· In its section dealing with abuses outside Jenin, the report fails to consider the systematic targeting of the offices of Palestinian media organizations, as well as the serious impediments faced by international journalists and human rights monitors attempting to document events.
· It does not discuss what, if any, steps the parties have taken to investigate credible allegations of violations of international humanitarian law raised in the report-vital for ensuring accountability and discouraging future violations.Human Rights Watch researchers spent three weeks on the ground, including in Jenin camp, immediately following the operation.
Researchers gathered detailed accounts from victims and witnesses, carefully corroborating and independently crosschecking their accounts with those of others to reconstruct a detailed picture of events in the camp in April 2002.
The findings were published in a 52-page report, "Jenin: IDF Military Operations." In early May, the Israel Defense Forces made a commitment to investigate every incident documented in the report. To date, Human Rights Watch has had no response from the IDF as to the progress of any such investigations.
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch Report - Jenin: IDF Military Operations
http://hrw.org/reports/2002/israel3
Report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant
to General Assembly resolution ES-10/10 (Report on Jenin)
http://www.un.org/peace/jenin/index.html
· It does not discuss what, if any, steps the parties have taken to investigate credible allegations of violations of international humanitarian law raised in the report-vital for ensuring accountability and discouraging future violations.Human Rights Watch researchers spent three weeks on the ground, including in Jenin camp, immediately following the operation.
Researchers gathered detailed accounts from victims and witnesses, carefully corroborating and independently crosschecking their accounts with those of others to reconstruct a detailed picture of events in the camp in April 2002.
The findings were published in a 52-page report, "Jenin: IDF Military Operations." In early May, the Israel Defense Forces made a commitment to investigate every incident documented in the report. To date, Human Rights Watch has had no response from the IDF as to the progress of any such investigations.
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch Report - Jenin: IDF Military Operations
http://hrw.org/reports/2002/israel3
Report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant
to General Assembly resolution ES-10/10 (Report on Jenin)
http://www.un.org/peace/jenin/index.html