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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Bethan McKernan and Sufian Taha in Jenin

‘Israel only responds to force’: support for Hamas soars in West Bank after October attack

A house graffitied by members of the IDF during a three-day incursion into the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank.
A house graffitied by members of the IDF during a three-day incursion into the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Zain Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images

Fluffy pink slippers on her feet and scarves thrown over her hair and pyjamas, Amal Abu Ghazi, 39, leaned against a wall as she watched her family clear out the rubble from their ruined house in the Jenin refugee camp, in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Her husband used a stick to smash the remaining shards of glass out of the window frames of their two-storey home and her brothers-in-law hauled out the remains of sofas and tables; somehow, a laptop had managed to survive intact. Israeli soldiers had burst in two nights ago, Abu Ghazi said, arresting her sons, 20 and 18, and ordering the rest of the family to wait outside before troops used explosives to demolish the building.

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