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

Akram was buried in the Jenin refugee camp graveyard.

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.

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

Bin Laden had wanted to move the operation up in response to Sharon's threatening visit to the Temple Mount, and again in response to the Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp, which left 4, 000 persons homeless.

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.

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

As of 2008, he was hired by Juliano Mer-Khamis ( now deceased ) as director of the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp, where children can study theatre and experience the growing art and music culture surrounding the Palestine International Film festivals.

The US brokered plan was to enable Israel to avoid angering the United States over the Israeli Cabinet decision: Ministers decided to bar a U. N. fact-finding mission from investigating allegations surrounding Israeli army actions in Jenin refugee camp during operation Rampart.

He was shot in the Jenin refugee camp by the IDF.

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

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

During a break from the fighting on the seventh day, Tawalbe sneaked out of the camp into neighbouring Jenin to visit his mother and brother.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.