January 18, 2012

IDF tanks and aircraft attack Popular Resistance Comm. (PRC) mbrs. planting explosives along the n. Gaza border, killing 2 PRC mbrs. and wounding 2. Later, IDF troops on the n. Gaza border fire warning shots at Palestinian farmers working their fields nr. the border, forcing them to flee, and make a brief incursion into the former Nisanit settlement site to search the area. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron. (PCHR, WT 1/19; PCHR 1/26; OCHA 1/27)