Automatic gunfire, which had been echoing for hours in the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, died down in the early afternoon. On Tuesday, December 17, in a street that had become a mud corridor since the asphalt road was destroyed by Israeli army armored bulldozers, several dozen people gathered in silence in front of the Sheikh bin Zayed mosque.

The truce, which lasted no more than two hours, had been called for the funerals of Mohammad Al-Amer, a 14-year-old boy, and Yazid Ja'ayseh, one of the commanders of the Jenin Battalion. The leader of the organization, which brings together some 200 young people from various Palestinian armed factions (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's armed wing) and the teenager were not killed by the Israel army, which has regularly moved on and targeted the city, reputed to be a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups. On Saturday, December 14, they were shot dead in the Jenin camp by an elite unit of the Palestinian security forces.

In the square in front of the place of worship, a 24-year-old member of a Jenin battalion surveillance unit going by the name Abu Farha (for security reasons, he did not want to give his last name), said, with a sad look in his eyes behind his rectangular glasses: "It's even more painful when Palestinians shoot other Palestinians."

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