The Israeli army have just concluded a ferocious military campaign against Palestinian fighters operating in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, one of the main operating bases for Palestinian suicide bombers. Twenty-three Israeli soldiers died. No one knows yet how many Palestinians died.
What happened when Israel forces entered the camp? Was it a counter-terrorist operation in which civilians were protected? Or did it become an indiscriminate act of revenge for the terrible suicide bombings that Israel has had to endure? Dispatches reveals disturbing new evidence about Israeli army operations in the occupied territories.
Dispatches was one of the first teams to enter the camp. The central are had been bulldozed flat. Underneath the rubble corpses rotted. The team gathered harrowing eyewitness testimony - of civilians taken prisoner by the Israeli army, and then shot in cold blood; of nurses and ambulance drivers killed trying to help the wounded; of ambulances strafed with bullets and prevented from reaching the wounded; of civilians cut down in the crossfire as families desperately tried to escape the army bulldozers that demolished their homes.
Dispatches also meets a woman who risked her life to film secretly as Israeli soldiers rounded up the men of Jenin and marched them half-naked out of the town behind the barrel of a tank. Amnesty has now called for a War Crimes Inquiry.
The film also investigates other recent, though less-publicised incidents in the West Bank and Gaza and uncovers startling evidence that what happened in Jenin is part of a wider pattern of human rights abuse.