Word: jenin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official mourning period for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended, his apparent successor moved quickly to keep the peace process on track. Early this morning, Israeli troops lowered the Israeli flag over their military headquarters, got into 14 military vehicles and drove out of the West Bank town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...indication of disillusion was the reaction in March to reports that the West Bank city of Jenin would soon be turned over to the Palestinian Authority. The residents of Jenin themselves petitioned Arafat to stop any such move. "They didn't want to see their city turned into another prison, opened and closed according to Israel's wish," says Khatib. As long as the West Bank's future is still under negotiation, its residents remain subject to the indignities of the occupation: checkpoints, curfews, the presence of an alien army. What's more, the Israelis continue to expand Jewish settlements...
Setting out from a hiding place in the woods near the Palestinian town of Jenin, they drive through the West Bank hills in a banged-up taxi and are greeted with friendly waves by Palestinians who clearly do not suspect that the men are Israeli infiltrators. Soon the commandos reach their destination, a small house outside Jenin. Inside, they hope to find Munir Jaradat, 18, allegedly a member of an armed Palestinian group that calls itself the Red Eagles. Weapons drawn, the soldiers storm the house, but they find only two frightened women, a boy and a younger child...