November 3, 2007

The IDF seizes a shipment of body armor from the U.S. meant for PA presidential guard units in Nablus (which will support the new policing unit deployed on 11/2). In Gaza, the IDF levels land inside the Gaza border e. of Dayr al-Balah. In the West Bank, the IDF withdraws fr. 3 Palestinian homes in Hebron occupied on 11/1; conducts arrest raids, house searches in Tulkarm, nr. Hebron. Jewish settlers fr. Givat Havon in Hebron stone a nearby Palestinian home, assault a 10-yr.-old Palestinian boy. (OCHA 11/7; PCHR, PAP 11/8; NYT 11/14)