Juliana Fredman writes

Everything in this account was observed first hand by one or more
internationals from Ireland, South Korea, U.S.A, and Sweden, as well as
by numerous Palestinian civilians.

When the Israeli military re-entered Jenin camp on June 19, 2002
one  of their first actions was to order all men between the ages of 15
and 50 out of their homes where they were removed in at least 12 military
buses. The tanks ruptured water and sewage pipes below the road in what
appeared to be a systematic effort to destroy the civilian infrastructure of the community. Soilders were observed emptying water
tanks from civilians' roofs and on one occasion giving a family's water supply
to their bomb sniffing dog to drink. After over 48 hours of total curfew many
people were left without running water and with  supplies of food,
diapers etc,  growing low.

When the tanks pulled out of the city and camp at about 10 am on
June 21 people -- largely women, children and old men -- ran to the
market to buy supplies. At 11:30, with no warning and not responding to any
fire, the tanks rolled into the center of Jenin city shooting from
mounted  M-16s into the crowd. When the shooting ended two brothers, Ahmed Yussef Abu Aziz (age 6) and Jamil Abu Aziz (age 13), were dead from
 shrapnel wounds, and their older brother, Tariq, wounded. A 6- year-
old girl lay  shot through the head by a M-16 in her father's car
and died later at the hospital. Fifty-year-old Hilel Mustaffa 
Manoud Shidah also was dead on the scene. 

  Meanwhile, in the refugee camp house-to-house searches continued.
Blocks of people -- (30 or 40 per block) -- were cleared out of their homes and made
to sit on the floor of a basement as hostages, with guns trained on them while
their house was searched. In another case 25 or 30 women and children were
kept sitting on a stairwell at gunpoint for 2 hours while the army rested in
the living room.

 The use of human shields was routine, including old women and in
separate incidents , two 13-year-old boys. These civilians were taken from
house to house and made to stand in front of the soilders and knock on all the
doors. Houses were occupied for hours by as many as 80 IDF soilders at a
time.

One international observed a soilder smashing furniture and
reported this to the soilder's superior. The officer addmitted that he would have
to keep a close eye on them. After the soilders had finished their
business (in several cases the third search in two days of these houses)
internationals saw smashed furniture, mirrors, dishes, family photographs
dumped on the floor and stepped on, food thrown to the floor, water lines
broken. When the soilders were questioned about this apparently senseless
destruction one replied, with a smile, that the woman of the house
had trashed it herself. Members of the international group went
into about 30 houses in the immediate wake of the soilders and observed the
same degree of  destruction.

On Saturday evening, the 22 of June, the 
military pulled up to the Alamal labor and delivery hospital in Jenin camp.
They pointed a gun at a doctor and ordered him to go into the larger public
hospital down the street and order all the men between 15-50 to come out. When
the doctor refused, saying that this was a soilder's job, not his, the soilder
shook his gun at the physician, gestured at the Alamal hospital, and said "do it
or I will make a big mess in here and you won't thank god for that." The
doctor  was than led to Jenin hospital with a gun to his back. As well as
to knock at the doors of an apartment building in between the two hospitals.
Nobody was arrested from Jenin Hospital. Three men were taken from the other
building.

Juliana Fredman

Ph. Israel 053 812874."