In Jenin, six Palestinian policemen were shot dead as tanks entered the camp.

The army encircled and entered six major Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, among them Jenin.

The Ottomans divided Palestine into six sanjaqs (" districts "): Safad, Jenin, Jerusalem, Gaza, Ajlun and Nablus, all of which were part of Ottoman Syria.

The way he spoke of Arna's project led Stanczak to contact Mer-Khamis and within six months they re-established the Freedom Theater in Jenin, which opened in February 2006.

Israeli army weekly Bamahane attributes at least 31 militant attacks, totaling 124 victims, to Jenin during the same period, more than any other city in the West Bank.

Jenin municipality was established in 1886 under the Ottoman rule with no more than 80 voters and elections were made every 4 years until 1982 when the Israeli government took control over the municipality until 1995.

A suicide bomber identified as Shadi Tubasi, a resident of the refugee camp Jenin, kills 14 and wounds more than 40 in Haifa.

During the Second Intifada he loudly criticized Israeli actions and together with other sources characterized the IDF's 2002 assault in the Palestinian town of Jenin as a " massacre " and a " war crime ", alleging that Israel has killed more than 500 Palestinians in the Jenin camp.

* From 03 April to 12 April: 52 Palestinians, 5-22 of them civilians ( sources vary ) and 23 Israeli soldiers were confirmed killed in Jenin.

The Jenin refugee camp was founded in 1953 by Jordan to house displaced Palestinians who fled or were expelled during the 1948 War.

During the Battle of Jenin in April 2002, 23 Israeli soldiers and 52 Palestinians, most of them militants

* The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ( also called Oslo 2 ), signed on 28 September 1995 gave Palestinians self-rule in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarm, and some 450 villages.

In total, 56 Palestinians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed in the battle of Jenin.

After the battle of Jenin, Mahmoud Tawalbe was considered a hero by many Palestinians and Arabs worldwide.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the First Intifada, Israeli human rights activist Arna Mer-Khamis opened a children's theater in Jenin, " Arna's House ", to encourage understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.

On November 15, following Arafat's death, Israeli forces launched an incursion in Jenin to kill him, but he evaded them ; in the raid, nine Palestinians were killed, including four civilians and his deputy, " Alaa ".

* Two Palestinians, both aged 15, are arrested in a checkpoint near Jenin after 11 explosive charges were found on them.

Throughout November and December 1995, Arafat toured dozens of Palestinian cities and towns that were evacuated by Israeli forces including Jenin, Ramallah, al-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, declaring them " liberated ".

Four terracotta lamps of Phoenician origin dated to the 8th century BCE were discovered in Ain Jenin by archaeologist G. I. Harding, and are interpreted as attesting to some form of contact and exchange between the residents of Jenin at that time and those of Phoenicia. During the Roman era, Jenin was called " Ginae.

In the late 13th century, Mamluk emirs stationed at Jenin were ordered by Qalawun, the sultan, " to ride every day with their troops before the fortress of ' Akka, so as to protect the coast and the merchants.

During the rule of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine ( 1517-1918 ), Jenin, Lajjun and the Carmel area, were for part of the 17th century ruled by Bedouin sheikhs, in this case the Turabay family.

By Israel's count, at least 28 suicide bombers were dispatched from the Jenin camp from 2000 – 2003 during the Second Intifada.

Municipal elections were held in Jenin on 15 December 2005.

Instead of placing Ayyubids in charge, however, an-Nasir Yusuf handed Jerusalem to a Mamluk named Kutuk while Nablus and Jenin were given to Rukn al-Din Baybars.

The two major battles were held in Nablus and Jenin.

Unlike in Nablus, the forces who fought in Jenin were mainly reserve forces.

The armoured bulldozers were unstoppable and impervious to Palestinian attacks and by razing booby-trapped houses and buildings which used as gun posts they forced the militants in Jenin to surrender.

Due to the destruction of houses and unverified rumors, the Palestinian spread accusations of massacre in Jenin, which were later refuted.

ES5 claimed to operate out of the Jenin in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank, a region where they argued that copyright laws were unenforceable.

The anonymous authors claimed they were based in a refugee camp in Jenin, though some investigative attempts to locate their headquarters in Jenin were fruitless.

* November 10: Usama Mazen Salim Azouka, 14, of Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration. Usama Samir Abdul-Nabi al-Jirjawi, 17, of Gaza City, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest during a demonstration near the Karni checkpoint.

Aysar Muhammad Sadiq Hasis, 15, of al-Jalameh, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration.

* 25 November Abdul-Minem Muhammad Izaldeen al-Bosta, 17, of Araba, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration.

* 16 January: An Palestinian resident of Jerusalem is killed while driving in a car with Israeli license plates near Jenin.

A 36-year-old Israeli was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.

Director of the Freedom Theater in Jenin, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was killed by masked gunmen in the city in April 2011.

* On November 22, 2002 Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish ISM volunteer was shot and injured by IDF in Jenin minutes before UNRWA relief works project manager, Briton Iain Hook was killed nearby.

* On September 6, 2007, ISM activist Akram Ibrahim Abu Sba was killed by members of Islamic Jihad in northern Jenin.

On September 6, 2007, ISM Jenin regional committee member and " co-founder of one of ISM ’ s first permanent presences " Akram Ibrahim Abu Sba ’ was killed on duty by Islamic Jihad militants, while trying to " smooth tensions between Palestinian security forces and Islamic Jihad members ", in the Palestinian city of Jenin.

According to a story in Ha ' aretz, based on Arab media and interviews with Israeli and Arab sources, Jaradat carried out the bombing as an act of revenge after Israel Defense Forces undercover operatives in Jenin killed her cousin ( Salah, 34 ) and her younger brother ( Fadi, 25 ).

Other top Islamic Jihad targets in Jenin included Thabet Mardawi, behind a March 20 suicide bomb that killed seven Israelis on a bus, and Ali Suleiman al-Saadi, known as Safouri, who had planned a November shooting that killed two Israelis.

* September 13: Three senior militants belonging to the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were killed in an Israeli targeted killing in Jenin.

* September 15: Nine Palestinian militants and a child were killed in two IDF operations in Nablus and Jenin.

In Jenin, four wanted Fatah militants were killed by undercover Border Police troops.

* November 7: Four militants were killed after they opened fire upon IDF soldiers in Jenin.

On November 22, 2002, during a gun battle between the IDF and Islamic Jihad militants, Iain Hook, UNRWA project manager of the Jenin camp rehabilitation project, was killed by Israeli gunfire.

Then, on 3 March 2002, one month before the main assault on the refugee camp, his mother was killed during an Israeli raid into Jenin.