The IDF makes a rare raid into Jericho, turned over to PA security control on 3/16/05, to arrest a wanted AMB mbr. who is also a mbr. of the PA security forces; fires on residential areas of Bani Na‘im (wounding 2 Palestinians); conducts arrest raids, house searches in Budrus nr. Ramallah, Hebron (firing on residential areas, wounding 2 Palestinians); patrols in, fires on residential areas of Jenin town and r.c.; raids the PA Customs Dept. in Hebron, confiscating fireworks; sends troops into al-Khadir to arrest 3 Palestinian youths for stone-throwing. After IDF warplanes strike the n. Gaza no-go zone, Palestinians fire 2 rockets fr. Gaza into Israel; the IDF responds by shelling the no-go zone again; no damage or injuries are reported on either side. A Palestinian wounded in the IDF shelling of Bayt Hanun on 2/9 dies. (AFP, JAZ 2/25; IMEMC 2/26; PCHR 3/2)
Saturday, February 25, 2006