Battered but Defiant, Arafat Surveys the Damage
A little after 2 a.m., about 30 military vehicles — tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored bulldozers — stormed into Mr. Arafat's compound, according to accounts from both sides. The Israelis withdrew six hours later.
Whole buildings were pancaked flat, including those of the intelligence apparatus, barracks for military or security services, a jail — which in more cooperative days held Islamic militants opposed to any cooperation with Israel under the now widely discredited Oslo agreements — and even the offices of the local governor, Abu Fares.
In one former four-story building, now barely two tilted stories, a lone Palestinian kicked at a pile of debris, unleashing a cascade of black military boots. Nearby, sleeping mats and draperies hung between slabs of concrete and a ruined satellite dish sat near squashed cars.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/international/middleeast/07MIDE.html
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