Even before Israel launched a major military operation in the West Bank in late August, its troops had raided Jenin dozens of times since the war began.
Yet throughout the city’s urbanized refugee camp, where concrete homes wedge against one another on streets ripped up by military bulldozers, there are many indicators that militants remain entrenched.
Signs at the perimeter of the camp, opened in 1953 to house Palestinians who fled or were driven from what is now Israel in the war following its establishment, mark the territory of the Jenin Brigades, an umbrella organization of militant groups.
Guards stop cars they don’t recognize, especially those with Israeli plates.
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