Not only that, but the fact they wired the houses together KNOWING it would take the whole area down; and then they had the gall to make THEIR OWN PEOPLE (women and children) stay within the buildings, just so they could claim it was the Jews who did it. Amazing! There is no greater cowardice than this!
Seems like the Arabs can't remember history and are doomed to repeat it; the Six Day war in 67, the Yom Kippur war in 73, and now Jenin! Each time the Arabs attack, with their armies or their homicide bombers, they lose land to the Israelies, then bitch and moan when 'those dirty Jews' don't want to give it back!
There was very fierce fighting in Jenin because a lot of Hamas members were holed up there. There were VERY FEW civilians killed and even they had been given ample warning to leave. Most of the bodies found were terrorists who had been shooting at the Israelis. By the way, weren't the poor Palestinians only supposed to have rocks and bottles? That's what we've been told all this time! Anyway, Hamas had booby trapped a lot of those buildings, and after the 13 Israeli's were killed by one of those booby traps the other day, the IDF, I'm sure, did not want to take any more chances. They probably just levelled the buildings to save more lives.