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.

Jenin was known in ancient times as the village of " Ein-Jenin " or " Tel Jenin ".

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

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 days of Saladin Al Ayubi, around 1187, there was a castle in the Jenin vicinity.

In the mid-18th century, Jenin was designated the administrative capital of a district that included Lajjun, Ajlun and Jabal Nablus.

Tawfiq Jarrar was accorded the unique title, " son of the great " ( salil al-akabir ) in Haifa, in recognition of his family's status and his entrepreneurial efforts. During the Ottoman era, Jenin was plagued by local warfare between members of the same clan.

Jenin was a major player in the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, prompted by the death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in a fire-fight with British colonial police at the nearby town of Ya ' bad.

Jenin was used by Fawzi al-Qawuqji's Arab Liberation Army as a base.

On August 25, 1938, the day after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town.

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

In 1967, on the first day of the Six-Day War, Jenin was captured by the Israel Defense Forces.

Over the following years, Jenin was subject to extended curfews and targeted killings.

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

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.

* 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.

Irish ISM volunteer and human rights activist Caoimhe Butterly was shot in the thigh by an Israeli soldier during the Battle of Jenin.

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

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.

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

Tawalbe was one of the commanders in the battle over Jenin.

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.

Although he was accredited as a Fatah delegate, one of 2, 000, to the conference in Bethlehem, Zubeidi was momentarily refused entry to the meeting hall, resulting in condemnations by al-Aqsa Brigade members in Nablus and Jenin, as well as those outside of the Palestinian territories, who described the move as " stabbing the resistance in the back.

On his return to Palestine in 1924 Abd al-Hadi became one of the chief spokesmen of the Palestinian-Arab nationalist movement and was elected representative to the 5th ( August 1922, Nablus ) and 6th ( June 1923, Jaffa ) Congress of the Arab Executive Committee for Jenin and to the 7th ( June 1928 ) for Beisan.

* 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.

" 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 ".

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

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

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

Jenin is under the administration of the Palestinian Authority.

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

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

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.

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.