For Israelis on Front Line, the Danger Is Everywhere
In the West Bank town of Nablus, where Israeli soldiers have taken over four buildings, residents of one apartment house reported that about 100 of them were being confined to a single floor, denied food, water and medicine, and that some men had been ordered by soldiers to stand at windows to serve as human shields against Palestinian gunfire.

An Israeli army spokesman denied that Palestinians had been used as shields, adding that after complaints were received of lack and food and medicine, several residents were allowed out of the building to purchase the needed supplies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/international/middleeast/22POST.html