September 23, 2007

The IDF conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Nablus (targeting AMB mbrs., at least 1 of whom was among the AMB mbrs. granted amnesty by Israel in 7/06; see Quarterly Update in JPS 145); fires on residential areas, blowing up a 4-story apartment building owned by a Palestinian (displacing 4 families) in Jenin town and r.c. A Jewish settler nr. Jerusalem stabs, wounds a Palestinian. In Gaza’s al-Bureij r.c., unidentified assailants set fire to the local Fatah al-Yasir offices. A Hamas mbr. wounded in an apparent factional shooting in Rafah on 9/19 dies. (OCHA 9/26; PCHR 9/27)