Israeli forces number Palestinian women’s hands during Jenin invasion

Palestinian women describe being marked with numbers and subjected to strip searches during a tightly controlled, traumatic visit to their destroyed homes in Jenin. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Israeli forces number Palestinian women’s hands during Jenin invasion

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Israeli soldiers marked the hands of dozens of Palestinian women with numbers before permitting them a brief, heavily supervised visit to their devastated homes in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, April 13. Approximately 120 women, part of a population of nearly 40,000 Palestinians expelled from Jenin and other northern West Bank camps since a major Israeli military offensive began in January 2025, were allowed entry for less than two hours under strict security. The visit, only the second of its kind since July 2025, was characterized by the women as a harrowing ordeal of searches, surveillance, and a crushing confrontation with the scale of destruction that has rendered the camp unrecognizable. The procedure began long before the women set foot in their former neighbourhoods. After arriving at the camp entrance in the morning, they were forced to wait for hours in the sun. During security screenings, soldiers used markers to write numbers and letters on the women's hands. "They numbered our hands according to the neighbourhood where our homes are located," said Um Fadi Wahdan, one of the displaced women. She alleged that soldiers deliberately altered neighbourhood markings, causing further delays. The women were then escorted along predetermined routes, their movements closely monitored by troops, with much of the allotted time consumed by the waiting and search process itself. For many, the psychological impact of witnessing the destruction outweighed any practical benefit of the visit. Wahdan described approaching the Wahdan neighbourhood to find her five-story home, which had housed over 30 people, completely burned out. "I found nothing. All the floors are blackened, and everything is burned. I left with nothing, and I wish I hadn't gone," she said, stating the experience reopened wounds that had begun to heal. She depicted a camp transformed into a ruinous military zone: streets reduced to rubble, sewage overflowing, homes demolished or converted into barracks, and pervasive filth. For Wahdan, the trauma was compounded by personal loss; one son was killed by Israeli forces in 2024, another has been detained by Israel for seven years, and a third is held...

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