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　　The Israelis figured they had an advantage at night. During a week of relentless fighting in the Jenin refugee camp, they had forced the Palestinian militants inside a smaller and smaller perimeter. At about 4 a.m. last Tuesday, 16 reservists of the 5th Infantry Brigade began moving forward again, peering through night-vision goggles as they searched for a house to use as a lookout. The first one they chose proved inadequate, but a second, about 30 yards away, seemed better situated. The soldiers walked into a 3-foot-wide alley next to the house, searching for an entrance. They paused while an officer, Major Oded Golomb, walked ahead to set charges to blow the door open.

　　The blast they heard next wasn’t theirs. “I saw a flash of light that was thrown at us, but it didn’t reach us. Immediately after, another flash of light,” Sergeant Ron Drori told TIME. “I understood right away it was a bomb.” It wasn’t a suicide attack, as early reports suggested, but a bomb thrown from a balcony. When the device detonated just feet from the soldiers, Palestinians on the roof opposite opened up with automatic weapons. “It was like a curtain of fire,” said Drori. “We couldn’t see anything, and all we could hear was the sound of bullets flying and hitting the walls. I started to hear the crying of people who were injured.”

　　During a brief lull, Drori retreated behind a courtyard wall and returned fire until a magazine in his M-203 rifle jammed. He switched to a grenade launcher attached to the rifle. His fire drew an answer, and he was hit in the leg. Of the 16 men in his company, only three escaped being wounded or killed.

　　The first phase of the fight lasted an hour. It was followed by a bizarre tug-of-war in which the Palestinians t