March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Nablus, Israeli soldiers searched the houses in Balata refugee looking for weapons and explosives. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. The Israeli army surrounded and isolated the Balata refugee camp after a night of intense fighting. In the background the mosque. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Nablus. Funeral of a Palestinian killed during a fight. 
March - April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Nablus. bloody fighting in the streets. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Hebron. The home of a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem bar. In the attack were killed 11 people and wounded 80. In the background the boy's mother 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Ramallah, a Palestinian woman carries her children away. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Nablus, a soldier has noticed the photographers and orders us to leave 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Bethlehem, a Palestinian child wounded in explosion is rescued by a Red Crescent ambulance 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks.The Hamas militants attend a ceremony of "recruitment" of new recruits in Al Amari in Ramallah. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Bethlehem. Israeli snipers stationed in a bunker for control of the city 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Hebron. Special Israeli troops in action rake the homes of suspected terrorists. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Funeral of M. Abu Hallaweh, the panel of the guard of Arafat, Force 17, killed in his car by a missile fired from an Israeli helicopter. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Bethlehem, shootout with a group of Palestinian resistance. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Ramallah, Abu Azmi shows what remains of his house after the passage of the Israelis. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. An Israeli helicopter "Apache" shooting at the refugee camp of Tulkarem 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Ramallah, a protest 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Nablus, a frightened woman peering out of his house to see if the fights are over. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Israeli soldiers enter the camp of Balata refugee on the outskirts of Nablus. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Nablus. An elderly Palestinian protest the arrival of the Israeli soldiers in the Balata refugee camp. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Bethlehem, father and son sitting on the rubble of their home. 
March-April 2002. Operation Defensive Shield, conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 during the course of the Second Intifada. The stated goal of the operation was to stop terrorist attacks. Tanks arriving in Balata Camp, Palestinian refugee camp established in the northern West Bank adjacent to the city of Nablus. 
