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.

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.

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

* 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.

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.

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 ".

* 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 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.

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.

Both parties stated that Sukiya arrived at the ISM's office as he was being pursued through the streets of Jenin by IDF soldiers during an Israeli-imposed curfew.

* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israel kills senior Hamas official, Ismail Abu Shanab, by a missile strike in the Gaza Strip and sent tanks into the West Bank towns of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem in response to a deadly suicide bombing of a bus in Jerusalem.

During the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt which extended into Syria and Palestine in 1799, a local official from Jenin wrote a poem enumerating and calling upon local Arab leaders to resist Bonaparte, without mentioning the Sultan or the need to protect the Ottoman empire.

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 ).

His plot of land in Ein Hod was previously owned by the Arab Abu Faruq, who died in 1991 at the Jenin refugee camp.

The Arab Legion entered Palestine with other Arab Forces on May 15, 1948 using the Allenby, now King Hussein, bridge as they were advancing to cover the approaches from Jenin, in the north to Alaffoula and from Al-Majame ' a bridge on the Jordan River to Bissan Alaffoula.

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.

On March 31, 2002, an 18-year old Arab suicide bomber, Shadi Tobassi, from Jenin blew himself up at the Matza restaurant located on the highway east of Romema, killing 14 people.

Khaled Abu Toameh and Jonathan Kay faulted the UN for not condemning the Lebanese Army, arguing that it had condemned Israeli Defense Forces in similar circumstances in the past, namely the Battle of Jenin.

The Israeli Army then launched a full-scale offensive in the Jenin refugee camp, demolishing hundreds of homes, leaving 2, 000 homeless.

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.

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

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

* 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.

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.

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.

Jenin is under the administration of the Palestinian Authority.

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

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

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.

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