From Occupied Palestine

'We are at war'
GRAHAM USHER
Al-Ahram Weekly, 1 December 2004

There are some - including in his Fatah movement - who see Yasser Arafat's death as an opportunity for change. Not so Zakaria Zubeidi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades in the northern West Bank. GRAHAM USHER spoke with him in Jenin

Jenin -- On 15 November the Israeli army ended a two-week long incursion into Jenin. Nine Palestinians were killed, including four civilians, 25 wounded and 25 arrested. One arms cache was found. It is the third morning of the Muslim Eid Al-Fitr feast, the fifth after Yasser Arafat's death. Jenin is a ruin of shell-cratered roads and lampposts flattened by tanks. As the Israelis drive out, we drive in - looking for the same man.

Refuge is prison for hunted Palestinian
MOLLY MOORE
Washington Post, 23 August 2004

Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank -- Israeli F-16 fighter jets roared lower and lower in the summer sky, and Zakaria Zbeida broke out in nervous tics: He twisted a short, black curl on his forehead round a finger, he jiggled his right knee, he sent a neighborhood boy out for another red and white pack of L&M cigarettes.

Aksa leader: Intifada is in its death throes
MATTHEW GUTMAN
Jerusalem Post, 6 August 2004

It's not so much what Zakariya Zubeidi, the fugitive leader of the West Bank Aksa Martyrs Brigades, says, but how he says it. Zubeidi speaks in the vacant tones of a ghost.

Palestinian fighters torch government buildings in Jenin
MOLLY MOORE
Washington Post, 1 August 2004

Jerusalem, 31 July -- Palestinian fighters set fire to two Palestinian Authority buildings in the northern West Bank city of Jenin early Saturday, accusing officials of collaborating with Israel, according to the group's commander.

Arafat faces generational crisis
ILENE R PRUSHER
Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2004

A Palestinian power struggle is epitomized by the young man who runs Jenin

Jenin -- Zakaria Zubeidi was preparing a bomb two years ago when it blew up, leaving his anger written all over his face in the form of small black pockmarks.

Zacharia Zubeidi: The marked man
DONALD MacINTYRE
Independent, 28 May 2004

Zacharia Zubeidi, head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs brigade in Jenin, has survived four assassination attempts by Israeli forces. He tells DONALD MacINTYRE he is fighting for his sons' future

Jenin -- A tendency to fidget is the nearest Zacharia Zubeidi gets to betraying the nervousness of a man who can reasonably expect to be gunned down any day now.