Word: nablus
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JAMES NACHTWEY, a TIME photographer, spent the past week covering the war in the Middle East, focusing his lens primarily on the battlefields of Nablus and Jenin...
...both of the Palestinian intifadehs, which were not quite full-scale war. They were more civil unrest. But this is more of a full-scale war, period. The most dramatic event I've witnessed so far has been the evacuation of several dozen wounded from a mosque in the Nablus Casbah that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital. It was filled with severely wounded Palestinians, and the courtyard of the mosque was filled with the dead. People had been in this mosque, lying on the floor with virtually no medicine, suffering for, I suppose, several days. They were...
...departure. That won't do much to rescue Washington's deteriorating image among its allies in the Arab world. And appeals by Palestinian leaders for more forceful Arab support, accompanied by the images of devastation in Palestinian cities beamed around the world now that TV cameras are getting into Nablus and Jenin, could even stoke the fires of Arab rage against Israel and the U.S. in the coming weeks...
...NABLUS Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships fought pitched battles with hundreds of Palestinians. Militant group leader Naser Awais, one of Israel's most wanted, blew himself up accidentally...
...secret that the latest intifada has revealed —that while the Israeli people have accepted the right of Palestine to exist, the Palestinians have not returned the favor. And in this latest campaign, in their fiercely self-righteous support for suicide bombing, the people of Nablus and Ramallah and Bethlehem have allowed their war for independence to drag them down into a swamp of naked, monstrous evil...