April 29, 2006

Overnight and throughout the day, the IDF shells n. Gaza, hitting a house and a populated street in Bayt Hanun (injuring 7 Palestinians), hitting a house in Bayt Hanun (wounding 3 Palestinians), wounding 3 farmers in fields nr. Bayt Hanun and Bayt Lahiya. Meanwhile, the IDF notes a sharp decline in Palestinian rocket fire over the previous wk. The IDF also unintentionally kills a 3-yr.-old Palestinian girl nr. Ramallah by shutting a crossing gate on her head; conducts arrest raids, house searches in Bethlehem, nr. Qalqilya. Jewish settlers fr. Kiryat Arba vandalize Palestinian homes in Hebron. Jewish settlers ambush, attack several Palestinian cars in the Jordan Valley. (IMEMC 4/29; HA 4/30; PCHR 5/4)