some had homemade bombs, potentially deadly close up. here they are crude devices. israel s firepower is very different. loud explosion seriously ill patients were evacuated. some ambulances, the un said, were stopped from reaching other casualties by the army. the crowds were nervous, excitable. this conflict dominates their lives. there is every indication the israeli army wants to keep all this confined to the camp because they re worried about escalation. and there s also every sign they want to declare victory and get out. but victories for the israelis here are always temporary because these people, the palestinians, feel that just their presence
some had homemade bombs, potentially deadly close up. here they are crude devices. israel s firepower is very different. loud explosion seriously ill patients were evacuated. some ambulances, the un said, were stopped from reaching other casualties by the army. the crowds were nervous, excitable. this conflict dominates their lives. there is every indication the israeli army wants to keep all this confined to the camp because they re worried about escalation. and there s also every sign they want to declare victory and get out. but victories for the israelis here are always temporary because these people, the palestinians, feel that just their presence here is victory in itself.
shouting gunfire jeremy and the rest of the bbc crew injenin were not injured. here s his report of how the day unfolded. the israeli military released these pictures. their message? israel s enemies can expect no mercy. rapid gunfire sirens wail families caught in the crossfire managed to get out overnight. the impact on civilians is alarming un agencies, what they call the loss of life and the scale and severity of injuries. this morning, the israelis said they were working systematically to locate and destroy weapons. palestinians had tried to make this part ofjenin a no go area for israelis.
here is victory in itself. and violence, more violence, is guaranteed in the absence of a political process, in the absence of any hope for peace. at the same time, a palestinian rammed his car into civilians in tel aviv on israel s coast. he was shot dead by a passer by. a hard line government minister said their war was injenin and tel aviv and everyjew was a target, he said, for bloodthirsty murderers. loud blasts back injenin, with drones still patrolling overhead, the israelis were keeping up the pressure until the final order to withdraw. young palestinians, some with guns, confronted israeli army units pushing into the town. it went on all evening.
whose grandparents, whose great grandpa rents or grandparents have been actually forcibly expelled already from haifa and other areas in 1948 who are still refugees and who are completely enclaved in this area. 0ur interntaional editor, jeremy bowen, is reporting from jenin. while he was speaking with another one of our bbc outlets earlier, gunfire broke out. here s that dramatic moment. longer term.impact on families, on children, is that they grow up seeing all of this and not only do they. explosion that is, i think. explosions and gunfire the crowds are scattering down there. that fire, i think, is coming from palestinians firing out at, perhaps, the israelis. this kind of thing has been going on all day.