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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (94555)	4/18/2003 1:31:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Here's another detail that caught my eye: Most of the camp's 14,000 people sought refuge elsewhere or were forcibly evacuated by Israeli soldiers who moved from house to house by smashing holes through adjoining walls to avoid gunfire and grenades. The operation followed suicide bombings in Israel. When residents began trickling back 11 days later as fighting abated they found a 1,310-foot-square core of the camp in ruins, as if an earthquake had struck. At the time, the Independent and other Fisk-ish reports all said that the camp a) had 14,000 people in it and b) had been completely devestated. It was only people from the other side of the argument who pointed out that most residents had fled when the militants turned the camp into a minefield, most of those left were fighters. Likewise for arguments about the "devastation", which Fisk et al bewailed loudly. Now it comes out that most of the residents had fled and only the core was destroyed in the fighting...oh btw.