Palestinians Reclaim Homes in Battered Neighborhoods
Grieving women sat at the home of Huda Hawaja, 36, a teacher
and mother of five who was killed on March 8 when soldiers blew
open the door of her house.

Her husband, Ismail Hawaja, said he and an army medic tried to
bind her wounds, but she bled to death. Mr. Hawaja said it took
an hour to get approval from the Israelis to allow the ambulance
into the camp. "By then she was cold, and her skin was yellow,"
he said. "In the ambulance she stopped breathing."

The soldiers then stayed in the Hawaja house, confining Mr.
Hawaja and his children to one room, he said. Across the alley,
Mr. Hawaja's brother said he and a dozen family members were
held in a room as soldiers took over the house, allowing them
only pita bread and water during the two days they were there.
At Kheidar Jawarish's house, the living room and bedroom were
a shambles, filled with smashed furniture, two broken television
sets and rubble from two explosions that had left large craters
in the wall.

At other houses, furniture was broken, contents of rifled closets
were strewn on the floor, and walls were painted with black arrows
to point the way through the maze of closely packed dwellings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/international/middleeast/20BETH.html