Sunday, March 18, 2012

The IDF patrols in 2 villages nr. Jenin and 1 nr. Ramallah in the morning, 1 village nr. Jenin and 1 nr. Qalqilya in the afternoon, and in Qalqilya and 1 village nr. Jenin late at night. The IDF also conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Nabi Salih (in 1 instance, photographing a house an all mbrs. of 1 family but making no arrests) and Salfit and nr. Qalqilya. Jewish settlers fr. Ramat Yisrael settlement outpost in Hebron violently beat a Palestinian teenager who passes nearby, also stealing his glasses and cell phone; the IDF observes but does not intervene. (PCHR 3/22; OCHA 3/23)