In the 1st such incident since 6/13/08 (before the cease-fire began), IDF troops on the s. Gaza border fire across the border on residential areas of al-Shuka, seriously wounding 1 Palestinian. The IDF also makes an afternoon raid into Hebron, surrounding a PA security force unit on patrol, arresting 2 PA security officers; fires rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, percussion grenades at Palestinian, Israeli, international peace activists taking part in a nonviolent demonstration against the separation wall in Bil‘in, wounding 2 Palestinians and an Israeli journalist; fires rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas at Palestinian, Israeli, international peace activists taking part in a similar nonviolent demonstration in Ni‘lin (10s suffer tear gas inhalation); conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron. A Jewish settler seriously injures a 6-yr.-old Palestinian boy in an accidental hit-and-run in Hebron; the IDF evacuates the child to a Jerusalem hospital. (OCHA 9/17; PCHR 9/18; AIC 11/9)
Friday, September 12, 2008