It’s early morning in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, but the summer sun is already hot. Shopkeeper Salih Farah is getting ready for the day, sweeping up the spent bullet cases littering the entrance to the slum-like refugee camp on the city’s western edge.
The night before, a fighter belonging to the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad was arrested during an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid on the camp; one person was killed during the operation. Close by, in the spot where Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed in May, beneath the murals painted in her memory there are still pools of dried blood.
