The Assault Is Over, the Casbah Is in Ruins
This afternoon, the Israeli soldiers were gone from the casbah, and survivors wandering the ruined streets told of tanks, helicopter gunships and fighter jets firing volley after volley into the old market overnight. After 14 Israeli soldiers were killed in Jenin on Tuesday, here in Nablus the army apparently decided to take no chances. An Israeli Army spokesman confirmed that the infantry had relied heavily on "air support" but would not be more specific.

Abdel Ghaani Awadeh, 76 and dressed in traditional Arab clothes, stood in the street beside a car that had been flattened by a tank. "I was here for the war with the British in 1936, the Germans in World War II, the Jews in 1948 and the 1967 war," he said. "And I have never seen bloodshed like this. They had an appetite for killing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/international/middleeast/11NABL.html