Israeli Army Withdraws From a City in Ruins
As the Israeli troops withdrew from this ancient city today after a three-week siege, they left behind residents who are short on food and basic services and seething over what they have endured.

The troops vacated a city in disarray. Much of Nablus was without water, and some neighborhoods had no electricity. At least three mosques and a Greek Orthodox church were damaged, and in places a few Israeli soldiers left behind taunting graffiti.

In Al Khadra Mosque, a thousand-year-old building set against a steep hill, the domed ceiling bore a large hole, and a section of its roof had collapsed into a pile of stones and concrete slabs. A message in Hebrew had been traced on a dusty column.

"Our shoes have been in your mosque," it read, according to three men there who translated it into Arabic and English for other worshippers. The message enraged Muslims who visited the mosque to pray.

"Peace for them is only a word," said Aref Aslan, who stood near the shaft of sunlight coming in through the hole overhead. "The Israelis wish murder for us. Now we wish murder for them."
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