Bullets riddle the walls of Bilal Mahmoud abu Abed’s home in the West Bank town of Jenin, where fighting with Palestinians was particularly fierce. Israeli soldiers also ransacked the house. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
In the West Bank city of Jenin, where hundreds may have been killed after days of an intense Israeli military assault, residents struggle to buy food during a three-hour cease-fire. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Ammar Abu Hatab, age 15, was shot by Israeli soldiers as he was trying to reach his home in the city of Jenin. He is now in the Al-Razi Hospital with several others injured in the fighting. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Residents view the rubble in Jenin, a militant Palestinian stronghold and site of the fiercest battle of Israel’s West Bank incursion. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
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Palestinian women in Baghdad hold a portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a demonstration on Thursday demanding that Israel pull out of the West Bank. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein recently announced that Iraq will halt its oil exports for a month to protest Israel’s military offensive in the West Bank. (Taha al Rubayyh / Getty Images)
King Abdullah of Jordan helps on Thursday with a shipment of food and medicine headed from Amman for refugee camps in the West Bank. (Ali Jarekji-Pool / Getty Images)
