September 30, 2005

The IDF continues Operation First Rain, sonic booms over Gaza. In the West Bank, the IDF fatally shoots a stone-throwing 13-yr.- old Palestinian boy in Askar r.c. nr. Nablus; conducts arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron. Jewish settlers fr. Avraham Avino in Hebron throw stones, bottles at Palestinian homes, shops. (NYT, WT 10/1; AFP, NYT 10/2; PCHR 10/6)