The compound of the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jenin camp, as seen from the third floor of Tawfik Marhad’s neighbouring building. This would have been the view of the Israeli army sniper who was stationed there and shot dead 53-year-old British UN official Iain Hook. Afterwards, the army justified the killing on the grounds that the sniper mistook a mobile phone in Hook’s hand for a grenade, which he believed Hook was about to throw out of the compound. Hard to see that as a plausible explanation: the sniper was using telescopic sights, and the compound’s corrugated roof and high wire fencing would have made such an action suicidal. (November 2002)