Refugee Camp Is a Scene of Vast Devastation
On the second floor of a house here, a few children played today on a striped swing set while Israeli snipers fired solitary blasts into the shattered camp outside.

In a dark corner of the room, leaning against the cinder-block wall and silently watching the children play, sat a surviving fighter of the Palestinian resistance, in hiding.

His face was a web of black burns. Blisters the size of quarters dotted his blackened left hand. His left leg was scorched. He had watched three comrades die in the grenade attack that wounded him, he said. "We didn't expect them to use such military force," he said, though insisting he had no regrets.

Israel says Jenin was a center of terrorism, which it is determined to weed out. Israeli officials have spoken of 100 to 200 dead here, and Palestinians have estimated two, three, or four times that number. No one yet knows how many were killed in fighting that has lasted 11 days, and is now all but over, but already the battle here seems certain to be argued over in the contest between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Palestinians described hiding in caves, hearing a neighbor's handicapped son crying out as a house was demolished on top of him, piling mattresses over children so that Israeli patrols would not hear them wail. They rushed up to strangers to tell their stories.

"My father, my brother, my son I have no one!" wailed a woman in a pink housecoat and pale blue head scarf, standing on the debris in the midday sun. "There are many bodies, many bodies, under the stones, under the sand!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/international/middleeast/14JENI.html