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  • May 6, 2016

    Cross-border violence in Gaza continues for a 4th day. Hamas forces fire at least 2 mortar shells at an IDF position overnight nr. Rafah, causing no injuries. Israeli forces then shell Hamas...

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  • April 3, 2011

    IDF troops on the n. Gaza border w. of the Erez crossing fire warning shots at farmers and shepherds working their farms some 600 m fr. the border fence, forcing them to leave. In the West Bank,...

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  • May 26, 2008

    The IDF reopens the Erez crossing (closed since a 5/22 bombing) for limited VIP and medical travel; sends troops, bulldozers into al-Bureij r.c. in c. Gaza to level 70 d. of agricultural land. In...

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Cross-border violence in Gaza continues for a 4th day. Hamas forces fire at least 2 mortar shells at an IDF position overnight nr. Rafah, causing no injuries. Israeli forces then shell Hamas positions in e. Rafah and an Islamic Jihad position nr. Khan Yunis, causing no injuries. Also in Gaza, 3 Palestinian children die in a house fire sparked by a candle they were using because power outages have lasted 18 hours per day. Hamas officials will blame the Israeli blockade for their deaths. Across the oPt, IDF troops violently disperse Palestinians, Israelis, and international activists at Friday demonstrations against Israel’s occupation, separation wall, and settlements in 4 villages nr. Ramallah (Bil‘in, Ni‘lin, Silwad, and Nabi Salih), 1 nr. Qalqilya, and along Gaza’s border nr. the Erez crossing; 4 Palestinians are injured. Elsewhere in the West Bank, IDF troops conduct late-night raids nr. Jenin and Hebron, arresting 3 Palestinians; patrol nr. Tulkarm and Hebron. In East Jerusalem, around 300 elderly Gazans visit Haram al-Sharif after the Israeli authorities lift a 2-week ban on Gazans’ Friday visits to the sanctuary. (BBC, HA, JP, MNA, OCHA, TOI, YA 5/6; HA 5/7; PCHR 5/12)

IDF troops on the n. Gaza border w. of the Erez crossing fire warning shots at farmers and shepherds working their farms some 600 m fr. the border fence, forcing them to leave. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts synchronized patrols in 4 villages n. of Tulkarm and 2 villages w. of Ramallah in the morning; later patrols in Birzeit, Jericho, Salfit (summoning 1 Palestinian to appear for questioning), Tulkarm, and 4 villages nr. Jenin; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in al-‘Arub r.c., Bil‘in (searching for international solidarity activists), and Hebron. (PCHR 4/7; OCHA 4/15)

The IDF reopens the Erez crossing (closed since a 5/22 bombing) for limited VIP and medical travel; sends troops, bulldozers into al-Bureij r.c. in c. Gaza to level 70 d. of agricultural land. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Hebron, and in and around Jenin town and r.c., Nablus. Jewish settlers attempt to occupy a plot of Palestinian land nr. Bil‘in to establish a new unauthorized outpost; the IDF removes the settlers. (OCHA 5/28; PCHR 5/29)