JENIN, O MAJADAHONDA? Leo en el Jerusalem Post (requiere registro gratuito) que un grupo de enmascarados ha asaltado las oficinas de la Agencia de las Naciones Unidas para la Ayuda a los Refugiados Palestinos en Jenin, encargada de reconstruir las viviendas destruidas durante la operación del ejército israelí hace algo más de dos años. Sí, la población de la "masacre que no fue"; aún recuerdo el imberbe enviado especial de TV3, con pinta de ser el primer cacao al que enviaban, afirmando que "seguro que habrán muerto miles de personas, porque el olor a putrefacción es impresionante"; su fina pituitaria por lo visto era capaz de contar con un par de inhalaciones el número de muertos, distinguiendo además entre personas y animales.

¿El motivo? Se quejan de que los pisos no son suficientemente grandes:

Five men armed with M-16 rifles raided the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) offices in the camp on Friday to protest that the new houses were two small. The gunmen threatened to harm the UN staff if their demands for larger houses were not met.

Residents of the Jenin camp are complaining that their new houses, replacing those destroyed in Israeli incursions, are not big enough, said Sami Mshasha, a spokesman for UNRWA in Jerusalem.

Sources in the camp said they did not know to which group the gunmen belonged, although some residents identified them as members of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah.

This was the third attack of its kind on UN offices and crew in the Jenin camp in the past six months. Residents had complained that the construction work was too slow and that senior Palestinian Authority officials had stolen parts of the donations from the international community to the camp.

One of the attackers complained that the 180 square meter apartment he had been given was too small for him and his wife. "Soon we will have children and this apartment would be too small," he told the UN staff.

Un piso de sólo 180 metros cuadrados entregado gratuitamente es, ciertamente, un ultraje que merece ser reparado a punta de M-16; faltaría más.