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...Masarweh, there were 90 others in his home, which Palestinians deemed to be among the safest. As the Israelis moved from street to street, the gunmen moved ahead of them. At one moment, Masarweh heard an enormous fusillade and explosions outside his house; everyone, he says, climbed out a window, crossed a yard and crowded into another house, which was crammed with 200 people. Masarweh's wife received shrapnel wounds in her leg and neck...
...injured. Yoel crossed the room and tripped the wire of a booby trap; the explosion knocked him unconscious and set him on fire. Harazi, who had been protected from the blast by a pillar, was unhurt and ran to Yoel just as another bomb was thrown through a window. Shrapnel wounded Harazi in the legs and face, but he got out and ran 50 yds. back to the medic unit. "Eyal is lying in there burning!" he shouted to the medics. "There are a lot of others you need to rescue." But nine men caught in the initial ambush died...
...staging area for Palestinian terror groups. The campaign against the Jenin-based terrorists has, at the same time, presented all the dilemmas of urban warfare. House-to-house fighting is the bloodiest kind of battle, disliked by all armies. An advancing force cannot see its adversary. Every window is a sniper's perch. Alleyways and streets lead to dead ends. The adversary may be disguised in civilian dress. And disabling the trip wires of booby-trapped doors and windows is a slow process that leaves a detachment in the open street, exposed to hostile fire...
...sense of loss that went beyond one life to encompass the nation itself. A man who just weeks earlier was hotly disputing comparisons with French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen seemed in death to have bizarrely taken on the luster of his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy. His new window on a harder-edged Dutch future, disturbing to some and promising to others, slammed shut before it ever really opened...
Armed with water guns, covered in face paint and sporting fatigues, the group entered Holworthy 9 through the window...