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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Farah Najjar

What it’s like to flee Jenin’s ‘earthquake’ incursion by Israeli forces

Families in parts of Jenin had started to run low on food, water and other essentials as Israel's large-scale raid continued [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]

Standing outside her home in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, Saja Bawaqneh found herself in a familiar spot – the same one where her father had been shot and killed by Israeli forces a few years earlier.

This time, she was waiting for an Israeli army officer to signal that it was time for her to begin walking towards the city’s main hospital after she had been forced out of her home, five days after Israeli soldiers – backed by helicopters and drones – launched a 10-day incursion into Jenin.

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