Curfew was declared throughout Jenin yesterday from 5am. A tank shell
blasting into concrete - road or building, they take their wild pick -
followed by wailing jeep sirens and the incursion of approximately 6
APCs
and 3 tanks announced IOF forces were back inside Jenin.

There were kid-tank clashes from the early morning behind the UN school
in the Camp, the old city and Haifa street. In the afternoon, fighters
responded to tanks and jeeps circling in the Old City and Seabat area.
2
soldiers were allegedly injured. A bulldozer was brought into the main
square of Jenin and destroyed a tree and paving stones before leaving.
Jenin was declared a closed military zone and international ambulance
(Patients and Friends Society) volunteers were denied entry into Jenin
from the Shoohadda Junction checkpoint but succeeded to enter from a
different checkpoint.

An apache gunship was brought into to carry out
surveillance/intimidation
above the Saba el Kher area at approximately 10am but left after 15
minutes.

Tanks damaged four electricity pylons plus four main water
cisterns/valves in the Old City in the following areas: near the
National
Hospital, Karrage Street, the Eastern Area and the Jordanian Hospital.
Council workers took a volunteer with them to safeguard them from
attack.
There had been no co-ordination (despite attempts) between the council
and the DCO, making them more vulnerable than usual to attack. Council
workers succeeded to repair the electricity pylon in Karrage street on
their third attempt, having been intimidated out of completing their
essential task by the IOF every time they tried.

At approximately 4pm, a tank partially demolished the home of Hissam
Mohammad Fesheshi in the Old City by smashing into it. There was no
declared reason for this attack. Soldiers also surrounded the home of
the
Aijawi family in the old city, hoping to find a wanted man. Instead
they
stormed it and arrested his brother Aiman. A 16-year-old boy was also
shot around the same time. He was struck by shrapnel in his skull but
he
is in a stable condition in the Gaza Hospital. Soldiers also shot
15-year-old Jenin Camp resident Munir in the leg, fracturing his
shin-bone. His t-shirt was also torn with holes in the armpit/upper arm
area from flying shrapnel and he had three separate shrapnel injuries
on
his body. At least three more children showed me fresh shrapnel wounds
on
their bodies (arms, legs, neck) from yesterday's invasion.

10-15 patients and friends, an ambulance driver and ISM/PFS ambulance
volunteer Michael (US) were detained at the Shoohadda road checkpoint
for
over 2 hours. Michael was beaten about the face by a soldier and
verbally
abused during his detention. No other physical aggression was reported
to
have occured against the other detainees.

Today there is no curfew but in the words of the fat Canadian IOF
soldier
(who beat Michael yesterday) and prevented myself and a PFS ambulance
from passing through his one-Hummer-two-soldiers-with-M16s checkpoint -
'Jenin is closed. Nobody comes in, nobody goes out'. Another, heavily
worn-out and traffic streaming route was found and used within 5
minutes.