April 5, 2009

In the evening, Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem surround and violently beat a group of Palestinians holding a sit-in outside a Palestinian home confiscated by Jewish settlers on 4/3. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Khirbat Safa (see 4/4) and nr. Hebron. (OCHA 4/8; PCHR 4/9)