"U.S. Envoy Calls Jenin Camp a 'Terrible Tragedy' `I just think what we are seeing here is a terrible human tragedy,'' William Burns, assistant secretary of state for the Near East, told Reuters in the camp's flattened center."

Yes, it's always a tragedy when any group of people throws its life and future away for an apostate and nihilistic religious vision.
This incursion was not a massacre. It was a police action, forced by the determination of a minority of Palestinians to throw themselves off a cliff to spite and kill Jews. The best thing anybody could do there is depose Arafat and his thugs, make it a crime to aid and abet Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc., and enforce it strictly so that they can get back to the process of building a country.