Refugee Camps Are Now Battlegrounds
When Israeli battle tanks rumbled up to this Palestinian refugee camp, they were met with bursts of gunfire, a road strewn with homemade land mines, intersections blocked by burning barricades -- all in all, exactly the reception that would have been expected.

Israeli soldiers have at times subdued entire Palestinian cities with only minimal resistance, but refugee camps are another story. Crowded, poor and simmering with fury, the camps have proven the deadliest battlegrounds of Israel's 12-day military offensive in the West Bank.

That was the case again Tuesday, when Palestinian militants ambushed Israeli soldiers during intense fighting in the Jenin refugee camp, firing from rooftops and setting off explosions that collapsed a building on troops in an alley. Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed and nine wounded -- the single bloodiest attack against Israeli troops since fighting between the two sides erupted 18 months ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mideast-Battle-of-the-Camps.html