Today, Al Amari is a maze of narrow alleys and a haphazard collection of cinder-block homes.

Though he now has a comfortable three-story stucco home in the camp, it is squeezed between the cinder-block homes that dominate the area.

People live in drab adobe or cinder-block homes.

The caravan passed through dusty villages of cinder-block homes and little else.

Palestinians accused Israeli forces of destroying some cinder-block homes as they punched through the camp's perimeter.

The fighting flared on and off throughout the day as Israeli soldiers searched through Zeitun, a warren of cinder-block homes.

In the three months between being taken from this cramped cinder-block home and being returned here, Ana was transformed from a little girl into a cause.

When the Israeli soldiers reached the apartment building, which soars above the squat cinder-block homes in the camp, they rounded up residents.

A generation ago, Pablo Escobar and other drug lords recruited hit men from the district's clutter of cinder-block homes and dark passageways.

Sprawling over several hills, Armutlu is a maze of winding, rutted streets and small cinder-block homes, with children playing everywhere.