Ring of Steel around Jenin and detainees allege massacre

Описание: (11 Apr 2002)

Jenin, West Bank - April 11, 2002
1. Various, tanks and Israeli soldiers
2. Pan from soldier signalling to tank
3. Soldiers around tank
4. APC
5. Various, tanks in field
6. Wide shot, tanks and vehicles at checkpoint outside Jenin
7. Helicopter
8. Soldiers in field
9. Various, tank swivelling turret.
10. APC driving through field.

Rummana, West Bank - April 10, 2002
11. Tilt down from to main square full of detainees.
12. Various, detainees in square
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop, Detainee
(Q:"So what do you think about the situation in Jenin, how bad is it in Jenin?")
"It is a massacre there, there is massacre, they are killing people. They have demolished the houses, ruins everywhere you see. Their stores, they have been demolished and they have exploded them. I have heard that about twenty soldiers killed them, they assaulted them in Jenin camp."
13. Man showing wounds on his hands.
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic with English translation) Voxpop
"It is instead of his ID card. the soldiers took his identity at the refugee camp."
15. Detainees in main square
16. Wide shot, Rummana

STORYLINE:

The Israeli army is continuing its military operation around the West Bank city of Jenin - scene of the deadliest fighting in Israel's 13-day-old offensive.

Tanks, backed by APCs and hundreds of crack troops, ring the city sealing off the area from all comers and preventing those inside from leaving.

Israeli attack helicopters fly overhead.

More than 100 Palestinians are believed to have been killed in the Jenin camp, and many bodies are said to be still lying in the streets.

Among those reported dead was Mahmoud Tawalbeh, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group. Tawalbeh, 23, has masterminded a number of suicide bombings in Israel.

In the nearby town of Rummana hundreds of detainees milled around on Wednesday

The men held here were arrested during the operation as Israeli forces swept through the northern West Bank.

They came from Jenin, Tulkarem, Qaliqilya and adjoining villages.

Some have been held for days and allege torture and brutality from Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers.

The IDF strenuously deny such claims.

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