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Jenin took ten days to destroy and three years to rebuild. The Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank held the world's attention for a brief moment in April 2002 when Israeli tanks and bulldozers moved in against armed insurgents levelling 500 homes, leaving more than 50 dead and nearly 4000 residents homeless. The scale of the destruction promted accusations that the incursion was a war crime - but it was also an act of town planning.

Today 'Ground Zero' , as the UN called the destroyed section of the camp, has been remodelled. Its broad streets are lined with new, cream-coloured housing. All neatly geometrical the houses have balconies and courtyards. The ground is pink, the walls are smoothly finished and everything is unusally clean. [...] It is now as close to utopian as refugee camps get [...].

Justin McGuirk, ICON Magazine June 2005