March 3, 2009

The IDF carries out 8 air strikes on the Rafah border in the afternoon and 4 late in the evening, causing no injuries. In the West Bank, the IDF raids and searches a Palestinian home in al-‘Arub r.c. in the evening, making no arrests; reenters al-‘Arub r.c. hrs. later, firing percussion grenades, partially burning a home; sends troops into Kafr Haris village nr. Salfit, imposing a curfew, barricading entrances to the village, raiding and searching homes, and arresting 1 Palestinian before withdrawing 8 hrs. later; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in and around Jenin town and r.c., nr. Qalqilya. (OCHA 3/4; PCHR 3/5; OCHA 3/10)