FACT CHECK · WEST BANK
Claim: Jenin, a hotbed of terror?
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
2000-2003: Jenin networks sent 28 suicide attacks, 23 carried out (Israel's count). A captured Fatah paper called the camp the martyrs' capital. The 2002 battle came after Netanya's Passover bombing.
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