"My comment on what happened in Jenin was not about what happened during the battle, but what happened after the battle, the humanitarian situation."

From Oslo Talks to Jenin: U.N. Aide Comes Under Fire
Since he visited the Jenin refugee camp last week and expressed his horror at what he saw, Terje Roed-Larsen, the chief United Nations representative here and the man who began the secret contacts that led to the Oslo agreements, has come under an unusually harsh personal attack by the Israeli government. He has been accused of "record-high audacity" and "anti-Semitic ideas," and officials in the prime minister's office have talked of having him expelled.

The attacks may be the most furious the 54-year-old Norwegian has faced, but they are hardly the first. As an active supporter of the land-for-peace process that he helped begin in Oslo a decade ago, he has been assailed by both Israeli and Arab foes of the agreements. His denunciations of suicide bombings have also prompted some accusations of bias from the Palestinians.

"I feel supremely confident because I know I did the right thing and I know I'm doing the right thing," Mr. Roed-Larsen said in a telephone interview. "Any decent human being in that place on that day, seeing corpses dug out just below the surface, smelling the stench of decay, would have been shocked and horrified. That is not an accusation. That is a reaction to human tragedy."

The intensity of the criticism from the Israeli government has come as something of a surprise. The devastation of the refugee camp has been the focus of many news accounts, and other foreign officials who have visited the Jenin camp — including the United States assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, William J. Burns — have deplored the destruction. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had called on Israel to allow relief workers into the camp.

But it is on Mr. Roed-Larsen, whose formal title is United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, that the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appears to have focused its greatest anger, especially since the decision to send a United Nations fact-finding team to Jenin.

While visiting the Jenin camp last Thursday, Mr. Roed-Larsen made various comments to reporters. He described the destruction by the Israeli Army as "morally repugnant," and said it was "shocking" that relief workers had not been allowed into the camp for 11 days. "Combating terrorism does not give a blank check to kill civilians," he said. He also infuriated the Israeli government by summoning foreign ambassadors to relate what he had found.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/international/middleeast/23ENVO.html