May 31, 2022 | The National Interest
Why Is Israeli-Palestinian Violence Returning to Jenin?
Two months into a renewed wave of violence centered around Jenin, the city's experiment in “managing the conflict” might be nearing its end.
May 31, 2022 | The National Interest
Why Is Israeli-Palestinian Violence Returning to Jenin?
Two months into a renewed wave of violence centered around Jenin, the city's experiment in “managing the conflict” might be nearing its end.
The tragic death in Jenin of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Aqleh has made that city synonymous once again with Israeli-Palestinian violence. Little known outside the northern West Bank city of Jenin is that it had been relatively peaceful for almost fifteen years before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and that the city benefited greatly from Israeli Arab tourism and investment. It is not yet known whether the bullet that killed Aqleh was fired from an Israeli or a Palestinian weapon. Yet even if that mystery were solved, it would not reverse the transition of a once peaceful city to a focal point for militant organizations competing for status as they await the inevitable demise of ill and aged Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.