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During the fighting, a rapid cycle of rumors developedpurported that a massacre of hundredsas ormany evenas thousands of Palestinians might havehad occurred.<ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-84739594.html Palestinians: Thousands in mass graves], [[United Press International]], April 12, 2002<br />- Secretary-General of Palestinian Authority Cabinet Ahmed Abdel Rahman said, "They (Israeli solders) took hundreds of bodies to northern Israeli to hide their massacre they committed against our people.<br />"This massacre is not less than the massacres committed against the Palestinian people in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon."<br />He said thousands of Palestinians were either killed and buried in massive graveyards or smashed under houses destroyed in Jenin and Nablus.</ref> While Jenin remained sealed during the invasion, stories of civilians being buried alive in their homes as they were demolished, and of smoldering buildings covering crushed bodies, spread throughout the [[Arab world]]. Various casualty figures circulated as Palestinian sources, as well as human rights organizations, described the events as "the Jenin massacre" in the international media. The Jenin Hospital alone reported 52 deaths. <ref>{{Cite conference
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