April 20, 2009

Israel announces that 22-yr.-old Khirbat Safa resident Musa al-Teet, detained in latenight arrest raids on 4/12, has confessed to carrying out the 4/2 ax attack in Bet Ayn settlement on his own initiative. In the West Bank, the IDF makes a daytime raid into Khirbat Safa, patrolling streets, firing live ammunition and percussion grenades at residential areas, raiding and occupying 1 home for 4 hrs. before withdrawing (no injuries or arrests reported); conducts latenight arrest raids, house searches in Jenin town and r.c., and nr. Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin (firing on residential areas is reported in 3 locales, causing no injuries). In Gaza, a Palestinian man is severely injured by IDF UXO nr. Bayt Lahiya. (OCHA 4/22; PCHR 4/23)