed to death in their homes, because Israeli forces failed to allow relatives time to help them escape; others were used as human shields by the advancing Israelis. Operation Defensive Shield left 140 multi-family housing blocks completely destroyed, 1,500 damaged, and some 4,000 residents homeless, out of a population of 14,000. [1] During the operation, lesser demolitions were also carried out in Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah. Destruction of material infrastructure and cultural and administrative facilities was also widespread.
- Date: January-February 2003
- Journal: New Left Review
- Volume: 19
- Pages: 63-77
- Publisher: New Left Review
- Publication type: Article
- Bibliographic status: Published
- URL: http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2432
- ISSN (electronic): 1575-9776
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