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

Jenin (, ) is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank.

It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate and is a major agricultural center for the surrounding towns.

Tell Jenin, is located at the center of what is today Jenin's business district.

Jenin is built on the ruins of the Canaanite city of Ayn Jenim.

A war cemetery for Iraqi soldiers and local combatants is located on the outskirts of Jenin.

In the framework of the Valley of Peace initiative, a joint Arab-Israeli project is under way to promote tourism in the Jenin region.

The Canaan Fair Trade is headquartered in Jenin.

The mayor of Jenin is Hadem Rida.

Located in the Jezreel Valley, Afula is roughly halfway between Jenin and Nazareth.

The area is further divided into 8 military administrative regions: Menashe ( Jenin area ), HaBik ' a ( Jordan Valley ), Shomron ( Shechem area, known in Arabic as Nablus ), Efrayim ( Tulkarm area ), Binyamin ( Ramallah / al-Bireh area ), Maccabim ( Maccabim area ), Etzion ( Bethlehem area ) and Yehuda ( Hebron area ).

Shadi Sukiya () is a Palestinian who was arrested by the Israel Defense Forces in International Solidarity Movement ( ISM )' s Jenin office on March 27, 2003.

The city is situated on the western edge of northern West bank, in the foothills of the Samarian mountains about west of Nablus and Jenin and east of the Israeli coastal town of Netanya.

* Arana is one of the possible spellings for Arranah village in Jenin Governorate, Palestinian National Authority.

Ben-Eliezer is considered a hawk on foreign policy and was one of the main architects of the invasion of Lebanon as well as a strong proponent for Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin.

Sami Awad Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, born September 5, 1949 in Zababdeh, near Jenin in West Bank ( Cisjordanie ) is a Christian lawyer, of Palestinian origin and Swiss nationality.

Tali Fahima (; born 1976 ) is an Israeli pro-Palestinian activist who was convicted for her contacts with Zakaria Zubeidi, Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades.

In 2002, he called Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz a " fascist who is responsible for murder ", and signed a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court against the removal of bodies by the IDF during the Battle of Jenin.

There are indications that the area comprising Jenin and Nablus remained functionally autonomous under Ottoman rule and that the empire struggled to collect taxes there.

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.

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was born in 1941 in the Palestinian village of Silat al-Harithiya, about eight kilometers northwest of the city of Jenin in the West Bank, then administered under the British Mandate for Palestine, which covered the two sectors of Palestine and Transjordan.

" The Palestinian Authority however use Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Salfit, Ramallah and Tubas Governorates as administrative centres for the same region.

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 ".

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.

Jenin was one of several Palestinian cities where Hamas showed a dramatic growth in electoral support.

Joint economic cooperation between Israeli officials in Gilboa and Palestinian officials in Jenin has begun to have major results and benefits.

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.

On March 27, 2003, Palestinian Shadi Sukiya was arrested in by the Israel Defense Forces in ISM Jenin.

The largest use of booby traps ( between 2000 – 2005, the period of the Intifada ) was in the Battle of Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield where a large number ( 1000-2000 according to Palestinian militant captured in Jenin during the battle

While Israel saw the utilization of bulldozers as a security necessity, it drew controversy for the destruction it caused to Palestinian property ( mainly the destruction of Palestinian houses ), especially in Rafah and in Jenin ( during Operation Defensive Shield ).

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.

Besides Jerusalem MAGAV also provides security, conducts military operations, raids and arrests on Palestinian people in cities like Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Qalqilyah, Tul-Karem, Ramallah and Hebron.

Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat () ( September 22, 1975 – October 4, 2003 ), a Palestinian suicide bomber from Jenin, blew herself up on Saturday, October 4, 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

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.

Mahmoud Tawalbe () was the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Jenin, one of the main stronghold of the Islamist organization.

Tawalbe was involved in many attacks against Israelis but he was best known for being the leader of the Palestinian militants in Jenin during the Battle of Jenin, part of Israel's 2002 Operation Defensive Shield.

Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee ( Galil Elyon ), Lower Galilee ( Galil Tahton ), and Western Galilee ( Galil Ma ' aravi ), extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa north of Jenin and Tulkarm to the south, and from the Jordan Rift Valley to the east across the plains of the Jezreel Valley and Acre to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Coastal Plain in the west.

Controversy erupted over the offensive in Jenin, intermittent raids in the Gaza Strip, and the continued isolation of Yasser Arafat.

* 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.

In Jenin, six more Palestinians were killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers.

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

On in the southern Gaza Strip in Khan Yunis and one gunman belonging to Islamic Jihad in Jenin on the West Bank.

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

He was a British worker for UNRWA in Jenin.

The arabicized name " Jenin " ultimately derives from this ancient name.

The association of Jenin with the biblical city of Ein-Ganim was recognized by Ishtori Haparchi.

Jenin overlooks both the Jordan Valley to the east and the Jezreel Valley ( known in Arabic as " Marj Ibn Amer ") to the north, and from the south it connects to the Samaria mountains.

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.