Crisis in the Middle East, 4/12/02
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)