Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002

by Ramzy Baroud, Susan Abulhawa (Contributor)

A searing testament to Israeli brutality and Palestinian resilience, spirit, and grace under pressure. Why is it that the US, Israel, the UN, and every news organisation on earth has expressed their views on the Jenin invasion yet the Palestinian victims have never been allowed to speak? Searching Jenin explains what happened and how it affected the residents. It includes forty-two testimonies of Jenin survivors gathered by Palestinian journalists. Preface by Noam Chomsky. Introduction by Palestinian-American journalist Ramzy Baroud. Testimonies by international observers. Timeline of events. List of 'known dead'. 38 photos by Palestinian photographer Mahfouz Abu Turk. Calligraphy by Mamoun Sakkal. One testimony is that of 9-year-old Rund al-Shalabi who complains that the Israeli soldiers smashed her toys. Also, it develops, they shot and killed her father. Another testimony is that of the Red Crescent ambulance driver Ihab Ayadi who tells how Israeli soldiers held him at gun point to prevent him from rescuing gunshot victims until they had a chance to bleed to death. Um Muhammad is a mother who was hiding in her basement with the rest of her family when the Israeli soldiers ordered them out, separated the men and took them away to an unknown location. The soldiers swept through the house, throwing all the belongings out the upper windows as sport. They found the family's life savings in a cloth bag hidden in the bedroom and stole the money. After eleven days they forced the women to walk to another section where they took shelter in a vacant house. When they returned, the top floor was completely burned out. SEARCHING JENIN includes testimony that has never before appeared in the international or even in the Palestinian media.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Israel, Middle East

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2002

Reviews

[Samah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every few months I get back to Searching Jenin to reread some of the stories .. I had the chance to meet the author and listen to the story of how this book saw the light. It made me appreciate the book but more to be proud of Ramzy and all the young Palestinians who went through great troubles to tell stories of the forgotten..

[Sonia Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thankyou yes

This book is necessary and kind.
Written of
a Black Women Palestinian poets perspective.
Beautiful inspiring.
Increases reality.
Tangible gives who survive
resist massacres
persist.