June 27, 2012

The IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron and late-night patrols in 1 village nr. Jericho. A settler security guard at Ma’ale Adumim settlement in Hebron shoots and seriously wounds a Palestinian who allegedly attempted to take his gun. An Israeli court convicts senior Hamas official Ibrahim Hamed as a principle planner of multiple Palestinian suicide attacks that killed 46 people and wounded more than 400 during the al-Aqsa intifada that began in 9/2000. (NYT, PCHR 6/28; PCHR 7/5; OCHA 7/13)