January 31, 2009

For a 2d day, the IDF relays automated phone messages to Rafah residents ordering them to evacuate houses nr. the border. No violence is reported in Gaza, however. Israel allows 27 tons of medicine and medical equipment into Gaza. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts synchronized late-night house searches in and around Bethlehem, Bayt Jala, and surrounding villages, making no arrests; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron. (PCHR 2/5)