The Palestine Chronology

In Gaza, an IDF jeep intercepts a car bomb, absorbing the blast before it can ram a settler school bus. IDF seals the Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility. PA places Shaykh Yasin under house arrest, detains more than 100 alleged Hamas activists. (MM 10/29; AFP, IDF Radio 10/29 in WNC 10/30; ITV, JTV, QY 10/29 in WNC 11/2; MM, NYT, PCHR, WP, WT 10/30; SA 10/30, JT 10/31, al-Ahram 11/2 in WNC 11/6; NYT 10/31; PR 11/6; JP 11/9; MEI 11/16)

In Ankara, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, U.S., Uzbekistan sign a "political declaration of support" for construction of a Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. (Interfax 10/29 in WNC 11/2; MM 11/6) (see 10/22)

Nr. Ramallah, Palestinian schoolboys throw stones at a IDF jeep. When they ignore soldiers' order to halt and run away, the soldiers open fire, leaving 1 boy in a coma. (HA [Internet] 10/13)

In s. Lebanon, Amal leader Shaykh Ahmad Trad's booby-trapped car explodes, slightly injuring his son, causing him no harm. Elsewhere in the south, a Lebanese civilian is wounded by IDF shelling. (RMC, VOL 10/11 in WNC 10/14)