Tuesday, June 28, 2011

IDF troops on the n. Gaza border nr. Bayt Hanun fire warning shots at some 80 Palestinians and international activists staging a nonviolent march to the border fence to protest Israel’s siege of Gaza; no injuries are reported. In the West Bank, the IDF levels 15 d. of agricultural land and uproots 300 olive trees nr. Salfit, transporting the trees to an unknown location; and conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches nr. Bethlehem. (PCHR 6/30; OCHA 7/1)