January 19, 2010

In the West Bank, the IDF demolishes a Palestinian home nr. Adam settlement just n. of Jerusalem; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Hebron and nr. Jenin. Jewish settlers escorted by IDF troops enter Awarta village nr. Nablus in the evening to hold religious services at an ancient Jewish gravesite, also smashing and vandalizing several Palestinian tombstones in a Palestinian cemetery. The UN reports that in the previous wk., 7 Palestinians were injured in tunnel collapses on the Rafah border. (OCHA 1/20; PCHR 1/21; WP 1/22)