January 18, 2007

The IDF sends troops into Tulkarm, fires percussion grenades, rubber bullets outside several schools preventing some children fr. reaching morning classes; conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Hebron; forces a severely ill Palestinian cancer patient to cross the Hawara checkpoint by foot, causing him to collapse and die. A 10-yr.-old Palestinian girl dies of injuries sustained fr. IDF gunfire in Anata on 1/17. (AP 1/19; NYT 1/20; NYT, OCHA 1/24; PCHR 1/25)