Jenin, occupied West Bank – The inside of Bassem Tahayneh’s home in the Jenin refugee camp appears as though a tornado had blown through it.
The jenin ceiling-high closets inside his daughter’s bedroom were brought down face-first on top of the beds; his four TV screens were pulled off the walls and smashed; the tiles on the floors were ripped off, and wires connecting the house to the power grid were cut.
Tahayneh, 41, is one of thousands of Palestinians in the camp who were forced to leave their homes during a three-day Israeli army assault that began on Sunday, only to return days later and find the inside of their homes almost completely wrecked.
“Nothing in the house is fit for use. It’s a disaster,” the father-of-three told Al Jazeera the morning after the Israeli army withdrew from the camp.
“It will take me at least a month to repair everything, so that my family and I can live here again,” Tahayneh continued. “I couldn’t bring my wife and kids back to the house yet. I couldn’t let them see this wreckage.”
The attack on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank was the largest in two decades.
Article from www.aljazeera.com