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DEMOGRAPHICS According to projections based on a 1997 census, the city of Jenin has a population of 34,000 Palestinians. The Jenin refugee camp housed approximately 13,000 refugees, according to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) on 373 Dunams (373,000 m&2). Some 42.3% of the population of the camp is under the age of fifteen. The population of the entire Jenin district is over 250,000. {Link without Title} GEOGRAPHY The city of Jenin overlooks both the Jordan Valley to the east and the Jezreel Valley to the north. Jenin is thought to be the site of the Israelite village of Ein Gannim, mentioned in the Bible (''See also:'' Anem ). FEATURES One of the city's quarters is an official United Nations refugee camp housing mostly the descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . It has long been a center of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict . HISTORY Jenin was a center of civil unrest during the Great Uprising of Palestinians in the years 1936 - 1939 ; in particular, it was the base of the pioneer of Arab militant activity, Sheikh Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam (whom the Hamas military wing is named after). It was also used by Qawquji 's partisans. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War , the city was occupied by Iraqi forces, then captured briefly by forces of Israel i Karmeli Brigade during the "10 Days' fighting" following the cancellation of the first cease-fire. The offensive was actually a feint designed to draw Arab forces away from the critical Siege Of Jerusalem , and gains in that sector were quickly abandoned when Arab reinforcements arrived. The Jenin refugee camp was founded in 1953 to house Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their native villages and towns in the areas that became the Israeli territory during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War . For 19 years, the city was under Jordan ian control; it was then captured by the Peled division of the IDF on the first day of the Six-Day War of 1967 . CONFLICT YEARS The city was handed over by Israel to the control of the Palestinian Authority in 1996 . At the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada , Israel alleged that the city had become a central source for the dispatching of Suicide Bombers to the North and Center of Israel. According to Israeli sources, a quarter of all Suicide Bombings carried out in Israel during the current, second Intifada originated in Jenin. See Palestinian Political Violence for an in-depth discussion of this broader issue. Battle of Jenin See Also: Battle of Jenin 2002 In April and the Government Of Israel , contending that "the government's primary obligation should have been to defend its own troops, even at the cost of more Palestinian civilian casualties". {Link without Title} Since the battle, Jenin has fallen to direct control of the Israeli military. In that time, residents of Jenin have been subject to impositions of extended s". UN worker Iain Hook was also killed by an Israeli sniper on November 22, 2002. {Link without Title} POLITICS Municipal elections were held in Jenin on 15 December 2005. Six seats each were won by Hamas and the local coalition of Fatah and the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine . Jenin was one of several Palestinian cities where Hamas showed a dramatic growth in electoral support. {Link without Title} SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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