An Israeli flare illuminates the Church of Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Wednesday. Many of the more than 200 people who reportedly took refuge inside the church when Israeli defense forces entered the town are suspected to be Palestinian gunmen. The Israeli Army continued in their search for weapons and suspected Palestinian terrorists in the area in what is being called “Operation Defensive Shield.” (GRAHAM MORRISON / Getty Images)
Homes in the city of Nablus come under Israeli fire. Meanwhile, Jenin’s refugee camp remained off limits to aid groups and journalists. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Israeli soldiers search a man in the Al Ayn refugee camp in Nablus on Wednesday, April 10. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Israeli soldiers round up about 400 fighting-age men and teenagers at the Al Ain camp on the edge of Nablus. One Palestinian teenager was shot to death. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
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Palestinian women from the Al Ayn refugee camp in Nablus watch as hundreds of men from the community are rounded up and subject to body searches and document checks. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Palestinian residents from the town of Salem load bread and other donations for the refugee camp in Jenin. Fighting in the area has kept donations from reaching the camps. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Men rounded up by Israeli police were seached, handcuffed (with plastic bands) and had their documents checked. (CAROLYN COLE / LAT)
Lilach Yoel is helped to her feet at the funeral of her husband, Lt. Eyal Yoel’s. Yoel, 29, who was a reservist in the Israeli Defense Force, was killed in fighting with Palestinians in Jenin yesterday. He was buried at his kibbutz in Jerusalem. (BRYAN CHAN / LAT)
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Nurit Yoel, foreground in black, grieves at the funeral of her brother, Lt. Eyal Yoel. (BRYAN CHAN / LAT)
Hundreds of people join the funeral procession behind the truck carrying the body of Lt. Eyal Yoel at the Kibbutz Ramat Rahel in Jerusalem. (BRYAN CHAN / LAT)
