American Describes Arafat's Post Under Siege
"I'm inside the main office building on the ground floor. Arafat is upstairs from me. The Israelis are surrounding the building on all sides.

"Everybody here is on the ground, sitting on the floor. There's no electricity. There's very little food, people sitting by candlelight, flicking cigarette lighters. I've been here five hours, and there hasn't been any shooting from inside the building. No one here is firing. The Israelis are still shooting at the building. No one is going to a window. There's no resistance here whatsoever.

"They were just shooting at the building for about 20 minutes. They shot from one side of the building and then from another side. You can hear the heavy machine guns. You can feel when it hits this side of the building. You can feel it hitting the walls and you can hear the bullets flying around.

"There are some policemen here, people who work in the offices, a doctor who is tending to people. He doesn't have much equipment. The hallways are filled with people: Arafat's guards, some regular police just sitting on the floor, people trying to sleep a bit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/30/international/middleeast/30COMP.html