August 20, 2009

In the West Bank, the IDF sets up additional checkpoints and searches Palestinian vehicles in n. Hebron; raids nearby shops, questions shop owners but makes no arrests. Jewish settlers fr. Avraham Avino in Hebron uproot Palestinian carob and pine trees fr. the gardens opposite the al-Ibrahimi Mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs; the IDF observes but does not intervene. (OCHA 8/25; PCHR 8/27)