The IDF sends troops into Nablus, Tulkarm r.c., sparking stone-throwing by youths, then opening fire, shelling residential areas, withdrawing. Later in the day, the IDF again fires on stone-throwing youths in Nablus, killing a Palestinian teenager, wounding 10. During the day, the IDF also fires on stone-throwing youths in Balata r.c.; conducts arrest raids, house searches in villages outside Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Qalqilya; resumes bulldozing begun 2 wks. ago in Wadi Rahal e. of Bethlehem for construction of a settler bypass road. Late in the evening, the IDF sends troops, heavy vehicles into Khan Yunis, bulldozing 3 Palestinian homes and several dunams of land, firing on and shelling residential areas; conducts arrest raids, house searches in Hebron. Palestinian gunmen fire on a Jewish settler bus nr. Barqan settlement, lightly injuring 2 Jewish settlers. (HA 8/10; PR, WP, WT 8/11; PCHR 8/12)
Tuesday, August 10, 2004