The IDF fires on residential areas of Kafr Qalil nr. Nablus, wounding 2 Palestinians; conducts arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron, Ramallah. PA security forces raid Dura nr. Hebron, seize bombs and weapons, arrest at least 13 Palestinians. Jewish settlers attack Palestinian cave dwellers nr. Hebron; the IDF intervenes and disperses the settlers. Jewish settlers fr. Tafuh attack, seriously injure an elderly Palestinian farmer working his land nr. Salfit; the IDF intervenes, allows Palestinians to transport the farmer to a hospital, but does not take action against the settlers. A Jewish settler parked on a road nr. Nablus fires on a Palestinian taxi that passes by, damaging the car but causing no injuries. Palestinians fatally shoot an alleged Palestinian collaborator in Ramallah. Unidentified Palestinians throw a Molotov cocktail at the home of PA preventive security officer and Fatah mbr. Jamal Khadayr, causing damage but no injuries. (NYT, WT 3/6; JP, VOP 3/6 in WNC 3/7; OCHA, PR 3/9; PCHR 3/10, 3/17)
Senior PA, Israeli officials end 2-days of back-channel talks outside London to coordinate Israeli disengagement fr. Gaza and to discuss ways “to support the disengagement process and to take advantage of the opportunity in order to take the peace process further beyond the disengagement.” (WT 3/7)