June 15, 2010

The IDF makes a brief incursion into Khuza village, 400 m into s. Gaza, to level lands to clear lines of sight. IDF troops on the n. Gaza border fire warning shots at Palestinians staging a nonviolent march to the border fence to protest Israel’s no-go zone, injuring 1 Palestinian. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in and around Hebron (including summoning a 7-yr.-old boy for interrogation). The UN reports that in the previous wk., in addition to the teenager killed on 6/13, 1 Palestinian was killed in a tunnel collapse on the Rafah border. (PCHR 6/17; OCHA 6/18)