Picking up the pieces in Ramallah (BBC News)
The men of Amari were taken bound and blindfolded to the Beitounia army camp, where they spent three cold nights under canvas, with little to eat or drink, before their release.
Some families, one of them including three small children, were held captive in their own homes while the troops used them for cover as they occupied the narrow alleyways deep inside the camp.
Their houses had great holes punched in the sides, where the troops had employed the controversial “walking through walls” tactic to avoid being exposed to sniper fire in the alleyways. (…)
The camp’s inhabitants say this was not an “anti-terrorist” operation as the Israeli army maintains, but an operation to terrorise them - and it has worked.
