Human Rights Abuses
Michael | 22.04.2003 12:54
Ramadan Shelah, the Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose headquarters is located in Damascus, said in an interview to the Al-Khieyat daily on April 4, 2002:
“The Mujahdeen in Jenin prepared themselves …and they prepared large amounts of explosives, so that Mahmud Tualba, an explosive engineer, prepared on his own prior to the battle more than 1000 kg of explosives… [The fighters] placed explosive charges in different places in the streets, such as in dustbins and cars … They placed booby traps in their houses…on the doors or inside, even in the furniture, in closets or even in books…”
“Omar”, a Palestinian terrorist activist from Jenin, stated in an interview with Jonathan Cook (“Al-Aharam”, Cairo, April 18-24, 2002):
“Of all the fighters in the West Bank we were best prepared, …We started to work on our plan: to hold up the Israeli soldiers and blow them up – from the time that the Israeli tanks left Jenin the month before…we booby trapped more than fifty houses throughout the camp…we cut up parts of the main water pipes and filled them with explosives and nails. Then we laid them at a distance of four meters from each other around the houses – in closets, under sinks, in sofas…”
The terrorist activists fought, dressed in civilian clothes, from houses that they had turned them into fortified posts. They deliberately blurred the distinction between terrorist activists and the civilian population that remained in the camp (most of the civilian population had already fled the camp), while cynically using civilians as “human shields”. Thus, for example, in a message published by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, it was stated that their leader, Mahmud Tulaba, prevented the exit of civilians from the camp and thwarted efforts by the IDF from evacuating them from the camp (published 10.4.02 on www.jihadonline.com).
“The Mujahdeen in Jenin prepared themselves …and they prepared large amounts of explosives, so that Mahmud Tualba, an explosive engineer, prepared on his own prior to the battle more than 1000 kg of explosives… [The fighters] placed explosive charges in different places in the streets, such as in dustbins and cars … They placed booby traps in their houses…on the doors or inside, even in the furniture, in closets or even in books…”
“Omar”, a Palestinian terrorist activist from Jenin, stated in an interview with Jonathan Cook (“Al-Aharam”, Cairo, April 18-24, 2002):
“Of all the fighters in the West Bank we were best prepared, …We started to work on our plan: to hold up the Israeli soldiers and blow them up – from the time that the Israeli tanks left Jenin the month before…we booby trapped more than fifty houses throughout the camp…we cut up parts of the main water pipes and filled them with explosives and nails. Then we laid them at a distance of four meters from each other around the houses – in closets, under sinks, in sofas…”
The terrorist activists fought, dressed in civilian clothes, from houses that they had turned them into fortified posts. They deliberately blurred the distinction between terrorist activists and the civilian population that remained in the camp (most of the civilian population had already fled the camp), while cynically using civilians as “human shields”. Thus, for example, in a message published by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, it was stated that their leader, Mahmud Tulaba, prevented the exit of civilians from the camp and thwarted efforts by the IDF from evacuating them from the camp (published 10.4.02 on www.jihadonline.com).
Michael