Monday, May 17, 2010

IDF troops make a brief incursion into the 350-m-deep no-go area inside the s. Gaza border e. of Khan Yunis leveling land to clear lines of sight. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches nr. Nablus, Ramallah. Israeli border officials bar renowned American scholar and political activist Noam Chomsky fr. entering the West Bank via Jordan to give a lecture at Birzeit University, citing security concerns. (NYT 5/18; OCHA, PCHR 5/20; Znet 7/30)