The Israelis didn’t see it coming. Clearly, after the failure to get people inside on April 28, they must have assumed that the International Solidarity Movement did not pose a threat to their siege of the Church of Nativity. Read more about Entering the Church of Nativity 

Almost 3am, and there is no point in trying to ignore the sounds and to try sleeping anymore. It is just too loud, too near. The heavy machine gunfire, the thuds of tank shelling. Read more about Can you hear the shelling? 

We are Americans who are addressing you from inside Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s besieged compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Read more about An open letter to the American public from Arafat's compound 

‘When they begin shelling the houses, we want to go to our relatives’. So we all go to my brother’s house next to us. We all move over there. Then the Israeli soldiers come with the bulldozer and the tank. They tell us to come out of the house. Read more about Three testimonies from Jenin 

The reality left behind by the Israelis in Jenin Refuge Camp defies even the most vicious imagination. One after another, the people of Jenin have been trying to tell anyone in the world who will listen what they have witnessed and lived through since the beginning of their most recent tragedy on April 3, 2002. Read more about Journalism in Jenin: No Honor Among Thieves 

Last week, PM Sharon declared that “Operation Defensive Shield” ended. The image that the government seeks to project is that the fighting is over. Read more about On the ground: continued violence 

It’s a difficult thing to comprehend a willing descent into a place of mass suffering. Usually, such things are random and so temporary that one cannot plan for it. Read more about Jenin: Not of this Earth, Part I