December 27, 2006

Olmert authorizes the IDF to resume “pinpoint” attacks on Palestinians firing rockets into Israel, but says that Israel remains committed to the 11/26 truce and would work with the PA to halt rocket fire. The IDF conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Hebron. Jewish settlers fr. Tene nr. Hebron bulldoze 200 d. of nearby Palestinian wheat crops. (IFM 12/27; NYT, PCHR, WP, WT 12/28; OCHA 1/3; PCHR 1/11; AIC 1/17)